Chapter 17 Social Studies- Questions – Flashcards

I t favors working class culure and allows a mixed economy.

They want to unify the country by discipline.

Stalin abandoned Lenin's NEP and took "One Great Leap Foward" to communism. He launched the first of a 5 year series of plans to modernize agriculture and build new industries. He encouraged the combining of farms into collective farms. This caused famine. Stalin introduced rationing. Stalin went on political purges removing people in office that were enemies or undesirable. He purified the communist party. His "show trials" only had one possible verdict. guilty. By 1939 7 million people were arrested from all social levels. 1 million executed and millions in forced labor camps.

He killed anyone who spoke against him (threat) and what he wanted to do. Also he got rid of all of his compeditors.

Germany was in debt because of the reperations they had to pay from WWI , unemployment was at an all time high, the value of curancy decreased, and the people lost hope.This made it very easy for Hitler to take power by promising to fix the economy and keeping his promises. He restored the German peoples hope and they believed that he was doing good things.

Totalitarian government controls everything, using terror to suppress individual rights and silence opposition. People who disagreed with Hitler were silenced, beaten, or killed.

Because they were unprepared for a conflict, they agreed to sacrifice sudetenland.

independance with the soviet union and received land of the independant states which is divided between the soviet union and germany

the line protected only part of french border that faced germany; leaving france vulnerable to an attack from belgium

Because the battle of Dunkirk was an evacuation of the our British allies

Fascist governments support the right of labor representatives (labor unions) and corporate representatives (CEOs, company presidents, etc.) to negotiate - through a system called corporatism. Communist governments have complete economic control and ownership of the economy.

Fascism is the polar opposite of Communism, but both have extreme behaviors and hyper nationalism.

Japan joined the Allies. Even though it had played a minor military role, it conquered several German possessions in the Pacific and won access to markets abandoned by the Europeans. As a result, Japan's economy prospered.

by the military growing it provided a great sense of nationalism and desire other nations

It helped end the multiparty government, putting the parliamentary system itself in danger

There was a battle at Shenghai between china and japan,and more than 200,000 troops died then later china lost to japan in october.

Because the Japanese lacked the land and the materials they needed

The Neutrality Acts were suppossed to prevent the United States from selling arms even to nations that were trying to defend themselves from aggression. By doing this, as FDR pointed out later, the Neutrality Acts encouraged agrresssion. BBecause the U.S. economy was struggling.

FDR wanted Britain's help in the war but during the time they were facing a financial crisis. The Lend-Lease Act allowed the president to laid any nation he believed was vital to U.S.A security.

U.S. and Japanese relations were not well due to Japanese aggression in Manchuria and the pacific.