Chapter 27-An Age of Catastrophes
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| show | Was a massive global economic recession that ran from 1929 to 1941. Led to massive bank failures, high unemployment, as well as dramatic drops in GDP, industrial production, and stock market share prices.
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| show | A tax levied on imports of goods as they cross the border
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| show | The leader of the movement toward Indian independence from Britain who advocated nonviolent methods to effect social change.
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| show | Deliberate, open, and peaceful violation of laws, decrees, regulations, military or police orders, or other governmental directives.
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| show | a political system in which the state, or the governing branch of the state, holds absolute authority, not allowing any opposition group.
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| show | a type of public trial in which the judicial authorities have already determined the guilt of the accused. Tends to be retributive rather than correctional justice.
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| show | Political ideology promoting Germanic racial aspirations and a strong and centrally governed state. From 1933 to 1945 (the "Third Reich") ruled Germany and led her through WWII.
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| show | Führer of Germany from 1933 to his death. He was leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP), better known as the Nazi Party.
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| show | was an attempt by the German Nazi Party to establish a national community. It could only be achieved by gaining control of all aspects of cultural and social life. Theatre, literature, the press and children's activities were all controlled by the Nazis.
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| show | In Nazi racial theory, a person of pure German "blood." The term "non-Aryan" was used to designate Jews, part-Jews and others of supposedly inferior racial stock.
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| show | Two anti-Jewish statutes enacted September 1935 during the Nazi party's national convention in Nuremberg, taking away the Jews' civil rights
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| show | 32nd President of the United States; elected four times; instituted New Deal to counter the great depression and led country during World War II (1882-1945)
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| show | 31st President of the United States; in 1929 the stock market crashed and the economy collapsed and was defeated for reelection by Franklin Roosevelt
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| show | Term describing a series of shanty towns that appeared following the Great Depression in the United States from 1929 through the 1930s and 1940s. These villages were often formed in desolate or unpleasant neighborhoods and were temporary residences of tho
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| Leon Blum | show 🗑
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| Popular Front | show 🗑
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| Virginia Woolf | show 🗑
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| George Orwell | show 🗑
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| show | The European Powers whom in World War II opposed the Allies.
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| show | Generalísimo Francisco Franco, was dictator of Spain from 1939 until his death in 1975
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| show | The annexation of Austria to Germany
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| show | Giving in to the demands of aggressive powers to avoid war, as long as those demands appear reasonable. Such a policy was pursued by Britain and France in dealing with Germany in the latter half of the 1930s.
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| show | British statesman who as Prime Minister pursued a policy of appeasement toward fascist Germany (1869-1940)
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| show | was an agreement regarding the Sudetenland Crisis between the major powers of Europe after a conference held in Munich in Germany in 1938 and concluded on September 29.
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| show | pact between the two, agreeing to avoid war or armed conflict between them even if they find themselves fighting third countries, or even if one is fighting allies of the other.
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| show | German for 'lightning war'. A military strategy used by the Germans at the beginning of World War II to achieve victory through a series of quick offensives, especially in Belgium, Holland and France.
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| show | French regime set up in collaboration with the Germans following the fall of France in 1940 - headed by Marshal Petain and based in the city of Vichy it governed the southern half of France until its dissolution in 1944
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| show | the German airforce
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| show | was the name used by the British for intelligence resulting from decryption of German communications in World War II. The term eventually became the standard designation in both Britain and the United States for all intelligence from high-level cryptanaly
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| show | A system for detecting the direction, range, or prescence of aircraft, ships, and other objects, by sending out pulses of high frequency electromagnetic waves
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| show | was the German codename for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II that commenced on June 22, 1941.
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| show | The United States Navy defeated a Japanese attack against Midway Atoll, marking a turning point in the war in the Pacific theatre.
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| show | The Nazi plan for the physical destruction of all of Europe's Jewish population.
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| show | was a major turning point in World War II, and is considered the bloodiest battle in human history and arguably one of the greatest come-backs in military history.
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| show | The Codename for the D-Day Battle of Normandy, was fought in 1944 between the German forces occupying Western Europe and the invading Allied forces. Remains the largest sea borne invasion in history
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| show | was one of the most important battles of World War II. The assault on the Japanese-occupied island of Guadalcanal by the Allied navies and 16,000 United States troops on 7 August, 1942, was the first offensive by US land forces in the Pacific Campaign
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