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- Weimar Republic
- the German republic founded at Weimar in 1919
- Third Reich
- the Nazi dictatorship under Hitler
- Sigmund Freud
- Austrian neurologist who originated psychoanalysis
- Adolf Hitler
- was a little-known political leader whose early life had been marked by disappointment
- Isolationism
- policy of avoiding foreign involvement
- Bento Mussolini
- a news paper editor and politicain.
- Axis Powers
- the alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan
- Appeasment
- the practice of giving in to aggression in order to avoid war
- Francisco Franco
- Spanish dictator who rises into power after Spanish Civil War in 1936
- Albert Einstein
- offered startling new ideas on space, time, energy, and matter.
- Existentialism
- a philosophy that suggests we must struggle to create our won meaning and morality in the absence of absolute values; many believe that the universe is indifferent to human suffering
- Charles Lindbergh
- Flew solo across across the Atlantic Ocean
- Fascism
- a political system headed by a dictator that calls for extreme nationalism and racism and no tolerance of opposition
- Theory of Relativity
- (physics) the theory that space and time are relative concepts rather than absolute concepts
- Coalition Government
- when small political parties have joined forces to work together to form a government
- Great Depression
- the economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s
- New Deal
- the historic period in the U.S. during which President Franklin Roosevelt's economic policies were implemented
- Jazz
- a style of dance music popular in the 1920s
- Munich Conference
- A meeting held were Hitler promised Germany that they would seek no further territory once it required the Sudtenland.
- Mein Kempf
- Hitlers Book "my Struggles"
- Welfare
- governmental provision of economic assistance to persons in need
- Nazism
- a form of socialism featuring racism and expansionism
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- President of the US during Great Depression and World War II
- Surrealism
- a movement that attempted to portray the workings of the unconsious mind
- Anti-Semitism
- prejudice against jews.