JEOPARDY Ch. 29 The World Between the Wars – Revolution, Depression and the Authoritarian Response

Categories The Roaring Twenties and The Great Depression Mexican Revolution Mexican Revolution Important People The Rise of Totalitarianism Important Events Vocabulary

What was the “roaring twenties”? This decade in American history was known as the “Jazz Age” and was marked by economic growth and prohibition.

What were the Locarno Agreements and the Kellogg - Briand Pact? These were two treaties signed after WWI that tried to end warfare.

What was a General Strike and Syndicalism? This occurred in Great Britain in 1926 and in France and completely shut down the economy for a period of time.

What was the Great Depression? This was the event that occurred in 1929 and lasted until 1941 in the United States and longer around the world.

What was the New Deal? This was Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s program to end the economic slump in the U.S.

Who was Emilio Zapata and Pancho Villa ? These two Mexican revolutionaries won the loyalty of peasants who wanted land reform.

Who was Alvaro Obregon ? He emerged as Mexico’s leader at the end of the Revolution and wrote a new Constitution for Mexico and promised land reform.

What was the PRI or Institutional Revolutionary Party? This was the political party organized by Mexican government leaders and nationalized foreign oil investments.

Who was Porfirio Diaz ? He was the dictator who ruled Mexico for 30 years and resigned in 1911.

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What was Cristeros? This was the conservative peasant movement of the 1920s backed by the Catholic Church which resisted the secularization of government.

Who were Stalin and Trotsky? These two men struggled for control of the Soviet Union after Lenin’s death.

What is a Totalitarian Government or State? This is the type of government that regulates every aspect of its citizens’ lives.

What was a collective? This is a large farm owned and operated by the Soviet state.

W ho were the Kulaks? They were the wealthy peasants in Russia who were starved and purged by Stalin.

What was the New Economic Policy some capitalism, but the state owned or controlled the banks, large factories, and foreign trade? This was Lenin’s economic policy in the Soviet Union after 1921.

W hat were the Five Year Plans? These were the successful and brutal policies of Stalin to industrialize the Soviet Union.

W W W What was Socialist Realism? This was the type of art and literature practiced in the Soviet Union to promote socialism and the Soviet Union.

What was the Gestapo? This was the name of Hitler’s secret police.

Who was Yuan Shikai? This person took over the government after Sun Yat- sen resigned.

What was the National Socialist German Workers Party or Nazis? This was the name of the political party that Hitler joined in 1919.

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Who was Jiang Jieshi or Chiang Kai-shek? He took over the Guomindang after the death of Sun Yat-sen.

Who was Mao Zedong or Mao Tse Tung ? He led the “long march” and was the leader of the Chinese Communists.

What was the May Fourth Movement? This was a student revolt and protest against Japanese goods and interference in China.

What was the Spanish Civil War?. This was sometimes called the dress rehearsal for World War II and where Francisco Franco with the help of Germany and Italy destroyed the elected republic of Spain.

What was Cubism ? This type of painting or art breaks three dimensional objects and breaks them into parts using angles and plains.

What was Anschluss?. This is the term Hitler used for the unification of Austria and Germany.

What was the French Popular Front? This was the socialist government which tried to solve social and labor problems in France.

What was the Comintern? This was the propaganda branch of the Communist Party that vowed to spread Communism around the world.

What was the Fascist Party or Fascism? This was the political party of Mussolini and later copied by Hitler.

Who were Getulio Vargas in Brazil and Juan Peron in Argentina? These were the two Latin American leaders who established pro-western Fascist like authoritarian states after World War I.