the interwar years Flashcards
Black Tuesday
consumer spending slowed, people feared stock market crash so everyone pulled money out of stocks and it crashed, pulled money out of banks too
stock market
people buy parts of businesses-booming in the 1920s
Great Depression
economic downturn of America after the stock market crash
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
new deal- government spending would help depression- public work programs
anti-Comintern pact
Japan and Germany agree to work together to fight the spread of communism
nanjing massacre
Japanese troops went on murderous rampage killing Chinese soldiers and civilians
greater east Asia co-prosperity sphere
group of nations whose combined resources would allow independence from western control
Japanese aggression
military gained power, becoming more aggressive towards other nations
Benito Mussolini
Italian dictator- fascist
fascism
authoritarian form of government that places the good of the nation above all else- including individual rights
totalitarianism
government control of thoughts feelings and behaviors
Joseph Stalin
communist soviet leader- totalitarianism
5- year plan
strengthen economy- each factory and mind had production goals set by state. production increased, but demands on workers were high
Weimar Republic
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Adolf Hitler
nazi