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Interwar Years
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The European nations that had fought in the Great War emerged how? | Economically and socially crippled |
| What were the 3 things that arose during that time period? | Communism, Fascism, and Nazism |
| Fascism controlled which countries? | Germany, Italy, and Spain |
| The 2 decades following WW1 were characterized by an economic depression and social and cultural insecurity, this led to? | Fascism |
| On what year did the New York Stock Exchange crash? | 1929 |
| Fascism is an ideology of the oppressed which pandered to what? | Natinalism, Racism, and Fantasies of military glory. |
| What did Hitler reputiate? | The Treaty of Versailles |
| Class regard was a casuality of WW1, what kind of problem was this? | Social Problem |
| What were the 1920's referred as? | The Roaring Twenties |
| What Government was put in Germany imediately after WW1? | The Weimar Republic |
| What did Lenin rename the city? | Moscow |
| The Post WW1 European economy was built on what? | A fragile combination of global loans, reparations payments, and foreign trade. |
| Was is Fascism a mixture of? | an intense form of nationalism, a professed belief in the virtues of struggle and youth, a fanatical obedience to a charismatic leader, an expressed hatred of socialism and liberalism. |
| What is the birthplace of Fascism? | Italy |
| Who founded the National Fascist Party in 1919? | Benito Mussolini |
| Mussolini organized 20,000 fascist supporters and announced his intention to march on Rome on what year? | 1922 |
| After Giacomo Matteotti was killed on what year was Mussolini declared the effective dictator of Italy? | 1926 |
| Nazis became popular by telling the Germna people things they wanted to hear, what were some of them? | the Naziappealed to displaced veterans and young people by telling them that they would build a Germany that had a place for them., they promised to get rid of the hated war reparations and to return Germany to military greatness. |
| Nazis became popular by telling the Germna people things they wanted to hear, what were some of them? (cont) | They provided the Germans with someone to blame for defeat by claiming that the Jews had betrayed Germany., They appealed to frightened bussiness interests and the Church in Germany by promising to protect them from the socialists. |
| What was the original name of the Nazi party? | NAtional Socialist Germany Workers' Party |
| Hitler and the NAzis made their first bid for power in November of 1923 in what became know as what? | Beer Hall Putsch |
| Who appointed Hitler Chancellor of Germany? | Paul Von Hindenburg |
| Passing the Enabling Act of March 1933, Hitler was essentially free to rule as a dictator because of what? | Burning the Reichstag |
| In 1914-1918 Europe accumilated six and a half more debt than it had in the previous fourteen hurdred years because of what? | The Great War |
| Germnay lost 15% of its pre-war capacity, all of its foreign investments and 90% of what via the TReaty of Vesailles? | Mercantile Fleet |
| Passing the Enabling Act of March 1933, Hitler was essentially free to rule as a dictator because of what? | Burning the Reichstag |
| Hitler and the NAzis made their first bid for power in November of 1923 in what became know as what? | Beer Hall Putsch |
| Nazis became popular by telling the Germna people things they wanted to hear, what were some of them? (cont) | They provided the Germans with someone to blame for defeat by claiming that the Jews had betrayed Germany., They appealed to frightened bussiness interests and the Church in Germany by promising to protect them from the socialists. |
| Who appointed Hitler Chancellor of Germany? | Paul Von Hindenburg |
| Nazis became popular by telling the Germna people things they wanted to hear, what were some of them? (cont) | They provided the Germans with someone to blame for defeat by claiming that the Jews had betrayed Germany., They appealed to frightened bussiness interests and the Church in Germany by promising to protect them from the socialists. |
| Passing the Enabling Act of March 1933, Hitler was essentially free to rule as a dictator because of what? | Burning the Reichstag |
| Who appointed Hitler Chancellor of Germany? | Paul Von Hindenburg |
| Hitler and the NAzis made their first bid for power in November of 1923 in what became know as what? | Beer Hall Putsch |
| What was the original name of the Nazi party? | NAtional Socialist Germany Workers' Party |
