AP World History Chapter 30 Flashcards
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| 332461914 | Depression | serve economic downturn | |
| 332461915 | Inflation | economic condition characterized by a rise in the average price level | |
| 332461916 | Recession | a decline in the economy or slowing down | |
| 332461917 | Protectionism | the practice of a country raising tariffs in order to protect their own goods | |
| 332461918 | Popular Front | combination of socialists and communist political parties in France; won election in 1936; unable to take strong measures of social reform because of continuing strength of conservatives; fell from power in 1938 | |
| 332461919 | New Deal | President Roosevelt's precursor to the modern welfare state; programs to combat economic depression enacted a number of social insurance measures and used government spending to stimulate the economy | |
| 332461920 | Weimar Republic | Government in Germany after WWI when the Kaiser abdicates | |
| 332461921 | Beer Hall Putsh | nationalist attempt to over throw the government (Weimar Republic) Hitler was involved and sent to jail | |
| 332461922 | Mein Kampf | "My Struggle" book written by Hitler while he was in prison after Beer hall Putsh | |
| 332461923 | Master Race | Hitler's idea of a race of pure ayrans | |
| 332461924 | Nazi Youth | groups of youth who were taught Nazi ideas | |
| 332461925 | Hindenburg | was president of Germany just before Hitler came to power; he and Hitler shared power for a while | |
| 332461926 | NAZI | party under Hitler that came to power during chaos of Great Depression advocated authoritarian state under single leader, aggressive foreign policy to reverse humiliation of the Versailles treaty | |
| 332461927 | Kristallnacht | "Night of Broken Glass" night when Nazi soldiers destroyed Jewish businesses | |
| 332461928 | Anchluss | agreement between Austria and Germany that made Austria a part of Germany | |
| 332461929 | Spanish Civil War | war pitting authoritarian and military leaders in Spain against republicans and leftists between 1936 and 1939 royalists win | |
| 332461930 | Cardenas | President of Mexico who brought land reform, education reform and took over oil companies | |
| 332461931 | Vargas | Dictator in Brazil who set up a corportist state | |
| 332461932 | Peron | Dictator in Argentina who nationalized oil and railroads, repressed opponents, and raised workers salaries | |
| 332461933 | Tojo | military leader who will rule Japan | |
| 332461934 | 5 year plan | modernization plans that focused on heavy industry used by Stalin | |
| 332461935 | Collectivization | creation of large, state run farms rather than individual holdings allowed more efficient control over peasants though often lowered food production part of stalin's plan | |
| 332461936 | Corporatist State | strict government control of the economy | |
| 332461937 | MVD | Russian secret police | |
| 332461938 | Politburo | executive committee of Soviet communist party; 20 members | |
| 332461939 | Stalin | successor to Lenin as head of the USSR; strong nationalist communism; five years plans; collectivization | |
| 332461940 | Mussolini | Italian fascist leader after wwi; created first fascist government based on aggressive foreign policy and new nationalist glories | |
| 332461941 | Hitler | Nazi leader; created strong centralized Germany; aggressive foreign policy that led to WWII; responsible for attempted genocide of European Jews | |
| 332461942 | Goebbels | Hitler's propaganda minister | |
| 332850943 | Socialist Realism | workers, soldiers and peasants depicted as heroic in art |