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Problems after WWI
Flashcards from the section before WWII
Question | Answer |
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Problems in Europe after WWI? | Japan and U.S. are the only ones that are okay, France keeps changing government, people suffering and ready for change |
Problems in Germany? | Weimar Republic formed, Jews being blames, Germany owes $33 billion, hyperinflation in Germany |
Dawes Plan? | Plan created by U.S. to help Germany hyperinflation but causes the U.S. to have no money |
New ideas? | Kafka writes novels to expose uneasiness, Joyce reflects Freud's ideas, existentialism, Nietzche wants return to heroic values |
General Francisco Franco? | Declared Spain a republic, leads rebellion, helped by Hitler and Mussolini, wins Civil War, becomes fascist leader |
Fascist Germany? | Hitler rebuilds and takes the Rhineland, Britain encourages appeasement, Hitler makes deal with Stalin to take Poland |
American problems in 1920's? | Wealth not distributes, factories produce less, lay off more people, banks are uninsured, market value based on speculation |
Problems with League of Nations? | No control, no progress of disarmament, no effective military force, does not spread of fascism |
World divided? | East falls to dictators, Czech remains democratic, world splits |
Women's roles? | Women win right to vote, adopt freer clothes and hair, seek careers |
New art and music? | Cubism uses geometric shapes, surrealism mixes life and dreams, jazz is created in America |
Axis Powers? | Germany-Hitler, Italy-Mussolini, Japan-Tojo |
Sigmund Freud? | Austrian doctor, psychoanalysis and dreams, behavior is not based on reason |
Breaking point for American economics? | Black Tuesday- October 29,1929, stocks plunge again |
What does the Great Depression cause in Europe? | Totalitarian and Militaristic dictatorships take over |
Fascist Japan? | seizes Manchuria, protested by League of Nations, Japan leaves League of Nations and launches war on China |
Albert Einstein? | Radically new ideas, studies physics, theory of relativity- time and space are not constant |
Fascist Italy? | Mussolini attacks Ethiopia, League of Nations does not interfere, Mussolini and Hitler help Franco |
New Technology? | Cars are cheaper and more efficient, Lindbergh flies alone across Atlantic, commercial radios, motion pictures |
Adolf Hitler? | Begins Nazism, Mein Kampf, believes in lebensraum/living space, turns Germany totalitarian, brual, deprives Jews of rights |
Benito Mussolini? | Leader of Fascist Party, in charge of Italy, takes firm control of politics and Italian economy |