Between the Wars Vocab

Question 1

Coalition Government

Answer 1

A government that is controlled by a temporary alliance of several political parties.

Question 2

Weimar Republic

Answer 2

The republic that was established in Germany in 1919 (following WWI) and ended in 1933

Question 3

Great Depression

Answer 3

The severe economic slump that followed the collapse of the U.S. stock market in 1929

Question 4

New Deal

Answer 4

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s economic reform program designed to solve the problems created by the Great Depression

Question 5

Fascism

Answer 5

A political movement that promotes an extreme form of nationalism, denial of individual rights, and a dictatorial one-party rule

Question 6

Nazism

Answer 6

The fascist policies of the National Socialist German Workers’ party, based on totalitarianism, a belief in racial superiority, and state control of industry

Question 7

Mein Kampf

Answer 7

“My Struggle- a book written by Hitler during his imprisonment in 1923-1924, in which he set forth his beliefs and his goals for Germany

Question 8

Lebensraum

Answer 8

“Living Space”- The additional territory that, according to Hitler, Germany needed because it was overcrowded

Question 9

Appeasement

Answer 9

The making of concessions (giving in) to an aggressor in order to avoid ar

Question 10

Axis Powers

Answer 10

In WWI, the nations of Germany, Italy, and Japan, which had formed an alliance in 1936

Question 11

Isolationism

Answer 11

A policy of avoiding political or military involvement with other countries

Question 12

Third Reich

Answer 12

Third German Empire, established by Adolf Hitler in the 1930’s

Question 13

Munich Conference

Answer 13

a 1938 meeting of representatives from Britain, France, Italy, and Germany, at which Britain and France agreed to allow Nazi Germany to annex part of Czechoslovakia in return for Adolf Hitler’s pledge to respect Czechoslovakia’s new borders