all history

• Treaty of Versailles


  Post-WWI treaty imposing heavy limitations on Germany
• Totalitarian state


  Form of government asserting total control over citizens
• Reichstag Fire Decree


  1933 decree suspending civil liberties in Germany
• Volksgemeinschaft


  Nazi vision of racially unified Aryan society
• Gestapo


  Nazi secret police organization
• Lebensraum


  Nazi concept of expanding living space
• Kapp Putsch


  Failed 1920 coup against the Weimar Republic
• Freikorps


  Tough ex-soldiers supporting Kapp in the coup
• Monarchy


  Form of government with a monarch as the head
• Night of the Long Knives


  1934 purge by Hitler to eliminate SA leaders
• SA (Brownshirts)

  Nazi paramilitary group led by Ernst Rohm
• SS


  Smaller but more loyal Nazi organization
• Heinrich Himmler


  Led the SS to prominence in Nazi Germany
• Aktion T4


  Nazi program to euthanize disabled individuals
• Nuremberg Trials


  Post-WW2 trials for Nazi war crimes
• German Worker's Party


  Predecessor to the Nazi Party, founded in 1919
• Hyperinflation


  German currency devaluation post-WW1
• Munich Putsch


  Hitler's failed attempt to seize power in 1923
• Axis Powers


  WW2 alliance including Germany, Italy, Japan
• Allies


  WW2 alliance including USA, UK, Soviet Union
• Boycott (Nazi Germany)


  1933 protest against Jewish businesses
• Nuremberg Laws


  1935 laws stripping Jews of rights and citizenship
• SA Troopers


  Nazi Storm Troopers who enforced Nazi policies
• Reich Citizenship Law


  Law restricting marriage between Germans and Jews
• Mischlinge


  Mixed-race individuals under Nazi racial classification
• Aryanization


  Forced selling of Jewish-owned property
• Yellow Star


  Mandatory Jewish identification in Nazi Germany
• Mein Kampf


  Hitler's book outlining Nazi ideology
• Pearl Harbour


  US entry into WW2 after Japanese attack
• Theme 1: Definition of who is a Jew


  Nazi classification based on Jewish ancestry
• Theme 2: Stripping Jews of Rights of Full Citizenship


  Nazi laws depriving Jews of citizenship rights
• Theme 3: Racial Purity


  Nazi laws preventing intermarriage with Jews
• Theme 4: Deprivation of Income Capacity


  Nazi measures to strip Jews of financial resources
• Theme 5: Taking property


  Forced sale of Jewish assets in Nazi Germany
• Theme 6: Exclusion from Educational Opportunities


  Nazi restrictions on Jewish access to education
• Theme 7: Branding


  Forced identification of Jews in Nazi Germany