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Chapter 15 Terms and Names

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Albert EinsteinGerman-born physicist.
Theory of relativelyAlbert Einstein's ideas about the interrelationships between time and space and between energy and matter.
Sigmund FreudAustrian physician
Existentialisma philosophy based on the idea that people give maening to their lives through choices and actions.
Friedrich NietzscheGerman Philosopher who influenced existentialism.
Surrealisma 20th-century artisitic movement that focuses on the workings of the unconscious mind.
Jazza 20th-century style of popular music developed mainly by African-American musicians.
Charles LindberghA American Pilot who flew a 33-hour flight solo from New York to Paris.
Coalition Governmenta government controlled by a temporary alliance of several political parties.
Weimar Republicthe republic that was established in Germany in 1919 and ended in 1933.
Great Depressionthe severe economic slump that followed the collapse of the U.S. stock market in 1929.
Franklin D. RooseveltAMerican President elected after the depression begun.
New Deala U.S. president Franklin Roosevelt's economic reform program designed to solve the problems created by the Great Depression.
Facisma political movement that promotes an extreme form of nationalism, a denial of individual rights, and a dictorial one-party rule.
Benito MussoliniA news paper editor and politician.
Adolf HitlerThe Dictator of Germany
Nazismthe facists policies of the National Socialist German Workers' party, based on totalitarianism, a belief in racial superiority, and state control of industry.
Mein Kampf"My Strugle" a book written by Adolf Hitler during his imprisonment in 1923-1924, in which he set forth his beliefs and his goals for Germany.
Lebensraum"living space" the additional territory that, according to Adolf Hitler, Germany neded because it was overcrowded.
Appeasementthe making of concessions to an aggressor in order to avoid war.
Axis Powersin World War II, the nations of Germany,Italy, and Japan, which had formed an alliance in 1936.
Francisco FrancoA Facist General
Isolationisma policy of avoiding political or military involvement with other countries.
Third Reichthe Third German Empire, established by Adolf Hitler in 1930s.
Munich Conferencea 1938 meeting of representatives from Britain, France, Italy, and Germany, at which Britain and France agreed to allow Nazi Germany to annex part of Czechoslovakia's new borders.


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