The Great Depression
The percentage of people who were unemployed at the height of the Great Depression.
What is 25%?
Born in Georgia (part of the Russian Empire) in 1878. Rose through Communist Party ranks after the Russian Revolution. Became Soviet leader after Lenin's death
Who is Joseph Stalin?
A nationwide ban on the production, sale, and transportation of alcohol (1920–1933)
Hitler was appointed this in 1933.
What is the Chancellor?
Germany signed a Nonaggression Pact with the Soviet Union in August 1939 before invading this country.
What is Poland?
a general increase in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money
What is Inflation?
Established nine new nations, banned Germany from having an army, and required Germany to sign a war guilt clause.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
A rebellious woman who wanted to drink, smoke, and have a good time
What is a Flapper?
Hostility toward or prejudice against Jews.
What is Anti-Semitism?
In March of 1938, the German army rolled into this country without opposition and annexed it.
What is Austria?
Arrangement where purchaser borrows money from lender and agrees to pay it back over time.
What is Credit?
This person established the first Fascist dictatorship in Europe.
Who is Benito Mussolini?
A literary and artistic movement celebrating Black culture that started in Harlem, NYC.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Eliminated citizenship, civil, and property rights for Jews in Germany.
What are the Nuremberg Laws?
Japanese troops captured the city, went on a rampage, killing Chinese soldiers and civilians alike.
What is the Nanjing Massacre?
The name of the day that 16 million shares of stock were sold, causing stock prices to collapse.
What is Black Tuesday?
A series of ambitious economic programs starting in 1928, aiming to rapidly transform the Soviet Union from a backward agrarian nation into a modern industrial superpower
What is a Five-Year Plan?
hidden saloons and nightclubs, offered the Urban population the activities they desired
What is a Speakeasy?
The country where Hitler was born.
What is Austria?
The first step in Hitler's aggressive expansionist policy was to reoccupy this territory (land between France and Germany) with troops on March 7, 1936.
What is the Rhineland?
This Act placed heavy taxes (tariffs) on imported goods.
What is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act?
Governments that maintain complete control over their citizens.
What is a Totalitarian Government?
A group of writers and artists disillusioned by World War I and modern society.
What is the Lost Generation?
The government in Germany that was in power before the Nazis.
What is the Weimar Republic?
Giving up principles to pacify an aggressor.
What is appeasement?