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WCS us history

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Scopes Trail
Trial of John T scopes a high school science teach; Darwin's Theory
Nationalism
Feeling or intense pride for ones country
Communism
No private ownership, everyone is equal
Bootleggers
person who smuggles liquor onto the US during prohibition
The New Deal
The programs and policies to promote and social reform introduced during the 1930s by President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Dictatorship
Rule by one complete ruler.
Stock Market
market for buying and selling company stock
Fascism
State has power not the individual
laissez-faire
the idea that the government should as small as a role as possible in Us economic affairs
Propaganda
Material designed to spread certain beliefs.
Great Depression
In 1920's and 30's when stock market crashed and people lost all jobs and money
Five Year Plan
Economic plan to become self-sufficient. Set quotas.
Totalitarianism
Absolute power, especially when exercised unjustly or cruelly
isolationism
not participating in foreign affairs
allies in WW1
Great britain, france, and russia later joined by the US an Italy

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