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Post WWI/Pre WWII
SS7 Great Depression and Totalitarian Governments Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Franklin Roosevelt | President who established the New Deal to get the U.S. out of the Great Depression |
| Great Depression | Era in history caused by the crash of the stock market in which unemployment was rampant. |
| Black Tuesday | October 29, 1928; the day the stock market crashed |
| Stock Market | Invest in businesses; if business does well you can make money at the risk of losing it all... |
| New Deal | Series of economic programs to get the U.S. out of the Great Depression. Including the development of welfare programs, bank insurance, and various work programs. |
| Protectionists Policy | method of regulating foreign trade with tariffs and taxes |
| Unemployment | Not having a job...a major problem faced by many during the Great Depression! |
| Gold Standards | Amount of gold which gives value to currency. |
| Herbert Hoover | President at the beginning of the Great Depression; struggled with debt from WWI, high unemployment, and other economic issues. |
| Protective Tarrif | A tax on imported goods. Used to encourage people to buy American goods rather than foreign goods. |
| Credit | Buying goods with loans that will eventually be paid back. |
| Reparations | Paying money back for damages done. A major problem for Germany following WWI. |
| fascism | form of government in which people have no freedoms, a dictator controls all, and the state/nation come first |
| dictator | lead of a totalitarian government |
| Mussolini | fascists leader of Italy; used Black Shirts against opponents |
| Hitler | fascists leader of Nazi Germany; took advantage of Germany's poor economy to rise to power, hates Jews |
| Stalin | dictator of Soviet Union; purged enemies and used collectivization to combine farms |
| collectivization | combining village farms into farms controlled by the government; caused a famine for Russian peasants |
| communism | political ideology of the Soviet Union; government owns means of production |
| censorship | controlling speech and what the media can report on |
| Italy | lost land after WWI causing people to support Mussolini |
| Japan | totalitarian government run by military; blamed European/U.S. cultural influences for poor economy |
| censorship | many fascists governments control what the media/press can say |
| secret police | used by fascists regimes to intimidate citizens and make them fearful of the government |
| Soviet Union | Communists Russia |
| Mein Kempf | book of Hitler's ideas; promotes master race (Aryans) and hatred for Jews |
| Great Purge | Stalin's attempt to get rid of political enemies by killing them. |
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