GRMN 2301 questions with 100% correct answers graded A+ 2023/2024

GRMN 2301 Antisemitism - correct answer hostility to or prejudice against Jews. For the Nazis, this amounted to declaring them a racial group, not just a religious group. They were also viewed as a movement that the Germans didn't want. Anything that was seen as bad in the present time was blamed on the Jews -modern art -feminism -urban poverty -communism Lebensraum - correct answer Literally means living space. The belief that Germany needed to expand the nation state in order to grow. This meant that they would expand to East Europe. This idea was also a big motivation for fighting WWII for the Germans. Nationalism - correct answer "an extreme form of patriotism, especially marked by a feeling of superiority over other countries." Nazism - correct answer aimed for the creation of a new racial German community under the leadership of one man and aimed to get rid of parliamentary democracy. Pan Germanism - correct answer a response to the expanse of German speakers in other countries. The belief that all German-blooded people should live in one country. Eugenics - correct answer idea proposed by Henry Ford and enacted in the US in the early 1900s. The belief that a beautiful perfect race could be formed. For the Nazis, it would be destroying or sterilizing people in their country that weren't perfect aka disabled, the mentally ill, the Communists, the gypsies, POC, and the Jews. Social Darwinism - correct answer human beings should allow themselves to be ruled by survival of the fittest. The Nazis wanted struggle with other nations in order to cultivate survival of the fittest. Think back to Mein Kampf and the middle school girls biology textbook Leadership Principle - correct answer an anti communist ideal that Germany needed only one leader, and that would be Adolf Hitler. He enacted this idea when the President of Germany, Hindenburg, died and Hitler declared himself the "Law and Head of the German Reich". passed by the Reichstag, making him Chancellor and the leader of all. office of the president is retired "in memory of Hindenburg". "According to his so-called Leader Principle (Führerprinzip), ultimate authority rested with him and extended downward. At each level, the superior was to give the orders, the subordinates to follow them to the letter." Weimar Republic - correct answer Democratic Republic formed in 1919 (after WWI) and ended in 1933 after Hitler came to power. The country was still recovering from WWI and was heavily damaged by the Treaty of Versailles which made it hard for Germany to rebuild it's military. The territory of Germany was greatly reduced. Then the Great Depression hit and inflation skyrocketed; people began burning money as fuel for fire. Then Hitler was released from prison in 1922 and was elected chancellor on Jan 30, 1933. on Feb 27, 1933, the reichstag burns (caused by a Dutch communist). Hitler enacts the Decree Emergency Powers act (article 48) and suspends 7 articles in the constitution. Radical Nationalism - correct answer The Nazis saw themselves as a revolutionary movement. The Germans were nationalists in the sense that they felt extreme pride over the country and associated this feeling of pride with being racially Aryans. They believed that in Germany there should only be nationalist Germans, or ethnic Germans. NSDAP - correct answer National Socialist German Workers Party Hitler appointed Chancellor - correct answer Jan 30, 1933. "President Paul von Hindenburg had already appointed Hitler as Chancellor on 30 January 1933 after a series of parliamentary elections and associated backroom intrigues." Manichean world view - correct answer That the world is an "us vs them" in which the us us the Aryan/ German race and the them is the Jews. In order to survive and thrive, one had to die. Redemptive Antisemitism - correct answer The idea that anti semitism would save the Germans. The survival of the German race depended on anti semitism and that the only way to survive was the annihilation of the Jews. Reichstag Fire Decree - correct answer on Feb 27, 1933, the reichstag burns (caused by a Dutch communist). Hitler enacts the Decree Emergency Powers act (article 48) and suspends 7 articles in the