Unit 4 Hitstory Test Flashcards
Why were there not many possible leaders left?
Most of them were killed in war
What do Britain, Germany, and the US promote?
Democracy
What were some post war problems?
-Finding jobs (especially for veterans)
- Economic problems
- Rebuilding
- Social unrest
Who did the Middle Class start to join? Why?
Conservatives because the Liberal party failed
What do the Conservatives limit?
The Middle Classes strike power
What did the Easter Rising cause?
More support for the Irish cause
Who used Guerilla warfare against the British?
Irish Representative Army
What for of government did Ireland have?
Self government
France Conservative and Communists fought for what?
Power
What happened in 1919-1920 (secret police)
They kicked out “foreign radicals”
What happened in 1891-1914?
Many immigrants came to the US
What was the Red Scare
A tactic used to limit immigration
Why did Germany fear becoming too weak?
They thought that Britain and the US would become too strong
What did the Locarno Treaty symbolise?
A symbol of peace to help end post war fighing
Who joined the League of Nations after signing the Locarno Treaty in 1926?
Germany (US joined soon after)
What were Britain’s economic problems?
- Debt
- Factories were out of date
- Major unemployment
- Low wages
- Strike\worker unrest
How was Frances economic recovery?
Simple
US had unfair…
Demand\wages
How was banking in the US?
Poor
What did the US pose?
The highest tariff in history
What was the unemployment issue in 1931?
1 in every 4 workers were unemployed
Who did the citizens stand behind once the depression hit?
Leon Blum
What did Leon Blum try to do?
- Solving labo problems
- Tried to pass socialist legistlation
What brought Blum’s government down?
Strikes
What caused crisis to the US in 1934?
Winds
What destroyed farmers tools and goods?
A dust bowl
What did people start losing during the depression?
Hope
What was the Maginot Line?
Frances massive fortifications
Kellogg- Briand Pact?
US sponsored, echoed spirit of Locarno
Disarmament?
Reduction of armed workers
General Strike?
Strike by worker in many different industries
Overproduction?
Condition where production of good exceeds the need for them
Finance?
Management of money matters
Federal Reserve?
Central banking system of the US
The Great Depression?
Painful time of global economic collapse
New Deal?
Massive package of economic and social programs
According to Italo Balbo how did Italy’s constitutional government “betray” the hopes of the soldiers?
By reducing Italy’s army to a shameful peace
When did Mussolini rise to power?
The 20s
Who rallied behind Mussolini?
Italo Balbo
What was the promise the Allies broke to Italy?
Giving them land from Austria and Hungary
What did part of Italy become part of?
Yugoslavia
What led to revolution like protests in Italy?
Italian Nationalist outraged by the betrayal from the Allies
What were some of the ways people protested?
- Rising taxes\declined trade
- Peasants seized land
- Workers on strike
- Government split feuding in factions
How does Mussolini rise?
Due to turmoil
Mussolini was a ____ from birth…
Socialist
During the war Mussolini rejected socialism and switched to _____…
Intense Nationalism
Who did Mussolini organize into the Fascist Party?
Veterans and other Italians
Black Shirts?
Party militants
March on Rome?
Fascist stormed the capital
Fascism?
Any centralized, authoritarian government that is not communist whose policies glorify the state over the individual and destructive to basic human rights
What was the goal of Fascism?
To go back to Roman Greatness
What did Mussolini do?
- Suppressed Rival Parties
- Mizzled Press
- Rigged Elections
- Replaced Elected Officials with Fascists
What happened to critics of Fascists?
They were thrown in jail or murdered
What did Mussolini use to achieve his goals and get rid of his doubters?
- Secret police
- Propoganda
Who controlled the industry?
- Business
- Labor
- Government
- Fascists
They were all representatives
What did Mussolini prefere?
- Class system
- Preserving capitalism
Mussolini and his followers thought the state was more important than what?
The individual person
What were men encouraged to be?
Violent and ruthless
Why were women kicked out of working jobs?
To have more children
Where were children forced to go and why?
Camps to learn Fascist ways
What where children taught to be a young ages?
Soldiers
What did Mussolini build?
The first totalitarian state
Totalitarian state?
One party regulates every aspect of everyone’s life
Who adopted the idea of the Totalitarian State?
Hitler and Stalin
What was the appeal of Fascism?
- Promised a strong government
-Received National pride - Mussolini was a confident powerful figure
Differences between Fascism and Communism
Fascism: (Favored by upper class)
- Preserved Nationalist goals
- Society with defined classes
Communism: (Favored by lower class)
- Worked for international change
- Classless society
What did Fascism and Communism have in common?
- Drew power by inspiring a blind devotion to the state
- Used terror to guide power
- Flourished during economic hardship
- An elite party claimed to rule by nationalist interests
What did Stalin and other members of the Communist Party want to do to Lenin’s body?
Preserve Lenin’s body to put him on display
What did Karl Marx say Communism would do to the state?
Make the state fall
Stalin made the Soviet Union become…
A Totalitarian state ruled by bureaucracy
Why was Stalin’s five year plan created?
Save Russia from going back to their backwards economic habits
What was the goal of the five year plan?
- Create a powerful industry
- Improve transportation
- Increase farm output
Who controlled the plan?
Mostly to government
Who owned all businesses?
The government also distributed all the resources
What did the Soviet Union create?
Comand economy
What was the command economy?
Government officials make all basic economic decisions
What were some goals of the five year plan?
Heavy industry and transportation improvement
How did the government make people work towards these goals?
They gave bonuses to whoever completed these goals
What happened if someone didn’t complete the goals
They were punished
From 1928-1939 what industries grew?
- Oil
- Coal
- Steel
- Expanded mining
- Built raildroad
What were some of the low living standards of 1928- 1939 in Russia?
- Shortages
- Low wages
- Workers forbidden from going on strike
What did the government want farmers to produce the feed cities and sell to other countries?
Grain
What did Stalin think of Lenin’s NEP?
He thought it was inefficient and a threat to state power
Where did Stalin want peasants to work?
State owned farms or collectives
Collectives?
Large farms owned and operated by peasants as a group
What did the government control about state farms and collectives?
Everything
- Prices
- Necessities for farming
Why were many angry about state farms?
They didn’t like how the government were selling their products at such low prices
Many resisted state farms, how?
- Killing animals
- Destroying tools
- Burning crops
Who did Stalin blame for the farmer resistance?
Kulaks