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35 Cards in this Set
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Land Reform
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The process of redistributing land employed by many new and developing countries after 1914
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Spartacists
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Revolutionary group in Germany that attempted to create a Communist dictatorship but were put down by
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Spartacus Week
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The week of revolt leads by Spartacists the widened gap between Social democrats and Communists.
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Weimar Republic
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The republic created in Germany in July 1919.
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Kapp Pusch
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Armed revolt lead by Dr. Kapp in an attempt to disband the government and establish a new leadership.
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Diktat
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A vengeful,dictated peace. This is what the Treaty of Versailles was considered by the Germans.
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Treaty of Rapallo
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Agreement in 1922 between Germany and the Soviet Union that the Soviet Union would receive goods from Germany, thus giving German goods another market.
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Ruhr Valley
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Industrial valley occupied by French troops.
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Dawes Plan
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Instituted with help from American government to ensure flow of reparations to France.
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Treaties at Locarno
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Highest point of international goodwill during interwar period. Germany agrees to respect borders, or change only through negotiation.
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Little Entente
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Alliance of Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, and Romania which was supported by France.
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Pact of Paris
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Great Powers condemn recourse to war for the solution of international controversies.
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Imperialism
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The affairs of a country are conducted for the benefit of foreigners.
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Absentee Capitalism
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The Docks of factories on which the natives work are owned by Europeans, thousands of miles away, who are only interested in the regular flow of profits.
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Young Turks
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Group which stages a revolution in Constantinople.
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Sun Yat-Sen
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Leader of the revolt that overthrew the Qing dynasty in 1911 and proclaimed the Chinese republic.
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Congress of Oppressed Eastern Peoples
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Congress held at Baku in September 1920 led by Zinoviev, leader of Communist International. He calls for war on British capitalism.
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Mustapha Kemal
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Leader of Turkish National Resistance that drives out Italian and French occupiers, and promulgates Turkish Republic in 1923.
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Reza Khan
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Persian army officer who overthrew the Qajar dynasty and became shah in 1925.In 1935, country changed name to Iran.
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Gandhi
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Leader of nonviolent resistance to British rule in India.
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General Yuan Shih-Kai
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Leader of military dictatorship in China after overthrow of the Qing Dynasty.
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Guomindang
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National Peoples Party of China
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"The Three Peoples Principles"
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Book written by Dr. Sun Yat-Sen in which 3 principles were democracy, nationalism, and livelihood.
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Treaty system
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System that bound China to outside interests.
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Fourth May Movement
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Student protests against Western powers on May 4th, 1919.
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Chinese Red Army
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Army for the Communist Party in China
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Mao Zedong
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Leader of Chinese Communist Party.
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Buying on margin
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Buying stock with borrowed money expecting stock to increase in value, in order to repay debt.
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Economic Nationalism
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Movement after Great Depression towards isolation and economic self-sufficiency
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Bilateral trade
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Trade between 2 countries
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Currency control
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A way to keep factories in production by capturing export markets.
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Harley-Smoot tariff
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Enacted 1930 by US, led to a further decline in international trade
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Ottawa Agreement
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Agreement that lowers tariffs within British Commonwealth and increases tariffs with outside countries in 1932
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Realist Literature
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Literature that writes about everyday concerns in contrast to modernist art
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Grapes of Wrath
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Novel by John Steinbeck about miseries of displaced farmers in US Dust Bowl
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