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dawes plan |
an attempt in 1924 to solve the WW1 reparations problem, which had bedeviled international politics following WW1 & treaty of versailles |
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national government |
an abstract concept referring to a coalition of some or all major political parties |
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"general theory of employment, interest, and money" john maynard keynes |
largely credited with creating the terminology and shape of modern macroeconomics |
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weimar republic |
unofficial designation for the german state between 1919 and 1933 |
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german workers party |
the short lived predecessor of the nazi party |
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"beer hall putshc" |
a failed attempt to seize power in bovaria |
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locarno agreement |
seven agreements negotiated at locarno in which the ww1 allied powers and the new states central and eastern europe sought to secure the post war territorial settlement and return normalizing relations with defeated germany |
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kellogg brand pact |
renounced war, held no real value, official general treaty renunciation of war |
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nuremberg laws |
new laws which institutionalized many of the racial theories prevalent in nazi ideology, the laws excluded german views from reich citizenship and prohibited them from having sexual relations with "german related blood" |
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kapp putsch |
attempted coup which aimed to undo the german revolution of 1918, overthrow the weimar republic and establish a right-wing autocratic government in its place |
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enabling act |
a weimar constitution amendment that gave the german cabinet the power to enact laws without the involvement of the reichstag |
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brown shirts |
the SA have been known as the "brown shirts" from the color or their uniforms |
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kristallnacht |
synagouges set on fire and jewish homes/values confiscated; 2000-3000 imprisoned or killed |
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national socialist |
the product of over and social thought cultivated in germanic nations, popularized and first put into action by hitler |
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cheka |
bolsheviks secret police |
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war communism |
nationalized some of the largest industrial enterprises but lenin's ideals; left most control under worker committes, but had to find food so forced peasant to work/harvest food and rich seen as starver of the public |
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"peace, bread & land" |
popular bolshevik slogan taken up by the masses during the july days... succinctly articulated grievances of the russian peasantry, armed forces, and proletariat |
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new economic policy |
limited economic freedom in an attempt to rebuild agriculture and industry, attempted to be established by lenin |
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joseph stalin |
the leader of the soviet union from 1920-1953, general secretary of the central committee of the communist party, effeciently the dictator of the state |
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"socialism in one country" |
theory put forth by stalin and adopted by the soviet union as state policy |
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five year plan |
plans the stalin introduced to industrialize the soviet union rapidly beginning in 1928, they set goals for the output of steel, electricity, and were enforced by the police powers of the state |
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collectivization |
as an extension of the five year plan, stalin pursued a policy of destroying the culture of the peasant village and replacing it with one organized around huge collective farms, the peasants resisted and were killed, starved, or driven to siberia |
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benito mussolini |
leader of the national fascist party, ruled italy as prime minister |
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march on rome |
a march by which italian dictator benito mussolini's national fascist party came to power in italy, mussolini was greeted by victor emmanuel, quadrumvirs=4 top fascist leaders |
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black shirts |
the paramilitary wing of the national fascist party and an all volunteer militia of italy |
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lateran accord |
agreements made in 1929 between italy and the holy see, making catholicism the official religion |
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syndicates |
mussolini reorganized the italian government to bring workers and employers together to help bring an end to the political quarreling that was going on in the country labor vs management - work for nations productivity |
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corporate state |
mussolini's economic and political machinery to manage the italian economy and settle issues between labor and management |
