World between the wars Flashcards

1
Q

What did France and Britain promise Italy to join the war?

Did they keep their promise?

A

Territories

No, they only received some of what they were promised

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2
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After WW1, what was happening in Italy?

A

Peasants seized land
Workers went on strike
There was post war inflation

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3
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What did WW1 veterans from Italy face?

A

unemployment

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4
Q

The Italian government split and enveloped in ______?

Who steps in?

A

Corruption

Benito Mussolini

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5
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At first Mussolini was a ___ like his father

What did he later become?

A

Socialist

Extreme Italian Nationalist

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6
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At first Mussolini ______ Italy joining WW1, but he changed his views?

A

opposed

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7
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What ended Mussolini’s WW1 military service?

A

Mortar bomb

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8
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Mussolini’s name came from the Latin Fasces, which is what? What did it symbolize?

A

A bundle of sticks wrapped around an ax

Unity and Authority

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9
Q

What did Mussolini promise?

A

To end corruption and government, restore order, and turn the Mediterranean sea into “Mare Nostrum” or our sea

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10
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Mussolini organized his supporters into ______, they were also called____.

A

Combat Squads

Black shirts

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11
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What did Mussolinis supporters favor?

A

violence over democratic process

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12
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Where did the black shirts have a rally?
What was this rally called?
What was their intent?

A

Naples
March on Rome
Go to Rome to demand gov. changes

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13
Q

Who was the king of Italy?

A

Victor Emmanuel III

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14
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What did king Victor Emmanuel III do in response to the March on Rome? And why?

A

Made Mussolini Italy’s prime minister b/c he feared a civil war

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15
Q

What title did Mussolini take? What does it mean?

A

Il Duce

The Leader

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16
Q

How did Mussolini make more Fascists in gain control?

A

Silenced the press and fixed elections

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17
Q

Who was the pope? Why did he support Mussolini?

A

Pope Pius XI

He recognized the Vatican city as an independent state

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18
Q

In theory Italy remained a parliament_____. However it was a _____upheld by terror

A

monarchy

dictatorship

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19
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Mussolini brought the economy under ____ control.

A

State

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20
Q

Business, labor, government, and Fascists party controlled industry, agriculture and trade. What is this called?

A

corporate

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21
Q

Production increased but the workers could not ____ and ____ were kept low.

A

Strike

Wages

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22
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What did Mussolini’s greatest success come from ?

A

Massive public works programs

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23
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In Italy, what were men encourage to do?

A

Become selfless warriors to fight for Rome

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24
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What were women expected to do in Italy?

A

Become mothers and don’t work

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25
Q

What made children tough and taught them to obey strict military discipline? What else were they taught?

A

Fascists Youth groups

Nationalism

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26
Q

After WW1, who was abdicated?

This was a threat for a ______ revolution?

A

Kaiser

Socialist

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27
Q

What leaders signed an armistice ending fighting in WW1 and the Versailles Treaty?

A

moderate leaders

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28
Q

What was the constitutional monarchy established in Germany?

A

Weimar Republic

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29
Q

What did the Weimar Republic create?

What did it give to citizens?

A

Chancellor (prime minister)

rights like the US bill of rights

30
Q

What was the problem with the weimar republic?

A

It was weak

31
Q

True or False: The weimar republic was always under attack.

A

True

32
Q

Who demanded radical changes like in Russia?

A

Communists

33
Q

Who thought the weimar republic was very weak?

A

Conservatives

34
Q

What did the Germans blame the weimar republic for?

A

The treaty of versailles

35
Q

Where was Hitler born?

A

Austria

36
Q

Where did Hitler go when he was 16?

A

Vienna, Austria

37
Q

As a young boy Hitler was fascinated and obsessed with Germany’s victory in what war?

A

Franco Prussian war

38
Q

Who was Hitlers father?

A

Alois

39
Q

What school rejected hitler when he was young and why

A

The art school in Austria because he couldn’t draw the human figure

40
Q

What school rejected hitler when he was young and why?

A

The art school in Austria because he couldn’t draw the human figure

41
Q

After being rejected from the art school, where was he rejected?

A

architecture school

42
Q

To support workers in Ruhr Valley, what did Germany print and what did it cause?

A

money

inflation

43
Q

What did the Western powers do to help with Germany’s inflation?

A

Dawes plan

44
Q

What did Hitler’s father do to him and his brother? What did his brother do in response?

A

He beat them

His brother ran away at age 7

45
Q

Hitler returned to Germany and fought in WW1. What was his job?

A

Runner between the trenches

46
Q

What did the military do when Hitler tried to stay in the military?

A

they wouldn’t let him stay

47
Q

What happened to hitler that could have changed history?

A

he was almost killed by a british WW1 soldier

48
Q

What extremest group did hitler join?

What did hitler become two years later?

A

Nazis

leader

49
Q

What did Hitler lead that failed to overthrow the government?
What happened to him?

A

The beer hall putsch

50
Q

What did Hitler lead that failed to overthrow the government?
What happened to him?

A

The beer hall putsch

In jail for treason for 7 months

51
Q

What did he do in prison?

A

wrote a book called Mein Kampf

52
Q

Hitler believed in extreme_________, racism and anti-______.

A

nationalism

semitism

53
Q

What did Hitler believe a Jew is?

A

someone with one Jewish grandparent

54
Q

Who did Germany blame for Germany’s defeat in WW1?

A

marxmist and jews

55
Q

What did Germany need to gain in order to create more living space?

A

lebensraum

56
Q

Hitler was determined to be the German leader called the _____?

A

fuhrer

57
Q

As ______ rose from the great depression, what also rose?

A

unemployment

Nazi membership

58
Q

Hitler promised to end _______, create_____, and defy the Versailles treaty by ______ Germany.

A

reparations
jobs
rearming

59
Q

To become chancellor, Hitler split the German parliament lower house called the ____?

A

Reichstag

60
Q

Hitler moved to build a Germany based on German __________

A

nationalism

61
Q

What was the first Reich?

A

Holy Roman empire

62
Q

What was the Second Reich?

A

Bismarck’s empire

63
Q

What was the Third Reich?

A

German master race dominate for 1000 yrs

64
Q

What did Hitler do about the Great Depression?

A

Public works projects

65
Q

What state did Hitler begin to make?

A

Totalitarian state

66
Q

Who enforced Hitler’s will?

A

Elite, black uniformed SS troops

67
Q

What was Hitler’s secret police called?

A

gestapo

68
Q

What deprived Jews of German citizen laws?

A

Nuremberg laws

69
Q

Nazi led mobs attacked Jewish communities. Destroyed Jewish synagogues and businesses.

A

kristallnacht

“night of brokem glass”

70
Q

After kristallnacht, what was around the corner?

A

The “final solution”

71
Q

Hitler used children by indoctrinating them with _____ ideology and having their textbooks contain Nazi ______ views.

A

Nazi

racial

72
Q

What did nazis believe about woman?

Whatw ere they given ?

A

Should have limited roles and take care of children.

Given rewards for having lots of children.