World Civ II - Chapter 12 - The InterWar Period

imposed heavy reparations and territorial losses on Germany

What was one major consequence of the Treaty of Versailles?

to industrialize the Soviet Union rapidly

What was the primary goal of Stalin’s first Five-Year Plan?

Britain and France

The League of Nations mandates system placed former Ottoman territories under the control of which nations?

It drew connections between the political power of the chemical industry and the many adverse effects of chemicals that end up in human bodies.

What did Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring accomplish?

they created a shared mass culture and spread new ideas more rapidly

How did new technologies like radio and film affect societies in the 1920s?

Franklin Roosevelt

The New Deal, work relief programs.

Vladimir Lenin

New Economic Policy (NEP) allowed some capitalism into communist Russia.

Joseph Stalin

Five-Year Plan, target Industrial and agricultural output goals that were unrealistic

Mohandas Gandhi

Democracy in Asia

North American Free Trade Agreement

This was an agreement to reduce trade barriers and allow goods to flow freely among the United States, Mexico, and Canada.

Treaty of Versailles

imposed reparations on Germany

League of Nations

established a collective security agreement, 1919 Treaty of Versailles. 

Balfour Declaration

supported a Jewish homeland in Palestine

Beer Hall Putsch

a 1923 attempt by Adolf Hitler and his followers to take over the city of Munich

collectivization

the taking over of agriculture by a national government

fascism

a political movement focused on transforming citizens into committed nationalists striving for unity and racial purity to remedy a perceived national decline

flapper

woman of the 1920s who embraced an independent lifestyle while wearing shorter skirts and hairstyles

gold standard

a monetary system in which the value of a country’s currency is tied directly to the value of gold

gross domestic product (GDP)

the value of all the goods and services a country produces in one year

Guomindang

the Chinese Nationalist Party founded by Sun Yat-sen and later led by Chiang Kai-shek

Irish Free State

a state formed by the twenty-six southern counties in Ireland and later called Ireland

Kellogg-Briand Pact

a 1928 treaty signed by more than sixty countries to renounce war as a foreign policy tool

Long March

a northward march of communist supporters led by Mao Zedong that saved them from extermination by the Guomindan

mandate system

a system in which control of an area was transferred from one government to another under the oversight of the League of Nations

New Negro movement

a movement that developed in the 1920s as African Americans agitated for increased civil rights

Pan-African movement

a movement based on the idea that all people in Africa could work together to achieve greater independence

reparations

monetary payments to be made to the Allied nations by Germany to compensate for destruction they suffered in the war

Salt March

a two-hundred-mile march led by Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi in India in 1930 to protest the British prohibition on collecting salt and the heavy taxes on its purchase

Schutzstaffel (SS)

German Nazi paramilitary organization designed for security and intimidation

Sinn Féin

a political party organized in 1905 that argued for greater sovereignty for Ireland

socialist realism

an artistic movement in the Soviet Union that took the worker as a subject and was about patriotism as much as art

suffragist

a person who protested in favor of women’s right to vote

totalitarianism

a form of government in which the state controls all aspects of a person’s life

Treaty of Versailles

a 1919 treaty that formally ended World War I, redrew the map of Europe, and created the League of Nations