Pre- WW2 Conflict

Question 1

Causes of Great Depression

Answer 1

Farms overproducing, prices dropping, farmers losing money, US stops investing in Europe, US Stock Market crashing

Question 2

Responses to Great Depression

Answer 2

Gov’ts lower wages and trade less
Communism popularizes
Dictators popularize

Question 3

John Maynard Keynes

Answer 3

Argued for more gov’t paid jobs, deficit spending

Question 4

New Deal

Answer 4

gov’t pays workers to build roads, bridges, post offices, air ports; Social Security; over 10 mil still unemployed

Question 5

Hyperinflation

Answer 5

Drastic decrease in value of money

Question 6

Reason for German hyperinflation

Answer 6

German gov’t printed too much money to pay off debt from reparations

Question 7

U.S. Dawes Plan

Answer 7

reduced Germany’s payments, gave Germany loans, provided short prosperity

Question 8

Main weakness of League of Nations

Answer 8

no military to enforce rules

Question 9

Ruhr Valley

Answer 9

France invaded because Germany did not pay reparations

Question 10

Treaty of Locarno

Answer 10

agreed on French- German borders

Question 11

Kellogg-Braind Pact

Answer 11

63 nations sighed to not use war as foreign policy

Question 12

Only democracies in Europe by 1939

Answer 12

GB and France

Question 13

Totalitarian state

Answer 13

gov’t controls political, economic, and social lives of citizens

Question 14

Dictator of Italy

Answer 14

Benito Mussolini

Question 15

Fascism

Answer 15

gov’t controls people and eliminated opposition.

Question 16

Effects of Fascism in Italy

Answer 16

• police can arrest for any reason
• all other political parties illegal
• media censored

Question 17

New Economic Policy (NEP)

Answer 17

Lenin’s policy that gave some control back to small farm or small business owners in Russia

Question 18

Took over Russia after Lenin’s death

Answer 18

Josef Stalin

Question 19

Stalin’s 5 year plan

Answer 19

plan to industrialize Russia in 5 years

Question 20

Amount of people who starved during 5 year plan

Answer 20

10 million

Question 21

Collectivization

Answer 21

small farms combined/ controlled by gov’t

Question 22

people killed or enslaved in Siberia

Answer 22

8 million

Question 23

Democracy in Eastern Europe failed due to…

Answer 23

• little industry
• low literacy
• ethnic conflicts
• history of strict rulers

Question 24

Lead military Revolution in Spain, later became dictator

Answer 24

Francisco Franco

Question 25

Adolf Hitler

Answer 25

dictator of Germany, rose to power due to promises of a better Germany

Question 26

Mein Kampf

Answer 26

“My Struggle” Hitler’s book to relate his “struggles” in life and popularize him further

Question 27

Hitler’s beliefs

Answer 27

Extreme German nationalism, anti-Semitism, anti-communism

Question 28

Enabling Act

Answer 28

stated the German gov’t could ignore the constitution for 4 years in order to “fix” Germany

Question 29

Those who opposed Nazis went to….

Answer 29

concentration camps

Question 30

Hitler’s goal

Answer 30

conquer Europe for Aryan Race

Question 31

Schutzstaffen (SS)

Answer 31

Controlled Hitler’s secret police and later normal police

Question 32

Heinrich Himmler

Answer 32

controlled SS

Question 33

Nazi- sponsored events in order to further Hitler included….

Answer 33

rallies, youth programs, leisure activities, etc

Question 34

Nuremberg Laws

Answer 34

took all rights away from Jews

Question 35

Kristallnacht

Answer 35

“night of broken glass” 7,000 Jewish businesses destroyed, 100 killed

Question 36

Surrealism

Answer 36

abstract, nightmarish art displaying horrors of WW1

Question 37

Salvador Dali

Answer 37

popularized surrealism

Question 38

Uncertainty Principle

Answer 38

scientists realizing the amount of things yet to be discovered

Question 39

Economic Depression

Answer 39

High unemployment and low economic activity