Chapter 28 Vocab (World History) – Flashcards
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Flapper
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In the United States and Europe in the 1920's, a rebellious young women
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Prohibition
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A ban on the manufacture and sale of alcohol in the United States from 1920-1933
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Speakeasies
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Illegal Bars
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Harlem Renaissance
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An African American cultural movement in the 1920's and 1930's, centered in Harlem
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Psychoanalysis
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A method of studying how the mind works and treating mental disorders
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Abstract
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Style of art composed of lines, colors, and shapes, sometimes with no recognizable subject matter
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Dada
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Artistic movement in which artists rejected tradition and produced works that often shocked their viewers
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Surrealism
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Artistic movement that attempts to portray the workings of the unconscious mind
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Maginot Line
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Massive Fortifications built by the French along their border with Germany in the 1930's to protect against invastion
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Kellogg-Briand Pact
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An international agreement, signed by almost every nation in 1928, to stop using war as a method of national policy
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Disarment
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Reduction of armed forces and weapons
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General Strike
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Strike by workers in many different industries at the same time
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Overproduction
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Condition in which production of goods exceeds the demand for them
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Finance
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The management of money matters including the circulation of money, loans, investments, and banking.
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Federal Reserve
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Central banking system of the United States, which regulates banks
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Great Depression
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A painful time of global economic collapse, starting in 1929 and lasting until about 1939
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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President in 1932. Introduced the New Deal, FDIC, and social security
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New Deal
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A massive package of economic and social programs established by FDR to help Americans during the Great Depressions
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Benito Mussolini
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Fascist leader of Italy
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Black Shirt
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Any member of the militant combat squads of Italian Fascists set up under Mussolini
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March on Rome
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Planned march of thousands of Fascist supporters to take control on Rome; in response Mussolini was given the legal right to control Italy
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Totalitarian State
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Government in which a one-party dictatorship regulates every aspect of citizens lives
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Fascism
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Any centralized, authoritarian government system that is not communist whose policies glorify the state over the individual and are destructive to basic human rights
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Command Economy
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System in which government officials make all basic economic decisions.
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Collectives
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Large farm owned and operated by peasants as a group
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Kulaks
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Wealthy peasant in the Soviet Union in the 1930s
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Gulag
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In the Soviet Union, a system of forced labor camps in which millions of criminals and political prisoners were held under Stalin
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Socialist Realism
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Artistic style whose goal was to promote socialism by showing Soviet life in a positive light
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Russification
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Making a nationalities culture more ethnically Russian
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Atheism
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Belief that there is no god
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Comintern
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Communist International, international association of communist parties led by the Soviet Union for the purpose of encouraging worldwide communist revolution
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Chancellor
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The highest official of a monarch; Prime minister
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Ruhr Valley
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Coal-rich industrial region of Germany
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Third Reich
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Official name of the Nazi party for its regime in Germany; held power from 1933-1945
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Gestapo
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Secret police in Nazi Germany
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Nuremberg Laws
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Laws approved by the Nazi Party in 1935, depriving Jews of German citizenship and taking some rights away from them
