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Ch.15 history
vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Albert Einstein | offered radical new ideas to the field of physics |
| Theory of relativity | idea that space and time are not consatnt |
| Sigund Freud | Austrian doctor with new ideas about the mind |
| existentialism | no universal meaning of life |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | urges return to ancient heroic values |
| Surrealism | art movemnet that links dreams to real life |
| Jazz | musical style that captures age's new freedom |
| Charles Lindbergh | 1st to fly alone across the Atlantic |
| coalition gov'ts | temporary, multi-party alliances |
| Weimar Republic | Germany's democratic gov't formed in 1919 |
| Great Depression | long business slump of 1930s |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | American presidenmt during the Depression |
| New deal | Roosevelt's program of gov't reform to improve economy |
| Facism | new political movement that emphasized loyalty to the state and obidence to its leader |
| Benito Mussolini | newspaper editor and politician promised to rescue Italy by reviving its ecnomy and rebuiliding its armed forces |
| Adolf Hitler | little-known political leader had been marked by disappointment |
| Nazism | German brand of facism |
| Mein kampf | book by Adolf Hitlerbeliefs and goals for Germany |
| Lebensraum | living space |
| Appeasement | giving in to an aggressor to keep peace |
| Axis Powers | aggrement with Japan, Germany, Italy |
| Francisco Franco | general of fascist-style gov't |
| Isolationaism | beleif that political ties to other countries should be avoided |
| Third Rech | Hitler's plan to absorb Austria and Czechoslovakia |
| Munich Conference | held on September 29, 1938 |