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Flashcards by John Hopkins, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by John Hopkins
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| Question | Answer |
| Depression | depression is a sustained, long-term downturn in economic activity in one or more economies |
| Totalitarianism | is a political system or a form of government that prohibits opposition parties, restricts individual opposition to the state and its claims, and exercises an extremely high degree of control over public and private life |
| Fascism | is a form of far-right, authoritarian ultranationalism characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition, and strong regimentation of society and of the economy which came to prominence in early 20th-century Europe |
| Collective Farms | are various types of "agricultural production in which multiple farmers run their holdings as a joint enterprise". That type of collective is often an agricultural cooperative in which member-owners jointly engage in farming activities |
| Indoctrination | is the process of inculcating a person with ideas, attitudes, cognitive strategies or professional methodologies |
| Joseph Stalin | Georgian revolutionary and Soviet politician who led the Soviet Union from the mid–1920s until 1953 as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Premier |
| Mussolini | rime Minister of the Kingdom of Italy from the fascists' takeover of state power in 1922 until 1943, and Duce from 1919 to his execution in 1945 during the Italian civil war |
| Hitler | was a German politician and leader of the Nazi Party. He rose to power as Chancellor of Germany in 1933, and as Führer in 1934. During his dictatorship from 1933 to 1945, he initiated World War II in Europe by invading Poland on 1 September 1939 |
| Hideki Tojo | Japanese politician and general of the Imperial Japanese Army who served as Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association for the majority of World War II |
| Soviet Union | officially known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was a federal sovereign state in northern Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991. Nominally a union of multiple national Soviet republics, in practice its government and economy were highly centralized |
| Fascist Italy | also known as Classical Fascism or simply Fascism, is the original fascist ideology as developed in Italy. |
| Japan | is an island nation in the Pacific Ocean with dense cities, imperial palaces, mountainous national parks and thousands of shrines and temples. Shinkansen bullet trains connect the main islands of Kyushu (with Okinawa's subtropical beaches), Honshu (home to Tokyo and Hiroshima’s atomic-bomb memorial) and Hokkaido (famous for skiing). Tokyo, the capital, is known for skyscrapers, shopping and pop culture |
| Weimar Republic | was Germany's government from 1919 to 1933, the period after World War I until the rise of Nazi Germany. It was named after the town of Weimar where Germany's new government was formed by a national assembly after Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated |
| Countries that didnt join the LoN | USSR & US |
| Countries controlled by the Mandate system | Syria, Lebanon |
| Causes of the great depression | Stock market crash, tariffs |
| The event that began the Great Depression | stock market crash |
| Impacts of the GD | loss of money, no jobs |
| 5 year plans | Soviet economic practice of planning to augment agricultural and industrial output by designated quotas for a limited period of usually five years. Nations other than the former USSR and the Soviet bloc members, especially developing countries, have adopted such plans for four, five, or more years |
| the great purge | was a campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union which occurred from 1936 to 1938. |
| Italy conquered this in 1936 | ethiopia |
| Who hitler blamed for germanys problems | jews |
| territories conquered by japan in the 1930s | Manchuria |
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