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| Albert Einstein | German physicist who advanced the theory of relativity (E=mc2) |
| Sigmund Freud | The "Father of Modern Psychology"; promoted dream analysis among other things. |
| Steamboat Willie | First animated cartoon with sound released by Disney in 1928 - starred Mickey Mouse |
| Flapper | Rebellious young women of the 1920s who bobbed their hair and wore skirts far shorter than those of prewar years. |
| Cubist Movement | 20th century art style; best represented by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso; rendered familiar objects as geometric shapes. |
| Benito Mussolini | Italian fascist leader after World War One; created first fascist government based on aggressive foreign policy and new national glories. |
| Fascism | Political philosophy that became predominant in Italy and then Germany during the 1920s and 1930s; attacked weakenssess of democracy and corruption of capitalism. |
| Syndicalism | Economic and political system based on the organization of labor; imported in Latin America from European political movements. |
| Diego Rivera | Mexican artist for the period after its revolution; famous for murals. |
| New Economic Policy | Initiated by Lenin; state continued to set basic economic policies, but efforts were now combined with individual initiatives. |
| Joseph Stalin | Successor to Lenin as head of the USSR; strongly nationalist view of communism. |
| Comintern | International office of communism under USSR dominance established to encourage the formation of Communist parties in Europe and elsewhere. |
| May Fourth Movement | Resistance to Chinese encroachment started on this date in 1919; spawned movement of intellectuals aimed at transforming China into a liberal democracy; rejected Confucianism. |
| Mao Zedong | Communist leader in revolutionary China; advocated rural reform and role of peasantry in Nationalist revolution. |
| Great Depression | International economic crisis following the first World War; began with the collapse of the American stock market in 1929 (Black Tuesday). |
