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| Albert Einstein | A German physicist who offered startling new ideas on space, time, energy, and matter |
| theory of relativity | Albert Einstein's ideas about the interrelationships between time and space and between energy and matter |
| Sigmud Freud | an Austrian physician who treated patients with physchological problems |
| existentialism | a philosophy based on the idea that people give meaning to their lives through their choices and actions |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | a German philosopher that existentialists had been influenced by |
| surrealism | a 20-th century artistic 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 | An American pilot who flew the first 33-hour flight from New York to Paris |
| coalition government | Temporary alliance of several parties |
| Weimar Republic | The republic that was established in Germany in 1919 and ended ni 1933 |
| Great Depression | The severe economic slum that followed the collapse of the U.S. stock market in 1929 |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Thirty-second U.S. president, he moved decisively and set the pattern for the modern liberal Democratic Party with a social and economic program called the "New Deal." |
| New Deal | U.S. president Franklin Roosevelt's economic reform program designed to solve problems created by the Great Depression |
| fascism | a political movement that promotes a extreme form of nationalism, a denial of individuals rights, and a dictatorial one-party rule |
| Benito Mussolini | Prime minister of Italy , His declaration of war on Britain and France exposed Italy's military unpreparedness, and was followed by a series of defeats in N and E Africa and in the Balkans |
| Adolf Hitler | German dictator, brought the Nazi Party to power, established concentration camps for political opponents and Jews |
| Nazism | supported by people in th middle and lower middle classes, formed the German brnd of fascism |
| Mein Kampf | "My Struggle"--a book written by Adolf Hitler during his imprisonment in 1923-1924, in which he set forth his beliefs and his goals for Germany |
| lembensraum | "living space"--the additional territory that, according to Adolf Hitler, Germany needed because it was overcrowed |
| appeasement | the making of concessions to an aggressor in order to avoid war |
| Axis Powers | World War ll, the nations of Germany, Italy, and Japan, which had formed an alliance in 1936 |
| Francisco Franco | a General that favored a Fascist-style government |
| isolationism | a policy of avoiding political or military involvement with other countries |
| Third Reich | the Third German Empire, established by Adolf Hitler in the 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 in return for Adolf Hitler's pledge to respect Czechoslovakia's new borders |
