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Which countries did Lenin make peace with
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Germany, however after Soviet government nationalized all foreign owned factories without compensation and refused to pay Russias foreign debts France supported the White Armies
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What was one of the reasons the First World War was such a great turning point in modern history
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A radical government based on socialism and one party dictatorpship came to power, maintained power, and spread world wide
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What was the tragic effects of the Great War: think dollars and deaths
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332 billion dollars, 10 million dead, 20 million wounded
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Why did the Germany military establish a virtual dictatorship in early 1917
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Because of the "peace resolution" made in Reichstag calling for peace without territorial annexations
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What happened at the Second Battle of Marne
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The Germans made some advancements but they were stopped when American soldiers and Ludendorff was to exhausted to move forward.
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When did General Lunchendorff realize Germany had lost the war
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When British, French, and American arries advanced on all fronts
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What did the emperor in Germany do on October 4
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He created a more liberal German government which would be sued for peace
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What significant event happened on Nobember 3
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Sailors in Kiel mutinied and throughout Germany there wer large scale revolts
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What significant event happened on November 3 in Austria-Hungary
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Surrended to the allies and broke apart
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When did World War I end?
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November 11, 1918
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Describe the revolutions in Austria Hungary caused by the Great War
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The revolution was nationalistic and republican where independent republics were proclaimed
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Although both German and Russian Revolutions caused by World War I dealth with socialists and liberals overtaking the central government, while workers and soldier councils formed a ocunter government how did German revolution differ
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The moderate socialists and their liberal allies won-there was a bourgeois political revolution but no communism
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How did the German socialists differ from the Russian socialists
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They wanteed real political democaracy and civil liberties and the abolishing of capitalism-however they were appaled by revolutionary terror-they also accepted defeat and ended the war the day they took power
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What did the German socialists do for the farmy
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They accpeted defeat which ended the decline in morale and prevented the regular army from disintegrating-and ultimately end the uprisings
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What were some of the socialists reactions to Liebnecht and Luxemberg being murdered by army leaders
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Working class activists broke away from Social Democratic Party and joined the pro Lenin Germany Communist Party
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What were Wilson Woodrow's Fourteen Points
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Peace proposal which stressed national self determination and the rights of small coutnries
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Who were the real powers of the Treaty of Versailles
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United States, Great Britain, France
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What was the League of Nations and who encouraged it
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Wilson encouraged that a permanent international organization could protect member states from aggression and avert future wars
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Who were the leaders of Great Britain and France in the Treaty of Versailles
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Lloyd George of Great Britain and Clamenceau of France
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Why was Lloyd George so determined to make Germany pay for the war
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George had won his campaign in Great Britain by promising the Germans would suffer,and the people felt that someone should suffer and pay for the tragedy of wars
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What did "the Tiger" want
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He wanted revenge, he wanted to create a buffer state between France and German, permanent demiliztarization of Germany, and German reparations
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Woodrow and Gerorge didnt believe in Clamenceua's fate of Germany but ultimately the countries agreed on what
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There would be no Rhineland to buffer, but there would be an alliance with US and Great Britain
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What were the conditions of the Treaty of Versailles
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1] Germany had to give up colonies to France, Britain, and Japan
2] Germany gave up Alsace and Lorraine 3] Parts of Germany ceded to Polish state 4] limit army to 10,000 men and agree to build no military fortifications 5] Germany pay reparations equal to civilian damages |
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When did Germany agree to the treaty and where
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June 28, 1919 at the Sun King's Hall of Mirrors at Versailles
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What happened to the Ottoman Empire based on Treaty of Versailles
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Ottoman Empire was broken up, Britain and France expanded power and influence in Middle East
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The British and French had promised independence for the Arabs, did this happen? give examples.
