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Interwar Period
Vocabulary GCA WHII
Term | Definition | Time Period |
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Interwar Period | Period of time inbetween World War I and World War II | Interwar Period |
League of Nations | International organization of nations designed to maintain global peace; it failed | Interwar Period |
Mandate System | created by the League of Nations; giving Ottoman and German lands to Allies | Interwar Period |
French mandates in Middle East | Syria and Lebanon | Interwar Period |
British Mandates in Middle East | Jordan (originally Transjordan), Iraq, and Palestine (part became independent as the State of Israel) | Interwar Period |
Isolationism | United States uses this policy of no trade with other countries | Interwar Period |
Depression | Weakened Western democracies making it difficult for them to challenge the threat of totalitarianism; causes include overproduction, high tariffs, and rapid rise in stock prices | Interwar Period |
High unemployment | Result of overproduction, when companies overproduce, inventory accumulates and production is cut back, leading to layoffs of employees | Interwar Period |
Stock Market Crash of 1929 | Result of rapid rise in stock prices, when stock prices go up rapidly, buying stock increases until many stocks become overvalued and a panic occurs, dropping prices too quickly and wiping out many peoples inventions | Interwar Period |
tariffs | Taxes | Interwar Period |
runaway inflation | Prices rise, the value of the currency declines, things become expensive, layoffs of employees | Interwar Period |
Totalitarianism | State owns everything including church, family, economy, school and media | Interwar Period |
U.S.S.R | Russia, Communist, leader is Joseph Stalin | Interwar Period |
Communism | Dictatorship, state forces industrialization, secret police | Interwar Period |
Joseph Stalin | Takes over from Lenin in Russia | Interwar Period |
Benito Mussolini | Member of the Fascist Party, who seemed to offer some promise of stability and order in Italy | Interwar Period |
Italy | Fascist, leader was Mussolini, tired of labor unions | Interwar Period |
Fascism | Highly nationalistic, ultra-conservative, loyal to state and obedience to its leader, military dictatorship usually governs | Interwar Period |
Italians invade Ethiopia | Shows strength of Mussolinis power, League of Nations condemned the attack but could do nothing so it proves their weakness | Interwar Period |
Japan | Totalitarian, leader was Hideki Tojo, believed that they should be superpower | Interwar Period |
Hideki Tojo | Japanese leader of an elite military group, assumed control of the government and Japan embarked on a program of territorial expansion | Interwar Period |
Militarism | Build up of military | Interwar Period |
Hirohito | Powerless emperor of Japan | Interwar Period |
Germany | Nazism, had a RAW deal, Adolf Hitler was leader | Interwar Period |
Nazism | National Socialist Germans Workers party whose leader was Adolf Hitler | Interwar Period |
Adolf Hitler | Leader of the Nazi party, author of Mein Kampf | Interwar Period |
Mein Kampf | Book that Adolf Hitler wrote "my struggle", attacks the government and demands the Aryans as master race | Interwar Period |
Propaganda | Posters, billboards, etc that controlled press, radio, art, literature, film, and books | Interwar Period |
Aryans | Group who Hitler called the dominant race in Germany | Interwar Period |
Third Reich | New foundation Hitler laid down for a new German Empire. Hitler began rebuilding her military | Interwar Period |