Maya Ch 15
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- Charles Lindbergh
- An American pilot who captured the world's attention with a 33-hour solo flight from New York to Paris
- surrealism
- 20th century artistic movement that focuses on the workings of the unconscious mind
- Adolf Hitler
- a little-known political leader whose early life was marked by dissapointment
- welfare
- a new idea to help under privledged people economically
- Theory of Relativity
- Albert Einstein's ideas about the interrelationshipd between time & space & between energy and matter
- Mein Kampf
- a book written by Hitler which set forth his beliefs and goals for Germany
- Axis Powers
- in WW1, the nations of Germany,Itlaly, & Japan, which had formed an alliance in 1936
- Existentialism
- philosophy based on the idea that people give meaning to their lives through their choices & actions
- Franklin D Roosevelt
- the first president to be elected after the Great Depression begun
- Benito Mussolini
- Newspaper editor and politician who promised to rescue Italy by reviving economy and rebuilding its armed forces
- Appeasement
- making of concessions to an aggression in oredr to avoid war
- Third Reich
- 3rd German Empire, established by Adolf Hitler in the 1930s
- Facism
- poloitical movement that promotes on extreme form of nationalism, a denial of individual rights & a dictatorial one-party rule
- Weimar Republic
- republic that was established in Germany in 1919 & ended in 1933
- Nazism
- fascist policies of the National Socialist German worker's party, based on totalitarianism, a belief in racial superiority & state control of industry
- Great Depression
- severe economic slump that followed the collaspe of the US stack market in 1929
- Sigmund Freud
- An Austrian physician who treated patients with psycological problems
- Francisco Franco
- general who believed in facist ways, led army leaders in revolt in 1936
- Coalition Government
- government controlled by a temporary alliance of several political parties
- Isolationism
- policy of advoiding political or military involvement with other countries
- New Deal
- US president Franklin Roosevelt's economic reform program designed to solve problems created by the Great Depression
- Albert Einstein
- German-born physicist who offered new ideas on space,time,enery, and matter
- Munich Conference
- 1938 meeting of reps. from Britian, France, Italy, & Germany at which Britian & France agreed to allow Nazi Germany at annex part of Czechoslovakia in return for Adolf Hitler's pledge to respect Czechoslvakia's new borders
- Jazz
- 20th century style of popular mainly by African Americans musicians
- Anti-Semitism
- prejudice against Jews