Interwar Period

What does appeasement mean?

• Satisfying by giving into ones demands

• To provoke a country to go to war

• To make peace with a country

• To get rid of a leader

How were Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany and Communist Russia similar?

• All means of production were owned by the government.
• All had one-party systems that denied basic human rights.
• All encouraged the exercise of individual freedom of expression in the arts.
• All emphasized production of consumer goods rather than weapons.

What are characteristics of totalitarianism?

• Use of violence and oppression

• Multiparty elections

• Individual freedoms are given to the people

• Democratic ideas

What was the cause of hyperinflation in Germany?

• Interests rates

• German government printing more money

• Bank giving out too many loans

• Violent overthrow of government

What is the effect of hyperinflation?

• Increase in loans given to people

• Increase in interests rates

• Increase in prices and wages

• Decrease in wages

Who loaned Germany money to pay reparations?

• United States

• France

• Russia

• Great Britain

What is the Dawes Plan?

• Russia borrowed money to pay reparations to Great Britain and France

• United States borrowed money to pay reparations to Great Britain and France

• Japan borrowed money to pay reparations to Great Britain and France

• Germany borrowed money to pay reparations to Great Britain and France

Which of the following was very risky behavior when investing in the stock market?

• Taking out loans to buy stocks

• Receiving dividends

• Selling your stocks for a profit

• Buying stocks and then selling

Who had to take full blame for WWI in the Treaty of Versailles?

• Britain
• Ottoman Empire
• Germany
• Russia

Why were reparations introduced by the Allies?

• So the French could invade the Ruhr
• To fund hyperinflation
• To pay for the war damage
• So the Weimar government could be popular