Jaleesa Ch.15
Terms
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- Albert Einstein
- German-born physicist who offered startling new ideas on space, time, energy, and matter.
- Surrealism
- 20th century artistic movement that focusews on the workings of the unconscious mind.
- Charles Lindbergh
- Captured world's attention with a 33 hour flight from New York to Paris.
- Francisco Franco
- General who believed in facist ways, lead army leaders in revolt in 1936.
- Jazz
- 20th century style of popular music developed mainly by African American musicians.
- Axis Powers
- In WWI the nations of Germany, Italy, and Japan, which had formed an alliance in 1936.
- Coalition Government
- Government controlled by a temporary alliance of serval political parties.
- Nazism
- Facist policies of the National Socialist German Workers Party, based on totalitarianism, a belief in radical superiority and state control of industry.
- New Deal
- U.S. president Franklin Roosevelt's economic reform program designed to solve problems created by the Great Depression.
- Facism
- Political movement that promotes an extreme form of nationalism, a denial of individual rights and a dictorial one-party rule.
- Mein Kamf
- A book written by Adolf Hitler that stated his beliefs and goals for Germany.
- Adolf Hitler
- Little known political leader whose early life was marked by disappointment.
- Munich Conference
- 1938 meeting of the reps. from Briatain,France, Italy, and Germany at which Briatin and France agreed to allow Nazi Germany to annex part of Czechoslovakia in return for Adolf Hitler's pledge to respect Czechosolvakia's new boarders.
- Third Reich
- 3rd German Empire, established by Adolf Hitler in the 1930s.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- First president elected after the Great Depression started.
- Weimar Republic
- Republic that was established in Germany in 1919 and ended in 1933.
- Sigmund Freud
- Austrian physcian who treated patients with psychological problems.
- Great Depression
- Severe economic slump that followed the collapse of the U.S. stock market in 1929.
- Theory of Relativity
- Albert Einstein's ideas about the interrealtionships between time and space and between energy and matter.
- Appeasement
- Making of concessions to an agressor in order to avoid war.
- Isolationism
- Policy of avoiding political or military involement with other countries.
- Anti-Semitism
- Prejudice against Jews.
- Benito Mussolini
- Newspaper editor and politician who promised to rescue Italy by reviving it's economy and rebuilding it's armed forces.
- Welfare
- Anew idea to help under privledged peole economically.
- Existentialism
- Philosophy based on the idea that people give meaning to their lives through their choices and actions.