Chapter 21

Question 1

Influenza Pandemic

Answer 1

An Influenza pandemic is an epidemic of an influenza virus that spreads on a worldwide scale and infects a large proportion of the world population.

Question 2

Surrealism

Answer 2

Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings.

Question 3

Cubism

Answer 3

Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music, literature and architecture.

Question 4

Jazz

Answer 4

Jazz is a music genre that originated amongst African Americans in New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from …

Question 5

Functionalism

Answer 5

belief in or stress on the practical application of a thing, in particular.

Question 6

Prohibition Era

Answer 6

the action of forbidding something, especially by law.

Question 7

Black Tuesday

Answer 7

October 29, 1929. On this date, share prices on the New York Stock Exchange completely collapsed, becoming a pivotal factor in the emergence of the Great Depression.

Question 8

Great Depression

Answer 8

the economic crisis and period of low business activity in the U.S. and other countries, roughly beginning with the stock-market crash in October, 1929, and continuing through most of the 1930s.

Question 9

The New Deal

Answer 9

A group of government programs and policies established under President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930s;

Question 10

FDR

Answer 10

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, commonly known as FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.

Question 11

Maginot Line

Answer 11

The Maginot Line, named after the French Minister of War André Maginot, was a line of concrete fortifications, obstacles, and weapon installations built by France in the 1930s to deter invasion by Germany.

Question 12

Ramsay McDonald

Answer 12

James Ramsay MacDonald, FRS was a British statesman who was the first Labour Party Prime Minister, leading Labour governments in 1924, 1929–1931 and, having been expelled from the party he had helped .

Question 13

Irish Republican Army

Answer 13

The Provisional Irish Republican Army was an Irish republican paramilitary organization that sought to remove Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom and to bring about an independent republic encompassing all of Ireland.

Question 14

The Easter Rising

Answer 14

The Easter Rising, also known as the Easter Rebellion, was an armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week, April 1916.

Question 15

The Weimar Republic

Answer 15

Weimar Republic is an unofficial, historical designation for the German state between 1919 and 1933. The name derives from the city of Weimar, where its constitutional assembly first took place.

Question 16

Mohandas Gandhi

Answer 16

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was the leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India.

Question 17

Igbo Women War of 1929

Answer 17

Aba Women’s Riots (November-December 1929) The “riots” or the war, led by women in the provinces of Calabar and Owerri in southeastern Nigeria in November and December of 1929, became known as the “Aba Women’s Riots of 1929” in British colonial history, or as the “Women’s War” in Igbo history.

Question 18

Kenya

Answer 18

Kenya is a country in East Africa with coastline on the Indian Ocean. It encompasses savannah, lakelands, the dramatic Great Rift Valley and mountain highlands. It’s also home to wildlife like lions, elephants and rhinos. From Nairobi, the capital, safaris visit the Maasai Mara Reserve, known for its annual wildebeest migrations, and Amboseli National Park, offering views of Tanzania’s 5,895m Mt. Kilimanjaro.

Question 19

Pan-Africanism

Answer 19

relating to all people of African birth or descent.

Question 20

Civil Disobedience

Answer 20

Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government, or of an occupying international power.

Question 21

Indian National Congress

Answer 21

The Indian National Congress is a broad-based political party in India. Founded in 1885, the Congress led India to independence from Great Britain, and powerfully influenced other anti-colonial nationalist movements in the British Empire

Question 22

Mussolini

Answer 22

Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian politician, journalist, and leader of the National Fascist Party, ruling the country as Prime Minister from 1922 to 1943.

Question 23

Stalin

Answer 23

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953.

Question 24

The Black shirts

Answer 24

Black Shirts, colloquial term originally used to refer to the members of the Fasci di combattimento, units of the Fascist organization founded in Italy in Mar., 1919, by Benito Mussolini. A black shirt was the most distinctive part of their uniform. The Black Shirts were mainly discontented ex-soldiers.

Question 25

Corporate State

Answer 25

Corporate statism or state corporatism is a political culture and a form of corporatism whose adherents hold that the corporate group which is the basis of society is the state. The state requires all members of a particular economic sector to join an officially designated interest group.

Question 26

Egypt

Answer 26

Egypt, a country linking northeast Africa with the Middle East, dates to the time of the pharaohs. Millennia-old monuments sit along the fertile Nile River Valley, including Giza’s colossal Pyramids and Great Sphinx as well as Luxor’s hieroglyph-lined Karnak Temple and Valley of the Kings tombs. The capital, Cairo, is home to Ottoman landmarks like Muhammad Ali Mosque and the Egyptian Museum, a trove of antiquities.

Question 27

Adolf Hitler

Answer 27

Adolf Hitler was a German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party, Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and Führer of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945.

Question 28

Anglo

Answer 28

Anglo is a prefix indicating a relation to the Angles, England, the English people, or the English language, such as in the term Anglo-Saxon language. It is often used alone, somewhat loosely, to refer to people of British Isles descent in the Americas, New Zealand, South Africa and Australia.

Question 29

Egyptian Treat y

Answer 29

Umm Ali, Egyptian sweet pastry pudding.

Question 30

Five Year plan

Answer 30

especially in the former Soviet Union) a government plan for economic development over five years. The first such plan in the Soviet Union was inaugurated in 1928.

Question 31

Command Economy

Answer 31

an economy in which production, investment, prices, and incomes are determined centrally by a government.

Question 32

Ghana

Answer 32

Ghana, a nation on West Africa’s Gulf of Guinea, is known for diverse wildlife, old forts and secluded beaches, such as at Busua.