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Chapter 28
The West Between the Wars
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a period of low economic activity and unemployment | depression |
| a government that tries to control all aspects of its citizens' lives | totalitarian state |
| a political system that puts the state above all else, has a strong leader, strong sense of nationalism, and glorifies the military | fascism |
| a system in which private farms are turned into large agricultural estates owned by the government | collectivization |
| a shortened form for the German National Socialist Workers' party or a member of that party | Nazi |
| a place where prisoners of war, political prisoners, or members of minority groups are confined under harsh conditions | concentration camps |
| a term misused by the Nazis to identify Germans, Scandinavians, ancient Romans, and Greeks as the "pure" race | Aryan |
| this organization was created within the Treaty of Versailles but the U.S. failed to join | League of Nations |
| the Treaty of Versailles forced this country to pay reparations for World War I, leading to a depression there | Germany |
| after World War I, this nation experienced about a decade of prosperity | the United States |
| overproduction in this area helped lead to the depression | agriculture |
| the severe global economic troubles of the 1930s became known as this | the Great Depression |
| this event marked the beginning of the Great Depression in the U.S. | stock market crash |
| the American stock market crashed in this year | 1929 |
| because the Weimar Republic in Germany printed more money to try to ease its economic troubles, this occurred | massive inflation |
| Franklin Delano Roosevelt began this series of economic and social reform programs to try to ease the Great Depression | the New Deal |
| because of the Great Depression, governments around the world became more involved in this | the economy |
| this man became the dictator of Italy in 1922 | Benito Mussolini |
| Benito Mussolini instituted this type of government | fascist |
| this man was the dictator of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924 | Vladimir Lenin |
| this man was the dictator of the Soviet Union from the late 1920s until 1953 | Joseph Stalin |
| Lenin instituted this plan, which allowed for some aspects of a market economy | New Economic Policy (NEP) |
| Stalin instituted this plan, which called for rapid industrialization in the Soviet Union | 5-Year Plan |
| during this time, Stalin killed or imprisoned anyone who he feared or who spoke against him | the Great Purge |
| between 1920 and 1922 and between 1932 and 1933, this occurred in the Soviet Union, which killed as many as 15 million people | famine |
| during the civil war in Russia, Lenin ordered this policy to be followed, in which the government controlled most industries and took grain for soldiers | war communism |
| this occurred in Spain between 1936 and 1939 | civil war |
| he ruled Spain as the dictator from 1936 until his death in 1975 | Francisco Franco |
| who was the leader of the Nazi Party | Adolf Hitler |
| Adolf Hitler became the leader of Germany in this year | 1933 |
| Hitler was called this title by the German people | fuhrer |
| these people were the main target of Hitler's attempt to purify Germany of "inferior" races | Jews |
| this organization was the secret police force of Nazi Germany and Hitler's bodyguard | the SS |
| Hitler gained power of the German government in this way | legally, through the Reichstag (German parliament) |
| Hitler solved this problem through public works projects, grants to private companies, and a massive military buildup | unemployment |
| this term means hatred of or prejudice against Jews | anti-Semitism |
| this night on November 9, 1938 marked a new violent stage in anti-Jewish policy in Germany | Kristallnacht |
| these two countries supported Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War | Italy and Germany |
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