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| fascism | a political movement that promotes an extreme form of nationalism, a denial of individual rights, and a dictorial one party rule |
| New Deal | US President, FDR's, economic reform program designed to solve the problems created by the Great Depression |
| Great Depression | the severe economic slump that followed the collapse of the US stock market in 1929 |
| appeasement | the making of concesions to an agressor in order to avoid making war |
| Nazism | the fascist policies of the National Socialist German Workers' party, based on totalitarisnism, a belief in racial superiority, and state control of industry |
| Coalition Government | a government controlled by a temporary alliance of several political parties |
| lebensraum | "living space"--the additional territory that, according to Adolf Hitler, Germany needed because it was overcrowded |
| Munich Conference | a 1938 meeting of representatives from Britain, France, Itlay, and Germany, at which Britain and France agreed to allow Nazi Germany to annex part of Czechoslovakia in return for Adolf Hitler's pledge to respect Czechoslavakia's new borders |
| axis powers | in WWII, the nations of Germany, Itlay, and Japan, which had formed an alliance in 1936 |
| Third Reich | the Third German Empire, established by Adolf Hitler in the 1930s |
| isolationism | a policy of avoiding political or military involvement with other countries |
| Mein Kampf | "My Struggle"--a book written by Adolf Hitler during his imprisionment in 1923-1924, in whihc he set forth his beliefs and his goals for Germany |
| Weimar Republic | the republic that was established in Germany in 1919 and ended in 1933 |
| tariffs | taxes charged by a government on imported or exported goods |
| functionalism | doctrine that the function of an object should determine its design and materials |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | German philosopher who dismissed reason, democracy, and progress as empty ideas |
| Charles Lindbergh | First person to fly alone across the Atlantic |
| Sigmund Freud | thinker who exposed the workings of the unconscious mind |
| Francisco Franco | Spain's fascist dictator |
| Benito Mussolini | Fascist leader of Italy |
| Albert Einstein | thinker who developed the theory of relativity |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Presisent of the United States during the Great Depression |
| Adolf Hitler | Fascist leader of Germany |
| jazz | a 20th century style of popular music developed mainly by African American musicians |
| theory of relativity | Albert Einstein's ideas about the inter-relationships between time and space and between energy and matter |
| existentialism | a philosophy based on the idea that people give meaning to thier lives through their choices and actions |
| surrealism | a 20th century artistic movement athat focuses on the working of the unconscious mind |
