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What is inflation?
This is what devastated the
German economy in 1923
and kept many European
governments from spending
to end unemployment.
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SUBJECT: Great Depression
What was Kreditanstalt Bank?
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This is the bank in Vienna
which collapsed in 1931 and
weakened further the German
economy.
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SUBJECT: Great Depression
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Who was Herbert Hoover?
He was the U.S. President who
granted a one year
moratorium on German debts.
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SUBJECT: Great Depression
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What was the Lausanne
Conference?
This is the conference that
ended the era of reparations.
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SUBJECT: Great Depression
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What were the Dawes and
Young Plans?
These are the two U.S. plans to
ease the German burden of
reparation payments and
ease inflation.
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SUBJECT: Great Depression
Who was Ramsey MacDonald?
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He was the Prime Minister for
the British Labour
government in 1929 when
unemployment reached over
2.5 million.
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SUBJECT: Great Britain
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What was the National Government ?
This was the name of the government
formed at the urging of George V
and was made up of Conservative,
Labour, and Liberal ministers.
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SUBJECT: Great Britain
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Who was Oswald Mosley?
He was the the leader of the
British Union of Fascists and
preached anti-Semitism.
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SUBJECT: Great Britain
Who was Neville Chamberlain?(
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appeasement)
He was the progressive
Conservative Prime Minister
who took over the National
Government in 1937.
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SUBJECT: Great Britain
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What was went off the gold
standard?
This move by the National
Government decreased the
value of the British pound by
30% but increased exports of
British goods.
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SUBJECT: Great Britain
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What was agriculture?
This is the sector of the French
economy that is still protected
by the French government
with tariffs and government
subsidies.
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SUBJECT: France
What were the Action Francaise
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and the Croix de Feu?
These are two of the right-wing
groups that were formed in
France that added to the
political turmoil of the 1930s.
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SUBJECT: France
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What was the Stavisky Affair?
This is the scandal that
threatened the Third Republic
of France and involved a
small time gangster and a
fraudulent bond scheme.
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SUBJECT: France
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What was the Popular Front?
This was the political party in
France that was formed from
a coalition of leftist parties.
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SUBJECT: France
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Who was Leon Blum?
He was the Jewish Premier of
France who led the socialist
Popular Front after World War
I.
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SUBJECT: France
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What were the Emergency
Decree and the Enabling Act?
This is the act and decree that
allowed Hitler to rule due to
the emergency of the
supposed communist
takeover of Germany.
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SUBJECT: Germany
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Who was Paul von
Hindenburg?
He was the leader of Germany
who appointed Hitler
Chancellor in 1933.
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SUBJECT: Germany
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What was the Reichstag fire?
This event signaled an excuse
for the NAZI’s to take power
and for Hitler to take over the
government.
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SUBJECT: Germany
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What was the “Night of the
long knives”?
This was the nickname given to
the night when Hitler ordered
the purging of potential rivals
from the Nazi party?
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SUBJECT: Germany
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Who was Heinrich Himmler?
He was the leader of the
Schutzstaffel or SS the elite
body guard for Hitler.
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SUBJECT: Germany
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What were collectives?
These were the agricultural
corporations that were used
to increase production and
feed the Communist state.
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SUBJECT: Soviet Union
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What was the Great Purges?
This was the name given to
Stalin’s elimination of rivals in
the Communist party.
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SUBJECT: Soviet Union
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Who was Sergei Kirov?
He was the former party chief
of Leningrad who was
assassinated and gave Stalin
an excuse to eliminate his
rivals.
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SUBJECT: Soviet Union
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Who was Nikolay Bukharin?
He was the former ally of Stalin
and supporter of the NEP who
was executed in Stalin’s
purges.
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SUBJECT: Soviet Union
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What was the Gosplan?
This was the name of the Soviet
state planning commission that set
goals for Soviet industrialization.
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SUBJECT: Soviet Union