Download Between the Wars United States • Europe • Italy

Between the Wars
United States
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The nickname for the 1920’s was the Roaring Twenties.
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A new type of music in the 1920’s was jazz.
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A liberated young woman in the 1920’s was called a flapper.
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A ban on alcohol in the 1920s was called Prohibition.
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An underground bar during prohibition was called a speakeasy.
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A trial over teaching things that weren’t in the bible was the Scopes Trial.
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A reawakening of African American cultural heritage was called Harlem Renaissance.
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Marie Curie discovered radioactivity.
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Penicillin was used to kill bacteria.
• Europe
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France wanted to be sure that Germany stayed weak.
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They had a protective line called the Maginot Line that was supposed to protect them from a
German attack.
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The Kellogg Briand Treaty outlawed war but could not be enforced.
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Disarmament is reducing the number of weapons in a country.
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The Great Depression was a time when people suffered throughout the world because of economic
difficulties.
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The Dust Bowl was a drought and series of storms America.
• Italy
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Mussolini was the name of the leader of the Fascists in Italy.
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Mussolini promised to bring Italy back to the glory of Rome
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Mussolini’s thugs were called the Black Shirts
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Mussolini took power after his March on Rome.
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Mussolini called himself Il Duce.
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Under Mussolini, the person was not as important as the State
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Mussolini gave medals to women who had many children
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Mussolini had many groups designed to indoctrinate youth
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A government that controls all aspects of a person’s life is a totalitarian government.
• Russia
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Stalin took over after Lenin died.
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Stalin put Lenin’s body on display.
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Stalin had many Five Year Plans that decided how much of everything should be made.
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Stalin collectivized agriculture.
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He tried to eliminate wealthy farmers, called kulaks
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When other peasants resisted, Stalin starved them to death.
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Anyone that disagreed with Stalin was killed or sent to gulags
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Stalin killed people in his own party during the Great Purge
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Stalin use propaganda to control people’s hearts and minds.
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He wanted people to believe that he was like a god
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Stalin tried to make everyone more Russian, this program was called Russification
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Stalin tried to eliminate religion
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His official policy was atheism or belief in no god.
• Germany
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The government in Germany after World War I was called the Weimar Republic
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Hitler hated the Treaty of Versailles which ended World War I.
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Prices and wages rose quickly in Germany, this is called inflation
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Hitler’s book was called Mein Kampf
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He thought Germans were part of a master race
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He thought they should have more lebensraum or living room.
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Hitler called his empire the Third Reich
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Hitler’s secret police were called the Gestapo
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Hitler’s elite troops were called the SS
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The Nuremberg Laws placed restrictions on Jews in Germany.
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Jews were attacked by mobs during a night called Kristallnacht
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The Hitler Youth were supposed to be the future of the Nazi party.
ƒ Japan
• Social and economic changes in Japan lead many Japanese people to lose faith in the government
• Nationalist military leaders gradually take control of Japan’s government
• Japan begins to pursue aggressive, expansionist policies
• Japan invaded Manchuria in 1931
• War with China began in 1937, leading to the Nanjing Massacre.
• Japan looks elsewhere for the natural resources needed to supply its war machine
• Japan looks to create the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere