Ch 31 Study Guide
Name: _________________________________________________ Period: _______
1. Vocab:
A. Coalition Government
B. Weimar Republic
C. The Great Depression
D. The New Deal
E. Fascism
F. Nazism
G. The War-Guilt Clause
H. Mein Kampf
I. Anti-Semitism
J. Kristallnacht
K. Appeasement
L. 3rd Reich
M. Anschluss
N. Munich Conference
O. Isolationism
2. What were the only countries after WWI in better financial condition than they were before the war?
3. What problems were some democratic countries having after WWI?
What problems did coalition governments face?
4. What were the major weaknesses of the Weimar Republic?
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What caused the severe inflation in Germany at the end of WWI?
What was the Dawes Plan?
5. What were the 2 warning signs that the US economy was heading towards a depression and what did they lead to?
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6. What was the financial capital of the world in the 1920s?
What led up to the stock market crash?
When was Black Tuesday (know the month and the year)?
What happened on Black Tuesday?
7. Characteristics of the Great Depression:
Unemployment _________ production___________ prices ___________ wages ___________
What happened to businesses?
What happened to banks?
What happened to the people’s money in those banks?
What happened to many farmers?
By 1933, how many American workers were out of work?
8. What 2 things done by the US contributed to other countries going into the Great Depression?
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What happened to world trade as a result?
What countries were hit especially hard?
9. Who was elected president of the US in 1932?
What program did he begin?
What did it do?
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What would finally bring an end to the Great Depression?
10. What does Fascism believe?
What are 3 former examples of fascist countries?
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How is Fascism similar to Communism?
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What groups are fascist movements mostly made up of?
11. What fueled the rise of fascism in Italy?
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Who led the movement and became their leader?
What did he promise?
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What was he called?
12. What did the Nazis believe?
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Who became their leader?
Why did he go to jail?
What did he do while in jail?
What were the beliefs outlined in his book?
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How did he come into power?
What was he called?
What did happened in Germany under his control?
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13. What percent of Germany’s population were Jewish?
14. Who took over control of Japan’s gov.’t?
15. What was the first direct challenge to the League of Nations?
What did the League’s failure at solving that problem do?
16. What countries did Italy seize?
17. What did Hitler say about the Treaty of Versailles?
What did he do to support that?
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What was the British and French reaction?
18. How did Hitler take over Austria?
What did Britain and France do?
How did Hitler take over the Sudetenland?
What did Britain and France do?
Who was Britain’s Prime Minister at the start of WWII?
How did Hitler take over the rest of Czechoslovakia?
19. What was Hitler and Stalin’s Non-aggression Pact?
20. What happened in Spain in 1936?
Who led the fascists?
Who won?
21. What did Americans support at this time (1930s)?
What were the Neutrality Acts?