How did Hitler rise to power? - Alex Gendler and Anthony Hazard – YouTube Dictation Transcript & Vocabulary
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1.How did Adolf Hitler, a tyrant who orchestrated one of the largest genocides in human history, rise to power in a democratic country
2.The story begins at the end of World War I
3.With the successful Allied advance in 1918, Germany realized the war was and signed an armistice ending the fighting
4.As its imperial government collapsed, civil unrest and worker strikes spread across the nation
5.Fearing a Communist revolution, major parties joined to suppress the uprisings, the parliamentary Weimar Republic
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Key Vocabulary (CEFR B2)
mainstream
A2The principal current in a flow, such as a river or flow of air
Example:
"Mainstream parties proved unable to handle the crisis"
unwinnable
A2Unable to be won.
Example:
"Germany realized the war was unwinnable"
establishing
B1To make stable or firm; to confirm.
Example:
"establishing the parliamentary Weimar Republic."
debilitating
B1To make feeble; to weaken.
Example:
"debilitating its already weakened economy."
accusations
B1The act of accusing.
Example:
"After World War I, Jewish success led to ungrounded accusations"
leadership
A2The capacity of someone to lead others.
Example:
"his manipulative public speaking launched him into its leadership"
combining
A2To bring (two or more things or activities) together; to unite.
Example:
"Combining anti-Semitism with populist resentment,"
capitalism
B2A socio-economic system based on private ownership of resources or capital.
Example:
"the Nazis denounced both Communism and Capitalism"
scapegoats
A2In the Mosaic Day of Atonement ritual, a goat symbolically imbued with the sins of the people, and sent out alive into the wilderness while another was sacrificed.
Example:
"offering them convenient scapegoats"
increasing
A2(of a quantity, etc.) To become larger or greater.
Example:
"and drew increasingly larger crowds."
| Word | CEFR | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| mainstream | A2 | The principal current in a flow, such as a river or flow of air |
| unwinnable | A2 | Unable to be won. |
| establishing | B1 | To make stable or firm; to confirm. |
| debilitating | B1 | To make feeble; to weaken. |
| accusations | B1 | The act of accusing. |
| leadership | A2 | The capacity of someone to lead others. |
| combining | A2 | To bring (two or more things or activities) together; to unite. |
| capitalism | B2 | A socio-economic system based on private ownership of resources or capital. |
| scapegoats | A2 | In the Mosaic Day of Atonement ritual, a goat symbolically imbued with the sins of the people, and sent out alive into the wilderness while another was sacrificed. |
| increasing | A2 | (of a quantity, etc.) To become larger or greater. |
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