Chapter 16 Flashcards

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Prohibition

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a ban on the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages in the United States from 1920 to 1933

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Flapper

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in the United States and Europe in the 1920s, a rebellious young woman

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Speakeasies

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Illegal bars

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Psychoanalysis

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a method of studying how the mind works and treating mental disorders

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Abstract

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style of art composed of lines, colors, and shapes, sometimes with no recognizable subject matter at all

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Dada

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artistic movement in which artists rejected tradition and produced works that often shocked their viewers

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Surrealism

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artistic movement that attempts to portray the workings of the unconscious mind

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Disarmament

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reduction of armed forces and weapons

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General strike

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strike by workers in many different industries at the same time

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Overproduction

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condition in which production of goods exceeds the demand for them

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Finance

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the management of money matters including the circulation of money, loans, investments, and banking

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New Deal

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a massive package of economic and social programs established by FDR to help Americans during the Great Depression

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Totalitarian state

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government in which a one-party dictatorship regulates every aspect of citizens’ lives

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Fascism

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any centralized, authoritarian government system that is not communist whose policies glorify the state over the individual and are destructive to basic human rights

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Command economy

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system in which government officials make all basic economic decisions

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Collectives

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large farm owned and operated by peasants as a group

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Kulaks

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wealthy peasant in the Soviet Union in the 1930s

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Socialist realism

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artistic style whose goal was to promote socialism by showing Soviet life in a positive light

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Russification

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making a nationality’s culture more ethnically Russian

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Atheism

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belief that there is no god

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the highest official of a monarch, prime minister

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Chancellor

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Gestapo

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secret police in Nazi Germany