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Interwar Years
Terms associated with the years between WWI and WWII
Term | Definition |
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Credit | An arrangement by which a purchaser borrows money from a bank or other lender and agrees to pay it back over time |
Black Tuesday | October 29, 1929, the day that the United States stock market crashed |
Great Depression | (1929–1930s) a severe worldwide depression that followed the collapse of the United States stock market; prices and wages fell, business activity slowed, and unemployment rose. |
New Deal | U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s plan of economic relief, recovery, and reforms for the country during the Great Depression |
Fascism | a totalitarian system of government that focuses on the good of the state rather than on the good of the individual citizens |
Totalitarianism | Form of government in which the person or party in charge has absolute control over all aspects of life |
Nazi Party | National Socialist Party; fascist political party of Adolf Hitler governed on totalitarian lines and advocating German racial superiority |
Gulag | A Soviet forced labor camp or prison, used especially for political dissidents |
Anti-Semitism | Hostility or prejudice towards Jews. |
Nuremberg Laws | Nazi laws that eliminated citizenship and many civil and property rights for Jews. |
Kristallnacht | (1938) "night of broken glass"; an event that occurred on the nights of November 9 and 10 in which Hitler’s Nazis encouraged Germans to riot against Jews; nearly 100 Jews died |
Communism | Economic and political system in which government owns the means of production and controls economic planning |