Chapter 15 Study Guide Flashcards
What is a period of low economic activity and rising unemployment?
A depression
What was an attempt to reduce German reparations and alleviate the strain on the German economy made through?
Dawes Plan
What stripped the Jews of their German citizenship?
The Nuremberg Laws
What was the policy of government intervention in the U.S. economy during
the Great Depression called?
The New Deal
What is the political philosophy and system that favors a strong central government led by a dictator called?
Fascism
In what kind of state does the government seek complete control over people’s lives?
Totalitarian
What was the term the Nazis misused to describe their supposed master race?
“Aryan”
What was a system in which privates farms are eliminated and peasants work land owned by the government called?
Collectivization
What gave power to the German government to pass laws while disregarding the constitution?
The Enabling Act
Lenin had a modified version of capitalism that permitted some private ownership
known as what?
New Economic Policy
What happened when the United States refused to sign the Treaty of Versailles after World War I?
The United States ended up not being a member of the League of Nations.
What was one of the rights reserved for workers in the French New Deal?
Collective Bargaining
Germany used loans from the U.S. to pay reparations to Britain and France, _______________________________________
making them vital to the European economy after World War I.
What did Economist John Maynard Keynes believe?
That one of the causes of the Great
Depression was unemployment due to declining demand, not overproduction.
Uncertainty about the future was exhibited by what in the 1920s?
Art and Science
Mussolini and the Italians Fascists used what to manipulate public opinion?
Propaganda
Transforming the USSR from an agricultural economy into an industrial economy
was the main goal of what?
Stalin’s Five-Year Plan
What was the main reason parliamentary
systems failed in most eastern European states?
States not having a tradition of democracy.
The way for authoritarian leaders was paved by what during the Great Depression in Germany?
Inflation and Unemployment
A major Nazi propaganda film directed by Leni Riefenstahl was titled what?
Triumph of the Will
Hitler’s autobiography that was written during his time in prison, was titled what?
Mein Kampf