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No. Britain and France crushed all the revolts for indepndence and only Turks own independenfce
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What was the Balfour Declaration
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Made on November 1917 stated that there would be a "National Home for the Jewish People" in Palenstine that didnt prejudice against non Jew communities-however Palenstinian Arabs were angered becaused felt that the Jewish homeland would be incompati ble with majority rule
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How did Lenin affect the terms of the Versaillles Treaty
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Many Allied Leaders wanted to end the war to stop the Bolshevik Revolution and provide tranquillity for war weary people
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What were two obstacles for peace of the war
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Germany [uprisings, reactionary plots, disillusionment about losing the wars-couldnt for m democracy] Senators led by Henry Cabot Lodge and others felt that the Leagues requirement for member states to take colletive action against aggression for they felt this gave away cONGRESSES RIGHT TO DECLARE WAR
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What did Wilson and Senate do about the Treaty
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They didnt join League of Nations or ratify Wilson's treaties forming a defnesive alliance with France and Great Britain
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What happened to France as a result of the Treaty
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United States and Britain turned its back and was left isolated
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Define The Greak Break
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Meaning the First World War and the Russian Revolution
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Before 1914 most people in Europe still believed in what?
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Progress-seeing the new developments in the city and the increase in rights
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During the 1880's a small group of serious thinkers and creative writers attacked what ideas
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The optimistic ideas of progress and the power of the ratonal human mind
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After the war the small elite of thinkers who criticized optimism in progress and humans now believed humans were
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Violent, irrational animals quite capable of tearing the individual and his or her rights
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Who was Paul Valery
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Was a French poet and critic in the early 1920;s who saw Europe's future as dark-and he saw in the midst of economic, political, and social disruptions the "cruelly injured mind" that was filled with doubt and suffering anxiety
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Who was Friedrich Nietzche
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He was an influential German philosopher-he rejected Christianity and became a professor of classical languages. Nietzche believed that ever since classical Athens the West had overemphasized rationality and stifled the passion and human insitnct that drove human acitivty and true creativity. He also uestioned all values and cliamed Christinaity embodied "slave morality". Nietzche believed that conventional morality based on reason, democracy, progress, and respectability was outwarn social and psychological constructs whose infleunce as suffocating self realizatio and excellence.
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Who was Henri Bergson
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He was a French philosophy professsor who convinced many young people through his writing that immediate experience and ntuition were as important as rational and scientific thinking for understanding reality. He emphasized that religious experience or mystical poem was more accesssible to human comprehension than a scientific law or mathematical equation
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Who was Georges Sorel
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A French socilalist who characterized Marxian socilaism as an inspiring but unprovable religion rather than a scientific truth. He believed socialist would come to power through a great, general strike of all working people and he rejected demoacracy aned believed that the masses of new socialist society would have to be controlled by an elite
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Describe the two ways that the revolt against established certainties in philosophy went
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English speaking countries: acceptance of logical empiricism [or logical positivism] and in continental countries-existentialism
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Define logical empiricism
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It rejected most of the concenrs of tradional philosophy, from existence to God, meaning of happiness- as just nonsense
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Who was Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Was an Austrian philosopher who wrote Tractatus LogicoPhilosophicus [Essay on Logical Philosophy] which stated philosophy is only the logical clarification of thoughts and therefrom it becomes study of language which expresses thoughts. He believed great philosophical issues [God, freedom, morality] were senseless because couldnt be tested by scientific experiments or tested by math/
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Define existentialism
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They were thinkers loosely united in a courageous search for moral values in a world of terror and uncertainty
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What were most existentialists [religion wise]
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Atheists
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Who was Jean-Paul Sartre
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French existentialist who said human beings simply exist and they are alone for there is no god. They are hounded by despair and meaninglessness of life-he often shattered beliefs in God, reason, and progress
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Who was Jean-Paul Sartre
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French existentialist who said human beings simply exist and they are alone for there is no god. They are hounded by despair and meaninglessness of life-he often shattered beliefs in God, reason, and progress
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How did many existentialists thinkers bleieved human beings could overcome life's absurdity
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By acting to give meaing to life through actions, of defining oneself through choices
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Where did modern existentialism first gain prominence but where did it really come to age after World War II
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First Germany in the 1920's under Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers then France because of the terrible conditions of the war reinforced the idea of existential life
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Who was Albert Camus
