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Between the Wars
Vocabulary for Between the Wars
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Histology
9th Grade
02/10/2011

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Disarmament
Definition
Shrinking of the Military
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Pact
Definition
Agreement between two groups
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Debts
Definition
To owe money to someone
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Inflation
Definition
Rise of prices and decrease of monetary value
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Surplus
Definition
greater than needed, in excess
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Depression
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a period during which business, employment, and stock-market values decline severely or remain at a very low level of activity
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Militarism
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a policy of maintaining a strong military organization in aggressive preparedness for war
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Totalitarianism
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a person who takes absolute control ofthe state or a governing branch of a highly centralized institution and controls all aspects of peoples lives.
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Nazi Party
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the political party founded in Germany in 1919 and brought to power by Hitler in 1933
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Swastika
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this symbol with clockwise arms, officially adopted in 1935 as the emblem of Nazi Germany
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Mein Kempf
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(English: My Struggle ) the autobiography (1925–27) of adolf hitler, setting forth his political philosophy and his plan for German conquest.
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Inferior
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lower in place or position; closer to the bottom or base.
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Chancellor
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the chief minister of state in certain parliamentary governments, as in Germany; prime minister; premier.
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Dictator
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a person exercising absolute power, especially a ruler who has absolute, unrestricted control in a government without hereditary succession.
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Lebenstraum
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In Hitler's book Mein Kampf, he detailed his belief that the German people needed Lebensraum ("living space", i.e. land and raw materials), and that it should be found in the East. It was the stated policy of the Nazis to kill, deport, or enslave the Polish, Russian and other Slavic populations, whom they considered inferior, and to repopulate the land with Germanic peoples.
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Annexed
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to attach, append, or add, especially to something larger or more important.
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Ceased
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to stop; discontinue; to come to an end
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Sudetenland
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a mountainous region in the N Czech Republic, including the Sudeten and the Erzgebirge: annexed by Germany 1938; returned to Czechoslovakia 1945.
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Sanctions
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authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
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Appeasment
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the policy of acceding to the demands of a potentially hostile nation in the hope of maintaining peace
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What are the three things most countries lost after WWI?
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Life Land Money
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What are the three things needed in order for Fascism to survive?
Definition
1. Strong Military Leader
2. An economic bust or Depression
3. Strong Nationalist feelings
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Identify the three territories Germany took over in definace to the Treaty of Verssailes.
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Rhineland
Austria
Sudenten Land
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Disarmament
Definition
Removal or reduction of Military
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Boom
Definition
a period of rapid economic growth, prosperity, high wages and prices, and relatively full employment.
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Bust
Definition
a sudden decline in the economic conditions of a country, marked by an extreme drop in stock-market prices, business activity, and employment; depression.
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