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RAQ #20 Part II
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The Great Depression | C: 1929 - 1941 C: Agricultural overproduction, stock market crash C: The New Deal, Keynesian Ideas, 30 million people unemployed (1932), Japan's exports cut in half (1929 - 1931), 1937: unemployment declines |
| John Maynard Keynes | Said that we should use deficit spending |
| Deficit Spending | Spending more than the government takes in |
| Corporatism | A theory based on the notion that all sectors of the economy are seen as separate organs of the same body |
| Mussolini and allies take over Italian Parliament | 1920's |
| Mussolini conquers Abyssinia | 1935 |
| Mussolini and Hitler form an alliance | 1936 |
| Italy invades Albania | 1939 |
| Nazi's come to power | 1932 |
| Hindenburg makes Hitler chancellor | 1933 |
| Hindenburg dies, Hitler declares himself president | 1934 |
| Reichstag | German parliament building |
| Nuremberg Laws | 1935: harsh laws on Jews imposed by the Nazi's |
| Olympia, by Leni Riefenstahl | 1938: A documentary on the 1936 Olympics in Berlin |
| Kristallnacht | November 1938: Jews fight back, 30,000 Jews sent away |
| Spanish Republic formed after King Alfonso VIII is abdicated | 1931 |
| Popular Front | A coalition of left-wing parties in Spain that was elected by the people in 1936, focused on land reform |
| Spanish Civil War | 1936-1939: Nationalists (led by Francisco Franco) vs the Loyalists (Popular Front) |
| Luftwaffe | Germany's air force |
| Bombing of Guernica | Germany and Italy bomb Guernica, Picasso's painting in 1938 |
| Francisco Franco dies | 1975 |
| Brazil working class revolt | 1930 coup led to Getulio Vargas's presidency |
| Estado Novo acts | Acts Vargas made to consolidate government control |
| Russian Civil War | 1918 - 1921 |
| New Economic Plan | 1921 - 1924: Lenin reintroduces private trade, there's still high government control |
| Politburo | The communist party's central organization |
| Stalin's five-year plan | Collectivization of agriculture, |
| Soviet government began promoting socialist realism | 1930's: all literature and art have to show that socialism is good |
| Sun Yat Sen becomes leader of the Chinese Republic | 1912 |
| Kuomintang | Chinese nationalist party, led by Sun Yat Sen |
| CCP | Chinese communist party, led by Mao Zedong |
| Chiang Kai Shek takes control of the Kuomintang | 1925 |
| Chiang Kai Shek attacks the CCP in Jiangxi | 1934 |
| The Long March finishes, giving the CCP widespread recognition | 1935 |
| Nationalists and communists join to fight against Japan | 1935 |
| Chinese civil war resumes | 1945 |
| Turkish National Movement | Led by Mustafa Kamal, beat allies in 1921, establishes Turkey in 1923 |
| Ataturk dies | 1938 |
| Amritsar Massacre | Spring 1919 |
| Salt March | 1930 |
| Monroe Doctrine | 1823: Europeans can no longer interfere with the Americas |
| Teddy Roosevelt expands the Monroe Doctrine, claiming that the US could govern Latin countries that couldn't govern themselves | 1904 |
| Dollar Diplomacy / Yankee Imperialism | 1912: Taft started investing in Latin countries to exploit them instead of directly invade |
| Good Neighbor Policy | 1933 - 1945: US intervention ceased in Latin America |
| Yankee Imperialism resistors: | Diego Rivera (Mexican Painter) and Augusto Sandino (Nicaraguan nationalist, dies 1934) |
| Famous Artists | Salvador Dali, Frida Kahlo |
| Famous Authors | Virginia Woolf, James Joyce |