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Leading French existentialist who was widely influential in French resistance after World War II and offered many profound answers to moral issues
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What did the loss of faith in human reason and in continual progress lead to a renewed interest in
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Christian view of the world
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Whsat was Christ seen as before 1914
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The greatest moral nature===for many theologians felt they must interpret Christian doctrine and the bible so they wouldnt contradict science, evoluton, and common sense
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What did Christian existentialists stress
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Human beings' sinful nature, the need for faith, and mystery of God's forgiveness
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Who was Soren Kierkegaard
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Was a Danish religious philosopher whose ideas were influential in the revival of fundamental Christian beleif: he made a total religious commitment to a remote and majestic God
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Who was Karl Barth
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He wa a Swiss Protestant theologian whose influentail writings sought to recreate the religous intensity of the Reformation-he believed human beings were imperfect, sinful creatures whose reason and will wre flawed-and religous truth is made known to human beings only through God's grace-people have to accept God's word and the supernatural revelation of Jesus Christ
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Who was Gabriel Marcel
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leading existential Catholic thinkerwho believed the Catholic Church had the answer to the broken world after the war-Catholicism provided hope, humanity, honesty, and piety,
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Who was Jacques Maritain
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He was a countryman who worked with Marcel and denounced anti-Semitism and supported closer ties with non-Catholics
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Why did religiu after 1914 become much more relevant and meaningful to thinking people then before thewar
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Religion often in existential variety was one meaningful answer to terror and anxiety
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What was one of the main pillars supporting Western society's optimistic and rationalistic views of the wordl
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Science
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Who was Marie Curie
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Polish born physicist who discovered that radium constantly emits subatomic particles and thus doesnt have a constatn weight
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Who was Max Planck
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He was a German physicist who in 1900 showed that subatomic energy is emitted in uneeven little spurts which he called quanta-instead of steady stream: his discovery disproved the old idea that separated matter and energy
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Who was Albert Einstein
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German-Jewish genius who made the famous theory of special relativity that time and space are relative to the viewpoint of the observor and htat only the speed of light is constant for all frames of refernece in the universe-ge showed that matter and energy and interchangeable
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Who was Ernest Rutherford
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Leading pioneer of physics who showed that the atom could be split and he found the neutron-this allowed more experimental bombardment of matter
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How did the milllions of men and women in the 1920's and 1930's view the new discoveries in physics
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They found the universe was strange and troubling for everything was relative and the universe was uncertain and undetermined
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Who was Werner Heisenberg
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German physicist who made hte principle of uncertainty which postulates that because its impossible to know the position of the indvidiual electron its impossible to predict its behavior
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Describe Freud;s description of human behavior
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Its irrational--key to understanding the mind if the primitive irrational unconscious called the id-which isriven by sexual, aggressive, and pleasure seeking desires and locked in constant battles with other parts of the mind like the rationalizing consciouse [the ego[ which mediates what a person can do and ingrained moral values [superego] which is what a person should do=human behavior is a compromise between instintual drives and controls of rational thinking and moral values
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How did Freud and Nietzche agree
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They both believed that the mechanisms of rational thinking and traditional moral values an be too strong repressing sexual desire and cripplign indvidiuals and entire peoples with guilt and neurotic fears
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Whihc countries did Freud psychology get attention after 1918
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United States and northern Europe
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What did many people interpret Freud's ideas
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They believed he called for sexual experimentation
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Describe twentieth century litearture
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Now the twentieth century writers took on the viewpoint of one individual who was confused and irrational human mind where feelings, memories, and desires were scrambled
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Who was Marcel Proust
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French novelist who wrote semi-autobigraphy Remembrane of Things Past which recalled bittersweet memories of childhood and youthful love and tried to discover their innermost meaning
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Who was Virginia Woolf
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Author who used the stream of consciousness technique-she wrote Jacobs Rooom which was a series of internal mmonologues, in which ideas and emotions from different periods of time bubble up as randombly
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Who was William Falukner
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One of America's greatest twentiweth century novelist who wrote The Sound and the Fury which is intense drama confusedly seen through the eyes of an idiot
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Who was James Joyce
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Irish novelist who wrote Ulysses which was in the eyes of an ordinary man on an ordinary day where Joyce weaves an extended ironic parallel between his hero's aimless wanderings throug the streets and adventures of Homer's hero Ulyssess-he uses random bits of language to mirror modern life which is a gigantic riddle waiting to be unraveled
