| A | B |
|---|
| general strike | a strike by workers in different industries at the same time |
| Locarno agreements | a series of treaties signed in Switzerland in 1925 settling Germany's borders with France, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, and Poland |
| Kellogg-Briand Pact | a 1928 agreement to renounce war signed by the U.S., Britain, France, Japan, and other nations promising to reduce the size of their navies |
| IRA | the Irish Republican Army that fought against British forces when it refused to grant the Irish home rule |
| Commonwealth of Nations | Britain's steps to sllow four colonies to self-govern while still being linked by economic and cultural ties (Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa) in 1931 |
| Leon Blum | a French socialist leader of the popular Front government |
| Maginot Line | a defensive fortification built by the French along the Rhine |
| New Deal | Franklin D Roosevelt's package of economic and social programs to fight the depression |
| stream of consciousness | a technique in which a writer probes a character's random thoughts and feelings without imposing any logic or order |
| flapper | a liberated young woman who rejected old ways, bobbed her hair, danced the Charleston, smoked and drank |
| Marie Curie | a woman physicist who won two Nobel prizes |
| Cubism | a new art style created by Pablo Picasso |
| Bauhaus | a new architectural approach that taught the function of a building should determine its form |
| Jazz Age | a new era in the 1920s when jazz music and nightclubs became popular |
| Benito Mussolini | self-made dictator of Italy in the 1920s |
| fascist | Mussolini's newly formed Italian nationalist party |
| Black Shirts | Mussolini's violent "combat squads" or gangs who wore black shirts |
| II Duce | Mussolini's new title meaning "The Leader" |
| concentration camp | detention centers for civilians considered enemies of a state, such as the Jews |
| Weimar Republic | the new German democratic government set up in 1919 when Kaiser William II abdicated the throne at the end of World War I |
| Mein Kampf | book of Nazi goals and ideology written by Hitler while in prison after his 1923 failed attempt to seize power |
| Third Reich | the third nationalist empire of Germany, boasted by Hitler |
| Gestapo | Hitler's secret police |
| Nuremberg Laws | placed severe restrictions on Jews in 1935 |
| Kristallnacht | riots against Jews that took place at night on November 9 and 10, 1938 |
| Nicholas Horthy | a Hungarian military man who overthrew a communist government in 1919 |
| Joseph Pilsudski | dictator of Poland in 1926 |
| Adolf Hitler | leader of the new Nazi party in Germany |
