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The Interwar Years
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| black tuesday | October 29th, 1929 stock market crash in history, the beginning of the Great Depression. herbert hoover |
| FDR & New Deal | use of government as a form of self-help for our country. economic recovery and social reforms (programs??) |
| John Maynard Keynes | English economist, journalist, and financier, best known for his "Keynesian economics" and theories on the causes of prolonged unemployment. His most important work, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money |
| National Socialism | The political doctrine of the Nazi Party of Germany |
| Fascism | authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization |
| Benito Mussolini | founder of Fascism and leader of Italy from 1922 to 1943. He allied Italy with Nazi Germany and Japan in WWII |
| Fernando Franco | Spanish general, dictator and head of state of Spain |
| Spanish Civil War | long period of decline since the great days of the Spanish Empire. Spain had made little progress, lost her empire, and fallen behind in the industrialization. Deep divisions in Spanish society |
| Vladimir Lenin | major role in spreading communism. revolution to transform Russia to a democratic republic. focused on the role of the proletariat as promoters. also stressed intellectuals provide the movement with the theories that would guide the revolution's progress |
| Collectivization | policy pursued in the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) under Stalin between 1928 and 1940. The goal of this policy was to consolidate individual land and labour into collective farms. |
| Bolsheviks | faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. ultimately became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
| new economic policy | began in 1921 as a means of helping the recovery of the war-devasted economy it created a mixed economy, combining state control of large-scale industry with a limited measure of private enterprise. grain crisis 1927-8, it ended, Stalin emerged triumphant |
| Joseph Stalin | Leader of the U.S.S.R. 1928-1953 (consolidated power)after the death of V.I. Lenin in 1924. As a member of the Bolshevik party |
| Leon Trotsky | a Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, and the founder and first leader of the Red Army.sided with Lenin. |