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Chapter 16
Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Flapper | in the United States and Europe in the 1920s, a rebellious young woman |
| Prohibition | a ban on the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages in the United States from 1920 to 1933 |
| speakeasies | illegal bars |
| Harlem Renaissance | an African American cultural movement in the 1920s and 1930s centered in Harlem |
| psychoanalysis | a method of studying how the mind works and treating mental disorders |
| abstract | style of art composed of lines, colors, and shapes, sometimes with no recognizable subject matter at all |
| dada | artistic movement in which artists rejected tradition and produced works that often shocked their viewers |
| surrealism | artistic movement that attempts to portray the workings of the unconscious mind |
| Maginot line | massive fortifications built by the French along the French border with Germany in the 1930s to protect against further invasions |
| Kellogg-Briand Pact | an international agreement, signed by almost every country in 1928, to stop using war as a method of national policy |
| disarmament | reduction of armed forces and weapons |
| general strike | strike by workers in many different industries at the same time |
| overproduction | condition in which production of goods exceeds the demand for them |
| finance | the management of money matters including the circulation of money, loans, investments, and banking |
| Federal Reserve | central banking system of the United States, which regulate the banking system |
| Great Depression | a painful time of global economic collapse, starting in 1929, lasting until 1939 |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | President of the United States during WWII |
| New Deal | a massive package of economic and social programs established by FDR, during the Great Depression |
| Benoito Mussolini | son of a blacksmith, founder of Fascism, leader of Italy during WWII |
| Black Shirts | any member of the militant combat squads of Italian Fascists set up under Mussolini |
| March on Rome | planned march of thousands of Fascist supporters to take control of Rome |
| totalitarian state | government in which a one-party dictatorship regulates every aspect of citizens' lives |
| fascism | any centralized, authoritarian government system that is not communist, glorify state over individual, destructive to basic human rights |
| command economy | system by which government officials make all basic economic decisions |
| collectives | large farm owned and operated by peasants as a group |
| kulaks | wealthy peasant in the Soviet Union in the 1930s |
| Gulag | in the Soviet Union, a system of forced labor camps in which millions of criminals and political prisoners were held under Stalin |
| socialist realism | artistic style whose goal was to promote socialism by showing Soviet life in a positive light |
| russification | making a nationality's culture more ethnically Russian |
| atheism | belief that there is no god |
| Comintern | Communist International, international association of communist parties led by the Soviet Union for the purpose of encouraging worldwide communist revolution |
| chancellor | the highest official of a monarch, prime minister |
| Ruhr Valley | coal-rich industrial region of Germany |
| Third Riech | official name of the Nazi Party, held power from 1933-1945 |
| Gestapo | secret police of the Nazi Party |
| Nuremberg laws | laws approved by the Nazi Party in 1935, depriving Jews of German citizenship and taking some rights away from them. |
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