Crash Course: Interwar Years- Economic Depression and Dictators

Who financed the European recovery from World War I?

Banks in the United States

Why did banks recall loans starting in 1929?

Because the Stock Market crash made banks afraid they wouldn't get paid back for loans used to buy stocks

How many Germans were unemployed as a result of the economic downturn?

6 million

Why is is odd that the Soviet Union had food problems?

The Soviet Union had a lot of fertile land

What effect did collectivization have on Soviet agriculture?

Farm output declined and millions of people died

How did the rest of the world react to Communism in the Soviet Union and Nazism in Germany?

Both forms of government had admirers, including in the United States, including Charles Lindbergh, who expressed his antisemitic views in an infamous Des Moines speech

What did the Enabling Act do?

It gave Adolf Hitler unlimited power

Which of these was NOT an example of NOT being German enough?

Being of Arian descent

What was one thing that the Nazi youth sometimes did?

Turn in their parents or other relatives

Starting in 1933, what did the Nazis do to people with physical or mental disabilities?

Kill them in portable gas chambers

How were German feelings of worth, and even superiority, restored?

By hating others

What did the Nuremberg Laws do?

They barred Jews from most jobs and forbade mixed marriages between Jews and non-Jews

The Nuremberg Laws did NOT...

Allowed Jews to be citizens of Germany

In 1936, which country did Mussolini take over?

Ethiopia

Which of these is an example of the enthusiastic these dictators had?

German girls painted swastikas on their fingernails