bob jr:( Flashcards
A period of low economic activity caused by the stock market crash. Many people lost their jobs because people couldn’t afford to hit goods factories were producing.
The Great Depression
The rate of increase in prices over a given period of time.
Inflation.
Inflation that is “out of control”when prices increase very fast as money loses its value.
Hyperinflation
Hatred towards Jews.
Anti-semitism
Mass murder of a group of people
Ex: The Holocaust
Genocide
The imprisonment torture in murder and 6 million Jews during World War II by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.
Holocaust
Jewish businesses, synagogues were destroyed- Jews were sent to concentration camps.
Kristallnacht
Leader of great britan during World War II. Named the iron curtain
Winston Churchill
President of the US during the Cuban missile crisis. he ordered a blockage around Cuba until the Soviets removed the missiles from Cuba
John F. Kennedy
Leader of the Soviet union and saw the signs of communism failing and wanted to save his country. However, the Soviet union collapsed into separate countries.
Mikhail Gorbachev
The effort to stop the spread of communism during the Cold War
Containment
An imaginary line that divided communist Eastern Europe (bloc) from free market and democratic western (bloc) Europe
Iron Curtain
A period of distrust and misunderstanding beteeen the Soviet Union and the us
Cold war
) Western European countries plus the United States and Canada formed this pact
North Atlantic treaty origination (NATO
The eastern (communism) European countries formed this pact
Warsaw pact
