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28 Cards in this Set
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What contributed to the eco depression?
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US -> high production, low demand
Germany -> inflation |
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What were soc effects in US?
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Men felt powerless. Families broke apart. Pop cul dec
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What did Russia do?
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Built industrial socialist society
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What were some West gov solutions?
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National tariffs and cut spending. They both dec eco stimulus
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What pol sys did the Great Depression create?
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Incapacitated parliament or overturned it
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What kind of gov did
Scandinavia have? |
Democratic socialist gov with cooperative community
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What did Hitler stress in his speeches?
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Need for unity, weak parliament, return to traditional ways
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What were LA soc effects after the Great Depression?
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Pop inc, middle class, new pol parties
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What was the tendency of these new govs?
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Conservative => liberal
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How did Japan react to the Great Depression?
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Conquered parts of Korea and China for their raw materials. Encouraged Shintoism and Confucianism
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How did Japanese pol change?
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1936 -> militaristic prime ministers. 1938 -> held Manchuria, Korea (tried to suppress Korean cul there), and Taiwan and sold them exports
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How did the Japanese recover from the Great Depression?
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Inc spending to provide jobs => exports, production of iron, steel, and chems. Businesses offered lifelong contracts
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How did Stalin try to collect agri?
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Large state run farms, peasant collectives and taxes, Agri production remained a MAJOR weakness
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What were effects of the 5 year plans?
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Inc pop in cities
factories welfare services |
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Great Depression
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Economic crisis that began with US stock market crash. Massive unemployment and inflation
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Socialism in one country
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Stalins belief in isolation from capitalists
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Popular Front
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France 1936 -> Socialist and communist parties coalition. Unable to do a lot of soc reform bc of conservative strength
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New Deal
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Gave Americans pub wks project jobs
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Gestapo
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German secret state police
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Anchuluss
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1938 -> Hitler's union of Germany with German speaking Austria against the wishes of other nations
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Import substitution industrialization
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Making imports at home. Practiced in LA, produced light industrialization
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Syndicalism
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Eco and pol term, Labor forces exerted influence over gov
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Lazaro Cardenas
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Mexico. Land reform, communal farms, oil monopoly
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Geutulio Vargas
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Brazil.1929 -> Centralized pol program, new constitution based on Mussolini's Italy. 1948 -> leaned to communists. 1954 -> committed suicide
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Juan D Pedron
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Argentina. Military leader who appealed to poor and elderly through his wife. Eventually opposed catholic church. 1955 -> exiled
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5 Year Plans
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Stalins mode of inc industrialization. Massive factories independent of western world banking and trading
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Socialist realism
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USSR mode of art and lit. Avoided adoption of W cul
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Politburo
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20 member Soviet Executive Party
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