interwar years! Flashcards

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what was the roaring 20s?

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the time when rebellious young people rejected the moral values of the Victorian age

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what was a flapper?

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a dress that symbolized the young liberated woman

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3
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what was the flapper image?

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dresses and hairstyles got shorter

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4
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were most women flappers?

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no

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5
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_____ boomed while Europe recovered from the war

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U.S.

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Who rejected moral values of the Victorian Age?

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Rebellious young people

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Who symbolized the young, liberated women?

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Flappers

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8
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Despite having professional positions, what did few women do?

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vote

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9
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What Amendment banned alcohol?

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18th

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10
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What followed the 18th Amendment in U.S.?

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organized crime

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11
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To whom did bootleggers sell illegal alcohol?

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Owners of speakeasies

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Who argued that the Bible was inspired by God & cannot contain contradictions or errors?

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Religious traditionalists

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13
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Who was found guilty of teaching evolution?

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scopes

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14
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Who led the literary movement in Paris?

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Ernest Hemingway & F. Scott Fitzgerald

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15
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Who wrote in the “stream of consciousness?”

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Virginia Woolf and James Joyce

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16
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What was the cultural awakening among blacks in NYC called?

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Harlem Renaissance

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17
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Who found that the atoms of certain elements spontaneously charged particles?

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Marie Curie

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18
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What theory stated that measurements of space & time are not absolute, but are determined by the relative position of the observer?

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Einstein’s Theory of Relativity

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19
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What did Alexander Fleming accidentally discover?

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Penicillin

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20
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Who pioneered psychoanlaysis?

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Sigmund Freud

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21
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What did Pablo Picasso develop?

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cubism

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22
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What artists believed there was no sense or truth in the world?

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Dada

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23
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What surrealist artist portrayed the workings of the unconscious mind?

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Salvador Dali

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24
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What did Irish nationalists launch?

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easter rising

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What part of Ireland remained in the U.K.?
northern
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What was the fear of radicals & the Bolshevik Revolution set off?
red scare
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What did France construct to secure its borders against Germany?
Maginot Line
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Who wanted to relax the peace treaty's harsh treatment of Germany?
Britian
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What pact pursued disarmament?
Kellogg-Briand Pact
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League of Nations condemned Japan's invasion of __________ but took no action.
Manchuria
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Who owed war debts to the U.S. & relied on reparation payments from Germany?
Britain & France
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What led to a general strike in Britain & France?
low wages
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What happened because factories overproduces?
Great Depression
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What happened because Americans played the stock market & brought goods on credit?
great depression
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Who raised interest rates?
Federal Reserve
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When did the stock market crash?
october 29, 1929
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What were the cities where homeless Americans lived?
Hoovervilles
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What was the long drought and dust storms called?
Dust Bowl
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Who photographed the crisis in U.S.?
Dorothea Lange
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Who couldn't make reparations payments?
Germany
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Who couldn't repay loans from the U.S.?
France & Britain
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What government offered unemployment benefits?
Britain's coalition government
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Who reassured the American nation through "fireside chats?"
FDR
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What was the offer of new economic & social programs in U.S. called?
New Deal
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What created fertile ground for extremist who promised radical solutions?
Postwar disillusionment
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Who marched on Rome?
Black shirts
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Who was appointed prime minister of a new government in Italy?
Mussolini
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What title did Mussolini take?
"Il Duce" The leader
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Whose dictatorship was upheld by terror?
Mussolini's
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What was forbidden even though capitalism was preserved in Italy?
Worker strikes
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What did Mussolini have?
State control of the economy
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What did Mussolini think was all-important?
Glorious state
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What did a person have to be to be important under Mussolini's rule?
Member of the state
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What promised a strong, stable government & an end to political feuding?
Fascism
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Who pursued national goal & supported a society with defined classes?
Fascists
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What two systems drew power from blind devotion to the state?
Communism & fascism
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What was ruled by a chancellor who led an unstable coalition government?
Weimer Republic
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What did the German government do to make inflation spiral out of control?
Print marks
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Under what plan did France withdraw forces from the Ruhr Valley?
Dawes Plan
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What did America do under the Dawes Plan?
Loan Germany money
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What book outlined Hitler's obsessions?
Mein Kampf
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Whose obsession was extreme nationalism, racism, & anti-semitism?
Hitler
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What was the German "master race" called?
Aryans
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What title did Hitler take?
Der Fuhrer
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Who appointed Hitler as chanecellor?
Conservative politicians
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What did Hitler rule as?
Totalitarian dictator
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Who rooted out opposition in Germany?
Gestapo
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What did German textbooks reflect?
Nazi racial views
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Who led the Spanish nationalists in a revolt supported by Hitler & Mussolini?
Francisco Franco
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Where was the German air raid that killed 1000 civilians?
Guernica
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Who created a fascist dictatorship in Spain?
Francisco Franco
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A ban on the manufacture and sale of alcohol in the United States from 1920 to 1933
Prohibition
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Religious leader who calls for a return to what he or she sees as the fundamental, or basic, values of his or her faith
Fundamentalist
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An African American cultural movement in the 1920s and 1930s, centered in Harlem
Harlem Renaissance
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A method of studying how the mind works and treating mental disorders
Psychoanalysis
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Style of art composed of lines, colors, and shapes, sometimes with no recognizable subject matter at all
abstract art
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Artistic movement in which artists rejected tradition and produced works that often shocked their viewers
Dada
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Artistic movement that attempts to portray the workings of the unconscious mind
Surrealism
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Massive fortifications built by the French along their border with Germany in the 1930s to protect against invasion
Maginot Line
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An international agreement, signed by almost every nation in 1928, to stop using war as a method of national policy
Kelogg-Briand Pact
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Reduction of armed forces and weapons
Disarmament
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Condition in which production of goods exceeds the demand for them
Overproduction
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Central banking system of the United States, which regulates banks
Federal Reserve
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A painful time of global economic collapse, starting in 1929 and lasting until about 1939
Great Depression
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A massive package of economic and social programs established by Franklin Delano Roosevelt to help Americans during the Great Depression
New Deal
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Any centralized, authoritarian government system that is not communist, whose policies glorify the state over the individual and are destructive to basic human rights
Fascism
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Any member of the militant combat squads of Italian Fascists set up under Mussolini
Black Shirt
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Planned march of thousands of Fascist supporters to take control of Rome; in response Mussolini was given the legal right to control Italy
March on Rome
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Official name of the Nazi party for its regime in Germany; held power from 1933 to 1945
Third Reich