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VOCABULARY QUIZ #6 Flashcards

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the great depression

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worldwide economic instability marked by low industrial production & high unemployment rates during the 1930s

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weimar republic

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Germany’s new government developed in the 1920s, faced economic and social problems

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protectionalism

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economic policy characterized by high tantis meant to protect a country’s industries and nationalistic concerns at the expense of the world economic growth

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primary producing economies

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countries which export raw materials and agricultural goods

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five year plans

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Stalin’s policies of rapid industrialization, internal development / self-sufficiency of USSR at expense of the population

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john maynard kaynes

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British economist who developed Keynesian economics, that the government needed to spend money in order to help end the Great Depression

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new deal

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FDR’s program for helping the US recover from the Great Depression

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collectivization

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agricultural program in USSR / government consolidated small private farms into commonly owned fields

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kulaks

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farmers in USSR / resisted collectivization bc they would lose farm lands to government

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fascism

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radical political ideology that emphasized an extreme form of nationalism, and encouraged individuals to subordinate their will to the state

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benito mussolini

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leader of a one-party Fascist dictatorship in Italy in 1922

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nazism

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German form of fascism

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mein kampf

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“My Struggle” a book written by Hitler in prison / staging an attempted coup d’etat against the Weimar Republic

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aryans

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main focus of Hitler’s theory that the superior race of people originated from the Indo-European Aryans who migrated out of central Asia into Europe c. 2000 BCE

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munich conference

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meeting of European powers after Germany invaded the Sudetenland / Britain and France appeased Hitler

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appeasement policy

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British Prime Minister Chamberlain’s policy towards Hitler, agreeing to allow Germany to take part of Czechoslovakia if he promised to halt his invasions

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rome-berlin axis

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alliance formed between Hitler (Germany) and Mussolini (Italy) as WWII broke out

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tripartite pact

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agreement signed by Germany, Italy and Japan allowing Japan to enter the Axis alliance

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total war

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type of war in which goverments mobilized virtually every person and natural resource available to support the war effort

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holocaust

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a mass extermination of specific groups Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, Polish Catholics, mentally and physically disabled) - genocide by Nazi forces

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blitzkrieg

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German offensive warfare characterized by carefully synchronized steps that utilized fighter planes, tanks and infantry men

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battle of britain

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the British Royal Air Force successfully counterattacked german places using newly developed radar technology

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non aggression pact

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an agreement signed between Hitler (Germany) and Stalin (USSR) to refrain from invading each other

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battle of elamein

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British victory against Germany in northern Egypt, allowing Allied troops to then capture Sicily and invade Italy

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pearl harbor

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US naval base attacked by Japan prompting the US to enter WWII on the Allied side

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battle of midway

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US victory over Japan / allowing the US to begin their “island hopping” campaign, taking islands in the Pacific on the way to Japan

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d-day

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successful Allied invasion of Normandy France

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battle of the bulge

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successful Allied defeat of Germany in Belgium

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atomic bombs

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newly developed, and highly destructive weapons that were used by the US on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, prompting Japan to surrender

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