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Who got punished the most after World War I? |
Germany |
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What are reparations? |
War damage payments, the losing country had to pay for them. |
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By 1939, who were the only democratic countries left in Europe? |
Britain and France. |
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What does inflation mean? |
Prices go up, while the value of money goes down. |
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Why did the US not join the League of Nations?
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The US didn't want to get involved with EU affairs. They had already just gotten out of a war, and the people didn't want to get involved with another. |
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The Dawes Plan did what? |
US loaned Germany money so that they could pay off the reparations to France & Britain. |
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What country was the hardest on Germany? |
France m8 |
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Was President Hubert Hoover successful upon saving the Amreican economy? |
No, Pres. Hoover was NOT. |
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President Roosevelt made the what? What did it do? |
The New Deal. It created government projects so that they could create jobs for people. |
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President Roosevelt got what disease that made him handicapped? |
Polio |
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What is a tariff? |
Taxes on imports.
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Black Tuesday was when what happened? |
Stock Market crashed in October 1929. |
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What are three reasons why the stock market crashed? |
Panic selling, speculation and buying on margin. |
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What other reasons were there for a Great Depression? |
US Stock market crashed in which in term affected the world economy to be affected as well. |
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The FDIC does what? |
Ensures bank deposits, so that people are promised to get their money. |
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Who was Mussolini leader of? |
Italy |
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A fascist government does what? |
Glorifies the state, not so much the individual. |
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What's a republic? |
A republic is when people vote for leaders. |
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Propaganda is what? |
Persuasion. |
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Who was the leader of the Soviet Union? |
Joseph Stalin was the leader. |
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Who succeeded Lenin after his death? |
Joseph Stalin. |
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What saved the Soviet Union's economy when they switched to it? |
An old version of capitalism. |
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Where'd Hitler get his ideas of concentration camps from? |
Stalin himself. |
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Italy were angered after the Treaty of Versailles because why? |
Because they weren't given the land they were promised prior to the war. |
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Red refers to? |
Communists (commies) |
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Who supported the Spanish in the Spanish Civil War? |
Italy & Germany supported. |
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Where was Hitler born? |
Austria. |
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Did Hitler make the economy better? |
Yes. |
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What was the SS? |
Hitler's police force. |
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What are 3 causes of the Great Depression? |
Dustbowl, stock-market crashed and no insurance on bank deposits. |
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What are 3 developed programs that the New Deal created? |
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Civil Works Administration (CWA) and Federal Security Agency (FSA). |
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How did Mussolini, Stalin, and Hitler rule their countries? |
By using fear. |
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Was the League of Nations successful? |
No. |
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Since Germany couldn't pay off the reparations to France, what did France take over? |
The Ruhr Valley. |
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What type of government did Germany set up after WWI? Was it successful? |
A republic. No. |
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When did Britain's economy boom during this time? |
From 1925 to 1929. |
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What methods did Britain use to get themselves out of the Great Depression? |
Protective tariffs, and balanced budgets. |
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Who was John Maynard Keynes? |
A British economist who condemned the theory that in a free economy depressions should be left to fix themselves. |
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By 1939, what type of regimes began rising across Europe? |
Totalitarian regimes |
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What's a totalitarian state? |
When the government controls all aspects of citizens lives. It's when it's controlled by a single leader and a single party. |
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Who established fascism in Italy in 1920? |
Benito Mussolini. |
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Who was the Soviet Union formed under? |
Vladimir Lenin. |
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Lenin abandoned war communism in favor of what? |
The New Economy Policy. (aka, old capitalism boy.) |
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What year did Lenin die? |
1924. |
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What did Stalin want to transform Russia into? |
An individual country.
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What did Hitler believe in? |
Anti-semitism and social Darwinism. |
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How was Hitler able to rise to power? |
Because of the horrible German economy. |
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When was the Enabling Act passed and what did it do? |
In 1933, and it allowed the German constitution to be ignored. |
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What was the first extreme act Hitler made against the Jews?
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The Nuremberg laws. |
