Chapter 17 Vocab

Question 0

Reduced Germany’s reparation payments and coordinated them with Germany’s ability to pay

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Dawes Plan

Question 1

Germany’s chief industrial and mining region

Answer 1

Ruhr Valley

Question 2

Guaranteed Germany’s western border with France and Belgium

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Treaty of Locarno

Question 3

Sixty-three nations signed an agreement to renounce war, but nothing was said about what would happen if anybody went to war

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Kellogg - Briand Pact

Question 4

Period of low economic activity and rising unemployment

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Depression

Question 5

Democratic government that governed Germany from the end of WWI to the rise if Hitler

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Weimer Republic

Question 6

The right of unions to negotiate with employers over wages and hours

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Collective bargaining

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British economist that believed that during recessions governments should put people to work on public works projects to stimulate demand

Answer 7

John Maynard Keynes

Question 8

Occurs when the government spends more money than it collects in taxes.

Answer 8

Deficit spending

Question 9

President of the U.S. during the Great Depression

Answer 9

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Question 10

Various legislation passed in the U.S. during the Great Depression to stimulate economic growth

Answer 10

New Deal

Question 11

Government that aims to control the political, economic, social, intellectual, and cultural lives of its citizens.

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Totalitarian state

Question 12

Political philosophy that glorifies the state above the individual by emphasizing the need for a strong central government led by a dictatorial ruler

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Fascism

Question 13

Fascist leader of Italy from 1922-1943

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Benito Mussolini

Question 14

Economic plan of modified capitalism instituted by Lenin to grow the soviet economy

Answer 14

New Economic Policy (NEP)

Question 15

The communist party’s main policy-making body

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Politburo

Question 16

Dictator of the USSR from 1928-1953; responsible for deaths of millions

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Joseph Stalin

Question 17

Economic goals set by the soviet government

Answer 17

Five-year plans

Question 18

System in which private farms are eliminated and pooled into government owned farms worked by the peasants.

Answer 18

Collectivization

Question 19

Dictator of Spain 1936-1975

Answer 19

Francisco Franco

Question 20

Dictator of Germany from 1933-1945; responsible for WWII and the Holocaust

Answer 20

Adolfo Hitler

Question 21

National Socialist German Workers’ Party

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Nazi

Question 22

Reichstag

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The German parliament

Question 23

Allowed Hitler to rule as a dictator by ignoring the constitution

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Enabling Act

Question 24

Prison camps for those that oped the Nazi regime

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Concentration camps

Question 25

Leader of the SS

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Henrich Himmler

Question 26

"Night of the broken glass" Nazi burning of synagogues and Jewish shops on November 9, 1938 in retaliation for the death of a German diplomat in Paris.

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Kristallnacht

Question 27

Led that defined who was a Jew and therefore open to discrimination and persecution

Answer 27

Nuremberg Laws