the interwar years Flashcards

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Black Tuesday

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consumer spending slowed, people feared stock market crash so everyone pulled money out of stocks and it crashed, pulled money out of banks too

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stock market

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people buy parts of businesses-booming in the 1920s

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Great Depression

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economic downturn of America after the stock market crash

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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new deal- government spending would help depression- public work programs

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anti-Comintern pact

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Japan and Germany agree to work together to fight the spread of communism

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nanjing massacre

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Japanese troops went on murderous rampage killing Chinese soldiers and civilians

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greater east Asia co-prosperity sphere

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group of nations whose combined resources would allow independence from western control

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Japanese aggression

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military gained power, becoming more aggressive towards other nations

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Benito Mussolini

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Italian dictator- fascist

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fascism

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authoritarian form of government that places the good of the nation above all else- including individual rights

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totalitarianism

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government control of thoughts feelings and behaviors

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Joseph Stalin

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communist soviet leader- totalitarianism

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5- year plan

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strengthen economy- each factory and mind had production goals set by state. production increased, but demands on workers were high

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Weimar Republic

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Adolf Hitler

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nazi

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nazi party

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nationalist, socialist party