Chapter 26 - Illusion of Stability 1919-1930

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Characterizing the decades distinctive cultural edge in New York City, Chicago, Paris, Berlin, London, and many other major cities during a period of sustained economic prosperity emphasizing the era’s social, artistic, and cultural dynamism
jazz music blossomed
flapper redefined modern womanhood
Art Deco peaked
cinemas arose
Wall Street Crash 1929 ended the era - Great Depression began

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The Roaring Twenties 1920’s

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American-born French dancer, singer, and actress who became a citizen of France
comic-sensual appeal took Europe by storm

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Josephine Baker

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Chinese revolutionary; first president and founding father of the Republic of China

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Sun Yixien

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Preeminent leader of Indian nationalism in British ruled India employing nonviolent civil disobedience led India to Independence inspired movements for nonviolence civil rights and freedom across the world

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Mohandas Gandhi (Bapu)

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Named after French prime minister of war Andre Maginot
line of concrete fortifications, obstacles, and weapon installations that France constructed along its borders with Germany

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Maginot Line

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Violent anti-democratic movement founded by Mussolini
form of radical authoritarian nationalism that came to prominence in mid 20th century Europe
exalts nation and race above individuals
term encompasses Hitler’s Nazi regime stressing disciplined national solidarity

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Fascism

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Founder of fascism

Italian politician, journalist, and leader of National Fascist Party ruling from 1922 to 1943

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Benito Mussolini

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Established Fascist Italy
not capitalism - the American dream
-involve people not as citizens but as producers
-political or social organization of people into corporate groups such as agriculture, business, ethnic, labor, military, etc. on basis of common interests

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Corporativisim

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Italian Socialist politician alleging that the fascist committed fraud in elections

assassinated by Fascist

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Matteotti

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Treaty between Italy and Vatican signed by Mussolini

recognized Vatican City as a sovereign and independent papal state

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Lateran? Pact

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American mechanical engineer sought to improve industrial efficiency
devised scientific management to create ultimate efficient work environment

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Frederick W Taylor

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American industrialist founder of the Ford Motor Company sponsor of development of assembly-line technique of mass production
he did not invent the first automobile but manufactured the first automobile

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Henry Ford

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De facto leader of Soviet Union mid 1920s to 1953
one of the most murderous dictators in history

jettisoned the new economic policy instituted program of crash industrial is an agricultural collectivism

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Joseph Stalin

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Russian Marxist; revolutionary theorist; first leader of the red Army

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Leon Trotsky

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Third International
International communist organization initiated in Moscow 1919

to translate their success in Russia into leadership of the international Socialist movement

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Comintern

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Russian economic liberalization measure aimed at reviving economy in crisis restored considerable scope for private enterprise and allowed peasants to sell some of their harvest

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New Economic Policy

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American aviator who made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927

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Charles Lindbergh

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German statesman of Weimar Republic; secured a reduction of Germany’s reparation payments and negotiated the Treaty of Locarno paving way for Germany’s entry into the League of Nations in 1926

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Gustav Stresemann

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Foreign Minister of France who helped Stresemann improve international relations that loved optimism during the late 1920’s

Co-Laureate of 1926 Nobel Peace Prize

Served 11 terms

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Aristide Briand

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Name given to Federal Republic and Parliamentary representative democracy established 1919 in Germany to replace the Imperial form of government

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Weimar Republic

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1924

Plan to attempt to stabilize Weimar Germany’s economy after WWI

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Dawes Plan

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• One of the most influential authors of the 20th century
• German language writer of novels and short stories
• influenced genres such as existentialism
• works “Die Verwandung” “Der Process”

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Franz Kafka

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German historian, philosopher of history, wrote “The Decline of the West”
new theory that lifespan is limited and ultimately decay

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Spengler

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Italian idealist, philosopher, historian, humanist of the first half of the 20th century
President of PEN International worldwide writers Association

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Croce

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Spanish liberal philosopher and essayist

first half of the 20th century

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Gasset

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English writer
formost Modernist of 20th century
wrote “Mrs. Dalloway”, “To the Lighthouse”, “A Room of One’s Own”

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Virginia Woolf

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A literary and artistic movement that emerged in Paris early 1920s Saught to explore subconscious which is believed to hold something liberating for human beings

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Surrealism

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Influential German art school 1919
sought to adopt contemporary materials to develop new forms of architecture, design, and urban planning in response to cultural uncertainty that followed World War I

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Bauhaus