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League of Nations
all the European countries and the United States settled disputes and avoided war
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Reparations
payment made to the victors by the vanquished to cover the costs of a war
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German Inflation
- the German's went on strike and did not work because they did not want to pay the reparations
- had encountered financial problems
- they kept printing money for the people on strike
- led to inflation of the country
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The Great Depression
- a period of low economic activity and rising unemployment
- a series of downturns in the economies of individual nations
- international financial crisis involving the U.S. stock market
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Weimar Republic
- created in Germany as a democratic state
- had no outstanding leaders
- faced serious economic problems
- the Great Depression then struck Germany
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John Maynard Keynes
- British economist
- published General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Moneyclaimed that government should not get involved in a depression and let it be fixed itself
- he believed unemployment came from a decline in demand
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- realized capitalism needed to be reformed
- pursued a policy of active government intervention in the economy known as the New Deal
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New Deal
- increase program of public works
- provided reforms that prevented a social revolt in U.S.
- did not solve unemployment problems
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Totalitarian State
a government that has control over political, economic, social, intellectual, and cultural lives of its citizens
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Fascism
glorifies the state above the individual by emphasizing the need for a strong central government led by a dictatorial leader
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Mussolini
established first European fascist movement in Italy
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National Socialist German Workers' Party
- Nazi
- nationalist party
- taken over by Adolf Hitler
- grew to have complete control over Germany
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Adolf Hitler
- developed ideas at a young age and they stayed them with him his whole life
- his ideas where racism or anti-semitism
- extreme nationalist
- knew how to use propaganda and terror
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Concentration Camps
- also know as death camps
- Jews were sent there to work or usually die
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Surrealism
sought reality beyond the material world and found it in the world of the unconscious
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Civil Disobedience
refusal to obey laws considered to be unjust
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Sun Yat-sen
- leader of Nationalists in China
- needed expertise that Soviet Union could provide
- anti-imperialist words alienated many Western powers
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Genocide/Ethnic Cleansing
- the deliberate mass murder of a particular racial, political, or cultural group
- also know as ethnic cleansing
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Ataturk
- was President Kemal
- wanted to form Turkey into a modern state
- democratic system put into place
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Good Neighbor Policy
rejected the use of U.S. military in Latin America
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