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WH Ch 19
vocab ch 19
Term | Definition |
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influenza pandemic | flu-like epidemic that killed more that 20 mn. people worldwide during 1918 and 1919 |
surrealism | Artistic style that brings conscious and unconscious ideas together to portray life in a dreamlike way. |
jazz | New form of music that originated in the 1920s among African American communities in New Orleans |
cubism | Artistic style that emphasizes geometric designs, using shapes such as cubes, flat planes, and spheres |
dadaists | Group of artists who used random images to reflect what they considered the insanity of war |
functionalism | Style of architecture in which a building is designed for its specific use rather that according to a particular style |
international style | Style of architecture that included uninterrupted expanses of steel and glass |
flappers | |
prohibition | |
Gertrude Stein | |
Lost Generation | |
Franz Kafka | |
James Joyce | |
T. S. Eliot | |
Igor Stravinsky | |
Pablo Picasso | |
Salvador Dali | |
Ch'i Pai-shih | |
Louis Sulivan | |
Frank Lloyd Wright | |
economic nationalism | |
market speculations | |
Black Tuesday | |
Great Depression | |
Herbert Hoover | |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
New Deal | |
Social Security Act | |
general strike | |
nationalization | |
Maginot Line | |
Locarno Pact | |
Popular Front | |
Léon Blum | |
Ramsay MacDonald | |
Easter Rising | |
Sinn Fein | |
Irish Republican Army | |
fascism | |
corporatist state | |
Benito Mussolini | |
Black Shirts | |
Adolf Hitler | |
Nazi Party | |
Third Reich | |
Rome-Berlin Axis | |
collective farms | |
command economy | |
purge | |
New Economic Policy | |
Leon Trotsky | |
Joseph Stalin | |
Five-Year Plan | |
Politburo | |
Comintern |