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SS WWII
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Adolf Hitler | the dictator of Germany |
| Franklin Delano Roosevelt | was the president of the U.S and he created the New Deal Programs |
| On Margin | meant they paid for only part of the cost and borrowed the rest from stockholders |
| Stockholders | - the people who sell shares in business |
| Margin Call | a demand for immediate repayment of a loan |
| Stock Market Crash | a time when stock prices fell "crashed at record rates |
| Recession | an economic slowdown |
| Depression | a periods of very low economic activity combine with very high unemployment |
| Great Depression | a time of economic despair that lasted for more than a decade |
| Tariff | tax on all manufactured goods imported from other nations |
| New Deal | was designed by President Roosevelt to help people with food, housing and to create jobs |
| Inflation | a period of rising prices and decreasing monetary values |
| Nazi Party | the National Socialist German Workers' Party |
| Nazism | name given to Hitler's believers |
| Totalitarian state | a system in which leaders totally control the way citizens think and live |
| Censorship | banning of all written, spoken, or visual messages critical of the government |
| Media | systems, or forms of communication such as newspapers, radios, and television programs |
| Black Shirts | name given to Mussolini's followers |
| Benito Mussoloni | dictator of Italy |
| Joseph Statlin | dictator of USSR |
| Facism | the government glorifies that state above the individual |
| Communism | ends all class differences and all private property |
| Reichstag | the lower house of the German legislture |
| Enabling Act | allowed the government to ignore the constitution so as to solve Germany's economic problems |
| Anti-Semitism | intense dislike and prejudice against the Jewish people |
| Stalinism | a brutal form of communism imposed by a small group of party leaders |
| Purged | forcibly remove anyone he thought might oppose from the Communist Party |
| Politburo | the policy-making body of the Communist Party |
| Five-Year Plans | these plans set economic goals for five year periods |
| Collectivized | combined small farms into big ones |
| Militarism | a nation puts its military above all else and uses it to achieve national goals |
| Authoriitarian | dictatorship led by one person or group |
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