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| What is Keynesian Economics? |
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Definition
The concept of spending more $$ to save the country before balancing the budget
Derived from John Maynard Keynes |
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| What happened when Hitler and Schacdt implemented Keynes' ideas? |
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| The Keynesian Economics worked and they were able to completely eliminate unemployment in Germany |
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| How did the Germans feel about Hitler at this time? |
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| German's did not love Hitler, but they were happy that they were able to have food and a house under his rule |
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| What was the concept of Amschluss? |
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Definition
All Germans living under one rule in one country
--> Nationalism |
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| What was the concept of Lebenshraum? |
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| To expand the land of Germany so there would be more living space for the Aryan race |
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| How did Hitler plan on achieving Lebenshraum? |
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Hitler looked to the East where Poland an Russia (Soviet Union) were.
Poland was a good land because it had no mountains and Russia was filled with communists |
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| What did Hitler do when Austria refused to let them join and take over? |
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Definition
| He killed their governor Englebert Dolfuss, but they still refused to join |
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| What did Hitler do after killing Austria's governor and they still refused to join Germany? |
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Hitler completely banned German's from entering Austria
This hurt Austria's economy because they made a lot of money off of German's entering to ski |
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| A plebescite is a referendum, which is a direct vote in which an entire electorate is asked to either accept or reject a particular proposal |
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| What was the plebescite that Austria had? |
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| Austria asked their people if they wanted to join Germany |
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| What did Hitler do in response to Austria's plebescite and why? |
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| Because a plebescite is just like an election, and Hitler did not like elections, he decided to send in the German army into Austria and they surrendered |
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Term
| What area in Czechoslavia did Hitler want to take over? |
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Definition
Sudental
An area in Czechoslavia where Germans lived |
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Term
How did the Czech gov respond to Hitler's threats?
How did the Czech people respond? |
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Definition
The czech gov completely refused the idea of Hitler taking over and threatened to fight back Germany.
But the people of Czech refused the idea of a war and they said they would desert the army if they did |
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| How did Great Britain and France feel about the situation between Germany and Czech? |
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| Great Britain and France both really feared a war between Czech and Germany and they thought it would lead into a much bigger war |
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| Who was the Prime Minister of Great Britain at the time? |
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| Chamberlain promised Czech he would help them avoid Germany attacking them, but what did he end up doing instead? |
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After meeting with Hitler and Mussolini, Chamberlain sold out Czech and agreed that Hitler would be allowed to take over the Sudental.
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Germany then takes over Sudental |
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Hitler then wanted to take over all of the Czech.
Why did the people react differently to this than they did when he announced he wanted to take over other areas? |
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Definition
For all of Hitler's past attacks, people gave him the excuse that he was doing it in the name of nationalism and that Germany had been through a lot and deserved to be reunited.
But when Hitler decided to take over ALL of the Czech, they realized nationalism was no longer an excuse and that Hitler was a serious danger |
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Term
| What was the Maginot Line? |
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| A line/wall that would be built down the border between France and Germany |
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| What was the name of the peace treaty made between Hitler and Staling on June 1939 |
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| Why did the Hitler-Stalin Pact shock the world when it was announced? |
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| It shocked the world because Hitler just made a deal with the enemy (communists) |
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Term
| What did the Hitler-Stalin Pact say? |
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Definition
It was a non-agression act, which basically said that they would not fight each other. They also said that they would invade Poland together
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Hitler would invade from the East and Stalin from the West, then they would split Poland between them. |
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| What did Britain and France do when Hitler invaded Poland? |
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Definition
When Hitler invaded Poland, Britain and France declared war on Germany
--> but they did nothing, they just started building their army |
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Term
| When did the Phony War take place and what happened? |
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Definition
Phony War
Oct 1- April 9
britain and france declare war on germany but dont do anything |
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| What happened on June 9th, 1940 |
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Definition
| France surrendered to Germany |
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Term
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A Frenchman that Hitler used to his benefit, doing everything he was told to do.
He was in charge of the city of Vichy |
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Definition
Great Britain
Greece
Yugoslavia
USA
Soviet Union |
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Germany
Italy
Japan
Hungary
Bulgaria
Romania
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| Who were the Neutral Powers? |
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Term
| What was the Battle of Britain in 1940? |
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Definition
| Hitler wanted to bomb Britain into submission, he aimed the attacks on their airplanes and airplane factories |
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Term
| what was the name of the british air force? |
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Term
| Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor on Dec 7, 1941? |
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Definition
japan wanted to take over Asia, and the USA owned the Phillipines which was in Asia.
After attacking pearl harbor, the USA would no longer try to stop japan from taking over asia |
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| What happened with the USA after pearl harbor? |
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Definition
After pearl harbor, the usa finally had a reason to attack japan
FDR went to congress and they agreed to allow the USA to enter the war |
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Term
| what happened as soon as the USA entered the war? |
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| Hitler declared war on the USA |
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Term
| What was Operation Barbarosa? |
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Definition
When Hitler attacked Russia
The attack was named after a great German leader, barbarosa
(this attack took place before pearl harbor) |
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Term
| Why did hitler even attack russia? |
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Definition
he attacked russia out of pure hatred for them, not thinking clearly at all
he attacked and conquered the city of leningrad |
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Term
| what was it about russia that made it very difficult to conquer them? |
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Definition
| russia had a very strong nationalism and they refused to surrender |
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Term
| what groups of people did hitler capture and what did he do with them? |
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Definition
hitler captured jews, communists, gypsies, homosexuals, and jehova witnesses
he would send them work camps and force them to work there |
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Term
| What was D-Day on June 6, 1944? |
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Definition
France was invaded along its region known as Normandy by US and Great britain
germany already had control of france so they wanted to conquer france and take away some power from germany |
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Term
| what is the concept of appeasment? |
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Definition
when you do everything possible to avoid conflict, and in this case, it was to avoid war.
people who went through WWI did NOT want to go through another!
So when Hitler came along and watned war, they said Germany was mistreated and that he was only a nationalist trying to unite Germans
They also agreed with hitler being against jews and communists |
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