Dictatorship and De2 Word Scramble

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Armed strikes and uprisings by German communists in 1919 that ended in defeat for the communists.	Spartacist Uprising
An aborted 1923 attempt by Hitler to seize control of Munich and from there challenge the Weimar Republic.	Beer Hall Putsch
Everyone's least favorite person in the world. Author of Mein Kampf	Adolf Hitler
The English name for the National Socialist German Workers' Party	Nazi Party
Hitler's fascist paramilitary forces	Brownshirts
Germany's last president before Hitler's rise to power, the man who appointed Hitler as chancellor.	Paul von Hindenburg
The building that housed Germany's parliament.	Reichstag
The 1933 act blamed on communists that enabled Hitler to suspend civil liberties in Germany.	Reichstag Fire
The act passed by Hitler following the Reichstag fire giving him an effective dictatorship over Germany	Enabling Act
The concept of "living space" for Germany's growing population	Lebensraum
Nazi paramilitary organization, also called "brownshirts"	Stormtroopers
A 1934 purge carried out by Hitler against members of the brownshirts who were angering the German army and threatening his hold on Germany	Night of the Long Knives
German laws that first began to restrict the rights of Jews and prevented Jews from marrying with other Germans	Nuremberg Laws
Anti-Jewish riots across Germany in 1938 sparked by the assassination of German diplomat Ernst vom Rath	Kristallnacht
Hitler's secret police	Gestapo
Nazi economic plans designed to shore up the German economy and prepare it for wartime	Four Year Plan
Hitler's propaganda minister	Joseph Goebbels
The commander of the SS, a large German paramilitary organization	Heinrich Himmler
Famous director who depicted the 1934 Nazi Party Congress in "Triumph of the Will."	Leni Riefenstal
Boy Scouts meet the Nazis.	Hitler Youth
The invasion of this region by Japan in 1931 stemmed from the Mukden Incident	Manchuria
Actions carried out by Hitler to prepare Germany for war, in total violation of the Versailles Treaty	Re-armament of Germany
Italy belligerently invaded this nation in 1935.	Ethiopia
The emperor of Ethiopia at the time of Italy's invasion	Haile Selassie
The remilitarization of this German region occurred in 1936	Rhineland
A conflict between nationalist and republican forces in a certain Iberian nation dear to my heart. Ole.	Spanish Civil War
Spanish dictator who seized power following the Spanish Civil War	Francisco Franco
A declaration of mutual aid between the fascist governments of Italy and Germany	Tripartite Pact
Pact between Japan and Nazi Germany in 1936 to form an alliance against the Soviet Union	Anti-Comintern Pact
The violent conquest of a certain Chinese city in 1937 by Japan earned this name.	The Rape of Nanking
The 1938 annexation of Austria into Germany	Anschluss
The western border of the former republic of Czechoslovakia	Sudetenland
Winston Churchill's predecessor as prime minister	Winston Churchill
The policy of negotiation and avoiding conflict practiced by European nations in the 1930s towards German and Italian aggression	Appeasement
A conference that recognized German annexation of Sudetenland	Munich Agreement
An agreement promising peace between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.	Nazi-Soviet Non Aggression Pact
The 1939 act that sparked WWII.	Invasion of Poland
The new style of rapid, concentrated mechanized warfare introduced by the Third Reich	Blitzkreig
A phase of World War II between the invasion of Poland and the invasion of France wherein no major military operations were carried out in Europe	Phony War
The Nazi-puppet government that ruled France during World War II.	Vichy France
Leader of the Free French	Charles de Gaulle
French partisans who continued to fight against Germany after Nazi occupation of France	Free French
British prime minister for much of World War II.	Winston Churchill
French city from which the English army was miraculously evacuated in the early days of WWII.	Dunkirk
The ideal society Hitler and the Nazis attempted to introduce first in Europe and then worldwide during WWII.	New Order
Germany's unsuccessful attempt to bomb Britain into submission	Battle of Britain
German air force, led by Herman Goring	Luftwaffe
Agreement formulated between Churchill and FDR that set the blueprint for the post World War II world	Atlantic Charter
United States policy that enabled it to loan weaponry to the Soviet Union and other Allied countries during WWII.	Lend Lease
The name given to the German invasion of the Soviet Union	Operation Barbarossa
The naval battle between Allied convoys and German submarines	Battle of the Atlantic
A major turning point in World War II, wherein the Nazis were unable to take a certain Russian city	Battle of Stalingrad
A turning point in North Africa that saw Axis forces being driven back from Egypt to Tunisia	El Alamein
Invasion of this island was the beginning of the Italian Campaign.	Sicily
The name given to the date of the Normandy invasion	D-Day
The last major German offensive of the war.	Battle of the Bulge
The systematic slaughter of European Jews	The Holocaust
A 1942 meeting which drew up a comprehensive plan for eliminating all Jews in occupied territory	Wannsee Conference
The day that established victory in the European theater of WWII.	V-E Day
The conference that saw the Allied forces demanding an unconditional surrender from the Axis powers	Casablanca conference

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