Chapter 28 Flashcards
African American musicians combine western harmonies with African rhythms to create
Jazz
While Europe recovered from War the ____________ experienced boom time
United States
Played the trumpet
Louis Armstrong
Who plated the piano
Duke Ellington
Which was a liberal young women-first originated in America but soon Europeans adopted the style
Flapper
Had become common in middle class homes. Example, washing machines, vacuum cleaners, and canned foods
Labor-saving
Is the ban on the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages
Prohibition Movement
Illegal bars (called this because when speaking about them you spoke quietly or easily)
Speakeasies
Swept across rural areas of the United States. They believed in traditional christian ideas about Jesus. They also believed that all the events in the bible were literally true
Fundamentalist movement
A biology teacher that was tried for teaching evolution to his classroom, his action broke a law that barred any teaching that went against the bible’s story of creation. Was found guilty in the “Scopes Trail”
John T. Scopes
Exposed the grim horrors of modern warfare
All Quiet on the Western Front
Consisted of African American writers and artists who expressed their pride in their unique culture
Harlem Renaissance
Wrote “Eyes Were Watching God”
Zora Neale
Found that atoms of certain elements
Marie Curie
Introduced theories of relativity. Argued that measurement of space and time are not absolute, but are determined by the relative position of the observer
Albert Einstein
Was that the universe was like a machine operating according to absolute laws
Newtonian Science
The splitting of atoms
Fission
Discovered a type of non toxic acid mold that kills bacteria
Alexander Flemining
Non toxic mold that kills bacteria
Penicillin
Which are used all over the world to treat infections
Antibiotics
Challenged faith in reason
Sigmund Freud
Personality theory
Psychoanalysis
is the set of uncoordinated instinctual trends
Ids
Plays the critical and moralizing role
Superego
Is a realistic part that mediates between the desires of the id and the super-ego
Ego
Used good, wild strokes of color and odd distortion a to produce works of strong emotion
Henri Matisse
Who was a spanish artist create a revolutionary new style called cubism
Pablo Picasso
Which was composed of only lines, colors and shapes
Abstract
Which rejected all traditional conventions and believed that there was no sense or truth in the world
Dada
Which was inspired from cubism and dad attempted to portray the workings of the unconscious mind
Surrealism
Led to social unrest and made radical ideas more popular
Economic problems
Consisted of upper class, professionals, and farmers
Conservative party
The U.S. Emerged from WWI for two reasons
- There was no personal destruction of their country
2. They did not suffer from extreme casualties, because they entered the war late
Led the way for growing immigration laws in the U.S.
Red Scare
To prevent war the French built massive fortifications called
Maginot
Was sponsored by the U.S. In The 1928 echoed the hopeful spirt of the time. The pact included almost every independent nation to sign an agreement to renounce war as an instrument of national policy
Kellogg-Briand Pact
The reduction of armed forced and weapons
Disarment
Is a condition in which the production of goods exceeds the demands for them
Overproduction
Finance is the management of money matters, including the circulation of money, loans, and investments, and banking
Financial crisis
Is a painful time of global economic collapse had begun in the summer of 1929
Great Depression
Argued that the government had to take an active role in combating the Great Depressionl
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Was a massive package of economic and social program
New deal
The son of a socialist blacksmith and a teacher he had been a socialist in his youth
Benito Mussolini
Party of militants, rejected the democratic process in favor of violent action
Black Shirts
To describe any centralized, authoritarian government that is not communist whose policies glorify
Fascism
In which government officials made all basic economic decisions
Command economy
Are large farms owned and operated by peasants as a group. Increased Stalin’s control of peasantry (by controlling the food) but still did not grow food production
Collectives
A system of brutal labor camps (where many died)
Gulag
Stalin required artists and writers to create their works in a style called. It’s goal was to show Soviet life in a positive way and promote hope in the communist future
Socialist realism
Making nationality culture more Russian
Russification
The u.s.s.r was made up of _____ soviet socialist republics
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The belief that there is no God, became an official state policy
Atheism
Tired to follow mussolini’s example by staging a small scale coup in Munich. In 1919 he joined a small group of right wing extremists. Despised the Weimar government and later became leader of the NAtional Social Germany Worker Party. He failed to seize power and was arrested in 1923
Adolf Hitler
The city of Weimar created a democratic government.
Weimar Republic
Prime minister
Chancellor
German workers of Ruhr Valley protested by using passive resistance
Ruhr Valley
Hitler wrote his Manifesto-
It became the basis book of nazi goals and ideology and was about Hitlers obsession, extreme nationalism, racism, and anti-Semitism
Mein Kampf (my struggle)
As unemployment grew Nazi party membership grew to almost a
Million
Root out any opposition
Gestapo
Deprived Jews of German citizenship and place severe restrictions on them
Nuremberg Law
