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The Great Depression
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World wide economic depression following WWI, began with collapse of American stock market in 1929. Actual causes were collapse of banking houses and massive unemployment.
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Protectionism
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Construction of tariff barriers to protect industries. Practiced by western nations who negnected facilitating balanced world economic growth. Reduced market opportunities and made a bad situation worse.
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Socialism in one country
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Stalin's concept of communism based solely on the soviet unio0n rather than Lenin's idea of an international revolution. This caused the soviet union to avoid the depression.
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Popular Front
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Combination of soicalist and comunist political parties in France; won election in 1936; unable to take strong measures of social reform becuase of continuing strenght of conservatives, fell from power in 1938.
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Facism
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Took hold under Mussolini in Italy, a political philosophy that attacked the weakness of democracy and corruption of capitalism. Promised vigorous foriegn and military programs and undertook state control of economy to reduce social friciton.
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Benito Mussolini
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Italian facist leader after WWI; created 1st facist government based on agressive foriegn policy and new nationalist glories.
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Adolf Hitler
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Nazi leader of fascist Germany (1933-1945). Created a strongly centralized state; eliminated all rivals; launched Germany on agressive foriegn policy leading to WWII, responsible for the Holocaust.
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New Deal
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Roosevelt's programs (1933) to combat the depression; enacted a number of social insurance measures and used government spending to stimulate the economy; created the social security system, public works projects and regulations on banking.
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Totalitarian State
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Massive direct control over virtually all of the activities of its subjects. Existed in Germany, Italy, and the Soviet Union.
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Gestapo
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Hitler's secret police, known for brutal tactics.
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Anschluss
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Under Hitler, union of Germany with the German speaking part of Austria in 1938, despite complaints of other European nations for it went against the Treaty of Versailles.
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Joseph Stalin
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Took control of the USSR when Lenin died; represented anti-western strain of Russian tradion; crushed opposition to his rule. Created collectivization program and fiver year plans to replace the NEP.
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Collectivization
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(Stalin) Creation of large, state-run farms (1928) - allowed more efficient control over peasants but lowered food production.
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Kulaks
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Wealthy, comercially oriented and land owning peasants, who were particullarly attuned to a profit base market agriculture.
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Five-Year Plans
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Stalin's plans to hasten industrialization constructed massive factories in metallurgy, mining and electric power, led to massive state-planned industrialization at cost of availability of ocnsumer products.
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