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Rise of Dictatorships
Stalin, Mussolini, and Hitler
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10th Grade
01/18/2012

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Soviet Union became this state
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totalitarian state
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Soviet Union controlled by
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powerful and complex bureaucracy
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Stalin proposed these plans
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5 year plans (to improve the economy)
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command economy
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government officials made all basic economic decisions
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brought under government control
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agriculture
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Stalin wanted peasants to farm where
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on state-owned farms or collectives
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collectives
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large farms owned and operated by peasants as a group
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Stalin liquidated this class due to refusal of collectives
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kulaks
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Stalin took grain from peasants during this
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Terror Famine
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Gulag
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system of brutal labor camps
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Great Purge
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cracked down on Old Bolsheviks, any opposition
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Results of Great Purge
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Stalin has increased power
important people were killed
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propaganda
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made Stalin a god-like figure
improved trust in Communist system
evil capitalism
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socialist realism
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show Soviet life in a positive light and promote hope in the Communist future through writing
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writers and authors jailed, tortured if
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they didn't follow social realism
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russification
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policy making a nationality's culture more Russian
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russification made other SSR's
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have to adapt to the Russian language and way of life
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atheism
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belief in no god
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official state religion
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atheism
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Communists tried to replace religion with
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their own ideology
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head of Russian society
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Communists
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most people were excluded from
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Communist party membership
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all children attended
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free, Communist-built schools
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Under Communism, woman won
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equality
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organized Fascist party in Italy
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Benito Mussolini
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Mussolini organized supporters into
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combat squads
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Black Shirts
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party militants that rejected the democratic process in favor of violent action
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March on Rome
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tens of 1000's of Fascists swarmed towards the capital where Mussolini was named prime minister by the king to avoid civil war
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Mussolini's title after taking more power
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Il Duce "The Leader"
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Mussolini brought economy under
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state control
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the individual was
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unimportant
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glorification of the
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state
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major Facist goal
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shaping the young
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totalitarian state
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a one party dictatorship attempts to regulate every aspect of the lives of its citizens
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fascism
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any centralized, authoritarian government that is not communist whose policies glorify the state over the individual and are destructive to basic human rights
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traits of fascism
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extreme nationalism
aggressive foreign expansion
glorified warfare
antidemocratic
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appeal of fascism
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strong, stable government
sense of power and confidence
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Fascists were enemies of
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socialists and communists
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fascists pursued
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national goals
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win 2 year Russian civil war
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Bolsheviks
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new Russian capital
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Moscow
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where Russian government runs
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Kremlin
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committee that ran Russian government
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Politburo
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Head of Party in Russia
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General Secretary
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Big 3 of Russian Party
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Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin
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seemed to be leading candidate after Lenin
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Trotsky
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Leader of Red Army
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Trotsky
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controlled administrators and was General Secretary
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Stalin
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kicked out of USSR, stripped of power
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Trotsky
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ethnicity of Stalin
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Georgia
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Stalin does this for Bolsheviks
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robs banks
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bringing farmland under control of state; forcible consolidation of peasant farms into large state controlled enterprise
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collective farming
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fate of kulaks (rich peasants)
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liquidated by Stalin, sent to prison camps
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ramifications of collective farming
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increase in prison camps, decrease in farming -> forced famine
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goals of 5 year plans
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increase industry
strengthen military
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convert agrarian economy to
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industrial economy
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ran forced labor camps
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Gulag
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secret police
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NKVD
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Italian fascist party created as alternative
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to democracy
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became leader of Fascist party
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Benito Mussolini
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"the leader"
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Il Duce
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armed groups of fascist thugs
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squadristi
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fascism
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action first, philosophy later
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peaceful march to claim power in Italy
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March on Rome
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King allows Mussolini to be
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prime minister
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sharing of power in government (no majority)
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coalition government
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vocal member of parliament against Mussolini who was killed
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Giacomo Matteotti
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fascists ban
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political opposition
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signed between pope and Italy making Catholicism official religion of Italy and making Vatican City sovereign
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Lateran Treaty
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democratic government in Germany after WWI
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Weimar Republic
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Problems with Weimar Republic
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not used to ruling themselves
deal with ramifications of Treaty of Versailles
bad economy
attempted revolts
many small political parties
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German socialists
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Spartacists
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volunteer units of army veterans
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freikorps
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forerunners of Nazi Party
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freikorps
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leader of Nazis and teams up with Ludendorf
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Nazi
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Hitler enlists help of stormtroopers (brown shirts) and takes over beer hall and War Ministry Bldg. but is captured and goes to jail
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Beer Hall Putsch
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Hitler realizes
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cant take over by force, must do it democratically
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Hitler writes this book
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Mein Kompf "My Struggle"
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deputy to Hitler and #3 in Nazi party
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Rudolf Hess
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1924-29
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Golden Age of Weimar Republic
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Nazi minister of propaganda
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Joseph Goebbels
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President of Germany
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Hindenburg
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1933 Hindenburg appoints new chancellor
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Hitler
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Hitler establishes
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Third Reich (Nazi Germany)
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chosen symbol of Nazis
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swastika
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hated Jews and Communists for
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decisions made in WWI
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wrote poem as stormtrooper that became Nazi national anthem
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Horst Wessel
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Hitler's plan to make 1 party state
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get list Communists, burn down Reichstag, blame those on list
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Dutch Communist that burns down Reichstag
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Marinus Van der Lubbe
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effects of Reichstag fire
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civil liberties suspended
death penalty reinstated
arrest Communists before elections to get Nazi majority
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March 1933 gave Hitler dictator-like powers
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Enabling Act
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Steps to Hitlers Power
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Reichstag Fire
General Election to gain majority
Enabling Act
creates secret police
opposition banned
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takes over police force and local governments
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Gestapo
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#2 in Nazi party, WWI ace, leader of Luftwaffe, conspired Reichstag burning
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Herman Goering
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2 armies of Germany
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Reichswehr
SA stormtroopers
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the 'professional' army
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Reichswehr
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army who swore allegiance to Hitler and Nazis
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SA stormtroopers
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leader of SA stormtroopers
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Ernst Rohm
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merged armies
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People's Army
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purging of SA done by Gestapo and SS where Rohm + 150 officers + 1000's killed; rise of SS + Gestapo; anyone who tried to stop Hitler's rise was killed
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Night of the Long Knives
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wore black and started concentration camps
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SS
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after Hindenburg dies in 1934
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Reichswehr swears allegiance to Hitler, merges responsibilities of chancellor and president
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Hitler's home aka the Eagle's Nest
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Berchtesgaden
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Hitler's niece lover who shoots herself
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Geli Raubal
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Hitler's most famous love
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Eva Braun
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view of Jews by Nazis
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looked upon as foreignors and were used as scapegoats
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Jews blamed for
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WWI and economic downturn
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took away Jewish citizenship and voting rights, prevented mixed blood
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Nuremberg Laws
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number of Jewish grandparents to be Jewish
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3
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diplomat killed by Polish Jew, Hitler responds with pogrom
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Night of Broken Glass
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organized and officially sanctioned massacre of minority group
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pogrom
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German Highway System
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Autobahn
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Hitler wanted this
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make military machine, make Germany self-sufficient
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Aryan kids trained to be part of the race
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Hitler Youth
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annual Party rallies that strengthened cult of Hitler
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where Jesse Owens won, first televised, first torch relay
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1936 Olympics
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Congrats on being done
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