Art and Literature
Name for the artistic movement that sought to escape real life by taking inspiration from dreams.
What is surrealism?
This event in 1929 led to the collapse of economies around the world that had relied on the US.
What is the stock market crash?
This man founded the fascist party in Italy and marched on Rome in 1922.
Who is Benito Mussolini?
Germany's democratic government post-WWI that was responsible for many of their problems in the 1920s.
What is the Weimar Republic?
German word used to describe one of Hitler's goals for expanding Germany
What is lebensraum?
This word for a feeling of extreme disappointment came to explain how returning soldiers felt after WWI.
What is disillusionment?
This rose to 25% on average during the Great Depression.
What is unemployment?
This man promised to bring jobs to the German people, and formally denounced the Treaty of Versailles.
Who is Adolf Hitler?
Right-wing political philosophy that stresses extreme loyalty to the state and often has a dynamic leader in charge.
What is fascism?
Allowing Hitler to annex Austria and the Sudetenland are examples of this practice of trying to maintain peace
What is appeasement?
Name for a constant feeling of dread or worry about what is to come next.
What is anxiety?
When money decreases in value at an extremely fast rate.
What is hyperinflation?
Name of the British Prime Minister who attempted to appease Hitler in the late 1930s.
Who is Neville Chamberlain?
Name for the German brand of fascism
What is Nazism?
Name for the study of the mind that was popularized by Sigmund Freud
What is psychology?
Name for the philosophy that there is no universal meaning to life.
What is existentialism?
This country experienced serious economic problems in the early 1920s (before the global depression) because they printed money without raising taxes in order to pay back WWI reparations.
What is Germany?
Name of the American President who passed the New Deal in an attempt to fix problems caused by the Great Depression
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
This organization's main weaknesses included an inability to enforce its own policies.
What is the League of Nations?
In attempting to create an empire, this Pacific nation invaded China twice.
What is Japan?
Name for the generation of young men, many of whom fought in WWI, and then became authors writing about their experiences.
What is the Lost Generation?
Name for the plan where the US loaned money to Germany to help them repay reparations; it collapsed in 1929.
What is the Dawes Plan?
Name and country of the leader who gave a pleading speech to the League of Nations in 1936
Who is Haile Selassie and Ethiopia?
Many European countries formed ______________ governments as a way to preserve democracy and recover from WWI.
What is coalition?
Hitler tried to seize power in 1923 in Munich in this event.
What is the Beer Hall Putsch?