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Chapter 30: 1, 3, 4
Question | Answer |
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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 |