Interwar Years 1
What is a successor state?
A country/state created from the fall of an empire
What was the League of Nations?
One of President Wilson's 14 points, was a council built to eliminate war between the nations.
What was the Great Depression?
The stock market crash in America: led to an economic shock around the world.
Who was part of the Little Entente?
Romania, Poland, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia
What was the name of the Japanese puppet state established in China?
Manchukuo
What area of German territory did the French occupy and why?
The Ruhr. The French occupied that area because Germany wasn't able to pay the promised repercussions.
What was Serbia known as after it engulfed its neighbors?
Yugoslavia
A treaty signed between the Soviet Union and Germany. It renounced all territorial & financial claims against each other as well as opened friendly diplomatic relations. Most importantly, it allowed Germany to train its troops with heavy weapons.
What report said that Japan was the aggressor in China?
The Lytton Report.
What was the Munich Putsch (1923)?
Big H was convicted of high treason after leading a coalition with his political party to overthrow the German government. He was sentenced to 5 years in prison.
What act gave Big H the power to become a dictator?
Enabling Act (1933)
What was the "Night of Long Knives"?
The night when all of Big H's political rivals were purged.
What pact outlawed war between Germany, France, & the U.S.?
The Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928).
True or False: The Pact of Rome was an agreement between Italy & the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, & Solvenes that annexed the Province of Fermo to Italy
False
What was the name given to the German republic from 1919-1933?
The Weimar Republic
Why was the Weimar Government so unpopular?
They were unpopular because they signed the Treaty of Versailles and failed to handle the economic crisis in Germany.
You work in a coffee shop that uses old coffee machines. A government official comes and buys you newer coffee machines. What political ideology is this an example of?
Liberallism
In what treaty was Italy promised territorial concessions?
Treaty of London
When did the Spanish Civil War begin?
1936
When did Big H come to power?
January 30th, 1933
1922. A threatened march on Rome by his supporters.
What is the term that best describes the U.S. foreign policy direction after 1919?
Isolationism
What side of the political spectrum is socialism on?
Left
When was the Treaty of Riga and what was it?
1921. It ended the Russo-Polish War of 1919-20 and set their mutual border.
What is a diktat?
An order imposed by someone in power without popular consent.