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| What was the 1928 Kellog Briand Pact? |
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The Kellog Briand Pact followed the Young Plan, at a time of optimism
It created a document stating that war was outlawed. |
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| Who started the Nazi Party and convinced Hitler to join? |
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| the Nazi Party was started by a former soldier named Ernst Rohm |
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| What position does Rohm give Hitler and why? |
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| Hitler is given the position of the President of the Nazi Party because of his speaking ability |
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| Because of the bad economy, what do Ludendorf and Hitler decide to do with the gov, what is this called? |
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They decide to try to take over the gov, starting with Munich
This is called a Coup d'etat or a Putsh |
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| How long is a coup or a putsh supposed to last? |
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| What happened when Ludendorf and Hitler attacked city hall? |
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| They were caught and arrested--> the gov was stronger than them |
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| What happened to Hitler, Rohm and Ludendorf after they were arrested? |
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Ludendorf was released because he was a former war general.
Hitler and Rohm were sentenced to 18 months of jail, but released after 7 months due to good behavior |
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What is the name of the book Hitler wrote while he was in jail?
What does he say in it? |
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Definition
Mein Kempf
He talks about how evil Jews are.
The book is very racist, and it describes all of Hitlers plans of what he plans to do when he's released. |
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| What was the superior white race that Hitler talked about in his book called? |
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| What did Hitler say about the Aryans? |
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He said they were a group of people who were not "contaminated" by any non-whites. The lived in the caucasus mountains, and they had blond hair and blue eyes
After leaving the caucasus mountains, they moved to Germany and they became oart of the Nazis |
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| According to Hitler, who were the worst of the contaminated people? |
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| The Jews and the Slovs, communists |
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| What is the word used to descrive German nationalism |
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Amschluss
All the German people would live in the same country under the same rule |
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| Explain the concept of Lebensraum/living space |
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| Lebensraum was the living space of the Aryans. Hitler wanted to go to war with the East (mostly consisting of Slavs) to win over more land for the Aryans to live on |
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| What two things deterred Hitler from progressing after being released from jail? |
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1. Hitler could not find a publisher for his book, it was not selling well.
2. Because the Dawes Plan put Germnay in a much better state, the people didn't listen to Hitler much anymore because they longer cared so much for change at this point |
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| What caused the Great Depression? |
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| Explain the Stock Market Crash |
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Definition
Similarly to how people were taking mortages from banks without having the money to pay them back, the stock market did the same thing.
They were giving out stocks to people who couldn't pay them back |
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| It's selling stocks on credit |
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| What was the advice that was given on how to deal with the stock crash? |
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1. wait it out
2. balance the budget
3 raise tariffs (tax on imported goods to make people buy American goods) |
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| Who were the two people that proposed these 3 points of advice? |
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| Herbert Hoover and Heinuch Brunnen |
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| At the time when Heinich Brenner was chancellor of Germany, who was appointed President because Germany was in a national emergency? |
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| What were the 5 political parties? |
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- Nazis
- Catholic Church
- Nationalists (Hindenberg's party)
- Communists
- Socialists
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| What 2 parties did the Nazis condemn? |
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| The communists and the socialists |
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| Why did the nationalists also hate the communists? |
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Definition
the nationalists hated the communists because when communists take over, they take all the money from the rich
--> so the nationalists would lose everything |
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Term
Who was against the nationalists joining Hitler's Nazi party?
Why? |
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Definition
Hindenberg (president of germany)
he knew that Hitler was a dangerous man, but no one believed him and thought he was just an old man losing his mind... |
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Term
| What happens with the elections? |
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| Nationalists go around Hindenberg, and the Nazis and nationalists form a coalition gov |
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Term
| What was the purpose of the Wansee Conference 1942? |
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| The purpose of the conference was for a # of nazi leaders to come together and decide on the final solution |
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| What was decided at the Wansee Conference? |
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1. How they were going to kill all the Jews
2. What they would do with all the dead bodies
The decided to kill them in gas chambers (showers) and burn the bodies in crematories
(they killed 14 million total) |
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| What did Hitler in order to get rid of the communists support? |
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Hitler found a man to be an arsonist and had him burn down the Reichstag building
----> Hitler then tells the country it was a communist trying to take over the government
So in response, Hitler is able to get the Reichstag to outlaw the communists and enable them from running in the elections
STILL, Hitler did not win the majority vote in the elections |
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| What was the name of the bill Hitler wanted to pass and what did it do? |
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The Enabling Bill
It was a bill that would outlaw elections for 40 years |
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| What did the bill need in order for it to pass? |
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| The bill needed 2/3 of Reichstag and the national vote to vote yes in order for it to pass |
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| Who was the pope that hitler went to and what was the name of his chief advisor? |
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| The pope was Pius XI and his chief advisor was Cardinal Pacelli |
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| Why does hitler go to the pope in the first place? |
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Hitler has Pacelli convince the pope that Hitler is good because he hated communists, and the church did too, because communists were against God and wanted to take the money from the rich ( the church was very rich)
So the Pope agreed and was able to convince Reichstag to pass the bill
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It became the Enabling Act |
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Term
| What is Keynesian Economics? |
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Definition
The concept of spending $$ to save the country before balancing the budget
( John Maynard Keynes) |
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| Who else supported Keynasian Economics and what did he and hitler do together? |
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Definition
| Hjalman Schaccdt also supported Keynes ideas, and he and hitler built the autoban highway system as well as schools, stadiums, etc |
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| What were Schaccdt and Hitler able to do by the end of 1960? |
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| They were able to practically eliminate unemployment |
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