World History Chapter 28 – Flashcards

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flapper
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U.S. and Europe 1920's; a rebellious young woman
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emancipation
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freedom from restrictions
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Prohibition
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a ban on the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages
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speakeasies
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or illegal bars
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Harlem Renaissance
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an African-American culture movement in 1920's and 1930's
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spontaneously
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caused by inner force; self-generated
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Alexander Flemming
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discovered penicillin
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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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composed only of lines, colors, and shapes
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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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a movement that attempted to portray the workings of the unconscious mind.
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suppressed
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put down by forced; subdued
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Maginot Line
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massive fortifications built by France along the German border
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Kellogg-Briand Pact
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to renounce war as an instrument of national policy
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disarmament
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the reduction of armed forces and weapons
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general strike
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or strike by workers in many different industries at the same time.
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affluent
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rich; wealthy
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overproduction
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a condition in which the production of goods exceeds the demand for them
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finance
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the management of moneymakers including the circulation of money, loans, investments, and banking
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Federal Reserve
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the central banking system of the United States
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Great Depression
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a painful time of global economic collapse
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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32nd president of the U.S.
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New Deal
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Roosevelt's massive package of economic and social programs
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Mussalini
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Italy's Fascist new leader in the early 1920's
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Black Shirt
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or party militants
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March on Rome
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where tens of thousands of Fascists swarmed towards the capital
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proclaimed
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announced officially
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totalitarian state
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a government where a one party dictatorship attempts to regulate every aspect of the lives of its citizens
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idealogy
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a system of ideas that guides an individual, movement, or political program
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facism
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any centralized authoritarian government that is not communist whose polices glorify the state over the individual and are destructive to basic human rights
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command economy
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in which government officials made all basic economic decisions
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collectives
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large farms owned and operated by peasants as a group
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kulaks
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or wealthy farmers
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Gulag
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a system of brutal labor camps
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socialist realism
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artistic style whose goal was to promote socialism by sharing Soviet life in a positive light
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conform
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to obey a set of standards
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russification
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or making a nationality's culture more Russian
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atheism
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or the belief that there is no god
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access
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a way of using
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comintern
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its purpose was to encourage world-wide revolution
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Third Reich
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German master race would dominate Europe for a thousand of years
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Gestapo
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Hitlers secret police
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chancellor
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or prime minister.
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Ruhr Valley
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coal-rich industrial region of Germany
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passive
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not active, nonviolent
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Lebernsraum
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or living space
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Nuremberg laws
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which deprived Jews of German citizenship and place and severe restrictions on them
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final solution
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the extermination of all Jews
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regime
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a government in power
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