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KilarGlobalWW2-2
Kilar World War II study guide Part 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| When Germany couldn't pay back the money they owed to Britain and France... | Britain and France couldn't pay back the money the owed to the United States |
| Ruhr Valley Strike | German workers in Ruhr Valley went on strike; French send in military to put down the strike |
| Hyperinflation in Weimer Republic causes... | Millions of people to not be able to afford food and housing |
| Economic inequality in Britain: Top 1% | Top 1% of British owned 2/3 of the wealth |
| Economic inequality in Britain Top .1% | Top .1% of the British owned 1/3 of the land |
| Liberal Party in Britain | Labour |
| Conservative Party in Britain | Tories |
| In 1925, what British party took control of government? | Tories (Conservatives) |
| 1926 British Mining Strike | Miners on strike for 7 months to protest lower wages and longer working hours |
| Sympathy strike to 1926 British Mining Strike | 2 week sympathy strike by other workers; this upset middle class people and Parliament passed a law against sympathy strikes |
| French economy in 1920s | The franc collapsed and French government had to raise taxes |
| Why did people think democracy wasn't working? | They thought rich people were buying off politicians to pass laws to favor the wealthy |
| Nickname for the survivors of World War I | Lost Generation |
| Dadists, surrealists, expressionists | New art movements after World War I |
| Characteristics of art in the 1920s | Artists were left leaning, art criticized war and government |
| New art form in 1920s | Film |
| New social sciences in 1920s (4) | Sociology, anthropology, psychology, political science |
| Reasons people turned to authoritarianism (3) | Fear of communists, anger about economy, disillusionment with democracy |
| What people wanted strong leaders to do (3) | Make changes, stop social unrest, protect them from communism |
| Major democracies that survived in 1920s (2) | France, Britain |
| Problem with credit in 1920s | Creditors (banks) were offering loans to people who could not pay the money back |
| Stock market crash in 1929 | Stock market collapsed, price of stocks fell sharply, many people lost all of their money |
| When a bank closed... | Everyone who had money in the bank lost their money |
| After stock market crash, businesses... | Closed or laid off workers, causing a spike in unemployment |
| When the government tried to reduce expenses... | It caused more financial hardship for the people living there as more businesses closed and government was unable to help them |
| John Maynard Keynes was an economist who advocated for | Government spending to stimulate the economy |
| Hitler stimulated the Germany economy by... | Building up military, this caused new jobs |
| Americans elected which new president in 1932? | Franklin D Roosevelt (FDR) |
| FDR's economic plan was called... | The New Deal |
| FDR stimulated the American economy by... | Government spending to put people back to work |
| Right wing authoritrians started to find support with what traditionally liberal group? | Middle class people |
| What is fascism? | It's not a single idealogy, but it's an autocratic form of govenrment that puts the needs of the nation or the race above the needs of the individual |
| What do fascists think will make everything perfect? | Getting rid of a certain group of people (Jews, communists, whatever) that they say are ruining it for everyone |
| Fascism and antisemitism & racism | Fascists are often antisemitic & racist and believe in conspiracy theories that Jews are running the world, even after these theories have been debunked |
| Fascism and expansionism | Fascists want to expand their borders and they don't care what happens to the people who they take land from |
| "Stab in the back myth" | Hitler's theory about why Germany lost the war; the Jews and the socialists sabotaged the winning side (Germany) so they could take over, This is not true. |
| How fascists respond to art they don't like | Protests, banning art, burning books |
| Fascism and gender roles | Fascists believe in strick gender roles: women are supposed to stay at home and raise children and men are supposed to serve their countries |
| Fascism and democracy | Fascists think people will make the "wrong" choice when voting so they need a dictator who will make the "right" choice |
| Italy was angry after World War I because... | They didn't get as much land as they thought they deserved |
| Mussolini blamed what for social and economic problems | Democracy |
| Black Shirts | Mussolini's paramilitary squad that attacked striking workers |
| Mussolini and the Roman Empire | Mussolini believed that Italy had a "historic destiny" to continue the expansionism of the Roman Empire |
| Mussolini March on Rome | Mussolini and his Black Shirts marched on Rome in October 1922, king appoints Mussolini prime minister |
| Mussolini and Pronouns | Mussolini ordered newspapers to capitalize his pronouns like He, Him, His which was sometihng usually only reserved for God and Jesus Christ |
| Mussolini's favorite phrase | "Mussolini is always right" |
| Italians had to swear an oath of loyalty to... | Mussolini |
| Mussolini and Catholic Church | Mussolini allowed the Catholic Church to set policy regarding education, families, and role of women |
| Mussolini and women | Mussolini didn't like women working or voting |
| Mussolini and workers | Mussolini destroyed workers rights and caused workers to get lower wages |
| Fascist party in Germany | Nazi Party |
| Leader of Nazi Party | Adolf Hitler |
| Were Nazis "socialists" | NO! They had the name National Socialist for a variety of compliciated reasons, but they were NOT a left wing party, they were a far right party |
| Hitler's title | Fuhrer, which meant leader |
| Hitler's paramilitary squad was called | Storm Troopers or S.A. |
| Munich beer hall | In 1933, Nazis tried to overthrow government from a beer hall in Munich; Hitler was sentenced to five years in prison |
| Hitler's prison sentence | He wrote Mein Kampf and was pardoned after only serving one year in person |
| Mein Kampf | "My Struggle" in German, this was Hitler's outline of his racist and antisemetic views |
| Hitler believed that Germans were descended from a "master race" of people called | Aryans |
| Hitler on Slavs | Thought they were an inferior race and should be used a slave labor for Germans |
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