Interwar

Question 1

Interwar period

Answer 1

Between WW1 and WW2, a time of uncertainty and mounting tensions

Question 2

Great Depression

Answer 2

During the 1930s and late 1920s, start with the crash of the US stock market as well as weak industry after demobilization after war and economic policy that doesn’t work.

Question 3

Fascism

Answer 3

Starts in Italy with Mussolini the idea of a total state controlled by a authoritarian gov’t and often blended with nationalism and racism (Nazi)

Question 4

Totalitarianism

Answer 4

Centralized and dictator state where citizens are controlled and subservient. Lots of censorship and secret Police (Stalin)

Question 5

Propaganda

Answer 5

Spread through news, TV, radio that brings pride and service to a regime with fake or misinformation. Influences through emotion

Question 6

New economic policy

Answer 6

In Russia after WW1 to bring back industry after it tanked. Started by Lenin but still under Stalin and allowed for peasants to sell some of their produce on an open market but all big industries still controlled by state and expanded. Let the economy become a little more independent to bring back industry.

Question 7

Dadaism

Answer 7

Art movement after WW1 as anti art and uselessness of life. Showed effects of violence of war and instability

Question 8

Surrealism

Answer 8

Art movement with psychology focus on irrational and reality beyond material. Disturbing

Question 9

Nazism

Answer 9

Control of German culture and people. Didn’t like modern art and went back to 1800s art to show nazi values. Show everyday life in art too.

Question 10

Lebensraum

Answer 10

Idea by Hitler based on social Darwinism that superior nations should expand and take control of all masses.

Question 11

Mussolini

Answer 11

Dictator of Italy that takes control through a strike on Rome and becoming PM. Controls through police, censorship and propaganda but not able to take full control like Hitler.

Question 12

Stalin

Answer 12

After Lenin in russia. Takes power from Leon Trotsky keeps NEP. Sends opposers to work camps in Siberia and starves peasants

Question 13

League of Nations

Answer 13

Originally by Wilson but falls apart after US doesn’t Join and doesn’t support France against possible German invasion. Like the UN

Question 14

Lost generation

Answer 14

All the veterans and people hurt in war. Can’t live without the violence and PTSD.

Question 15

Mandate system

Answer 15

Gave German and ottoman territories in Africa to League of Nations and countries like France and GB