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Age of Catastrophes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Totalitarian State | a country with a one party dictatorship that controls every aspect of life |
| Collectives | large communal farms owned and operated by peasants |
| Globalization | Idea where something that was originally a local idea or product spreads all over the world |
| Flappers | women in the 1920’s who became more independent, going out at night and getting educated rather than going straight into marriage |
| Speculation | When someone continues to buy more and more stocks because they believe the price will continue to go up and up |
| Margin Buying | Paying for part of a stock and borrowing the rest of the money from a Stock Broker who would charge the person interest until the loan was paid off |
| Panic | A widespread fear concerning financial matters that makes people take extreme measures to protect their money |
| Fascism | A one party dictatorship controlling every aspect of life but is NEVER communist |
| Nazism | A specific non communist party dictatorship that controlled all of life and also believed in anti-Semitism |
| Public Works Programs | Government plan that provides jobs building public facilities such as schools, roads, etc. to increase employment and end economic depressions |
| Red Scare | Western nations began passing anti-communist legislation such as deporting, jailing, and interrogating anyone believed to have communist connections |
| Joseph Stalin | Communist leader of The Soviet Union during WWII |
| The Great Purge | Included Show Trials where people were publically tortured leading to the death/disappearance of as many as 20 million people in the Soviet Union |
| Black Tuesday | Nickname for the day in 1929 when the stock market crashed in the United States |
| Franking D. Roosevelt | President of the United States who is accredited with ending the Great Depression and was president during WWII |
| New Deal | Plan for ending the Great Depression that included 3 R’s: Relief, Recovery, Reform |
| Hirohito | Emperor of Japan during WWII. The military truly ran the country though. |
| Manchurian Incident | Japan blew up its own railway line in China in order to blame China and have an excuse to invade the country and gain more power |
| Benito Mussolini | Fascist leader of Italy during WWII |
| Dawes Plan | Helped the Weimer Republic recover from The Treaty of Versailles by allowing them to control industrial land and lowering reparations |
| Adolf Hitler | Fuhrer (leader) of Germany during WWII |
| Mein Kampf | Book written by Adolf Hitler that outlined the goals of Nazism including Anti-Semitism and the superiority of Germans |
| Appeasement | International policy that involves giving into the demands of an aggressive country in order to keep peace |
| Blitzkrieg | German strategy to do a series of quick constant attacks to keep the enemy from easily responding |
| Kamikaze | Japanese suicide bombers |
| Nuremberg Laws | Passed in 1935 that limited the rights of Jewish people and urged unprovoked violence against them |
| Night of the Broken Glass | As retaliation to the killing of a German Diplomat in Paris by a young Jewish boy, Hitler’s regime entered Jewish Ghettos and began destroying buildings, burning synagogues, and beating Jewish people in the streets |
| Axis of Evil | Alliance between Germany, Italy, and Japan |
| Winston Churchill | Prime Minister of Great Britain during WWII |
| Lend-Lease Act | Roosevelt declared that the United States, despite its neutrality, could lend war materials to any country whose defense is important to keep the US safe (lead to only helping the Allied Powers) |
| Atlantic Charter | Agreement between The United States and Great Britain that people have the right to chose how they are governed, so the United States will only lend arms to those fighting for freedom |
| D-Day | June 1944 when the Allied forces opened their European front against Germany with the invasion of Normandy France |
| VE-Day | May 1945 when the War in Europe ended |
| Island Hopping | Nickname for the Allied campaign in the Pacific where United States troops went from one island to another retaking Japanese controlled lands |
| Manhattan Project | Secret mission in the United States where a group of international scientists became experimenting and eventually successfully testing an atomic bomb in New Mexico |
| Nuremberg Trials | Axis powers were convicted for crimes against humanity that resulted from the Holocaust and Japanese actions associated with The Manchurian Incident and the Rape of Nanjing |
| United Nations | Organization dedicated to keeping World Peace through international peace keeping missions |
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