Throughout the 1920s the stock market grew so much that investors pursued ever more risky ways of buying stock using credit. This practice is referred to as:
Market speculation
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How did WWI change African attitudes towards colonialism?
They recognized the need for equality and independence, something colonialism kept from them
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What is one of the main differences between Fascism and Communism?
Fascists believe in private ownership while Communists believe in government ownership
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What was the Anschluss
The uniting of Germany and Austria
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Fascist leader of Italy
Benito Mussolini
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Afraid that their products wouldn’t sell, many countries put tariffs on foreign goods. This strategy is called:
Protectionism
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What kind of relationship did Latin America have with the United States?
Neutral, though the United States protected its interests such as the Panama Canal
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What role did nationalism play in bringing totalitarian leaders to power after WWI?
People were upset after WWI and wanted a strong leader who could bring glory to their country
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Why did Germany want to take the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia?
Millions of ethnic Germans lived in the area along with useful factories and banks
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Prime Minister of England
Winston Churchill
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After WWI many factories used advances in technology to create household goods that improved life for people all around the world. The rush to purchase these material goods is called:
Consumerism
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Ghandi led the people of India to independence using this tactic
Non-violent resistance or Passive Protest
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Why did Japan feel the need to be imperialistic?
Japan recognized that they could either be the victims of perpetrators of imperialism. They also needed resources such as coal, iron, and oil to maintain their industrial war machine.
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In an effort to demoralize residents, Hitler focused bombings on this city
London
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Fascist leader of Germany
Adolf Hitler
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How was loss of faith in the Enlightenment exemplified through art and music?
Form and structure became less important which demonstrated their confusion and search for meaning. The unstructured flow and rhythm of Jazz is an example of this new approach
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A famous jazz musician and trumpeter nicknamed “Satchmo”
Louis Armstrong
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Why did Japan bomb Pearl Harbor?
It was an attempt to pull the U.S. out of the Philippines so that Japan could control the Pacific
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Often referred to as the “Final Solution” we call this horrific event The
Holocaust
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President of the United States
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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In what way did WWI cause people to lose faith in the Enlightenment
War caused them to lose faith in the idea that humans were always progressing and getting better
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This pandemic event in 1918 killed 20 million people worldwide
Spanish Flu
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The Battle of Midway Island is an example of a strategy called “island hopping” in which
The United States skipped islands in order to preserve US resources while cutting off access to needed resources to the Japanese who remained on the skipped over islands
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Operation Overlord, also known as D-Day was the code name for which event?
It was the invasion of mainland Europe through the beaches of Normandy in France