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Adolf Hitler
Leading the German Nazi party and instigating World War II -
Communism started
The October Revolution in Russia set the conditions for the rise to state power of Vladimir Lenin's Bolsheviks, which was the first time any avowedly communist party reached that position. -
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Youth groups
Over the course of the 1930s, the Nazi state abolished all other youth groups in Germany. -
First concentration camp
In March 1933, the first concentration camp, Dachau, opened outside of Munich, Germany. -
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Holocaust
Persecution and murder of six million European Jews by the Nazi German -
Book Burning
The Nazis burned the books with "unGerman" ideas in them. -
Nuremberg Race Laws
They wanted to made Jews legally different from their non-Jewish neighbors -
Kristallnacht
It was a massive, coordinated attack on Jews throughout the German Reich. -
World War II- Europe
Germany, leaded by Hitler, invaded Poland -
Ghettos
Ghettos were often enclosed districts that isolated Jews from the non-Jewish population and from other Jewish communities. -
Hitler youth/ German girls
In 1939, more than 82% of eligible youth belonged to the Hitler Youth or its female equivalent, the League of German Girls.