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- Herbert Hoover
- President of U.S. when great depresstion hit, blamed for diaster
- bureaucracy
- non-elected government officals who handle government affairs
- surrealism
- dreamlike, distorted
- cubism
- use of geometric shapes to show abstract structure of objects, not their surface appearance
- atonal music
- discordant and strange sounds
- jazz
- a new form of music started in America which emphasized experimentation, appealed to the young
- boom
- sudden increase in prosperity
- dekulakization
- killing/deporting all peasants who disagreed with Stalin
- collectivization
- abolish privately owned farms, force farmers to give up property and work on govt. owned farms with quotas
- nationalize
- come under govt. control or ownership
- Maginot line
- defenses and fortifications protecting French from Germany
- Hitler
- Fuhrer; led Nazi party
- Mussolini
- il Dulce - Italian leader during WWII; facist
- gestapo
- secret police Germany
- militarism
- glorification of war in hopes of conquering other countries
- Grynszpan
- Jew who shot von Rath (German ambassador to France's secretary)
- Great Train Robbery
- first film with a story; produced by Thomas Edison's company
- Metropolis
- movie reflected man's fear of machines taking over jobs, humanity
- economic boom and when
- period directly following WWI; experienced sudden prosperity
- 3 results of boom
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1. consumers were tired of wartime restrictions/rations
increased demand for products
2. veterans found jobs at companies trying to keep up with demands for goods
3. inflation started to cause problem as wages remain same while costs go up - How did inflation cause problems?
- Wages were the same, costs when up
- economic nationalism
- nations try to improve their economy creating tariffs against foreign goods
- Great Depression (thought) date, where, results
- Oct 29,1929; NY stock exchange crashed; ended market speculation; prices dropped to all time low, unemployment very high; spread to the whole world
- difference between 2 parts of Ireland
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Northern - Prostetant, stayed in British Empire
Republic of Ireland - Catholic, became independent - N.E.P.
- Lenin's New Economic Policy allowed free enterprise, private property and gave land to peasants
- What did Lenin do?
- first dictator of USSR who strove to build a new society
- communism vs. facism (thought)
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facism - dictatorship of the state over many classes cooperating; seeks to preserve social classes, private property, and appeals to middle class who dislike communism
communism - seeks revolution of all workers and promises a classless society with no private property - aggressive nationalism
- believing one's country is better than all others
- two titles for leader
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Fuhrer - German
il Dulce - Italian - Why called krystallnacht
- "night of broken glass" - Nov 10, 1938 cities throughout Germany, destruction of Jewish owned businesses
- 2 ways Nazis destroyed property
- used pipes to shatter glass windows, burned buildings
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4 steps of facist takeover; give example of step #l
(Essay) -
1. wannabe dictators find out what people fear/hate and play on those emotions to gain support
2. promise to restore glory and power to the nation
3. dictator take power & destroy democrary
4. dictator takes on title and tries to expand borders
Example: Italian middle class feared communist proletariat revolution - Use post WWI France to examplify lesson of history: economic problems often lead to political problems
- Germans refused to pay reparations; conservative govt falls to general strike by workers. "Popular Front" (socialists took control); banks, weapons production came under govt control