Study Guide for Chapter 17:  The Period between the Wars

Key Terms

1.         Politburo                                                     

2.         Treaty of Locarno

3.         Weimar Republic                                                  

4.         Dada

5.         Nuremberg Laws                                                  

6.         Fascism

7.         Dawes Plan                                                           

8.         Collective Bargaining

9.         Deficit Spending                                                   

10. New Deal

11. Surrealism                                                            

12. Collectivization

13. Mein Kampf                                                         

14. Concentration Camps

15.                Triumph of the Will

16.                “Strength through Joy”

17. Aryan Race

18. Third Reich

19. Kristallnacht          

20. Stalin’s Five Year Plans

Key People

1.         Paul von Hindenburg                                             

2.         Herbert Hoover

3.         Joseph Stalin                                                        

4.         Salvador Dali

5.         Benito Mussolini                                                   

6.         Franklin Delano Roosevelt

7.         Francisco Franco                                                  

8.         Herman Hesse

9.         Joseph Goebbels                                                  

10. Heinrich Himmler

11. John Maynard Keynes                                           

12. James Joyce

13. Adolf Hitler

Short Answer

1.         Summarize the steps that Hitler took to become the sole ruler of Germany.

2.         List the rights taken from the Jews by the Nazi government.

3.         How did mass demonstrations and meetings contribute to the success of the Nazi party?

4.         Why did the Great Depression help extremist leaders gain power in many nations during the 1930’s?