Unit 3 Flashcards
What is the Weimar Republic?
Successor of the Hohenzollern Monarchy beginning 1919.
What problems did the Weimar Republic have? Why?
Inherited debts and unemployment because hyperinflation destroyed pension and savings.
What is the Red Scare?
Post war fears of Communism
What is Mass Culture?
Aggressive marketing led to new consumer culture.
Examples: fashionable trends led to cult of sex appeal, movies and radio, sports, department stores.
Cultural Revolution and Women
“Modern Girl”. sex became topic of discussion, women began wearing “flappers” (shorter dresses), also the term “Loose Women” (critique from conservative Americans claiming women’s respective roles are in the home).
Causes of Great Depression
Lack of purchasing power (have to spend more money on necessity, less on wants), Increased tillage of soil (too much land had been farmed, making farming less valuable)
Mein Kampf
Written by Adolf Hitler, applies Social Darwinism, anti-communism, and antisemitism to society. Highlights the concept of “the superior German race”.
Effects on Jews from Hitler’s ascent to Chancellor
mistreatment of Jews became a policy, causing the dismissal of teachers and professors, lost legal firms and Dr offices plus confiscated property of Jews
Kristallnacht
widespread pogrom against jews (intentional destruction of Synagogues, homes, etc.), concentration camps
Final Solution
The holocaust. Concentration camps (6 mil killed). Created by Heinrich Himmler
Munich Conference
Conference shows that the Europeans were weary
Appeasement
“Pacifying” an argument in war or a nation by giving the oppressing side what they want
Dunkirk
344 thousand British and the remnants of French troops are held and surrounded by German air force on a beach and the French surrender
England saved during Battle for Britain:
aided by a cloned Enigma machineR
Why did Nazi’s lose in Operation Barbarossa?
The Russians had more troops than the Germans do and long supply lines, the troops did not have adequate clothes for the cold winter and Hitler had no plan to replace lost soldiers and equipment
Central Planning
Stalin uses this to draft soldiers and build munition. This is a plan for how much weapons, artillery, mining and so on that is produced every year.
Nye Commission
This commission comes together, studies WW1 and finds why America had to get involved. They believed is is the “merchants of death” that forced us to get involved because they were selling weapons overseas forcing them to protect weapons overseas
Neutrality Acts? How did they hamper US foreign policy?
The US will no longer sell arms at war or make wars to nations at war
FDR’s three strategies to help Allies in WW1
- the destroyer-base deal (the US will give 50 old destroyers to England in exchange for control of 8 military bases)
- lead-lease act (renting, the US will lend/rent military hardware ro British but not sell)
- neutrality patrols (patrols sent to defend the weapons that the US sends over)
What did the Japanese want?
An Asian empire
What did the US expect at Pearl Harbour?
the American military was suspicious of sabotage
3 “fortunate” things from Pearl Harbor
- US carriers on maneuvers
- Pearl Harbor is shallow
- Japanese does not send out second string of planes
D-Day
The allied assault on France’s Normandy Coast which was successful due to the elaborate scheme to deceive the Wehrmacht.
Cold War
State of military tension between two major global powers. Considered cold because direct hostility never occurred. Fighting through other nations
