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Civil Disobedience
Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government, or of an occupying international power.To deliberatelybreak the law peacefully TERM 2
Joseph Stalin
DEFINITION 2 Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (/stln/; 18 December 1878 - 5 March
- was the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953. Holding the post of the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, he was effectively the dictator of the state.His led the transformation of USSR from rual Society into an industrial power. TERM 3
Five-Year Plans
DEFINITION 3 The five-year plans for the development of the national economy of the Soviet Union (USSR) (Russian: - - ) were a series of nationwide centralized economic plans in the Soviet Union. TERM 4
Purges
DEFINITION 4 Purges of the Communist Party in the Union were a key ritual in which periodic reviews of members of the Communist Party were conducted to get rid of the "undesirables."State violence in the form of wide spread arrests, imprisonment in labor camps and executions- to rid the society of villains. TERM 5
Adolf Hitler
DEFINITION 5 Adolf Hitler (German: [adlf htl]; 20 April 1889 - 30 April 1945) was a German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei; NSDAP), Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and Fhrer ("leader") of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. As dictator of the German Reich, he initiated World War II in Europe with the invasion of Poland in September 1939 and was a central figure of the Holocaust.
Enabling Act
Suspended the constitution for four years and allowed Nazi laws to be passed without legislative approval. TERM 7
Pump Priming
DEFINITION 7 In economics, stimulus refers to attempts to use monetary or fiscal policy to stimulate the economy. TERM 8
Nuremberg Laws 1933
DEFINITION 8 The Nuremberg Laws were antisemitic laws in Nazi Germany. They were introduced on 15 September 1935 by the Reichstag at a special meeting convened at the annual Nuremberg Rally of the Nazi Party (NSDAP).Legislation that did not allow marriage between Jews and Germans TERM 9
Family Allowance
DEFINITION 9 Child benefit is a social security payment which is distributed to the parents or guardians of children, teenagers and in some cases, young adults. TERM 10
Popular Front
DEFINITION 10 A popular front is a broad coalition of different political groupings, usually made up of leftists and centrists.
Blitzkrieg
Blitzkrieg is a method of warfare whereby an attacking force spearheaded by a dense concentration of armoured and motorised or mechanised infantry formations with close air support, breaks through the opponent's line of defence by short, fast, powerful attacks and then dislocates the defenders, using speed and surprise to encircle them, assisted by Pervitin, a form of Amphetamine, given to drivers to keep them awake. TERM 17
DEFINITION 17 U.S stock market crashes, five year plans begin TERM 18
DEFINITION 18 Japan invades Manchuria; Spanish republicans over throw monocracy, Hitler comes to power. TERM 19
DEFINITION 19 Italy invades Ethiopia TERM 20
DEFINITION 20 Purges and Trials begin in USSR, Hitler Rhineland, Spanish civil war begins
Japan attacks Chine TERM 22
DEFINITION 22 Germany annexes Austria; European leaders meet in Munich to negotiate with Hitler; Kristallnacht in Germany TERM 23
DEFINITION 23 Spanish civil war ends, Nazi- soviet pact, Germany invades Poland, Britan and France declare war on Germany; WWII begins TERM 24
DEFINITION 24 France falls to German army TERM 25
DEFINITION 25 British Air Force fends off german attacks in the battle of Britan
