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71 Cards in this Set
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Adolf Hitler
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-Imprisoned for treason for attempt to overthrow Bulgarian government.
-Dictates Mein Kampf to Rudolf Hess in prison -When Hitler gets out he dresses in suits and “rubs shoulders” with elites. Hitler reinvents himself as a reasonable man -Elites help him to power, thinking in the long run it would be in their best interest. -Hitler despised the Weimar Republic, but runs for president to change from within --In his 40s -Didn’t climb too high in the army ranks |
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Benito Mussolini
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FDR
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Churchill
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Stalin
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Neville Chamberlain
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Herman Goering
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second in command, luftwaffe, Original gestapo, interrigation & torture expert
-Second in command to Hitler (Reichsmarshal) -Fighter pilot in WWI, In charge of Airforce during rearming of Germany (Luftwaffe) -He was least like the Nazi’s of all of Hitler’s inner-circle. He was also a drug addict. -Master manipulator -In charge of the Gestapo: Secret Police at the beginning of the Third Reich. -Perfected the art of interrogation and torture. |
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Joseph Goebbels
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-Minister of Propaganda
-One of the few intellectuals in the Nazi Movement -Became one of the most fanatical, master manipulator of German mindset -Controlled media, arts and cultural aspects of German life -Absolutely dedicated to Hitler (In Hitler’s bunker with him in the last days. Shortly after he committed suicide, he and his wife gave their children poison). |
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Heinrich Himmler
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-Previously a chicken farmer
-In charge of Hitler’s body guards (SS Officers) -Schemer – looking to elevate his own status -Second most powerful in Germany because he builds his own empire within the SS. -SS was in charge of Racial Policies (cornerstone of Holocaust) -SS had the blood of seven million on their hands by the end of the war in 1945 -Inherits the Gestapo by the end of the 1930s. |
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Reinhard Heydrich
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Ernst Roehm
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-WWI Army Veteran
-In command of the SA (Storm troopers, “Brown Shirts,” secret patrol, ground runners) -SA is the general security for Nazi movement and intimidators -Expert in small arms use -Left Germany in the 1920s to help South American dictators. Brought back by Hitler -Homosexual – preferred young boys -Hitler agrees to take him down and SA power in return for Regular German Army Support after Hindenburg dies. |
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Karl von Hindenburg
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1932 – Election for Weimar President
Paul von Hindenburg vs. Hitler Hindenburg wins by a huge margin and appoints Hitler to Chancellor in 1933 Paul von Hindenburg -In his 80s -Viewed Hitler as a vulgar commoner -Knew Hitler represented some people -Closer Monarch, not a great defender of democracy. But was a German Patriot |
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Joachim von Ribbentrop
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V. Molotov
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Benard Law Montgomery
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Ernst Rommel
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Friedrich von Paulus
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George S. Patton
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George Marshall
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Albert Speer
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William L. Shirer
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Leni Riefenstahl
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Eva Braun
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Blitzkrieg on Poland
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Blitzkrieg on Western Europe (Netherlands, Belgium, France)
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Battle of Britain
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Battle of the Atlantic
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Operation Barbarossa
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El Alamein
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Operation Torch
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Kursk
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Operation Overlod
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Battle of the Bulge
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Nazi Party
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"Mein Kampf"
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Night of the Long Knives
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SA
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-SA is the general security for Nazi movement and intimidators
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SS
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-Himmler is the second most powerful in Germany because he builds his own empire within the SS.
-SS was in charge of Racial Policies (cornerstone of Holocaust) -SS had the blood of seven million on their hands by the end of the war in 1945 |
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SD
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Gestapo
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Fascist Party
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Der Fuehrer
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Il Duce
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Pact of Steel
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Appeasement
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Rhineland
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Sudetenland
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Munich Conference of 1938
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Polish Corridor
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Non-Aggression Pact of 1939
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Blitzkrieg
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Tri-Partite Pact
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Nuremburg Laws
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"Triumph of the Will"
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Kristallnacht
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Concentration Camps
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Wanssee Conference
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"The Final Solution"
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Auschwitz
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T-4 Project
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Zyklon B
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Casablanca Conference
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Tehran Conference
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Yalta Conference
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July 20, 1944 Bomb Plot
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Operation Valkyrie
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Klaus von Stauffenberg
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Strategic Bombing
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Nuremberg War Crimes Trials
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Hitler as Chancelor & Hitler Rising
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Hitler as Chancellor
-Begins outlawing all but Nazi party -Fights all avenues for Democracy to shut them down -Trade Union tries to get May 1st as workers holiday. Hitler allows it. On May 2nd, Hitler outlaws all Trade Unions and arrests leaders (taken to concentration camps- originally prison camps, not yet death camps) Hitler Rising -1934 – only two groups could stop Hitler: Regular German Army (Wehrmacht) ~100,000 SA ~ 2,000,000 under control of Ernst Roehm -----Roehm believed in the Socialist element of the NSDAP (Socialist Worker Party). Hitler thought it was too much like Communism. --------Hitler sees Roehm as a threat. Cue night of the long knives |