the Great Depression and ww2 30

Question 1

new deal

Answer 1

Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s plan to reform capitalism in the United States through forceful government intervention in the economy; important because brought aid and fundamental reform but didn’t pull the US out of the Great Depression

Question 2

popular front

Answer 2

A party formed in 1936 in France that encouraged unions and launched a far-reaching New Deal–inspired program of social reform; measures were sabotaged by inflation, rising wages, and cries of socialist revolution

Question 3

totalitarianism

Answer 3

A radical dictatorship that exercises complete political power and control over all aspects of society and seeks to mobilize the masses for action.; provided a model for future states: nazism, communism, fascism

Question 4

fascism

Answer 4

A movement characterized by extreme, often expansionist nationalism, anti-socialism, a dynamic and violent leader, and glorification of war and the military; nazism and hitler

Question 5

5 year plan

Answer 5

Launched by Stalin in 1928 and termed the “revolution from above,” its goal was to modernize the Soviet Union and generate a Communist society with new attitudes, new loyalties, and a new socialist humanity.; important because it boosted the soviets industry

Question 6

new economic policy

Answer 6

Lenin’s 1921 policy re-establishing limited economic freedom in the Soviet Union in an attempt to rebuild agriculture and industry in the face of economic disintegration; brought rapid recovery to the soviets and industry was better then prewar

Question 7

collectivization

Question 8

black shirts

Answer 8

A private army under Mussolini in Italy that destroyed Socialist newspapers, union halls, and local Socialist Party headquarters, eventually pushing Socialists out of the city governments of northern Italy; important bc helped create one of the dictatorships in the ww2

Question 9

nazism

Answer 9

A movement born of extreme nationalism and racism and dominated by Adolf Hitler from 1933 until the end of World War II in 1945;

Question 10

enabling act

Answer 10

An act pushed through the Reichstag by the Nazis in 1933 that gave Hitler absolute dictatorial power for four years

Question 11

blitzkrieg

Answer 11

“Lightning war” using planes, tanks, and trucks, first used by Hitler to crush Poland in four weeks.; planes, trucks, and tanks;

Question 12

holocaust

Answer 12

The attempted systematic extermination of all European Jews and other “undesirables” by the Nazi state during World War II

Question 13

Europe first policy

Answer 13

The military strategy, set forth by Churchill and adopted by Roosevelt, that called for the defeat of Hitler in Europe before the United States launched an all-out strike against Japan in the Pacific