HIST Test 1

  • Blitzkrieg: Military strategy revolves around surprise attacks; all forces focus on the weakest area of the opponent, don't let your opponent recuperate, speed.

  • Hitler Jugend (Hitler Youth in English): Youth Organization for Males in Nazi Germany

  • BDM Jungmädel: Youth Organization for Females in Nazi Germany

  • Special Unit Youth Organizations: Alpine Jugend, Marine Jugend, Flier Jugend, Patrol Jugend

  • Swing Jugend: Nazi resistance group that was based off Americans and swing jazz, was an underground movement.

  • Edelweiss Pirates: Nazi resistance group that rejected the Hitler Youth

  • 1940 Law Protection of Youth: Law that outlawed other youth organizations like the Edelweiss Pirates and Swing Jugend

  • Gleichschaltung: 1. Propaganda (Simplify, Big Lie, Repeat), 2. Create Nazi Organizations for all aspects of Life 3. Control (Gestapo and SS)

  • Gestapo = hitler's secret police

  • Social Darwinism: Justified to Conquer because of the theory of Darwinism being misapplied.

  • White Mans Burden: The idea that the white man needs to civilize the world. It comes from a poem

  • Panslavism: ethnic Slavic unification under Serbia. The idea that all slavs should be united under serbia

  • Pan-Germanism (Re-uniting German-speaking territories)

  • Article 232 of Treaty of Versailles: Germany had to pay reparations, loss of territory + colonies, loss of Alsace and Lorraine, loss of military

  • Totalitarianism: Interest of the state over the interest of the individual, as defined by its leader

  • Article 231 of Treaty of Versailles (War-Guilt Clause): Germany took responsibility for World War 1

  • Triple Alliance WW1: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy

  • Triple Entente WW1: France, Great Britain, Russia

  • The Blitz: Ordered by Hitler, Bombing of British cities on September 7th, 1940

  • Luftschutz: Civil defense organization in Nazi Germany in charge of Air Protection and protection against enemy aircraft. In their propaganda poster, it reads: “Jugend im Luftschutz!” (Jugend = Youth, im = in the)

  • November 11th, 1918: Armistice is signed, World War 1 Ends.

  • May 7th, 1945: Germany Surrenders, World War 2 Ends.

  • Balkan Crises: Tension between Austria Hungary and Serbia. Austria-Hungary claims Bosnia Herzegovina, but Serbia believes in Pan-slavism and is super upset

  • Great Adventure becomes the great slaughter because the warfare that was happening was modern warfare but they had old school tactics, generals shift to an attrition mindset

  • Dolchstoss Legend: German army claimed they were stabbed in the back by the Weimar Republic signing the armistice

  • Blut und Boden (Blood and Soil): Slogan referring to bringing back the perfect German society by maintaining "purity" of German blood and the consolidation of more land (soil)

  • Napola: A boarding school for kids in Nazi Germany. Men were in PE, learned how to shoot a rifle, and did boxing and land games. Women had health and PE as well but more importantly to them learned how to maintain a household and how to entertain.

  • Hermann Göring: Commander of the Luftwaffe, Nazi.

  • Place in the sun: Germanys quest for colonies and germany called it the place in the sun because the british bragged about their empire being so big the sun never sets on it.

  • (Nordic) Aryan: Blonde Hair + Blue eyes, the people the nazis really liked. Typically nordic, the germans saw people like this as the ultimate race, while jews, black people and gypsies were not.

  • Ubermenschen: People who are the superior race. To the nazis this was Nordic Aryans, so blue eyes, blonde hair and nordic.

  • Untermenschen: People who are inferior to Ubermenschen. To the nazis this was people with a different race like Jews, Slavs, Roma/Sinti (Gypsies), Black People, people with Genetic disorders, Gays and Jehovas.

  • Blank check telegram = ww1, Germany backs Austria-Hungary in a moment called the "blank check." In other words, Ger. tells A-H, "we will support you no matter what you do against Serbia." A blank check metaphorically being a check without a written number. In other words, "you do what you need too. we have your back, my dude."

  • Beer Hall Putsch = January 6th, if Trump was arrested for Treason (hitler got arrested for a coup, and he went on to write his dumbass book Mein Kampf in jail)

  • Alpine Jugend, Marine Jugend, Flier Jugend, and Patrol Jugend = different types of hitler youth, basically the different types of children turned into nazis

  • Scorched earth = a war tactic to disrupt your enemy via disrupting by metaphorically or often literally "scorching" the environment. That way, your enemy has to spend more of their county's funding and shipping materials to the troops rather than allowing them to "live off the land.”(Destroying their supplies and property so they have to spend more time fixing it)

  • Attrition = entails to a war tactic of wearing down your opponent over a period of time. Not traditionally a good time for anyone involved.

  • Otto von Bismarck = Prussian official who held a couple of wars and oversaw the unification of Germany

  • BDM was the hitler youth for girls. Exactly what you think it is. Rearing girls to be wives and mothers.

  • Remilitarization: re-arming a country or territory that was previously disarmed

  • Rearmament: equipping military forces with a new supply of weapons.

  • Apis was the nickname of a Serbian military officer and was connected to the terrorist group the black hand. The Black Hand popped Franz Ferdinand

  • Operation Barbarossa: Large invasion into the Soviet Union from Germany starting on June 22nd, 1941. One of the largest invasion forces in the history of war.

  • Moroccan Crisis: Germany wanted to challenge France's growing control over Morocco, aggravating France and Great Britain.

  • Anschluss Austria: Germany annexes Austria in 1938

  • Volksturm: national militia established by Nazi germany near the end of war

  • Krieg einsatz = war deployment.