Flashcards: Interwar Years
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HistoryofCrawford on February 12, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Great Depression | An era when most people struggled to earn life's basic necessities. |
| Keynesian Economics | Theory that suggests the government should control major aspects of a nation's economy. |
| Joseph Stalin | Leader of the USSR after Lenin. Ruthless and brutal. |
| collectivization | Taking farms from the local population, combining them, and assigning workers to them. |
| Fascism | System of government marked by an authoritarian dictator, racism, and international aggression. |
| Francisco Franco | Fascist leader of Spain from WWII into the 1970s. |
| Gestapo | Nazi secret police who rounded up "undesirables" in Germany. |
| Third Reich | The Nazi's official term for their German government. |