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Aladin Saleh Period 8 Vocab for studying


 * Brown Shirts:** Stormtroopers who were organised and set up in 1921 as a paramilitary unit led by Ernst Rohm.


 * Third Reich:** Third empire. Term used for the Nazi dictatorship. (Hitler called his new Germany the Third Reich) 1933-45.


 * Democratic Republic:** A political system opposing a monarchy, but based on democratic principles.


 * Imperial Germany:** Germany from its unification in 1871 to 1918. Also reffered to as the second Reich.


 * Hyper Inflation:** In Germany 1923, prices spiralled out of control as the government increased the amount of money being printed. Thus making their own currency slowly become worthless.


 * Centre Party:** Major political voice of Catholicism, but enjoyed a broad range of support. In the 1920s it became more sympathetic to the right wing.


 * Reichstag:** The German parliament created in 1871.


 * Emergency Decree:** Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution which say the president had the right in an emergency to rule by decree and to override the constitutional rights of the people.


 * NSDAP:** National Socialist German German Workers Party. Nazi Party.


 * SS:** (Schutzstaffel) Bodyguards of Hitler.


 * Reichsmark:** New German currency after the 1923 inflation.


 * Gauleiters:** Regional leaders of the Nazi party.


 * Night of the long Knives:** June 1934, when Hitler ordered the murder of about 200 SA leaders.


 * Autonomy:** The right of self-government.


 * Pan-German League:** A movement campaigning for the unification of Germany into one country.


 * Customs Union:** An agreement between two or more countries to abolish Tariffs.


 * Rule of Law:** Governing a country according to its laws.


 * Anti-Semitism:** The hatred of Jews. It became the most significant part of Nazi racist thinking.


 * SA: (**Sturmabteilung**)** Stormtroopers. They supported the radical socialist aspets of Nazism.


 * Mein Kampf:** "My Struggle" The book written by Hitler in 1924 which expresses his political ideas. Written while Hitler was in jail after the failed Germany Beer Hall Putsch.


 * Social Darwinism:** A philosophy that portrayed the world as a struggle between people, races, and nations. (Survival of the Fittest)


 * Aryan:** Broadly refers to all the peoples of the Indo-European family. However for Nazis it meant the non-Jewish people. Aryans were seen as the superior race by Hitler.


 * Annexation:** Seizing the territory of another country by illegal means.


 * Arbitration Treaty:** An agreement to accept the decision by a third party to settle a conflict.


 * Mutual Guarentee** **Agreement:** An agreement between states on a particular issue, but not an alliance.


 * War Bonds:** In order to raise money for war, the government encouraged people to invest into government funds in belief they were helping to finance the war.


 * Recession:** Period of econimic slow down, usually accompanied by rising unemployment.


 * Authoritarianism:** The extreme right favoured the restoration of some authoritarian, dictatorial regime. Strong non-democratic leadership.


 * Paramilitary Units:** Informal non-legal military squads.


 * Self-Determination:** The right of a people to determine their own form of government or the nation to which they belong.

Layton, Geoff. //The Third Reich 1933-45//. London: n.p., 2005. N. pag. Print.

Layton, Geoff. __Weimar and the Rise of Nazi Germany__. 3rd Edition. London. Hoddler, 2005