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Interwar Period
Question | Answer |
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Peace of Paris | 1919 series of treaties -Treaty of Versailles -Woodrow Wilsons Fourteen Points -League of Nations |
Treaty of Versailles | -weaken Germany -13% of their territory was given to France and Poland -Large war reperation -reduction of army, navy, and air force -loss of overseas colonies -Article 231 " German Aggression responsible for war |
League of Nations | -14th Point -International Organization for collective security -Arbitrate disputes between nations -Moniter World Labor Conditions -US refused to join -Excluded Germany and Russia |
Fourteen Points- National Self Determination | How Europe should look after war, Every nation should be independent |
Creation of Independent States in Eastern Europe (Poland) | reconstitution of independent state |
Creation of Independent States in Eastern Europe (Czechoslovakia) | United Czechs and Slovaks |
Creation of Independent States in Eastern Europe (Yugoslavia) | United Serbs, Bosnians, Croats, Slovienes, Macedonians |
Creation of Independent States in Eastern Europe (Albania, Romania, Bulgaria) | Independence Restored |
Creation of Independent States in Eastern Europe (Hungary) | Given independence, but greatly reduced in size |
Great Depression | US stockmarket crash of 1929 led to global economic catastrophe -Soaring unemployement -Bankruptcy of farms -Soaring Inflation -Population Decline -Scapegoating of Minorities _Government step into ease crisis |
Fascism in Italy | 1922 thru 1944 (Benito Mussolini: Prime Minister) -Black Shirts overturned parliment and violently suppress opposition -Promised efficient Utopia -Used Propoganda to build support |
Stalinism in the Soviet Union | 1928 thru 1953( Joseph Stalin) -Rapid, Forced Industrialization -Large cooperative farms controlled by government -Social Welfare -Terror -Propoganda |
Fascism in Germany | Nazism (Adolf Hitler) -National Socialist German Workers Party |
Rise of Nazism | Slowly build up support based on anti-semitism and promises to undo Versailles -Stimulated economy with public works -Shut down representative government, eliminated opposition "Brown Shirts" -Propaganda |
The Nazis in Power | Anti-Semetic Policies -1933: Jews excluded from education, business, government -1935: Jews banned from all proffessions -Aim was to create a racially pure Aryan nation (pure blood Germans) |
Nuremberg Laws | Jews denied citizenship |
Kristallnacht | 1938: thousands of Jews attacked and sent to concentration camps |
Lebensrawm | (living space)Hitlers desire to expand Germany |
Gestapo | Secret Police of Nazi Germany |
Munich Agreement | Sept 1938 -Hitler took Sedetanland |
Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact | -Agreed not to attack each other -Secret protocol divided Poland between them |