Chapter 15 Vocabulary

Question 0

Collective bargaining

Answer 0

The right of unions to negotiate with employees over wages and hours

Question 1

Depression

Answer 1

A period of low economic activity and rising unemployment

Question 2

Deficit spending

Answer 2

When a government spends more money than it takes in through taxation and other revenues, leading to debt.

Question 3

Authoritarian

Answer 3

Favoring complete obedience or subjection to authority, as opposed to individual freedoms

Question 4

Dictator

Answer 4

A person with absolute power over all

Question 5

Totalitarian state

Answer 5

A government that aims to control the political, economic, social, intellectual, and cultural lives of its citizens.

Question 6

Facism

Answer 6

A political philosophy that glorifies the state above the individual by emphasizing the need for a strong central government led by a dictoral ruler.

Question 7

Nazism

Answer 7

The principles or methods of the nazis.

Question 8

Communism

Answer 8

a theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state

Question 9

Collectivization

Answer 9

A system in which private farms are eliminated and peasants work land owned by government

Question 10

Benito Mussolini

Answer 10

Italian facist leader. Created the group later known as Facism

Question 11

Joseph Stalin

Answer 11

Soviet political leader, Secretary General of the communist party

Question 12

Adolf hitler

Answer 12

Nazi dictator of Germany

Question 13

Anti-semitism

Answer 13

Discrimination against the Jews