World History Chapter 9.1 Study Questions 1) What were two major weaknesses of the League of Nations?-464 2) What were two major demands France made after the war?-464 3) Why did the French send troops to the Ruhr Valley?-464 4) Why did inflation break out in Germany? -465 5) What was the Dawes Plan?-465 6) What was the Treaty of Locarno and why was it ultimately not useful?-465-466 7) What is a depression? 8) What were the two causes of the Great Depression?-467 9) On page 467, there is a heading “Responses to the Depression” According to that section what were three effects of the Depression? 10) What was the Weimar Republic?-468 11) What were the political and economic problems faced by the Weimar Republic?-468 12) What program did the popular front start in France during the 1930’s?-468 13) What is collective bargaining? 14) What were the main ideas of John Maynard Keynes?-469 15) What was President Roosevelt’s New Deal and what were the actions it included?-469 16) Chapter Section 2 Study guide 17) What is a totalitarian state?-471 18) What were their goals and how did they achieve them?-471 Chapter 9 Section 2-470-477 19) Who was Mussolini?-471 20) What was fascism?-471 21) What factors made fascism attractive to many in Italy?-472 22) What restrictions did Mussolini implement after he became the Prime Minister and dictator? 23) What methods did Mussolini use to establish his totalitarian state?-472 24) How did fascists use mass media to get control?-472 25) How did Fascists use organizations to promote their goals?-472 26) What traditional ideas did the Fascists retain?-473 27) Describe what is meant by communism as followed by Lenin?-473 28) What was Lenin’s New Economic Policy?- 473 29) What was the USSR?-473 30) How was the Politburo divided after Lenin’s death in 1924?-474 31) How did Stalin gain control in Russia and what was the result of this for Trotsky?-474 32) What were the five year plans and what results did they produce? 33) What were the costs of collectivization?-476 34) Describe how Stalin “purged” his opponents-476 35) Explain why parliamentary systems failed in Eastern Europe-476 36) Why was Franco’s regime in Spain authoritarian rather than totalitarian?-477 Ch. 9, Section-3 37) What is anti-semitism?-479 38) What ideas did Hitler express in Mein Kampf? 39) How did Hitler expand the Nazi party? 40) What promises did Hitler make to gain popularity? 41) How did Hitler use the Enabling Act to get power?- 480 42) What does the term Arayan mean and how did the Nazis misuse it?-481 43) How did the Nazis use terror to control people?-482 44) Describe Nazi economic policies. 45) What were the roles of women in the Nazi state?-483 46) How was Nazi Germany anti-semitic?-483