Great
Depression
Depression
Prior the Great Depression, the overproduction of goods caused this to happen to prices.
What is decrease? This is called deflation.
FDR declared this kind of "holiday" in 1933, hoping to alleviate fear and reestablish confidence among the American people.
What is a "banking" holiday?
What is the Catholic Church?
After defeating him in the 1936 Presidential election, this Paul von Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler to this position within the German government.
What is chancellor?
This was the purpose of the Nuremberg Laws.
Buying on the margin was an important cause of the Great Depression. Define this practice.
What is buying stocks with borrowed money?
These are the three R's of the New Deal.
What are relief, recovery, and reform?
These are the characteristics of fascism. (List at least three that are different from one another)
What are dictatorship, forced loyalty to state, militarism, hatred of socialism and communism, and economic independence?
Japan's defeat of this nation in 1905 propelled the nation forward towards militarism and totalitarianism.
What is Russia?
In 1938, Germany annexes this territory and forms an Anschluss, which directly violated the Treaty of Versailles.
This is how much prices and GDP fell during the Great Depression.
What is 30%?
The National Recovery Administration asked member businesses to do these two things.
What are (1) keep prices low and (2) keep wages high?
Germany and Italy supported this military dictator during the Spanish Civil War.
Who is Francisco Franco?
This defines the role of the Weimar Republic.
What is Germany’s attempt at a democratic form of government following its defeat in World War I?
At the Munich Conference, Hitler's desire to have the Sudetenland was discussed. This describes what the Sudetenland was.
What is the German cultured and speaking part of Czechoslovakia?
This plan allowed the United States to lend money to Germany who had defaulted on its reparation payments to Britain and France.
What is the Dawes Plan?
What is to insure bank deposits?
This term was used to describe the successful military coup by Mussolini and his Black Shirt army.
What is the March on Rome?
This general term describes the economic progress goals set by Joseph Stalin that were measured by agricultural and industrial production.
What are Five-Year Plans?
This term describes giving in to a dictator's demands in order to avoid war. This is what happened at the Munich Conference.
What is appeasement?
An economic conference took place in this city in 1933. The goal was to formulate policy that might help avoid another economic crisis.
What is London?
These two groups were the most critical of FDR's New Deal policies.
Who are Republicans and Socialists?
This is the type of government Spain established after a vote to end the monarchy. This was before the Spanish Civil War broke out.
What is a republic?
This explains the events related to the "May 15th" incident in Japan.
What is extremists in Japan's navy assassinate the Japanese prime minister?
This British politician criticized the agreements made at the Munich Conference.
Who is Winston Churchill?