Germany 1918-1945
Key Terms
Rise to Power: Conditions, Ideology, Aims & Emergence.
Spartacists
‘Stab in the back’ myth
November Criminals
Diktat (Dictated Peace)
Weimar Constitution
Proportional Representation
Article 48
Kapp Putsch
Munich Putsch (Beer Hall Putsch)
Freikorps (Free Corps)
Dawes Plan
Young Plan
Occupation of the Ruhr
Hyperinflation
Gustav Stresemann
NSDAP / Nazis
SPD
Catholic Centre Party
KPD
Friedrich Ebert
Wall Street Crash
Storm Troopers/ SA
25 Points
Mein Kampf
Bruning
von Papen and von Schleicher
Reichswehr
Hindenburg
Reichstag
Rentenmark
Chancellor
President
Reichstag Fire
‘Blood and Soil’ (Blut und Boden)
Rule: Establishment of an authoritarian state.
Consolidation
Enabling Act
Fuhrer
Volksgemeinschaft
Fuhrerprinzip
Gleichschaltung
Lebensraum
Propaganda
Nuremburg Rallies
Triumph of the Will
Indoctrination
Demagogue
Law Against the Formation of New Political Parties
Ministry of Propaganda and Popular Enlightenment
German News Agency (DNB)
Night of the Long Knives
Ernst Roehm
Joseph Goebbels
Heinrich Himmler
SS
Gestapo
Gauleiter
Polycratic System
Domestic Policies
Law for the Restoration of the Civil Service
Degenerate Art
1933 Concordat
Reich Church
1936 Berlin Olympics
Women & Youth
League of Young German Maidens
Hitler Youth
Kinde, Kirche and Kuche
Motherhood Cross
Lebensborn
Economic Policies
Hjalmar Schacht
New Plan
Herman Goering
4 Year Plan
Autarky
Volkswagon
Autobahn
Strength Through Joy
DAF
“Guns & Butter”
IG Farben
Zyklon B
Krupp
Minorities
Nuremburg Laws
The Eternal Jew
Dachau
Kristallnacht
Wannsee Conference 1942
“Final Solution”
Opposition:
Edelweiss Pirates
Swing Movement
White Rose Group – Hans Scholl
Bishop Galen & Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Claus von Stauffenberg
Foreign Policy
Globalists/ Continentalists
Intentionalists/ Opportunists
Anschluss
Stresa Front
Rome-Berlin Axis
Nazi-Soviet Pact Aug 1939
Lebensraum
Polish Non-Aggression Treaty
Anglo-German Naval Agreement
Sudetenland
Munich Agreement
Appeasement
Neville Chamberlain
Edouard Daladier
Dollfuss
Anti-Commintern Pact
Saar Plebiscite
Hossbach Memorandum
Polish Corridor
Remilitarisation of Rhineland
4 Year Plan
Spanish Civil War (German policy)
Conscription
Geneva Disarmament Conference
Pact of Steel