World War 2 Rise of Nazism

Flashcards about the rise of Nazism and events leading up to WW2

Tories Conservative Party (England)

Favored high tariffs and welfare payments to the unemployed after WWI

Labourites (England)

Advocated gradual nationalization of major industries after WWI

Irish Question

Refers to the granting of independence to Southern Ireland after a failed suppression of rebellion.

Occupation of the Ruhr Valley (1922)

France sent troops to occupy the Ruhr Valley in western Germany after Germany only paid part of its reparation bill.

Great Depression Causes

WWI debt, nationalistic tariff policies, depreciated currencies, and disrupted trade patterns; dependence on post-WWI American investments before the stock market crash.

Adolf Hitler's Early Dislikes

Nobility of Eastern Europe, mixed nationalities of the Danubian empire, and Jewish people.

Hitler's Role in WWI

Dispatch runner for the German army.

Hitler's Political Activity in Munich, Bavaria (1919)

Actively anti-communist, anti-socialist, anti-republican, and anti-democratic, working with the army's political instruction program.

National Socialist German Workers' Party

Hitler joined this party at the request of the army.

Election of 1930 (Germany)

Nazis won 107 seats in the Reichstag.

Third Reich

Refers to Nazi Germany, following the First (Holy Roman Empire) and Second (Bismark's Empire) Reichs.

Nazi Ideology Post Depression

Blamed democracy, communism, and Jewish people for Germany's ills.

Reichstag Fire (March 1933)

Hitler used the burning of the Reichstag to declare emergency power over the government.

Enabling Act

Gave Hitler dictatorial powers for 3 years.

Dachau (1933)

First concentration/labor camp opened.

Night of the Long Knives (June 1934)

Hitler purged the Nazi party of left-wing socialists; formation of the SS (protection squadron) and the Gestapo (secret police).

Nuremberg Laws of 1935

Stripped German Jews of their rights.

Kristallnacht (Nights of the Broken Glass) 1938

Symbolizes the beginning of the Holocaust; 200,000 Jews escaped, but 90% of those who stayed were killed.