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Who was Oswald Spengler
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German high school teacher who wrote The Decline of the West which stated that every culture expeirences a life cycle of growth and decline--he stated death was approaching by conquewsst by the yellow race
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Who was T.S Elliot
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Wrote famous peom The Waste Land which depicts a world of growing desolation, however afte rconverting to Anglo-Catholocism he came to hope cautiiously for humanity's salvation
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Who was Franz Kafta
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author of The Trial and The Castle which are several short stoires that portray helpless indviduals crushed by inexplicable hostile forces
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Who was George Orwell
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Author of 1984 which descrivbes Big Brother-dictator- and a totalitarian state use of a new kind of langauge, sophisticated technology, and psychological terror to strip indivduals of their last shred of humman dignity-spoke to millions of people in the closign years of the age of anxiety
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Define functionalism
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The new principle in architecture that buildings, like industrial products, should be useful and functional and serve a purpose for what they are made of
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Who is Le Corbusier
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He was one of the architects who followed functioanlism and said a "house is a machine for living in"
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Who was Louis H. Sullivan
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Leader of the Chicago school of archietects who used cheap steel, reinforced concrete, and electrial elevators to build skyscrapers and office building lacking exterior ornamentation
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Who was Frank Lloyd Wright
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He was an arhcietecture who built radically new and truly modern houes featuring low lines, open interiors ,and mass produced building materials
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In Europe where did archietectual leadership center in
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German speaking countries
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QWWho was Walter Gropius
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He was an archietect who broke with the past and used his design in the Fagus shoe factory whcih was clean, light, and elegant building of glass and iron
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Bauhanus
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Was the school of fine and applied arts merged to make a school for modern archietects, designer,s and tehatrical innovators
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Who was Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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He was archietect who moved to United States and make Lake Sore Apartments in Chicago which symbolized the triumph of steel frame and glass wall modern archietecture
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What was impressionism
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Artists wh sought to capture the momentary overall feeling, or impression of light falling on a real life scence before their eyesw
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Describe the postimpressionists
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Sometimes called expressionists their art after the war was nonrepresentational or abstrat characters-they wnted to know and depict worlds othen than the visble world=wanted to portray unseen inner worlds of emotion and imagination
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Who was Vincent van Gogh
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He was a Dutch expressionist who made The Starry Night where he painted the movig vison of his mind's eye
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Who was Paul Gauguin
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He was a French painter who pioneered in expresssionist tecchniques where he infuesed tranquillity and mysticism and he believed that the painter should represent objects as the eye actually saw them
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Who was Pual Cezanne
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Was a modern painter who was committed to form and ordered design and then later on abstractg and nonrepresentatioanl work that was two dimensional
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Who was Henri Matisse
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Leader of the expressionism group of painters who painted real objects but was primarily concerned with the arragemment of color, line, and form
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Who was Pablo Picasso
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Spanish painter who found the cubism movement-concentrated on a complex geometry of zigzagging lines and sharply angled overlapping planes
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Who was Wassily Kandinsky
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Russian born artist who turned away from nature and reprsented art as form and color combinatiosn as a representation of mood not objecfts
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What was dadaism
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Was form of art that attacked all accepted standards of art and behavior and delighted in outrageous conduct
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What was surrelalism
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Influential art in the late 1920's and 1930's which painted a world of wild dreams and complex symbols and thery refused to depict ordinary visual reality but rather made statements about the age of anxiety
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Who was Igor Stravinsky
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He was a coposer in the ballet The RIe of Spring who had a combinatio nof pulsating, dissonant rhythms which represented lovemaking and cused a stir in Paris
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Who was Alban Berg
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He made the opera Wozzeck whcih blended a half sung half spoken dialogue with harsh, atonal music=was a gruesome tale of a soldier driven by Kafka like inner terorrs and vauge suspicions of unfaithfulness to murder his mistress
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Who was Arold Schonberg
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Viennese composer who aanddoned traditional harmony and tnoality-the notes werent united and organized by key but were independent and unrelated
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What was the public primariliy interestedi nconcerning the arts
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Moives and raidos
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What were moving pictures first
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First were popular novely in naughty peepshows
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Where were the first movie houeses
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Los Aneles