| Passing the Enabling Act of March 1933, Hitler was essentially free to rule as a dictator because of what? | Burning the Reichstag |
| Who appointed Hitler Chancellor of Germany? | Paul Von Hindenburg |
| What was the original name of the Nazi party? | NAtional Socialist Germany Workers' Party |
| Hitler and the NAzis made their first bid for power in November of 1923 in what became know as what? | Beer Hall Putsch |
| Who appointed Hitler Chancellor of Germany? | Paul Von Hindenburg |
| Passing the Enabling Act of March 1933, Hitler was essentially free to rule as a dictator because of what? | Burning the Reichstag |
| Hitler and the NAzis made their first bid for power in November of 1923 in what became know as what? | Beer Hall Putsch |
| Who appointed Hitler Chancellor of Germany? | Paul Von Hindenburg |
| Passing the Enabling Act of March 1933, Hitler was essentially free to rule as a dictator because of what? | Burning the Reichstag |
| In 1914-1918 Europe accumilated six and a half more debt than it had in the previous fourteen hurdred years because of what? | The Great War |
| In 1914-1918 Europe accumilated six and a half more debt than it had in the previous fourteen hurdred years because of what? | The Great War |
| Passing the Enabling Act of March 1933, Hitler was essentially free to rule as a dictator because of what? | Burning the Reichstag |
| Who appointed Hitler Chancellor of Germany? | Paul Von Hindenburg |
| In 1914-1918 Europe accumilated six and a half more debt than it had in the previous fourteen hurdred years because of what? | The Great War |
| Germnay lost 15% of its pre-war capacity, all of its foreign investments and 90% of what via the TReaty of Vesailles? | Mercantile Fleet |
| Passing the Enabling Act of March 1933, Hitler was essentially free to rule as a dictator because of what? | Burning the Reichstag |
| Germnay lost 15% of its pre-war capacity, all of its foreign investments and 90% of what via the TReaty of Vesailles? | Mercantile Fleet |
| In 1914-1918 Europe accumilated six and a half more debt than it had in the previous fourteen hurdred years because of what? | The Great War |
| Germnay lost 15% of its pre-war capacity, all of its foreign investments and 90% of what via the TReaty of Vesailles? | Mercantile Fleet |
| Under this plan the total sum owned by Germany would remain the same, but the yearly payments were reduced, and Germany was granted a loan? | Dawes Plan |
| What plan replaced the Dawes Plan in 1930? | The Young Plan |
| While Europe struggled to rebuild during the 1920's, the United states prospered as the what? | Major CReditor of the Allied Nations |
| United States feared the depreciation and collapse of foreign curriencies, so demanded payment in what? | Dollars and Gold |
| American financial experts favored massive international loans as a means of increasing what? | American exports, increasing employment, and strengthening the already mighty dollar. |
| Who intended the Laugue of Nations to be the primary body of a new style of international relations based on the cooperation of all of the nations of the world? | Woodrow Wilson |
| Where was the League centered? | Geneva, Switzerland. |
| Russia, now the Soviet Union, was not invited to join the league due to What? | the radical policies of the new communist government. |
| The league of NAtions succeeded in providing assistance to what? | bankrupt nations, supervising its mandates, and resolving conflicts between minor powers. |
| Membeship was determined by the acceptance of the what? | Covenant of the League |
| What is the Covenant of the League? | it stated the goals and philosophy upon which it was founded |
| United state's failure to join the Laugue of Nations was a major blow to the hopes of its founders, and to wilson's view on the character of the new diplomacy, what period did this mark? | US isolationism |
| What is US isolationism? | Kept the US effectively out of European Political affaris for the majority of the interwar period. |
| The founding and structure of the League of Nations was established primarily for the purpose of preventing | future wars, a new concept for Europeans who traditionally believed that war was a necessary and inevitable outgrowth of international relations. |
| Despite these shortcomings, the League of Nations did accomplish some of its unification and pacification goals, and perhaps most importantly, set the stage for the what? | United Nations |
| What are the United NAtions? | would take its place after WW2 |