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73 Cards in this Set
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What are the years 1920 - 1929 called in the USA? |
the roaring twenties |
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Which amendment gives the right to vote to women? |
19 |
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When did the Wall Street stock house crash? |
October 1929 |
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Who created the New Deal? |
Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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What was Mussolini's party? |
the National Fascist Party |
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By which event did Mussolini gain power? |
the March on Rome |
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What was the structure of the League of Nations? |
Assembly: each state had one vote, three representatives Council: permanent members - Fr, GB, It, Japan + non-permanent members Secretary: the administrative branch, the head - Sir Eric Drummond |
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What can you tell about the constitution of Czechoslovakia? |
established on 29. 2. 1920, followed the USA constitution |
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What are some examples of totalitarian countries? |
Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain |
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Who led the Ministry of the full power to administer Slovakia? |
Vavro Šrobár in BA |
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What was called "about us without us"? |
Munich Agreement |
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After what event was Hitler arrested? |
Munich Beer Hall Putsch |
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What was the first university in Slovakia after 1918? |
Czechoslovak State University in BA (medicine, law, science, philosophy), in 1919 |
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Who was Ľudovít Fulla? |
a cubistic painter from Ružomberok, one of the most famous artists in Slovakia |
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Who was Leon Trockij? |
Lenin's right hand who was supposed to become the leader of the USSR after his death, Stalin forced him out of the country and later killed him |
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Who were presidents of Czechoslovakia between 1918 - 1939? |
Masaryk, Beneš, Hácha |
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Who made the financial reform in Czechoslovakia? |
Rašin |
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Which ghost town were in Czechoslovakia? |
Tisovec, Krompachy, Podbrezová |
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What was Hitler's political party? |
NSDAP (National Socialist Worker's Party) |
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Which amendment in the USA constitution prohibits alcohol? |
18 |
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What was the purpose and aim of the League of Nations? |
to preserve peace and solve conflicts between countries, administration of former colonies |
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When was the first meeting of the League of Nations? |
20. 1. 1920 |
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Why did the League of Nations fail? |
- the USA did not join the League - no army - lack of cooperation - loss of faith in the League - limited scope |
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What german area and when did it France occupy? |
Ruhr region, 1923 |
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Who were famous artists from France? |
Hemingway, Dali |
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What important thing happened in 1928 in GB? |
all adult citizens including women gained the right to vote |
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Who was an important figure of organised crime in the USA? |
Al Capone |
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Who was the minister of health and PE? |
Vavro Šrobár |
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What was the first Slovak movie? |
Jánošík |
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What were the sport societies in Czachoslovakia? |
Sokol, Orol |
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Who was the president of the USA in 1929 - 1933? |
Herbert Hoover |
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What did the New Deal do? |
strict regulation of the banks and stock market, get farmers to produce less crops - to rise their price, public work - to create job positions, pensions and unemployment insurance |
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Where was the headquarter of the League of Nations? |
Switzerland, Geneva, The Palace of Nations |
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What problems did the League of Nations solve? |
- end and prevent conflicts - original idea from Wilson’s 14 points - administration of former colonies of defeated countries - dealing with refugees - persuaded Yugoslavia to withdraw troops from Albania - Finland - Sweden conflict - helped revive the world economy, improve working conditions |
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Who was the totalitarian leader in Japan? |
Hirohito |
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What were the symbols of fascisim? |
Fasces, an eagle clutching fasces |
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Who was the leader of SS? |
Himmler |
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Hitler became the chancellor |
30. 1. 1933 |
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The Night of Long Knives |
30. 6. 1934 |
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Nuremberg laws |
1935 |
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Kristallnacht |
9. - 10. 11. 1938 |
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Who were Kulaks? |
rich independent farmers, forced to leave their homes |
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What are gulags? |
working camps |
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Anti-aggression Pact |
Molotov - Ribbentrop, cooperation of USSR and Germany |
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When does the USSR end? |
1991 |
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When did Carpathian Ruthenia join CSR? |
1919 |
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Who represented us in Paris? |
Beneš, Bláha, Devečková-Turcerová |
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Where was the Temporary government, when and who was there? |
Skalica, 4. 11. 1918, Šrobár, Dérer, Blaho, Štefánek |
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Who was the leader of the Revolutionary National Comittee? |
Kramár, in Prague |
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What was the Little Entente? |
Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Romania - they made this agreement to prevent becoming a part of a monarchy again |
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Which factories had to be closed in Czechoslovakia? |
Lučenec - agricultural machines production Tisovec - production of steel, iron ore |
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Which factories had very rich tradition? |
Škoda, Baťa, Becher |
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Which factories were important? |
Liptovský Mikuláš - leather Púchov and Trenčín - clothes |
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What did the finantial reform do? |
working time 8 hour, guaranty of money for unemployed people |
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land reform |
215/1919 |
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Who was the first Slovak actress? |
Anička Jurkovičová |
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What was Umelecká beseda and who were its members? |
society of artists, Krasko, Rázusz, Smrek, Urban, Hronský, Podjavorinská |
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Who were famous music composers in CSR? |
Cikker, Suchoň |
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When and by whom was the Matica Slovenská reopened? |
1. 1. 1919, Škultéty |
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What can you tell about the Vienna Award? |
1st - 2.11. 1938 southern part of Slovakia went to Hungary, 2nd - 30. 8. 1940 Transylvania to Hungary |
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What can you tell about the Munich agreement? |
29. 9. 1938, about us without us, CZK lost Sudetenland and Silesian |
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Discuss the Slovak Question |
- 25.-26. 6. 1932 - A meeting of young people/intelligence in Turčianske Teplice, where they discussed economical, political and social questions - They didn’t agree on centrialism but autonomy = federation - But they still wanted to be one state with Czechs - 10/1932 Zvolen, HSPP (Hlinka, Mach, Tuka) and SNP (Rázus) |
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What was the block of autonomy? |
politicians who were for autonomy SNP (Lutherans), SPP (Cathilics) |
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Why was ceremony of Pribina important? |
1933- Slovaks protest and want of autonomy |
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Who were the main representatives of the Hlinka's Slovak People’s Party? |
Hlinka, Tuka, Mach |
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Agrarian Party |
Švehla, Hodža, Beran |
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Slovak National Party |
Rázus, Tajovský, Šrobár, Hodža |
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Milan Hodža |
prime minister - 1935 the 1st slovak to by a PM of CS |
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Andrej Hlinka |
- went to Paris in September 1919 - wanted Czechoslovakia to fall apart and Slovaks to become s part of new Hungary - travelled using a fake name Jozef Berger with his companion František Jehlička - They both wanted autonomy for Slovakia and they sympathised with fascism |
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Who was the leader of german propaganda? |
Goebbels |
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What was the symbol of nazism? |
swastika |
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What was the aim of the land reform? |
redistribution of land among the smaller farmers |
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What were other first universities in SVK? |
1922 Small School - law 1937 Technical university in KE |
