Unit 16 Review Questions Flashcards
What effect did Einstein’s theory of relativity and Freud’s theory of unconscious have on the public
It created a revolution in science and study of human behavior, disturbing many people and leading them to question their own beliefs
What advances were made in transportation and communications In the 1920s and 1930s
Cars Radios Movies Planes Telephones
List three reasons the Weimar Republic was considered weak
Lacked democratic division
Didn’t have a strong ruling party
Blamed for the loss of WWI
What was the dawes plan and how did it affect the German economy
It was a 200 million dollar loan from America to stabilize Germany
It set a more realistic schedule for Germany’s payments and helped slow the inflation crisis
What caused the stock market crash of 1929
Uneven distribution of wealth
Panic selling of stocks
Americans buying less products
Too much money was put into ag and business
List three political and economic reasons the Italians turned to Mussolini
They wanted a leader that would take action in there want for more land and believed democracy was no longer the answer
List three of hitlers beliefs and goals presented in mein kampf
German is the master race
Regain Germans lost land
Get rid of any people that would get in his way
Explain how japan planned to solve its Economic problems
Foreign expansion
Taking materials from China
Working with Italy and Germany
Why was Germany’s reoccupatiom of the Rhineland a significant turning point toward a war
It was a deliberate stand against the treaty of Versailles and made Germany rearmed
Briefly describe the spanish civil war
Francisco Franco, hitler, Mussolini and nationalists fought the soviets and republicans
Franco won
