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Great Dep./Fascism
Great depression and communist rule vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Why did the league of nations fail? | US was not a member; couldn't agree to use force against aggression |
| The Dawes Plan | Reduced Germany's reperations, granted Germany $200 million, and coordinated payment |
| Treaty of Locarno | Guaranteed Germany's borders with France and Belgium |
| Depression | a period of low economic activity and rising unemployment |
| Weimar Republic | a democratic German state was plagued by problems |
| Collective Bargaining | the right of unions to negotiate with employers over hours and wages |
| Deficit Spending | for the government to go into debt |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | president of the US during Great Depression; came up with NEW DEAL that helped get the US back on track |
| New Deal | policy of active government intervention in the economy |
| Totalitarian State | government that controls every aspect of the state and its citizens |
| Fascism | political philosophy that glorifies the states needs above the individual |
| Lenin's New Economic Policy (NEP) | Modified version of the old capitalist system; small industry and businesses were allowed to be owned privately but heavy industry, banks, and mines were still controlled by the government |
| Politburo | a committee that had become the leading policy-making body of the communist party |
| Joseph Stalin | Soviet dictator; mass murderer |
| Five-year Plan | plan to change Russia from an agricultureal state to and industrious state practically overnight |
| Collectivization | System in which private farms were eliminated and turned into large government owned units |
| National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazi Party) | extreme nationalist party that Hitler overtook |
| Mein Kampf | "Main Struggle" a book Hitler wrote in jail; on account of his movement and his basic ideas |
| Reichstag | the German Parliament |
| Concentration camps | large prison camps set up for people who opposed new regime |
| Aryan | term used to identify people speaking Indo-European languages; misused by Nazis to describe citizens of the Roman Empire or "Germany's true ancestors" |
| Schutzstaffeln | Secret police; SS; "Guard Squadrons |
| Nuremburg Laws | Excluded Jews from German citizenship and forbade marriage between Jews and German citizens |
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