Chanci chap15
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- Great depresion
- the severe economic slump that followed the collapse of the U.S. stock market in 1929.
- Nazism
- the fascist policies of the National Socialist German Workers' party, based on totalitarianism a belief in racial superiority, and state control of industry.
- Albert Einstein
- German-born physicist
- Isolationism
- a policy of avoiding political or military involvement with other countries.
- Bento Mussolini
- A newspaper editor and politician
- Appeasement
- Giving in to an aggressor to keep peace.
- Anti-Semitism
- Prejudice against Jews
- Surrealism
- a 20th-century artistic movement that focuses on the workings of the unconscious mind
- Existentialsim
- a philosophy based on the idea that people give meaning to their lives through their choices and actions.
- New Deal
- U.S. president Franklin Roosevelt's economic reform program designed to solve the problems created by the Great Depression.
- Jazz
- a 20th-century style of popular music developed mainly by African-American musicians.
- Fascism
- a political movement that promotes an extreme form of nationalism, a denial of individual rights, and a dictatorial one-party rule.