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Chapter 30: 1, 3, 4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Postwar problems | debts, no jobs for vets, lack of strong leaders |
| Kelogg-Briand Pact of 1928 | renounce war as national policy |
| Locaro Switzerland, 1925 | 7 European nations settle Germany's borders |
| disarmament | reduction of armed forces and weapons |
| Germany joins League of Nations | 1926 |
| League of Nations powerless | could not ban war; US did not join |
| overproduction | condition in which production of goods exceeds demand for goods |
| imbalance of farm Vs. Manufacturing | manufactured goods price increases lead to farmer woes with higher production and lower prices |
| margin buying | paying part of the cost and borrowing the rest from brokers |
| Stock Market Crash | Oct 1929 |
| Great Depression | 1930s |
| general strike of 1926 | British worker strike, 9 days and 3 millions workers |
| Easter Rising of 1916 | Irish revolt against British rule |
| IRA | Irish Republican Army against British forces |
| Irish Free State | 1922 |
| 1931 | 4 colonies become independent: Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa |
| The Maginot LIne | defensive wall France built on borders to keep Germany out |
| Leon Blum | French Popular Front leader |
| "Red Scare" | fear of communist threat in US; limit immigration; 1919-20 |
| Herbert Hoover | Pres during depression |
| New Deal | FD Roosevelt paln for economic and social |
| Social Security | New Deal benefit |
| Benito Mussolini | Itlaian nationalist leader |
| "fasces" | bundle of sticks wrapped around an ax, symbol of authority in ancient Rome |
| Black Shirts | Mussolini's combat squads |
| Il Duce | The Leader, Mussolini in 1925 |
| fascists | any authoriatarian government that is not communist |
| totalitarian state | single party dictatorship; state control of economy; use of police spies and terror; strict censorship; indoctrination in schools and media; obedience to leader |
| Weimar Republic | 1919, democratic government in Germany |
| chancellor | prime minister of Germnay |
| Adolf Hitler | 1889-1945 |
| Mein Kampf | My struggle: Hitler book of Nazi goals aand ideology |
| Fuhrer | strong leader |
| master race of Aryans | light skinned Europeans |
| 1933 | Hitler elected chancellor |
| Third Reich | German master race would dominate Europe for 1000 years |
| SS Troops | elite black uniformed terror military |
| Kristallnacht | Night of the Broken glass, Nov 9-10, 1938; attack Jews |
| final solution | extermination of Jews in concentration camps |