Unit XVI Facism and Nazism Flashcards
What was spreading throughout Europe?
bolshevism
Who was responsable for taking over after World War 1?
Weimar Republic
Who was the first German Prime Minister? What did he do?
Gustav Stresemann He called off the Ruhr and he agreed to pay reparations.
Who was responsable for establishing the republic?
SDP
Did both the left and the right detest the republic?
yes
What was spreading through the German army?
Bolshevism
What was the Spartakus uprising?
communist uprising
Where was the capital of Germany moved to?
Weimar
What did Britian believe is true about Germany?
A healthy Germany = a healthy Britain
What was the bad thing about the article 48 in the Weimar Republic?
dictatorship in emergency
What did the Ruhr do?
bring heavy inflation
What class was affected the most by inflation?
middle
Who took power during the Beer Hall Putsch? Did it work?
no
Did Germany join the league of nations?
yes
What did the Locarno pact?
peacefully end all war.
The kellogg Braind act did what?
kept war from occcuring
What did Ireland want?
independence
What was the popular front fearing?
a putsch
Did Italy have a troubled economy?
yes
What were the two big parties in Italy?
Socialist and Catholic
What did all of the unrest in Italy cause?
violence and division
All of Italy’s unrest was moving towards a what type of state?
tolatarianism
Were there political parties in a tolatarianism state?
no
What was Benito Mussolini orginally in?
the socialist party
Did landowners support Mussolini and Hitler?
yes
Who wanted more land in Italy?
nationalists
What type of Distress led to Fascism?
economic
Where is the center of Fascism?
Northern italy
Mussolini took control how?
forcefully
What was the sum of the 1924 elections?
violence
Did Emmanual dismiss Mussolini?
no
Who takes responsibility of the 1924 election?
Mussolini
Were women in Italy urged to have more kids?
yes
What did the government give you with more kids?
a check
Were women allowed to work?
yes
What established Catholocism as the main religion of Italy
lateran accord
How did communism, nazism, and fascism maintain power?
blaming
Mussolini won support for his Fascists by promoting his party as a bulwark against?:
Bolshevism.
In the early 1920s, Germany’s Weimar Republic was crippled by?:
a lack of political leadership
The fasces or bundle of rods with an ax was a symbol that Mussolini’s party derived from?:
ancient Rome.
According to the text, why did some groups want to adjust national boundaries?
Military leaders wanted to take advantage of natural defenses along their frontiers
What essential element was missing from the new Eastern European states?
Viable economies
What form of government experimented with family roles?
communism
Which two national groups does the text cite as being particularly unhappy with the borders drawn at the Paris conference?
Germans and Magyars
According to the text, what was the relationship between the settlement of World War I and post-war political turmoil within various countries?
Many politicians were willing to exploit dissatisfaction with international aspects of the settlement, in order to win domestic votes
The Lateran Accord of 1929 did what?
Reconciled the Roman Catholic Church and the Italian state for the first time since the 1860s
What did the locarno agreement not address.
Germany’s eastern borders
Which event gave Hitler the rationale he needed to gain complete legal authority over the state?
A fire that destroyed the Reichstag building
Nazi propaganda encouraged women to have
Racially pure children
The only new central- or eastern-European nation-state that did not fall under authoritarian rule in the interwar period was
Czechoslovakia
