Crash Course: Economic Depression and Dictators

What momentous event in 1929 turned into a world-wide disaster?

• The U.S. stock market crash and the Great Depression

• The appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany

• The Dust Bowl in the American Midwest and southern Great Plains

• The founding of a powerful fascist state in Italy by Benito Mussolini

What is one reason John gives for why the American stock market crashed in 1929?

• The U.S. abandoned the gold standard

• Deregulation of the Savings and Loan industry combined

• People were "playing the market" with borrowed money

• Predatory lending targeting low-income homebuyers

By 1933, six million Germans were unemployed, that was _______ of the total workforce.

• one-fifth

• one-fourth

• one-third

• two-thirds

Who group does the video say was reviving German masculinity by marching through neighborhoods and beating up Communists and Jewish People.

• The Squadristi/MVSN/Blackshirts

• The Sturmabteilung/

  SA/Brownshirts

• The Geheime Staatspolizei/

  Gestapo

• The Schutzstaffel/SS

In Germany, Hitler built unity among his followers by pointing to the false worldwide _____ conspiracy that supposedly had one goal—the annihilation of the Aryan race

• Muslim

• Christian

• Jewish

• Buddhist

True or False: In the fall of 1932, elections in Germany saw the communists and the Nazis receive similarly strong support

• True

• False

What did President Hindenburg decide to do because he was convinced by conservative leaders that he would be easy to control ?

• Appoint Hitler as chancellor

• Appoint Hitler to President

• Jail Hitler for treason

• Execute Hitler

True or False: Once Hitler was appointed chancellor by President Hindenburg in 1932 he would help strengthen Germany's democracy

• True

• False

What was the protection squad created by Hitler to round up dissenters or anyone not seen as meeting Nazi standards of proper German-ness

• The Squadristi/MVSN/Blackshirts

• the SS (Schutzstaffel)

• The Sturmabteilung/

  SA/Brownshirts

• The Geheime Staatspolizei/

  Gestapo

The Nazis would include all of the following as examples of not being "properly German", except:

• Being Jewish

• Being Gay

• Being A Communist

• Being of Roma Ancestry

• Being Aryan