Propaganda
Treaty of Versailles
Worldwide depression
Nazism
Communism
German Reunification
Holocaust
Cold War
After WWI, economic crisis struck around the globe, inflation of money, stock and banks crashed, severe drought on farms.
Extreme principles of Hitler's, political party, used propaganda to turn Germans against Jews, led to Holocaust.
Government type where there are no classes, everyone shares the work & rewards.
Process in which East and West Germany were united and Berlin was reunited into a single city.
time period of political instability between US and Soviet Union, no direct warfare but came close
Biased media used by the Nazis to influence Germans way of thinking (war, Jews, etc.)
Systematic, state-supported killing of millions of Jewish people
Ended WWI, forced Germany to accept the blame for the war.
What was the world's first communist country?
Why did communism appeal to so many Russians?
What role did Vladimir Lenin play in the Russian Revolution?
Promise to end classes, promise to make everyone share equal work and rewards
Soviet Union
Overthrew the monarch and brought communism to Russia
How did Hitler rise to power in Germany?
Why did the US NOT sign the treaty?
How was Germany's economy impacted by the treaty?
What were some reasons why there was a worldwide economic depression after World War I?
What was life like in Germany after World War I?
Why was the League of Nations established during this time?
What did the Treaty of Versailles do?
What were the terms of the treaty?
Who was the leader of the Nazi party in Germany?
Why did France want the treaty to be harsh?
Put and end to World War I
Great loss of life and property damage, inflation, countries had to pay war debts, stock market and banks crashed.
The US thought it was a bad idea to punish Germany with such high reparation payments
Adlof Hilter
Since Germany was forced to pay reparations, its economy suffered. Inflation an economic depression ensured.
To keep world peace
Germany needed to pay for starting the war & to keep Germany from invading France again
Hitler promised German people he would rebuild military, take back German lands, and make Germany a strong and proud nation
People & economy suffered, many were unemployed and lived in poverty, unhappy with government because it wasn't doing enough to help
Germany had to accept blame, pay $33 billon, get rid of military, and lose colonies and land.
What did Hitler plan to do to all races he considered inferior (not "Aryan")?
How did Hitler use propaganda to sway the German public's opinion of the Jewish people?
What happened to people who spoke out against Hitler?
What is anti-Semitism?
The Holocaust occurred during which war?
Describe the Holocaust:
It placed the blame for all of German's problems stemming from WWI on the Jewish people.
Jew were taken to concentration camps where they were forced to do hard labor, starved, separated from family, executed in gas chambers, etc.
World War II
Imprisoned or killed
Exterminate them
Prejudice against the Jewish people
What are the dates of the Cold War?
What type of government did East Germany and East Berlin have?
How did this competition impact the Soviet Union's economy?
What happened to East & West Germany once the Soviet Union started allowing more person and economic freedoms?
What type of government did West Germany and West Berlin have?
After WWII, countries in which part of Europe fell under the influence of the Communist Soviet Union?
What was the purpose of the Berlin Wall?
What was the imaginary line that divided the democratic countries and the communist countries in Europe know as?
Name some ways that the United States and the Soviet Union competed with one another during the cold war?
What was the Cold War about?
Which two superpowers engage in the Cold War?
To keep Communist East Berlin separated from Democratic West Berlin
Spreading government & economic system to other countries, nuclear weapons (arms race), putting a man in space and landing on the moon (space race)
1945-1991
United States & Soviet Union
US and USSR were both worried the other would become too powerful and spread its government & economic system to other countries.\
Communist
Reunified into one country with Berlin as its capital
Defense, weapons build up, and space race cost the country a lot of money; not enough food or goods for the people.
Democratice
Easter Europe
The Iron Curtain
Came second
Came third
Came first
Came last
End of the Cold War
Treaty of Versailles
Holocaust
German Reunification