| A | B |
| Albert Einstein | German-born physicist. |
| Theory of relatively | Albert Einstein's ideas about the interrelationships between time and space and between energy and matter. |
| Sigmund Freud | Austrian physician |
| Existentialism | a philosophy based on the idea that people give maening to their lives through choices and actions. |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | German Philosopher who influenced existentialism. |
| Surrealism | a 20th-century artisitic movement that focuses on the workings of the unconscious mind. |
| Jazz | a 20th-century style of popular music developed mainly by African-American musicians. |
| Charles Lindbergh | A American Pilot who flew a 33-hour flight solo from New York to Paris. |
| Coalition Government | a government controlled by a temporary alliance of several political parties. |
| Weimar Republic | the republic that was established in Germany in 1919 and ended in 1933. |
| Great Depression | the severe economic slump that followed the collapse of the U.S. stock market in 1929. |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | AMerican President elected after the depression begun. |
| New Deal | a U.S. president Franklin Roosevelt's economic reform program designed to solve the problems created by the Great Depression. |
| Facism | a political movement that promotes an extreme form of nationalism, a denial of individual rights, and a dictorial one-party rule. |
| Benito Mussolini | A news paper editor and politician. |
| Adolf Hitler | The Dictator of Germany |
| Nazism | the 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. |
| Appeasement | the making of concessions to an aggressor in order to avoid war. |
| Axis Powers | in World War II, the nations of Germany,Italy, and Japan, which had formed an alliance in 1936. |
| Francisco Franco | A Facist General |
| Isolationism | a policy of avoiding political or military involvement with other countries. |
| Third Reich | the Third German Empire, established by Adolf Hitler in 1930s. |
| Munich Conference | a 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. |