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Give examples of first short silent action films
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Great Train Robbery
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Where were the first movie factories held
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New York
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Which country was the dominant force in the rapidly expanding short film industry
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US
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Who was Mack Sennett
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He specialized in short slapstick comedies noted for frantic automobiilie chaes, custard pie battles, and gorgeous bathing beauties
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Who was Charlie Chaplin
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Englishman who worked in Hollywood and was king of the silver screen-known for his role asthe Little Tramp he was known for slapstikc comedy=demonstrated that mass entertainment and artistic accomplishment could be achieved
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Describe the 1920's age of German filsm
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The films were bizarre expressionist dramas [THe Cabinet of Dr. Caligari] but many German talents moved to Hollywood
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What was the greatest appeal of motion pictures
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They offered ordinary people an escape from the hard realitiies of everyday life
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How did radio become possible
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With transatlantic wireless commmunication of Guglielmo Marconi and development of vacuum tube which allowed transmission of sppech and mussic
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Describe correlation between radio and politics
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Many dictators used propaganda nad many democrats used campaigns---many films were powerful tools of indoctrination
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Who was Leni Riefenstahl
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The talented woman film maker who made the propaganda for hilter the Triumph of the Will
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Why did ist seem peace would be difficult [describe each country
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Germany hated Treaty of Versailles
France was isolated and fearful Britain was undependable US had turned back Eastern Europe was in ferment Russia was communistic |
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The treaty of Versaills for the Germans fell between two stools:
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1] too harsh for a peace of reconciliation
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How did France see how Germany should be treated
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France beleived that Germany should be punished for paying reparations and to pay for loss on Frnech soil
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How did France see how Germany should be treated
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France beleived that Germany should be punished for paying reparations and to pay for loss on Frnech soil
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How did France see how Germany should be treated
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France beleived that Germany should be punished for paying reparations and to pay for loss on Frnech soil
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How did Britain see Germany should be treated
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They believed that Germany if had to pay reparations would be impoverished and this would hurt all of Europe and they were suspicious of the Frenhc armywhich had formed alliances with some of the eastern countries
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fWho was John Maynard Keynes
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Author of the Economic Conseuqences of the Peace who bleieved thatif Germany had to pay reparations this would hurt Germany and all of Europe
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How much money did Germany have to pay?
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132 billion gold marks
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What did the Weimar Republic announce in 1922
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They couldnt pay the raparations and proposed a moratorium on reparations for 3 years which would reduce or eliminate reparations
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Who was Raymond Poincare
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Frnech prime minister who wouldnt accept Germany's moratorium on reparations and in 1923 set French armies and Beligum armies to Ruhr district, heartland of Industrial Germany, to force them to pay the money
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What did the German government order the people of Ruhr to do
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Stop working and start passively resisting French occupation-in which France sealed off the Ruhr and only allowed enough food to prevent starvation
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Why did the German government pay new money, what was the result of this
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They printed money in order to pay their bills and this caused German money to lose its value
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What did German inflation do and who did it hurt
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It hurt hte middle class whose money was worthless, people were angry and blamed Western government, their own government, big business, the Jews, the woorkers, and communists
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Who was Gustav Stresemann
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He was the German leader who adopted a compromising attitude-called off passive resistance in the RUhr and agreeed in principle to pay reparations but re-examined Germany's ability to pay
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Who was Charles G. Dawes
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He was the American banker who headed the reparations commission and made the Dawes Plan which was accepted by France, Germany, and Britain and redueced reparatiosn based on German economic propserity=the Germans would receivve loan from the US and pay reparations to France and Britain thus enabling thsoe countries to repay large sums owed to the SU
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In 1925 what happened at Locarno Switzerland
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Germany and France pledged to accept common border, Britain and Italy agreed to fight either France of Germany if one invaded the other, and made boundary disputes iwth Poland and Czzecholslovakia by peaceful means and Francepromised those countries military aid if Germany attacked
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What did Germany do in 1926
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Join the League of Nations
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What was the Kellogg-Briand Pact
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Was in 1928 signed by 15 countries promising to settle international disputes peacefully--seen as idealistic because made o provisions fora ction in case war happened
