Chapter 16 Flashcards
Prohibition
a ban on the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages in the United States from 1920 to 1933
Flapper
in the United States and Europe in the 1920s, a rebellious young woman
Speakeasies
Illegal bars
Psychoanalysis
a method of studying how the mind works and treating mental disorders
Abstract
style of art composed of lines, colors, and shapes, sometimes with no recognizable subject matter at all
Dada
artistic movement in which artists rejected tradition and produced works that often shocked their viewers
Surrealism
artistic movement that attempts to portray the workings of the unconscious mind
Disarmament
reduction of armed forces and weapons
General strike
strike by workers in many different industries at the same time
Overproduction
condition in which production of goods exceeds the demand for them
Finance
the management of money matters including the circulation of money, loans, investments, and banking
New Deal
a massive package of economic and social programs established by FDR to help Americans during the Great Depression
Totalitarian state
government in which a one-party dictatorship regulates every aspect of citizens’ lives
Fascism
any centralized, authoritarian government system that is not communist whose policies glorify the state over the individual and are destructive to basic human rights
Command economy
system in which government officials make all basic economic decisions
Collectives
large farm owned and operated by peasants as a group
Kulaks
wealthy peasant in the Soviet Union in the 1930s
Socialist realism
artistic style whose goal was to promote socialism by showing Soviet life in a positive light
Russification
making a nationality’s culture more ethnically Russian
Atheism
belief that there is no god
the highest official of a monarch, prime minister
Chancellor
Gestapo
secret police in Nazi Germany
