Chapter 15 Vocab Flashcards
The right of unions to negotiate with employers over wages and hours
Collective bargaining
A period of low economic activity and rising unemployment
Depression
When government pays out more money than it takes in through taxation, and other revenues, thus going into debt
Deficit spending
favoring or enforcing strict obedience to authority, especially that of the government, at the expense of personal freedom.
Authoritarian
a ruler with total power over a country, typically one who has obtained power by force.
Dictator
Government that aims to control the political, economic, social, intellectual and cultural lives of its citizens
Totalitarian state
A political philosophy that glorifies the state above the individual by emphasizing the need for a strong central government led by a dictatorial rule
Fascism
is a set of political beliefs associated with the Nazi Party of Germany.
Nazism
is thus a form of socialism—a higher and more advanced form, according to its advocates.
Communism
A system in which private farms are eliminated and peasants work land owned by the governement
Collectivization
was an Italian politician, journalist, and leader of the National Fascist Party
Benito Mussolini
was the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953
Joseph Stalin
was an Austrian-born German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party
Adolfo hitler
hostility to or prejudice against Jews.
Anti semitism