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Jeopardy 38
The Western World Before and Between the Wars
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History
10th Grade
04/02/2007

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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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U.S. president who dealt with the Great Depression
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flappers
Definition
Young U.S. women who embraced shocking new freedoms of dress and behavior
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the Roaring Twenties
Definition
Nickname for the boom years in the 1920s in the United States
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immigration
Definition
Movement of people that the United States limited after World War I
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Pancho Villa
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"Popular, hard-riding rebel from northern Mexico"
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the Republican Party
Definition
Business-oriented political party that dominated U.S. national government during the 1920s
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Prohibition
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The years during which manufacture or sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the U.S.
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Herbert Hoover
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"U.S. president who said that prosperity was ""just around the corner"""
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Diego Rivera
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"Mexican artist famed for his bold, bright murals inspired by folk art"
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Mexico and Venezuela
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Latin American nations that benefitted from oil reserves
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Emiliano Zapata
Definition
Indian from southern Mexico who led a peasant revolt
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Haiti or the Dominican Republic
Definition
Caribbean island nation occupied by U.S. Marines for years
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the Red Scare
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U.S. fright stirred up by fear of communists and radicals in 1919-20
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Nicaragua
Definition
Country in which Augusto Cesar Sandino led a guerrilla movement against U.S. troops
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the PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party)
Definition
Political party that dominated Mexican politics from 1929 through the 1990s
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soldaderas
Definition
Term for female soldiers in the Mexican Revolution
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the Good Neighbor Policy
Definition
FDR's new policy toward Latin America
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"""Colossus of the North"""
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"""Giant"" nickname given the United States by distrustful Latin American nations"
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the government
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Institution that took more control of economics after the war
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heavily indebted
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Condition of many countries because of wartime borrowing
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taxes
Definition
"Source of government revenue, very high in many postwar countries"
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the Great Depression
Definition
Drastic business collapse of the 1930s
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banks
Definition
Many of these financial institutions failed in the 1930s.
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unemployed
Definition
Condition of 30 million workers in 1932
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unemployment
Definition
Condition caused by demobilizing (disbanding) the armed forces
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inflation
Definition
Common postwar condition of rising prices
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tariffs
Definition
Widespread walls that blocked free trade among nations
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the stock market
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Investment arena that collapsed in October 1929
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the New Deal
Definition
The program of relief and reform in the United States
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the Social Security Act
Definition
Law that gave U.S. workers unemployment and old-age benefits for the first time
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organized labor
Definition
Group that pressured governments to help with workers' problems
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a general strike
Definition
Work stoppage by laborers in many areas of the economy
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overproduction
Definition
U.S. farm prices fell because of this.
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financial cooperation
Definition
The International Monetary Conference of 1933 tried to promote this among nations.
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public works
Definition
Government programs that provided employment for workers
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world trade
Definition
Global activity that dropped by 65 percent in the 1930s
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economic nationalism
Definition
Policy of improving a nation's economy without regard for other countries
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buying on margin
Definition
Practice of buying stock with only a small cash down payment
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less than a year
Definition
Average life span of a French government cabinet
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coal miners
Definition
British workers who inspired a general strike
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the Labour Party
Definition
British working-class party that gained power in 1924
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the Irish Republican Army
Definition
Irish force that fought British troops
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Northern Ireland
Definition
Portion of Ireland that stayed part of the United Kingdom
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the Maginot Line
Definition
Line of defenses built along the French-German frontier
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the Ruhr Valley
Definition
German coal and iron valley that French troops attempted to occupy
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Ramsay MacDonald
Definition
British prime minister elected with working-class support
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the Easter Rising
Definition
"The Irish nationalist uprising of 1916, named for a holiday"
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the Irish Free State (Eire)
Definition
The independent southern portion of Ireland
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agriculture
Definition
Main characteristic of Eastern European economies
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Anschluss
Definition
"Union of Germany, desired by many Austrians"
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a military dictatorship
Definition
Form of Hungarian government under Admiral Horthy
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a military dictatorship
Definition
Form of government in Poland after the constitutional democracy failed
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wealthy aristocrats
Definition
Owners of most land in Eastern Europe
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coalition governments
Definition
"Because France had so many political parties, it had this type of government."
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the Locarno Pact
Definition
European nations' agreement to settle future disputes peacefully
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the Popular Front
Definition
French coalition government of socialists and communists
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Leon Blum
Definition
French socialist premier
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Bela Kun
Definition
Hungarian communist who seized power in 1919
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"Finland, the Baltic States, or Czechoslovakia"
Definition
One of the Eastern European nations that maintained democratic government
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the Kellogg-Briand Pact
Definition
Paris treaty that condemned war as a way of settling disputes
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raw materials
Definition
Italy had few industries because it lacked these.
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Benito Mussolini
Definition
Italy's dictator
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Adolf Hitler
Definition
Germany's dictator
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the Jews
Definition
Ethnic group Hitler especially despised
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"Mein Kampf (""My Struggle"")"
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"Hitler's book, the ""Bible"" of the Nazi Movement"
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the Gestapo
Definition
Hitler's secret police force
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the Third Reich
Definition
"Name of Hitler's regime, meaning ""Third Empire"""
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der Fuhrer
Definition
"Hitler's title, meaning ""the leader"""
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Il Duce
Definition
"Mussolini's title, meaning ""the leader"""
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fascism
Definition
Mussolini's political philosophy
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Munich
Definition
Bavarian capital briefly taken over by communists
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the Reichstag
Definition
Germany's lower legislative house; site of a fire in 1933
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poor land and a large population
Definition
Italy didn't have enough food because of these two conditions.
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totalitarianism
Definition
General term for government system that controlled almost every part of people's lives
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extreme nationalism
Definition
Fascism promoted this feeling towards one's country.
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a police state
Definition
Government in which the leader used armed forces and police to crush opposition
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communism
Definition
The Italian and German fascist parties were violently opposed to this.
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the Nazi Party
Definition
The National Socialist German Workers' Party
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government control over everything
Definition
Basic principle of fascism
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the middle and upper classes
Definition
Classes fascism appealed to
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the Black Shirts
Definition
Mussolini's fascist supporters
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the Weimar Republic
Definition
The German federal republic
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the Storm Troopers (or Brown Shirts)
Definition
The Nazis' private army
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