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Chapter 27 - Torture Decade 1930-1939 Flashcards

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Marks beginning of the 10 year Great Depression

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Stock market crash October 29, 1929

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A severe worldwide economic depression in the decade after World War II
originated in US after stock market crash of 1929
unemployment rose in the US 25%

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The Great Depression

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Austrian born German politician leader of the Nazi party
dictator of Nazi Germany
aggressive foreign policy led to World War II
idea of anti-Semitism and racial purity lead to murder of millions

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Adolf Hitler

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Far right racist political party in Germany between 1920 and 1945

Hitler was the leader

they hated Jews, homosexuals, blacks, physically and mentally handicapped

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Nazi Party

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Book by Adolf Hitler which combines an autobiography with exposition of Hitler’s political ideology

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Mein Kampf

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Military revolt against Republic government of Spain supported by conservative elements within the country

Nationalists prevailed France ruled Spain for next 36 years

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Spanish Civil War (1936-39)

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Spanish military leader who ruled as a dictator of Spain in 1936 came to power during Spanish Civil War while serving as a General of the Nationalist faction

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Franco

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Painting by Picasso created in response to bombing

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Guernica

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Series of domestic economic programs enacted in US between 1933 - 1936
involved presidential executive orders passed by Congress during Pres. Roosevelt’s first term
focused on the 3Rs - relief recovery and reform

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Roosevelt’s New Deal

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Manchuria invaded by Kwatung army of Empire of Japan

Japanese established a puppet state called Manchukuo occupation lasted until the end of WWI

Date?

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Japanese invasion of Manchuria 1931

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A mass murder and war rape that occurred during the six week period following the Japanese capture of the former capital of Republic of China on December 13, 1937 during the Second Sino-Japanese war

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The Rape of Nanking

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Soviet program under Stalin that reshaped agriculture by forcing peasants into government controlled collective farms in order to better finance rapid industrialization

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Collectivization

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Acronym for main camp administration, refers to the network of forced labor camps for political prisoners in Soviet Union
at least 476 camps in all

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Gulags

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Leader of the SS, a military commander, and leading member of the Nazi party

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Himmler

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Specially selected Nazi elite entrusted with the most sensitive ideological tasks of the Nazi regime responsible for many of its worst atrocities

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Schutzstaffel (SS)

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German politician and Reich Minister of propaganda in Nazi Germany

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Goebbels

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Secret police of Nazi Germany and Germany-occupied Europe

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Gestapo

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Organized Nazi assault on Jewish businesses and synagogues during the night of November 9-10, 1938 following the assassination of a German diplomat in Paris

Referred to as the night of broken glass was a pogrom (A series coordinated attacks) against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and parts of Austria 1938

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Kristallnatcht (pogrom)

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Important component of Nazi ideology in Germany
supported territorial expansionism to gain living space as being law of nature all healthy vigorous people of superior races to displace people of inferior races

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Lebensraum

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French politician identified with moderate left

3 times Prime Minister of France

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Blum

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Country located in the Horn of Africa
most populous land locked country
second most populated nation of African continent

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Ethiopia

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Was the occupation and annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany in 1938

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Anschluss

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Agreement that was negotiated at a conference held in Munich Germany
agreement signed by Germany, France, United Kingdom, and Italy to defuse the crisis with Germany’s Hitler
Chamberlain accepted Hitler’s demands to annex Sudetenland portion of Czechoslovakia - proved a step toward the war

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Munich Appeasement

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Surprise agreement between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany in 1939 that each would remain neutral if the other went to war against some other nation

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Nazi-Soviet Pact

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Defensive war

invasion of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingent marks beginning of World War II in Europe

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September 1, 1939 Invasion of Poland

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