Important Terms and Dates
Chapter: Nazism and the Rise of Hitler
Important Terms
Wall Street Exchange : The name of the world’s biggest stock exchange located in the USA.
The Great Depression : A worldwide economic slump lasting from 1929 to 1935.
Reichstag : Name given to the German Parliament.
Reparation : Compensate for a wrong doing.
Proletarianisation : To become impoverished to the level of working classes.
Axis Powers : A group of countries, namely, Italy, Germany and Japan, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Yugoslavia who opposed the Allied Power.
Allied Powers : Formed by Britain, France, Russia and the USA.
Second World War : Global war that took place from September 1939 to May 1945. About 50 million people were killed in this war.
Pearl Harbour : Situated on the Hawaiian Island of Honolulu. It was the main base of the US Pacific Fleet.
Gestapo : The Secret State Police in Nazi Germany.
Holocaust : The persecution and mass murder of Jews by German Nazis between 1933 and 1945.
Propaganda : Specific type of message directly aimed at influencing the opinion of people through the use of posters, films and speeches.
Persecution : Systematic and organised punishment of those belonging to a group or religion.
Concentration aCmp : A camp where people were isolated and detained without due process of law. Typically, it was surrounded by electrified barbed wire fences.
Genocidal : Killing on a large-scale leading to destruction of large sections of people.
Jungvolk : A separate section for Nazi boys upto 14 years of age.
Gypsy : The groups that were classified as ‘Gypsy’ had their own community identity. Sinti and Roma were two such communities. Many of them traced their origin to India.
Pauperised : Reduce to absolute poverty.
Persecution : Systematic, organised punishment of those belonging to a group or religion.
Gypsy : The groups that were classified as ‘Gypsy’ had their own community identity. Sinti and Roma were two such communities. Many of them traced their origin to India.
Jew : One whose religion is Judaism.
Pauperised : Reduce to absolute poverty.
Usurers : Moneylenders charging excessive interest; often used as a term of abuse.
Ghetto : A quarter of a city in which Jews were formerly required to live
Important Dates
1889 : Adolf Hitler was born in Austria.
1914-1918 : First World War
1917 : Allies strengthened by the US entry in the first world war.
1918 : Germany capitulates, ending the war; Proclamation of the Weimar Republic.
1919 : Germany signed the Treaty of Versailles.
1923 : Germany refused to pay the compensation and the French occupied its leading industrial area, Ruhr to claim their coal.
1929 : The USA, Wall Street Exchange crashed resulting The Great Economic Depression
1933 : Hitler was made Chancellor of Germany.
1934 : Hitler became the President of Germany.
1935 : World War II, Italy attacked Ethiopia, German Rearmament. Hitler announced Germany would rebuilt its Military.
1936 : Hitler reoccupied Rhineland.
1937 : Attack of Japan on China during the Second World War.
1938 : German troops entered Austria. Integration of Germany and Austria.
1939 : Germany attacked Czechoslovakia.
1940 : Declaration of war by Italy on Britain and France and surrender of France.
1940-1944 : Ghettoisation of Jews.
8th April 1941 : Germany invaded the Balkans.
June, 1941 : Germany attacked the USSR.
1942 : United Nations Declaration signed by the representatives of 26 nations.
1943 : Defeat of Italy and Germany by the Allied Powers in North Africa.
1933 to 1945 : The mass murder of Jews by German Nazis in concentration camps and in gas chambers in Poland.
1945 :Germany surrendered to the Allies.
1945 : Adolf Hitler, his propaganda minister Goebbels and his entire family committed suicide collectively in his Berlin Bunker.
