Chapter 15 Study Guide
15.2 – A Worldwide Depression
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coalition government
Weimar Republic
inflation
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Dawes Plan
Locarno Treaties
Kellogg-Brian Pact
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buying on the margin
Great Depression
National Government
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The Popular Front
Franklin D. Roosevelt
New Deal
As you read about postwar Europe and the global depression, note one or more reasons for each of the following developments.
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Answer each in complete sentences
1. In new postwar democracies, there were frequent changes in government.
2. In Germany, the Weimar Republic was weak from the start.
3. Postwar Germany suffered from severe economic inflation.
4. The United States had a flawed economy.
5. On October 29, 1929, the US stock market crashed.
6. A long depression followed the crash in the United States.
7. Collapse of the US economy affected countries worldwide.
8. In Britain, the National Government rescued the economy.
9. In France, the Popular Front was formed as a coalition government.
10. Socialist governments in Scandinavian countries dealt with the economic crisis successfully.
11. Explain how Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal reformed the American economic system.
15.3 – Fascism Rises in Europe
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*Terms not specifically defined in the textbook
Fascism
Benito Mussolini
Victor Emmanuel III
Black Shirts*
Il Duce
Adolf Hitler
National Socialist German Workers’ Party/NAZI
swastika
Brown Shirts
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der Fuhrer
Mein Kampf
Arayans
Master Race
lebensraum
Paul von Hindenberg
Reichstag
SS
Gestapo
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Hitler Youth
League of German Girls
anti-Semitism
Kristallnacht
Jozef Pilsudski
Juan Peron
N.B. Characteristics of Fascism p. 477
As you read about Fascist policies, note some of the causes and effects of the event identified.
Cause
Event
1. Mussolini gains popularity
2. King Victor Emmanuel III puts Mussolini in charge of the government
3. Hitler is chosen leader of the Nazi party
4. Hitler is tried for treason and sentenced to prison
5. President Paul von Hindenburg names Hitler chancellor in 1933
6. Hitler has books burned in huge bonfires
7. Nazis pass laws depriving Jews of their rights.
Effect
15.4 – Aggressors Invade Nations
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League of Nations
Hirohito
Manchuria
Haile Selassie
Suez Canal
Rhineland
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appeasement
Rome-Berlin Axis
Axis Powers
Francisco Franco
Nationalists (Spain)
Republicans (Spain)
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isolationism
Neutrality Acts
Third Reich
Anschluss
Sudetenland
Munich Conference
55. Neville Chamberlain
56. Winston Churchill
57. Nonaggression Pact
Write out each of the following questions and answer each with well developed response. Be sure to include the vocab from the section.
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Why did the Japanese invade Manchuria?
Why did Britain and France take no action against Italian aggression?
Why did isolationists want the Neutrality Acts passed?
What were some effects of appeasing Hitler after his invasion of the Rhineland?
What were the immediate results of Japan’s invasion of China?
Why was the Munich Conference unsuccessful?
How did other countries help Franco’s Nationalist forces bring about the collapse of Republican resistance?
Why did Stalin sign an agreement with Fascist Germany, once a bitter enemy?
**Required: Create a timeline of the events referred to in this section from 1931 to 1939 that contributed to the start of WWII.