RISE OF NAZISM

ESSENTIAL QUESTION

• What made Germans unhappy after WW I?

REPARATIONS

• Germany had to make payments to winners of World War I?

MEGAINFLATION

• German gov. printed too much money, led to extreme rise in prices.

ALSACE-LORRAINE

• Germany lost territory to France.

ESSENTIAL QUESTION

• Who were the Nazis?

NAZISM

• Racist and Fascist government of Germany.• Led by Hitler

BROWN SHIRTS

• Hitler’s gang.• Would intimidate political opponents.

BEER HALL PUTSCH

• Brown Shirts stage failed revolution.• Hitler arrested and jailed.

ESSENTIAL QUESTION

• What did Hitler do while locked up?

MEIN KAMPF

• Hitler’s book – his plan to take over the world.

MASTER RACE

• Belief that Germans are best people in world.

‘LIVING SPACE’

• Desire for Germany to conquer new territory.

HITLER YOUTH

• Young Germans taught to be Nazis.• Children expected to tell on parents.

FINAL SOLUTION

• Kill all Jews, disabled, gays, Roma (gypsies).• Hitler blamed them for defeat in WWI.

ESSENTIAL QUESTION

• How did Hitler gain power?

CHANCELLOR

• Hitler’s party wins enough votes to gain control of army and police.

REICHSTAG

• Hitler orders lawmaking building burned down.

THIRD REICH

• Hitler’s new name for Germany.

DER FUHRER

• German for The Leader.• Hitler expected people to call him this.

ESSENTIAL QUESTION

• What was the Nazi plan for the Final Solution?

STAR OF DAVID

• What Jews were forced to wear for identification.

GHETTOS

• All Jews expected to live in same neighborhood.

CONCENTRATION CAMPS

• Where the ‘undesirables’ were sent to die.