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What did people begin to believe after the war?

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They began to question traditional beliefs

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Who gave us the Theory of Relativity?

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Einstein

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Who studied how our minds work?

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Freud

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Who was Kafka?

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Wrote The Trial and The Castle

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Who gave us the style called stream of consciousness

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Joyce

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What is existentialism?

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no universal meaning to life, every person gives life meaning through the choices that we make

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Who is Nietzsche?

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believed that western society stifles your creativity, believed we should go back to older ways

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Who are Kandinsky and Klee?

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expressionist who used bold colors and exaggerated shapes

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Who started cubism?

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Picasso

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What was used in cubism?

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sharp angles

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What did surrealism try to do?

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link dreams with the real world

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Who is Stravinsky?

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writer, wrote “Write of Spring”

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Where was jazz?

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Memphis, New Orleans, and Chicago

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What was the difference in automobiles?

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air began to fill the tires, electric starters, head lights, more powerful engines

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Who is Lindbergh?

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first American to fly across the Atlantic, his son was kidnapped and never found

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Who is Earhart?

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first woman to fly across Atlantic, disappeared trying to fly around the world

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What was the difference between European movies and American movies?

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European movies were documentaries and American movies were for entertainment

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Who came out better after WWI?

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U.S. and Japan

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What happened to European democracies?

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they struggled and coalitions were formed

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Who got blamed for the Treaty of Versailles and WWI in Germany?

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Weimar Republic

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What is inflation?

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blindly printing money

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What is the Dawes Plan?

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to save the economy, $200 million loans from U.S. banks to Germany

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Who thought up the Dawes Plan?

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American, Charles Dawes

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Who was Stresemann?

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German Foreign Minister

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Who is Briand?
French Foreign Minister
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What is the Stresemann-Briand Peace Pact?
French and Germany would never fight, allowing Germany to join the League of Nations
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What is the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact?
never use war as an instrument of national policy, signed by almost everyone
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Who was Kellogg?
U.S. Secretary of State
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What were the flaws in the U.S.?
1. uneven distribution of wealth, big gap b/w rich and poor 2. overproduction 3. buying less because of uneven distribution of wealth
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What is buying on margin?
when you send a small amount of money to the broker to buy stock and the broker pays the difference
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What happened in September 1929?
selling of stock by the wealthier stock holders began
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What happened on October 24, 1929?
everyone else began selling
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What happened on October 29, 1929?
the stock market crashed
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What was the occurrence that happened between September to October 1929?
The Great Depression
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What was the ripple effect of the Great Depression around the world?
drop of 65% of world wide trade
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What was the effect of the Great Depression in Britain?
National Government, passed high protective tariff, and raised taxes on own people
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What was the effect of the Great Depression in France?
popular front, mostly increased pay to workers and avoided political extremes
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What was the effect of the Great Depression in the U.S.?
FDR came up with the New Deal plan
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What was the New Deal Plan?
focused on big public works projects (building roads, or national parks, etc.)
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What is fascism?
ultimately loyal to your country and obedient to your leader, ex.: Hitler and the Nazis
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Who is Mussolini?
nickname Il Duce, Italian, day job of news editor, followers marched into Rome and demanded to put him on the throne
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What was one of the first things Mussolini did when he was placed on the throne?
banned all other political parties except fascism, secret police force, censorship, outlawed strikes, and tried to be a totalitarian ruler but never succeed
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Who was Hitler?
nickname der Fuhrer, he was Austrian, received iron cross, discharged from German army after war, came across Nationalist Socialist German Workers Party (Nazis), lead a coup but got caught and put in jail for 5 years, only served 9 months, wrote Mein Kampf (My Struggles) while he was in prison
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Who were the Nazis?
small radical group
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What was lebensraum?
living space, believed it belonged to the Aryans (Poland, parts of Russia down into Austria-Hungary)
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When did the Nazis become popular?
the Great Depression
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What did Hitler become?
Chancellor of Germany
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What did do first?
called for new elections but the building where the voting was taking place was burned down by the Nazis but they blamed Parliament
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What did Hitler do?
he banned all other political parties, two secret police forces (SS-elite, Gastapo), censorship, and dealt with the economy by building factories that made weapons
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What happened to the youth of Hitler's era?
they had to join youth groups, girls- League of German girls and boys- Hitler's Youth
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What was Kristallnacht?
means night of the broken glass, and it marked the change of violence
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All of the countries in Europe fell to dictatorship except?
Czechoslovakia
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What happened to Japan during the Great Depression?
they attacked Manchuria, dropped League of Nations and attacked China
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Who did Mussolini attack?
Ethiopia
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Who did Hitler attack?
the Rhineland
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Who signed the Berlin Axis?
Hitler and Mussolini and later Japan
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What were the people who signed the Berlin Axis called?
the Axis powers
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Who is Franco?
fascist in Spain
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What was America during all of this time?
isolationism
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What is the neutrality act?
not loan any money or sell weapons to countries that are at war
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What did Hitler decided to attack now?
Sudetenland and formed the Third Reich
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How did Czechoslovakia feel about Hitler attacking Sudetenland?
they went to the French and British to ask for help
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Who was invited to the Munich Conference?
England, France, Germany, and Italy
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Who was Chamberlain?
British Prime Minister who encouraged appeasement
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What did the Munich Conference decide?
to give Sudetenland to Hitler
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What happened on August 23, 1939?
Stalin and Hitler signed the nonaggression pact saying that the USSR and Germany would not fight

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