Dezmin Chap. 15
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- Adolf Hitler
- Nazis power hungry leader who made war on the Jews.
- Jazz
- A 20th-century style of popular music developed mainly by African-American musicians.
- Anti-Semitism
- prejudice against Jews.
- Mein Kampf
- "My Struggle" A book written by Adolf Hitler during his imprisonment in 1923-1924, in which he set forth his beliefs and his goals fro Germany.
- Axis Powers
- In WWII, the nations of Germany, Italy, and Japan, which had formed an alliance in 1936.
- Facism
- A political movement that promotes an extreme form of nationalism, a denial of individuals rights, and a dicatorial one-party rule.
- Third Reich
- The Third German Empire, established by Adolf Hitler in the 1930s.
- Nazism
- The fascist polices of the National Socialist German Workers' party, based on totalitarianism, a belief in racial superiority, and state controlof industry.
- Fransico Franco
- A General who in July 1936, army leaders, favoring a Facist-style government, in a revolt.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- First president elected in 1932 after the Great Depression.
- Existentialism
- Philosophy based on th eides that people give meaning to their lives through their choices and actions.
- New Deal
- U.S. president Franklin Roosevelt's economic reform program designed to solve th eproblems created by the Great Depression.
- Great Depression
- The severe economic slump that followed the collaspe of the U.S. stock market in 1929.
- Welfare
- Large amount of public money.
- Sigmund Freud
- Austrian physician who beleived that much of the human behavior is irrational, or beyond reason.
- Weimar Republic
- The Republic that was established in Germany in 1919 and ended in 1933.
- Coalition Goverment
- Government controlled by a temporary alliance of several political parties.
- Theroy of Relativity
- Albert Einstein's ideas about the interrelationships between time and space and between energy and matter.
- Surrealism
- A 20th-century artistic movement that focuses on the workings of the unconscious mind.
- Munich Conference
- A 1938 meeting of repersenatives from Britain, France, Italy, and Germany, at which Britain and France agreed to allow Nazi Germany to annex part of Czechosloviakia's new borders.
- Isolationalism
- A policy of avoiding political or military involvment with other countries.
- Appeasement
- The making of concessions to an aggressor in order to avoid war.
- Albert Einstein
- German-born phsicist who offered startling new ideas on space, time, energy, and matter.
- Charles Lindbergh
- An American piolt who flew a 33-hour solo flight from New York to Paris.
- Benito Mussolini
- A newspaper editor and polititian who boldly promised to rescue Italy by reviving its economy and rebuilding its armed forces.