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Unit 6 - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Major Causes of Great Depression:
      - Wealthy Inequality- certain people would have lots of money and it would cause an imbalance of the economic system
      - Agricultural Overproduction- farmers would produce a lot more agriculture than needed and would ruin the food economy
      - Stock Market Crash of 1929 (why did it crash??)- major American stock market crash that occurred in the autumn of 1929. It started in September and ended late in October, when share prices on the New York Stock Exchange collapsed.
      - “Runs” on Banks- people would withdraw all their money from the bank in fear of the banks closure
        
        Countries that recovered better from Depression did what?- freed the Federal Reserve to expand the money supply, which slowed the downward spiral of price deflation and began a long slow crawl to economic recovery.
        
        What would happen in countries that did not recover well?- led to militarism and dictatorships.
- - - - Anti-Semitism- Historys Oldest Hatred
      - Pogrom- anti jewish riots
      - Nuremberg Laws- German laws that restrained the jewish people
      - Kristallnacht- a 17 year old avenged his father by shooting a nazi and the nazi force destroyed jewish homes and communities. No arrests were made that night. ¨The night of broken glass¨
      - Ghettos- confined neighborhoods jewish people were forced to live at
      - “Final Solution”- the genocide of all the jews using gas chambers, burnings, and shootings.
      - Concentration Camps- place the jews were sent to work for free labor against their own will.
- - - - Mussolini- italian politician who founded the fascist party
        
        Lenin- first soviet russian leader
        
        Stalin- soviet political leader
        
        Trotsky- Lenins ally who lenin wanted to become the next soviet leader
        
        Reichstag Fire - the burning that hitler blamed the jews for
        
        Hitler (how did he rise to power?) - elected as chancellor, propaganda
- - - - Appeasement- the process of appease
      - Neville Chamberlain - british leader before winston churchill
      - Blitzkrieg- strategy britain used, “lightning war”
      - Dunkirk- the evacuation of 340,000 british troops
      - Battle of Britain- battle between britain and germany, used planes for warfare
      - Operation “Barbarossa” - the german all out invasion on the soviet union
      - “Scorched Earth” Strategy - Russia burns their own land when germany tries to invade them.
      - Stalingrad- largest battle where the germans lose to the soviet union
      - Pearl Harbor - bombing from the japanese that killed thousands of american soldiers
      - Midway- The Battle of Midway was an epic clash between the U.S. Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy that played out six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
        
        D-Day- Largest scale naval invasion on the beaches of normandy that caught the soviet union off guard
        
        Kamikaze- japanese suicide bombing used to destroy the american ships
        
        Manhattan Project- The US plan to make a functioning atomic bomb
        
        Role of Atomic Bomb (and where it was used) - Hiroshima and Nagasaki