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Chapter 15 Flashcards

1
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What did people begin to believe after the war?

A

They began to question traditional beliefs

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2
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Who gave us the Theory of Relativity?

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Einstein

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3
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Who studied how our minds work?

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Freud

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4
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Who was Kafka?

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Wrote The Trial and The Castle

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5
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Who gave us the style called stream of consciousness

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Joyce

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6
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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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7
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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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8
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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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9
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Who started cubism?

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Picasso

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10
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What was used in cubism?

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sharp angles

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11
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What did surrealism try to do?

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link dreams with the real world

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12
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Who is Stravinsky?

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writer, wrote “Write of Spring”

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13
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Where was jazz?

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Memphis, New Orleans, and Chicago

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14
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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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15
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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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16
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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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17
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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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18
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Who came out better after WWI?

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U.S. and Japan

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19
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What happened to European democracies?

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they struggled and coalitions were formed

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20
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Who got blamed for the Treaty of Versailles and WWI in Germany?

A

Weimar Republic

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21
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What is inflation?

A

blindly printing money

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22
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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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23
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Who thought up the Dawes Plan?

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American, Charles Dawes

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24
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Who was Stresemann?

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German Foreign Minister

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25
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Who is Briand?

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French Foreign Minister

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26
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What is the Stresemann-Briand Peace Pact?

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French and Germany would never fight, allowing Germany to join the League of Nations

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27
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What is the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact?

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never use war as an instrument of national policy, signed by almost everyone

28
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Who was Kellogg?

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U.S. Secretary of State

29
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What were the flaws in the U.S.?

A
  1. uneven distribution of wealth, big gap b/w rich and poor
  2. overproduction
  3. buying less because of uneven distribution of wealth
30
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What is buying on margin?

A

when you send a small amount of money to the broker to buy stock and the broker pays the difference

31
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What happened in September 1929?

A

selling of stock by the wealthier stock holders began

32
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What happened on October 24, 1929?

A

everyone else began selling

33
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What happened on October 29, 1929?

A

the stock market crashed

34
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What was the occurrence that happened between September to October 1929?

A

The Great Depression

35
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What was the ripple effect of the Great Depression around the world?

A

drop of 65% of world wide trade

36
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What was the effect of the Great Depression in Britain?

A

National Government, passed high protective tariff, and raised taxes on own people

37
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What was the effect of the Great Depression in France?

A

popular front, mostly increased pay to workers and avoided political extremes

38
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What was the effect of the Great Depression in the U.S.?

A

FDR came up with the New Deal plan

39
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What was the New Deal Plan?

A

focused on big public works projects (building roads, or national parks, etc.)

40
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What is fascism?

A

ultimately loyal to your country and obedient to your leader, ex.: Hitler and the Nazis

41
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Who is Mussolini?

A

nickname Il Duce, Italian, day job of news editor, followers marched into Rome and demanded to put him on the throne

42
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What was one of the first things Mussolini did when he was placed on the throne?

A

banned all other political parties except fascism, secret police force, censorship, outlawed strikes, and tried to be a totalitarian ruler but never succeed

43
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Who was Hitler?

A

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

44
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Who were the Nazis?

A

small radical group

45
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What was lebensraum?

A

living space, believed it belonged to the Aryans (Poland, parts of Russia down into Austria-Hungary)

46
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When did the Nazis become popular?

A

the Great Depression

47
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What did Hitler become?

A

Chancellor of Germany

48
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What did do first?

A

called for new elections but the building where the voting was taking place was burned down by the Nazis but they blamed Parliament

49
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What did Hitler do?

A

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

50
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What happened to the youth of Hitler’s era?

A

they had to join youth groups, girls- League of German girls and boys- Hitler’s Youth

51
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What was Kristallnacht?

A

means night of the broken glass, and it marked the change of violence

52
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All of the countries in Europe fell to dictatorship except?

A

Czechoslovakia

53
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What happened to Japan during the Great Depression?

A

they attacked Manchuria, dropped League of Nations and attacked China

54
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Who did Mussolini attack?

A

Ethiopia

55
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Who did Hitler attack?

A

the Rhineland

56
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Who signed the Berlin Axis?

A

Hitler and Mussolini and later Japan

57
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What were the people who signed the Berlin Axis called?

A

the Axis powers

58
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Who is Franco?

A

fascist in Spain

59
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What was America during all of this time?

A

isolationism

60
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What is the neutrality act?

A

not loan any money or sell weapons to countries that are at war

61
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What did Hitler decided to attack now?

A

Sudetenland and formed the Third Reich

62
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How did Czechoslovakia feel about Hitler attacking Sudetenland?

A

they went to the French and British to ask for help

63
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Who was invited to the Munich Conference?

A

England, France, Germany, and Italy

64
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Who was Chamberlain?

A

British Prime Minister who encouraged appeasement

65
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What did the Munich Conference decide?

A

to give Sudetenland to Hitler

66
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What happened on August 23, 1939?

A

Stalin and Hitler signed the nonaggression pact saying that the USSR and Germany would not fight

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