What event marked the beginning of the interwar period?
What is "The end of WWI".
What was a newly popular place to go in the 1920s for entertainment?
Cinema / movie theater
What year did the Wall Street Crash occur, triggering the Great Depression?
1929
USA's Representative at the Treaty:
Woodrow Wilson
(President 1913 – 1921)
Match to Countries:
Tojo/Stalin/Mussolini/Hitler
Japan/Soviet Union/Italy/Germany
Name the four major political ideologies of the interwar period?
Fascism, Communism, Liberalism, and Democracy
Name the global organization established after WW1 to maintain peace and security?
The League of Nations
Germany's economy experienced this around 1923 as a result of war reparations:
Hyperinflation
What cultural changes defined the Roaring Twenties?
Jazz, flapper culture, cinema, and consumerism.
The "new woman" of the 20s who had short hair, short skirts, and drank alcohol:
"Flapper"
What were the primary causes of the Great Depression?
Stock market crash, bank failures, reduction in purchasing power, and overproduction
Where was the treaty signed?
"The Hall of Mirrors"
Japan's Emperor
1926 to 1989
Michi Hirohito (29/04/1901 -07/01/1989)
A government characterized by extreme nationalism, totalitarianism, a one-party state, and violence:
Fascism
What was it's primary goal?
To prevent future wars through collective security and diplomacy
Event on 8–9/11/1923 resulting in Hitler's arrest and imprisonment
Beer Hall Putsch
List 3 things that were invented in the 1920's:
Refrigerators, washing machines, radios, television, instant camera, jukebox, electric razors, irons , and vacuum cleaners.
What financial market had a boom during the Roaring Twenties?
The Stock Market
What is a "stock?"
Ownership of 1 piece of a company
When was the treaty signed?
June 28, 1919
What did Japan do on 18th September, 1931?
Invaded Manchuria, Chiina
Radical leftist ideology in which "The State"/ The Government owns all means of production
Communism
Ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states.
sovereignty
How did Hitler come to power?
Germany's President appointed Hitler as Chancellor on 30/01/1933
Illegal, secret bars owned and operated by criminal gangs:
Speakeasies
How did communication change during this time?
Telephone lines sprawled across cities, creating instant communication, revolutionising personal and business interaction.
Term used for borrowing money to purchase stock?
Margin/Margin Trading
Payment for war damages
Reparations
Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during the interwar years?
Joeseph Stalin (03/04/1922 – 16/10/1952)
Believing governments should support citizens through more intervention and regulation
Liberalism
The concept that each nationality/ethnic group should be able to govern themselves:
Self-Determination
Authoritarian, nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization
Fascism
Al Capone was eventually arrested for this crime:
tax evasion
Formal name given to USA banning sale/consumption or posssession of alcohol:
Prohibition
Term for large-scale mass money withdrawals from many banks:
"Bank Run" or "Bank Panic"
German Army size limit after the Treaty?
Restricted to 100,000 men
How many people died during Stalin's "Great Purge" of 1937?
Officially 681,692 executed, 116,00 prison deaths.
Estimated 700k - 1.2m
A political system with mostly private ownership but extensive government control
Social Democracy
A region movement that is trying to gain political independence / become its own country:
Independence movement
Hitler's justification for Germany's expansionism:
Restoring economic prosperity by recovering lost territory and reuniting divided German peoples
How many Americans had a car by 1929: 1/_?
1 in 5
A racist organization committing hate crimes in the USA:
Ku Klux Klan
Major global consequences of the Great Depression?
Economic downturn, political instability, and social unrest.
7 New nations were formed by the Treaty - name 3:
F, E, L.
Finland, Estonia, Latvia,
What made Mussolini rethink his political views?
Getting injured during army service during WW1
Believing in little to no government involvement in day-to-day life or business
Libertarians
Name one of it's major weaknesses:
Lack of enforcement power
British and French strategy towards Germany that led to Hitler's expansion?
Appeasement
US Men's fashion in the twenties was influenced by this sport.
Golf.
First man to fly Britain to USA solo:
Charles Lindbergh
What causes a stock market crash?
Everyone trying to sell stocks at the same time.
Britain and France's Prime Ministers attended the Treaty - name both:
David Lloyd George and
George Clemenceau
What country did Mussolini's Italy invade in 1935?
Ethopia
A political system with private ownership and some government control
Regulated Capitalism
Name another major weakness:
Absence of key countries - ie USA
Event overnight of 9–10 Nov. 1938 marking escalating violence against German Jews
"Kristallnacht" - the Night of Broken Glass
The Harlem Renaissance was a literary/artistic movement involving...
African Americans
Name a good strategy to avoid/reduce the impact of an economic depression:
1 - Build infrastructure
2 - Create employment
7 new nations were formed by the Treaty - name 4:
L, P, C, Y.
Lithuania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia
The Fascist Leader of Spain
Francisco "Caudillo - Head" Franco
(1939 – 20/11/1975)
Central, dictatorial system requiring complete subservience to the government
Totalitarianism
Name two countries that withdrew from the League of Nations?
Japan
Germany
Event on 01/09/1939 that started World War II
the German invasion of Poland