click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
World History Ch. 28
10th grade World History Vocabulary: The Rise of Totalitarianism
Term | Definition |
---|---|
Flapper | a woman who rejected old ways in favor of new freedoms |
Prohibition | U.S. ban on the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages |
speakeasies | illegal bars |
Harlem Renaissance | An African American cultural awakening |
psychoanalysis | a method of treating mental disorders |
abstract | style of art that contains only lines colors and shapes. Kandinsky's style |
dada | a movement that rejected rational thought |
surrealism | art that favored irrational or unconscious ideaa |
disarmament | reduction of armed forces and weapons |
general strike | strikes by workers in many different industries at the same time. |
finance | the management of money matters |
Federal Reserve | Central banking system of the US. This was not successful because the higher interest rates made people timid to invest, therefore hurting demand |
New Deal | failed to end the Great depression, but eased the suffering of many. Issued by FDR |
Benito Mussolini | Leader of Italy. promised to end corruption and replace turmoil with order. |
Black Shirts | Mussolini's militants |
March on Rome | thousands of fascists swarmed the Italian capital to demand changes |
totalitarian state | Mussolini's government, where the one-party dictatorship regulates every aspect of a citizen's life. |
facism | any centralized authoritarian government that is not communist whose policies favor the state over the individual and are destructive to basic human rights |
Kulaks | wealthy Russian farmers |
system of brutal labor camps | |
an economic system in which government makes all decisions | |
an artistic style that showed the Soviet Union in a positive light | |
state-owned farms | |
German workers in the _____ went on strike in 1923 | |
The_____, the Nazi secret police, helped keep order in Germany | |
Hitler believed his German government, or the_____, would rule Europe for a thousand years | |
The 1935 _____ revoked Jews' German citizenship | |
The democratic Weimar Republic was led by a _______, or prime minister |