Unit 9 & 10 Test Flashcards

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Political and Economic factors which existed after Versailles

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Experimental governments (Czech, Yugoslavia, USSR); European economy collapse; Changing markets and trade with trade barriers and tarrifs

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Countries discontent with and demanded a revision of Versailles

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Germany, France and Yugoslavia (Eastern Baltic States)

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Factors which pulled Europe into the Great Depression

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1929 Stock Market crash; French invasion and occupation of the Ruhr; lack of distribution of goods; Failure of government policies; unemployment

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The French Occupation of the Ruhr

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January 1923, Germany wasn’t paying reparation payments, France invaded the Ruhr valley; German workers used passive resistance; widespread unemployment; Dawes Plan, reduced reparation payments from Germany

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The Lausanne Conference

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Brought the era of reparation payments to an end

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Causes and effects of the lack of production and distribution of commodities in the interwar years

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Started with destruction of agriculture and industry; Less production and distribution of goods; Europe digging itself a hole

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British Response to the Great Depression

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The Labor Party, get jobs for people

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French Response to the Great Depression

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Popular Front Government (liberals, socialists) to institute popular social reforms; 40 hour work weeks, paid vacations

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Irish Independence

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April 1960, Eastern Rising, Nationalist order (sinnfein: ourselves alone); 1919-1922, Irish Independence, Leader of IRA Michael Collins; 1949, Ireland is born

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10
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Significance of the USSR in post WWI Europe

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Single most important development post WWI; 1922 USSR formed by Lenin; 1917-1922, Bolsheviks in power

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Causes and Effects of War Communism

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Took place during the Russian Civil War; Lenin wants complete control; Secret Police, Cheka; Centralize every part of Russian economy

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The NEP

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New Economic Policy; Free market enterprise outside commending heights; transportation, military, big industry

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13
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Facts about the Third International

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The Comintern; Bolsheviks were to united communists outside of USSR; 21 conditions, make the state purely communist; Ultimately divided communist states more than uniting them

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Facts about power struggle between Trotsky and Stalin

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Trotsky: Communism to spread, true marxism, rapid industryStalin: NEP, slow industrial, national communism; Stalin wins

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15
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Facts about the 5 Year Plans

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Out produce capitalist countries; Consumer goods weren’t met or produced enough; Creation of pure industrial cities; Focused on capital goods

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Facts about Collectivization of Agriculture

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Make production of agricultural goods more effective; government replaced forms of Kulaks with state run collective farms

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Facts about the Nazis

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Socialism, Extreme nationalism, everything for the good of the nation

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Similarities between Mussolini and Hitler

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Both came to power legally; Both Fascist; Opportunists; very Machiavellian; very right wing; conservative; anti-Semites; Black and Brown shirts

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Mein Kampf

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Hitler wrote it in prison in 1925; how to make Germany powerful again; outlined his future plans for Germany

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20
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Impact of Gustav Stressemann

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Restored public confidence in the economy, implemented a new currency, got USA to implement the Dawes Plan

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21
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The Locarno Agreements

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Spirit of Locarno or optimism until the Great Depression

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How the Nazi’s came to power within the Reichstag

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Great Depression and unemployment

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How Hitler became the Chancellor

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Hindenburg appointed him; Mistakes in earlier chancellors appointed; Supported by middle class

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Ways in which Hitler consolidated power

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Reichstag Fire let him rule by decree; The Night of the Long Knives; The Enabling Acts, suspended all civil liberties

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Phases of Nazi Anti-Semitism

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1- Exclusion 2- Racial Legislation 3- The Final Solution (Extermination)

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The roles of women in Nazi Germany

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Make babies and teach children to be loyal to the state; be consumer of German goods; only Aryans could have babies, and low skill jobs

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Facts about the Nazi Economic Policy

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Strength through joy, give entire efforts to the state, then after that, have months off of work for leisure time

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Factors/Events which led to WWII

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WWI, Treaty of Versailles, Great Depression, Hitler and the Nazis

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Examples of how the League of Nations failed

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Manchurian Crisis, 1935 German rearmament, Italy invasion of Ethiopia, German invasion of the Rhineland

30
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Results of Italy’s attacks on Ethiopia

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League of Nations implemented economic sanctions, led to Italy and Germany uniting; discredited League of Nation

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Consequences of Germany’s invasion of the Rhineland

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League of Nations appeasment

32
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Facts about the Spanish Civil War

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Supported by Hitler and Mussolini, Francisco Franco led it, very fascist, fascists win the war, test run for Germany army

33
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German aggression of Austria and Czechoslovakia

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Hitler wanted both as Lebensraum; made Treaty of Versailles a dead letter

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The Munich Conference

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Hitler said he didn’t want any more territory; British Prime Minister says Peace with Honor (lol)

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Facts about Germany’s conquest of Europe through 1941

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Poland, Phony War, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, gets stopped at Britain

36
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The Lend-Lease Act

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USA would get to use Britain colonies and gave Britain industrial products

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The Battle of Britain

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Operation Sea Lion, London Blitz, 57 nights of bombing, RAF defends London, Germany gives up and moves to Russia, Britain wins

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Operation Barbarosa

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Delayed by Italy, pushed the battle into winter time, Germany invades Russia, doesn’t succeed because of Russia’s harsh winter

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Factors that drew US into WWII

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Bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941

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The North African Campaign

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Rommel defeated, major allied victory

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The Italian Campaign

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Operation Torch, opens the Southern Front; Germany is forced to divert troops, Mussolini gets exiled and murdered; the soft underbelly

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The Battle of Stalingrad

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1 million Russians die, but still win, bent but didn’t break

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Strategic Bombing

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Precision Bombing: USA preferredArea Bombing: Britain preferred

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D-Day

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June 6, 1944: largest amphibious assault, Normandy, France, Allied victory, France is liberated

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The Costs of WWII

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lots of damage to infrastructure, 40 million casualties

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Jew casualties

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6 million died, 90% of Polish Jews killed, widespread support from Germans caused by Propoganda

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Domestic fronts in Britain, France, Germany, and the USSr

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Germany: Total War; France: Free France and Vichy France; Britain: Total War; USSR: Great Patriotic War

48
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Political movements that shaped the global community since WWI

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Communism and the Cold War; decolonization

49
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The Iron Curtain

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Churchill said it separated East and Communism from West and Democracy

50
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Stalinist policies imposed on Eastern European states

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Single party rule, collectivization, military is cooperate with Soviet Military, schools had to be under Soviet rule

51
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Post war division of Germany

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West had better conditions, USSR created the Berlin wall to separate it

52
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NATO and the Warsaw Pact

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NATO was Western allianceWarsaw was communist state alliance