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What was Mein Kampf
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Hitler's book meaning My Struggle where it outlined his theories and progrmas
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What were the harp politial divisions in Germany during late 1920s-early 1930's
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The unrepentant natioanlists and monarchiests, Communists, Social Democrats
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What problems occured in France in the 1920's
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The French had to rebuid. the north and they had substantial inflation
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Who was Gertrude Stein
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wLeader of the large colony of American expatriates living Paris who claimed twentieth century was in Paris
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What problems did Britain face
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Unempployment-however the state provided unemployment benefits and suplllements those payments with subdized housing, medical aid, and pensions
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What was the Labour Party
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The Party that replaced the Liberal Party and opposed Conservatives==prominence of Labour party refleced decline of old liberal ideas
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Who was Ramsay McDonaldn
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He wasthe ruler of the Labour Party from 1924-1929 who governed the ocutnry iwth the support of the smaller liberal party, he moved towards socialism gardually
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Who was Stanley Baldwin
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He was the leader of the Conservatives who wanted to compromise on social issues
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In 1922 what did Britain grant
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Southern Catholic Ireland full autonomy
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What triggered the collapse into the Great Depressssion
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The Crash of the stockmarket in 1929
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Who was Irving Fisher
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One of America's most brilliant economists who was optimistic in 1929 and fully invested in stocks
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Why did many people have to sell stocks when prices fell
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Because stock market many people borrowed money and paid only fraction of total pruchase price
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What happened when people started buying fewer goods
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Prices fell, production slowed down, and unemployment began to rise
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How did the financial crises trigger a worldwide crisis
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Because American bnakers lent money to other countries and people began to withdraw money from the bank to pay back which made baks collapse and world prices collapsed
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What did many countries do to make their markets more salable
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Make goods cheaper
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What two factors are attributed to the Great Depression
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1] lack of leadershipi and makig high tariffs
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What was the social consequences of the Great Depression
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1] people became hopeless and bored
2] marraige postponed and birthrates fell 3] suicide increase and mental illness |
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What was the only country hit harder then the US by the Great Depresssion
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Germany
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Who was Herbet Hoover
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US president who saw stock market crash with optimism which didnt help
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Who was Franklin Delano Rossevelt
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He was a wheelchair bound aristocrat who wn the election by promising "New Deal for the forgotten man" he wanted to reform capatilism and rejec socialism-he chose forceful government intevention and he promoted agricultural recovery==je a;sp devalued the dolllar and left the gold standard
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What was the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933
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Act made at raising prices and farm income by limitign production
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What was the National Recovery Administration
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Attempt to control and plan the economy and reduce competition by fixing prices and wages-was nliked
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How did FDR respond to unemployment
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He created new industries [Works Progress Administration-constructed public buildings, bridges, and highways]
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In what ways did the US follow Bismarck's plans
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They established national social security, old age pensison, unemployment benefits and the National Labor REelations Act of 1935 gave union organizers allowed collectibve bargaining
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Which group became hte largest political party in Sweden and NOrway
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Social Democrats
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How awas Britain able to recover from the Great Depression
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Through making new industries such as autombolies and electrical appliances and by making low interest rates to encourage housing booms
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Why was France hit later by the Depression
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They were less industrailized and isolated from World Economy but once hit they stayed in problems
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What was the Popular Front
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In France in 1936 group of the Communists, Socialists, and Radicals forming alliance against fascists
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What did Blums Popular Front do to try to solve economic problems
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Create uion movement and social reform through paid vacatiosn and 40 hour workweek
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Why ddi Frances economy go down
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The new reforms were sabataged by rapid inflation and cries of revolution
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WDescribe civil war in Spain and the Frnehc
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The Communisms demanded the French support Spanish repbulicans while conservatives wanted to atttack Spanish fascists-this caused collapse of Popular Front
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