Postwar Uncertainty
Freud psychology challenged Enlightenment's reason with the idea humans are controlled by
the unconscious mind
1929 US event that pushes the world into depression
"Black Tuesday", the Stock Market crash
Due to post-war, economic crisis, he marched the Blackshirts on rome and was named Prime Minister
Benito Mussolini
First military invasion of WWII
Japan invades Manchuria
Who did Hitler blame for Germany's economic crisis?
the Jews
New form or art depicting life in a "dreamlike" state
Surrealism
New Democratic govts formed these to create majorities
Coalition Governments
Pre-war Fascism was similar to totalitarianism, except for what key factor
a Supreme Leader
Hitler's first military move
the Invasion of the Rhineland
Who did Germany blame for their embarrassment due to Treaty of Versailles
Weimar Republic
the philosophy that life is meaningless
Existentialism
The Government that printed money & sent Germany into hyperinflation
Weimar Republic
Mussolini's rise to power inspired whom, to fashion their own rise to power similarly
Adolf Hitler
Britain and France took what diplomatic approach toward Germany?
Appeasement. Giving the aggressor what they want in an attempt to stop any further aggression
Pres. Franklin Roosevelt named his public works & assistance program
the New Deal
women who changed fashion, smoked & drank in public, and worked for a living
"Flappers"
Environmental/Agricultural crisis that coincided with the Great Depression in the U.S.
The Dust Bowl
In Hitler's Mein Kampf, he wrote of the German need for lebensraum, called ______ ____in English language)
living space
Italy and Germany test their new equipment & techniques in
the spanish civil war 1933-36
Why did Britain & france use appeasement w/ Hitler?
Didn't want to start WWII
Einstein's Theory of relativity claimed when traveling at the speed of light
Space & time could change
Private American banks helped stabilize Germany's currency under the
Dawes Plan
Kristallnacht
The Night of the Broken Glass
After the invasion of Czechoslovakia, what major, diplomatic move, emboldens Hitler
the Non-Aggression Pact w/ the Soviet Union
What name did Hitler take meaning the Leader
der Fuhrer