Chapter 15 the west between wars

Weimar Republic

What Germany was called after WWI. It was a democracy

Paul von Hindenburg

President of the Weimar Republic

Hyperinflation

When there is too much currency in an economy causing an extreme rise in prices.

The Dawes Plan

Plan designed to help Germany pay war reparations and reduce their debt.

Treaty of Locarno

Signed by Germany, France, and Belgium to agree on each country's borders.

Kellogg Briand Pact

Agreement signed by 63 nations that they would never use war to solves disputes.

Economic Depression

An extended period of low economic activity and high unemployment

Stock Market Crash

Occurred in 1929 when a panic hit the stock market causing mass selling of stocks.

Collective Bargaining

the right for unions/workers to negotiate with their employers over wages.

John Maynard Keynes

Economist who said it was up to the government to get a nation out a depression

Deficit Spending

When the government goes into debt to create program for the unemployed

Franklin Roosevelt

Became President in 1932 helped bring the USA out of the Depression

New Deal

Roosevelt's plan to fix the economy during the Great Depression

The R's of the New Deal

Relief, Recovery, Reform

Totalitarian State

A country where a dictator has complete control over the lives of its citizens

Fascism

Political idea where loyalty to the state is above individual rights and freedoms.

Benito Mussolini

Fascist dictator of Italy

Blackshirts (Squadristi)

Italian fascist squads used by Mussolini to intimidate

OVRA

Mussolini's secret police

Joseph Stalin

Communist dictator of the Soviet Union

Politburo

The policy making body or council of the Soviet Union

Five Year Plans

Stalin's plans to industrialize and modernize the Soviet Union

Collectivization

system in the Soviet Union. The govt owned all the land and the people worked on it

Purges

Stalin's idea to rid the Soviet Union of any rivals or enemies

NKVD

Stalin's secret police

Gulags

Labor or prison camps set up by Stalin to punish enemies

Francisco Franco

Fascist dictator of Spain

Spanish Civil War

Conflict between fascists and republicans in 1936. Won by the fascists.

Nazi Party

National Socialist German workers party.

Brownshirts (SA)

Gangs of Nazi's that would use force and intimidation against rivals.

Adolf Hitler

Fascist dictator of Germany

Beer Hall Putsch

Failed attempt by Hitler and Nazis to overthrow the Government

Mein Kampf

Book written by Hitler while he was in prison.

Enabling Act

Suspended to German constitution allowed Hitler to take complete control

Swastika

The symbol of the Nazi party

Fuhrer

German for "The Leader" title that Hitler took

Lebensraum

German for "Living Space" wanted to make room for Hitler's empire

SS

The elite Nazi soldiers used by Hitler

Heinrich Himmler

Head of the SS

Nuremburg Laws

Laws that forbade Jews citizenship and kept them from marrying Germans

Kristallnacht

Nazi rampage against Jews in 1938. "Night of the Broken Glass"