Key phrases

• What does Diktat mean?

  Germany forced to adapt to the treaty of Versailles
• What did the german people call the German government after the treaty of Versailles?

  ‘November criminals‘
• What does ‘putsch‘ mean?

  An uprising, attempt to push a person into power
• What does coalition mean?


  a government made up of many parties
• What are left wing?

  communists
• What are right wing?

  nazis
• What is the reichstag?

  German government building
• What is kristallnacht?


  ’night of broken glass’, nazis smashed Jewish shops and burnt cinagogoues
• What is meant by A-social?

  Those who are different in society Such as disabled, gypsies
• what does aurtorky mean?

  a self sufficient country
• What is eugenics?

  A racial science, baes of Darwin’s theory of survival of the fittest. Nazis taught that the Aryan race were superior
• What was health biology?

  Teaching girls how to pick good husbands to create the ‘perfect’ children
• What is indoctrination?

  To make a person believe a set of ideas without them questioning the truth, ‘brainwashing’
• What is meant by Kinder, Kuche, Kirche?

  Kids, cooking, church (motto for women under Nazi rule)