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WH 28.1 Great Depres
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| President FDR | created the NEW DEAL to help with effects of the great depression with public works programs to put people back to work like building bridges and schools and roads |
| inflation | rapid price increases |
| deficit spending | the government spends more money than it takes in |
| collective bargaining | unions used to negotiate wages and hours |
| treat of versailles | treaty after WW1 that held Germany accountable by paying money - reparations |
| League of Nations | council of group of nations, organized by Woodrow Wilson, however the Americans did not join, which weakened its power |
| How did dictators rise to power? | people felt unsafe economically and politically and wanted stability |
| dictators | people who assume total control of a country by voting or force. During the depression, they offered simple solutions that made people feel safe |
| communism | a system of social organization in which all economic and social activity is controlled by a totalitarian state dominated by a single and self-perpetuating political party. |
| fascism | governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism |
| Nazi | National Socialist German Workers' Party, controlled Germany from 1933 to 1945 under Adolf Hitler , totalitarian government, territorial expansion, anti-Semitism, and Aryan supremacy, all these leading directly to World War II and the Holocaust. |