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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. |
| Mexican Revolution | Fought over a period of almost ten years from 1910; resulted in the ouster of Porfirio Diaz from power. |
| Great Depression | International economic crisis following the first World War; began with the collapse of the American stock market in 1929. |
| Popular Front | Combination of socialist and communist parties in France. |
| New Deal | President FDR’s precursor to the modern welfare state (1933-1939). |
| Totalitarian State | A new kind of government in the 20th century that exercised massive, direct control over virtually all the activities of its subjects - existed in Germany, Italy and the Soviet Union |
| Spanish Civil War | War pitting authoritarian and military leaders in Spain against republican and leftists between 1936 and 1939. |
