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World History
"Interwar Years" Topic 11
Term | Definition |
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Flapper | slang term for a "new breed" of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, and listened to jazz music. |
Prohibition | A ban on the manufacture and sale of alcohol in the U.S. from 1920 to 1933 |
Harlem Renaissance | An African American cultural movement in the 1920s and 1930s |
Jazz Age | A feature of the 1920s when new types of music and dance became popular |
Mass Culture | The set of ideas and values that develop from a common exposure to the same media, news sources, music, and art. |
Overproduction | Condition in which production of goods exceeds the demand for them |
Disarmament | Reduction of armed forces and weapons |
“Red Scare” | The promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism |
Great Depression | A painful time of global economic collapse, starting in 1929 and lasting until 1939 |
Kellogg-Briand Pact | An international agreement, signed by almost every nation in 1928 to stop using war as a method of national policy |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | President of the United States who helped guide America during the years of the Great Depression |
New Deal | A massive package of economic and social programs established by FDR to help Americans during the Great Depression |
Benito Mussolini | Italian politician and leader of the National Fascist Party, ruling the country as Prime Minister from 1922 until his ousting in 1943 |
Black Shirts | The paramilitary wing of the National Fascist Party and, after 1923, an all-volunteer militia of the Kingdom of Italy. |
Fascism | Centralized, authoritarian, and nationalistic government whose policies glorify the state over the individual. |
Totalitarian State | Government in which a one party dictatorship regulates every aspect of citizen's lives |
Communism | form of socialism advocated by Karl Marx centered around a classless society in which all wealth and property would be owned by the community as a whole |
Joseph Stalin | The leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953. |
Gestapo | The official secret police of Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe |
Nazism | Political ideology characterized as a form of fascism that incorporates scientific racism and anti-Semitism |
Adolf Hitler | Austrian-born German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party and served as chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945. |