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Module 27 History
Module 27 World History study guide
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| reparations | the payments the Germans were supposed to make for the damage they had done in World War I |
| Inflation | rise in prices |
| deflation | decrease in prices |
| Dawes Plan | An international commission produced a new plan for reparations |
| Deficit spending | to lower taxes |
| Totalitarian state | a government that aims to control the political, economic, social, intellectual, and cultural lives of its citizens |
| Benito Mussolini | established the first European fascist movement in Italy |
| Fascism | a political philosophy that glorifies the state above the individual by emphasizing the need for a strong central government led by a dictatorial ruler |
| Depression | a period of low economic activity and rising unemployment |
| Weimar Republic | German democratic state |
| collective bargaining | right to negotiate |
| what conflicts did President Woodrow Wilson realize | 1. he hoped the League of Nations would be able to maintain the peace, but it was not very effective 2. the failure of the United States to join the League of Nations |
| What did the Dawes plan do | It first reduced reparations, then coordinated Germany's annual payments with its ability to pay. It granted an initial $200 million loan for Germany's recovery, which opened the door to heavy American investment in Europe |
| in 1922, why did Mussolini and the Fascists threaten to march to Rome | They threatened to march to Rome if they weren't given power |
| What were two major factors that played a major role in the start of the great Depression | 1. One important factor was a series of downturns in economics of individual nations in the second half of the 1920's. By the mid-1920's, farm products were falling rapidly 2. the second factor in the incoming of the great depression was an international |
| what problems were created with the start of the Weimar Republic | had to outstanding political leaders faced serious economic problems because of inflation serious social problems including widows, teachers, civil servants, and others who lived on fixed incomes watching their monthly incomes became worthless and their |
| what did the settlement at the end of World War I try to accomplish | 1. new boundaries 2. nationalism 3. new states |
| name two things the Dawes plan accomplished | 1. gave Germany $200 million. 2. opened the door for U.S. investors |
| coalition | alliance of several different political factions |
| dictatorship | government where one person or group has absolute power |
| currealism | dreamlike images and unnatural combinations of objects |
| concentration camps | where Adolf Hitler and the Nazi government sent Jews, political opponents, and other groups they found to be threatening |