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18 Cards in this Set
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Democracy |
-Form of goverment -people (electorate) vote for the representatives who sit in parliament -majority party rules on the people's half |
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Civil Liberties |
Freedoms and rights of all citizens |
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Judiciary |
Experts in the law and enforce the law in court |
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Constitiution |
A set of rules that makes up the way the country is governed |
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President |
elected directly by the people, can make laws during a state of emergency |
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Cabinet |
Important ministers working with the chancellor to make laws and run the country |
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Article 48 |
The article in the Weimar Constitution that allowed the president to suspend the Reichstag in an emergency and rules by decree |
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Political party |
-Is a alliance of like-minded people who work together to win elections and control the goverment. -Parties compete against one another for power and to put their ideas and beliefs into effect |
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social reform |
reforms aim to make gradual change, or change in certain aspects of society. rather than rapid or fundamental (revolutionary) change |
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Treaty |
An agreement between nations in which they sign an agreement promising to abide by the terms |
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Anti-semitic |
Is hostility, prejudice or discrimination against jews. A person who holds such positions is called an Anti-semite. wildly considered to be a form of racism |
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FreiKorps |
-Members of the FreiKorps could be described as conservative, nationalistic, anti-socialism/communism. -Once the treaty of Versailles was signed they disliked that too -Many where ex-soldiers from WW1 |
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Reichstag |
-Parliament which houses the elected representatives of the people. -Inside the parties are spilt up between those who govern and those that are in opposition |
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Chancellor |
-head of government -usually the leader of the largest party in the Reichstag who looks to other similar parties to join and make coalition |
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Proportional Representation |
-People who vote for their parties then represent then in the reichstag - If a party gets 30% of votes they get 30% of the seats in the reichstag -This meant that coalitions where common and made parties work together |
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SPD- Social Democratic Party |
-Political party where all it's members all share the same views -gradual reforms in the law to improve the lives of the workers. Like right to vote, right to strike etc. |
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Social Darwinism |
Belief that some people are naturally better than others and that people are naturally unequal |
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Germanisation |
-Takes away the ancestry of the immigrants and making them German. -They also make German their first language |
