A | B |
fascism | glorifies the state above the individual; powerful dictator |
stockbrokers | people who sell shares in businesses |
tariff | tax on al manufactured goods imported from a country |
New Deal | programs by FDR designed to put Americans to work |
depression | period of very low economic activity combined with very high unemployment |
Nazism | the name given to Hitler's political beliefs |
quota | a set amount of production in agriculture or industry |
purged | to forcibly remove someone that Stalin thought opposed communism |
Stock Market Crash | a time when stock prices fell or "crashed" at record rate |
October 29, 1929 | Black Tuesday |
authoritarian | gov'ts led by one person or group w/complete power |
on margin | buying stock for only part of the cost & borrowing the rest |
margin call | when a stock's price fell & the investor had to pay the loan due on the stock |
Five Year Plans | Stalin's plans to change Russia from an agricultural to an industrial society |
consumer goods | items such as clothes, furniture, & refrigerators; in short supply in the Sovie Union |