chapter 31 Flashcards
Scientist who had startling new ideas on space, time, energy, and matter in the 1900s.
Einstein
He treated patients with psychological problems.
Freud
Poet of the Wasteland, drained of hope and faith.
Eliot
Jean Paul Sartre lead a philosophical movement called _____.
Existentialism
_____ wrote that Western ideas such as reason, democracy, and progress had stifled people’s creativity and actions. He urged a return to the ancient heroic values of pride, assertiveness, and strength.
Nietzsche
Pablo Picasso started the _____ school in art in Spain in 1907.
Cubism
This was a uniquely African-American musical style popular in Chicago in the 1920s.
Jazz
She was arrested for speaking in favor of birth control in the 1920s.
Goldman
_______ were now sleek and brightly polished, complete with headlights and chrome-plated bumpers in the late 1920s and 1930s.
Cars
He captured world attention with a 33-hour solo airplane flight from New York to Paris in 1927.
Lindbergh
First commercial radio broadcasting station in 1920.
KDKA
He was a comic genius best known for his portrayal of the lonely little tramp bewildered by life in the movies in the 1920s.
Chaplin
______ governments were a temporary alliance of several parties, was needed to form a parliamentary majority.
Coalition
The Weimar Republic became the de-facto ______ government after World War I.
Germany
_____ was the major economic problem in Germany in the early 1920s.
Inflation
The Kellogg-Briand Pact was “to renounce _______ as an instrument of national policy.”
War
In 1929, the ______ crashed signally a world wide depression during the 1930s.
Stock market
During a depression, unemployment rates ______.
Rise
Franklin Roosevelt’s solution for the Great Depression was called _____.
New Deal
______ is a new, militant political movement that emphasized loyalty to the state and obedience to its leader.
Fascism
Dictator of Italy.
Mussolini
Nickname for Mussolini.
Il Duce
Dictator of Germany.
Hitler
Dominant political party in Germany from 1933-1945.
Nazis
Also known as The Fuhrer.
Hitler
Hitler’s book.
Mein Kampf
German need for Living Space as outlined in Hitler’s book.
Lebensraum
German title for head of government.
Chancellor
German secret police that enforced total obedience of the German people to Nazi rules.
Gestapo
The group of people that Hitler hated the most.
Jews
By 1935, Czechoslovakia was the last remaining _____ in all eastern Europe.
Democracy
This country desired to make an Asian Empire for Asians.
Japan
The _____ protested the Japanese invasion of Manchuria but the Japanese ignored the protests.
League of nations
This Chinese city would be the object of Japanese atrocities in 1937 where tens of thousands were killed.
Nanjing
Mussolini attacks this independent African country in 1935.
Ethiopia
Hitler violates the Versailles Peace Treaty when he occupies _____, a portion of Western Germany in 1936.
Rhineland
British and French Policy toward Hitler in an effort to keep the peace.
Appeasement
The alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan was called the ____.
Axis
Spanish Dictator.
Franco
US policy in the 1930s to avoid world political issues.
Isolationism
The _____ (two words) was the name of the German Empire of the 1930s-1940s.
Third reich
An appeasement agreement was signed at the ______ conference in 1938.
Munich
Hitler signed a non-aggression pact with this country in 1939 so that he could begin world war II.
Soviet union
British prime minister who rejected appeasement and would fight to the end if necessary.
Churchill
