Chapter 27 - Torture Decade 1930-1939 Flashcards
Marks beginning of the 10 year Great Depression
Stock market crash October 29, 1929
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%
The Great Depression
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
Adolf Hitler
Far right racist political party in Germany between 1920 and 1945
Hitler was the leader
they hated Jews, homosexuals, blacks, physically and mentally handicapped
Nazi Party
Book by Adolf Hitler which combines an autobiography with exposition of Hitler’s political ideology
Mein Kampf
Military revolt against Republic government of Spain supported by conservative elements within the country
Nationalists prevailed France ruled Spain for next 36 years
Spanish Civil War (1936-39)
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
Franco
Painting by Picasso created in response to bombing
Guernica
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
Roosevelt’s New Deal
Manchuria invaded by Kwatung army of Empire of Japan
Japanese established a puppet state called Manchukuo occupation lasted until the end of WWI
Date?
Japanese invasion of Manchuria 1931
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
The Rape of Nanking
Soviet program under Stalin that reshaped agriculture by forcing peasants into government controlled collective farms in order to better finance rapid industrialization
Collectivization
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
Gulags
Leader of the SS, a military commander, and leading member of the Nazi party
Himmler
Specially selected Nazi elite entrusted with the most sensitive ideological tasks of the Nazi regime responsible for many of its worst atrocities
Schutzstaffel (SS)
German politician and Reich Minister of propaganda in Nazi Germany
Goebbels
Secret police of Nazi Germany and Germany-occupied Europe
Gestapo
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
Kristallnatcht (pogrom)
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
Lebensraum
French politician identified with moderate left
3 times Prime Minister of France
Blum
Country located in the Horn of Africa
most populous land locked country
second most populated nation of African continent
Ethiopia
Was the occupation and annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany in 1938
Anschluss
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
Munich Appeasement
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
Nazi-Soviet Pact
Defensive war
invasion of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingent marks beginning of World War II in Europe
September 1, 1939 Invasion of Poland
