Key Vocabulary
Key People
Politics as Usual
The Great Depression
Pot Luck
100
Governments going into debt.
What is deficit spending?
100
Instigator of WWII when he expanded territory in Europe in Austria, the Sudentenland, Czechoslovakia, and Poland.
Who is Adolf Hitler?
100
This treaty harshly punished Germany at the end of WWI.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
100
France's New Deal.
What is the Popular Front?
100
A night of terror for German Jews when synagogues were burned and businessess vandalized with the approval of Hitler's government.
What is Kristallnacht?
200
A payment charged against Germany at the end of WWI that was extremely harsh.
What are reparations?
200
A ruler who established the first European fascist movement in Italy.
Who is Benito Mussolini?
200
Excluded Jews from German citizenship.
What is the Nuremburg Laws?
200
Published the General Theory of Employment ,Interest, and Money
Who is John Maynard Keynes?
200
These laws forced Jews to wear the "Star of David" and separated them from society.
What are the Nuremberg Laws?
300
The German Parliament.
What is the Reichstag?
300
He led a revolt in Spain against the democratic government.
Who is General Fransico Franco?
300
Americans practiced this foreign policy after WWI and throughout the 1930's.
What is isolationism?
300
A system of old age pensions and unemployment insurance.
What is Social Security?
300
An art movement sought a reality beyond the material world and found it in the world of the unconscious.
What is surrealism?
400
A plan to immediately industrialize Russia after the revolution that led to great turbulence and economic hardship along with the collectivization of farming.
What is the Five Year Plan?
400
Favored the NEP (New Economic Plan).
Who is Lenin?
400
Directed Hitler's Secret Police
Who is Heinrich Himmler?
400
He pursued a policy of active government intervention in the economy known as New Deal.
Who is Franklin Roosevelt?
400
Physicist who explained an observation called the uncertainty principle.
Who is Werner Heisenberg?
500
A government that attempts to control the economic, political, social, and cultural lives of citizens with power in the hands of one strong charismatic ruler.
What is totalitarian?
500
Wrote Mein Kampf.
Who is Adolf Hitler?
500
This type of government embraces intense nationalism, government control of industrial production, holds huge rallies, uses censorship to stop opposition, supports youth programs, and uses propaganda and intimidation to subdue opposition.
What is fascism?
500
A major cause of the Great Depression.
What is the US stock market crash of 1929?
500
A system in which private farms were eliminated.
What is collectivization?
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