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Chapter 26
AP European history
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10th Grade
03/16/2010

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Gustav Streseman
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Leader of the german govt, ended the policy of passive resistance, ommited Germany to carrying out the treaty of versailles, stabilized economy
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Dawes Plan
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Restructured Germany's debt w/ US loans to Germany to pay back Britain/France who paid back US, lead to German economic recovery
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Spirit of Locarno
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Peace, or hopeful peace as France and Germany 'ban war forever', reinforced by Germany's entry into the league of nations and the renouncement of war as a national policy
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Kellog-Briand Pact
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63 nations pledge to renounce war as an instrument of national policy, yet had no reinforcement to the pact
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facism
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ideology/movement that exalts the nation above the individual and calls for a centralized government with a dictatorial leader, economic, and social regimentation, suppression of opposition
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Baldwin
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Led the conservatives of Britain as prime minister, brought renewed prosperity, yet fake prosperity. unemployment and compensation for war were unsatisfactory
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Poincare
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Leader of France, sought to use reparations to rebuild France, conservative who was forced to raise taxes to pay for Ruhr fiasco, voted out of power
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Popular Front
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Formed by the coalition of socialists and radicals, established the French New Deal, failed to solve economic problems. Leon Blum is prime minister
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French New Deal
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est. by the popular front, institued the right of collective bargaining, a 40 hr work week, 2 week paid vacations, and minimum wage - did not fix economy
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Totalitarian State
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Dictatorship controlled every aspect of society, made possibly by technology, censorship & terror, subduordination of every individual to the state, masses must be actively involved in the goals of the regime
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Mussolini
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Became well-known italian socialist, laid foundation for facism, use of violence + politics to gain control, march of rome used to seize power, totalarian state, but no police repression. Use of propaganda.
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squadristi
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Bands of armed facists used to create disorder by attacking socialist officers and newspapers
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March on rome
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Led to mussolini taking power, demanded resignation of existing govt and his own appointment by the king
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Weimar Republic
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Est. after WW1, had no outstanding leaders, suffered from attempted uprising, many economic difficulties
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Hidenburg
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President of weimar republic, traditional military monarchist, suffered from attacks and uprisings
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Beer Hall Putsch
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hitler fails to take over state of Bovaria, sentenced to jail here he wrote mein kampf. Realized he could not use force to take power
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Nazi Party
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Formerly the Germans' workers party, taken over by Hitler, became strongest party, attempted to overthrow govt w/ beer hall Putsch
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Lebensraum
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Germans should expand east, liquidate the jews, and turn the slavs into slave labour. Idea that a nations power depends on the ammount of land it occupies
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Enabling Act
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Passed by the reichstag, gave Hitler absolute dictatorial power for 4 years in order to fix the economy, only nazi party was legal.
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Night of the Long Knives
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Hitler realizes the army/big business were suspicious of SA, SS arrests and shoots about 1,000 SA leaders/political enemies
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Kristallnacht/Night of Shattered Glass
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assassination of a german ambassador by young polish jew becomes justification for nazi rampage against jews. Jews imprisoned, restricted, and encouraged to emigrate.
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SS
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Hitler's elite/personal guard, grew dramatically in influence as hitler's private army/secret police, joined with gestapo to expand its special courts and concentration camps
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New Economic policy
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Communism w/ some capitalism, allowed small manufacturers but government still in control of heavy industry. improved economy *lenin
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Stalin
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Socialism in one country for strength, social economy w/o aide of the west, took absolute control, established 5 year plans, did not create new prosperity, policies of industrialization and collectivization
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5 Year Plans
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Plans to increase output in all of Russian economy. Standard of every worker. Quality of goods became suspect, and standard of living did not rise
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Collectivization
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Bring peasantry under control, farms become state controlled, paid government, murder of kulaks, output does not increase.
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Authoritarian state
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traditional antidemocratic govt . one person w/ ultimate authority - monarchies, prevented changes undermining social order. conservative authoritanism revived after WW1
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Franco
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Led spanish miltary forces who revolted against the popular front and began a brutal 3 year long civil war, established a dictatorship - conservative, authoritarian regime
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Goebbels
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Minister of Propaganda, effectively glorified hitler and the nazi state, created films containing the nazi msg
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Spengler
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Wrote of disillusionment in western values. 'The decline of the west', humans as violent, irrational animals.
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Dadaism
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An artistic movement in the 1920s & 30s by artists who were revolted by the slaughter of WW1 and used 'anti-art' to express their contempt
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Surrealism
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An artistic movement that potrayed recognizable objects in unrecognizable relationships in order to reveal the world of the unconscious
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Dali
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artist, surrealist, portrayed recognizable objects in unrecognizable situations. made the irrational tangible
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Frank Llyod Wright
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Innovative designs in domestic architecture, featued geometric structures with long lines, overhanging roofs, and severe planes of brick. modern american house.
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Bahaus movement
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architects, artists, and designers who worked together to blend the study of fine arts with the applied arts, encouraged to create objcts and building with sensibility
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Arnold Schonberg
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Viennese composer created atonnal music, radical new style that opposed traditions
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Carl Jung
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believed freuds theories were too narrow and biased. Studied dreams, studied spiritual needs, expanded on the idea of the unconscious, dreams bring humans to higher conscious
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uncertainty principle
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Impposible to know the position and speed of an individual elecron and cannot predict behavior - heisenberg
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