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