G.S. 3-20 Flashcards
(1) The ban on manufacturing and selling alcoholic beverages that lasted from 1919 until 1933 is called… (2) Which amendment created this?
(1) prohibition
(2) 18th amendment
Illegal bars that people attended during prohibition
speakeasy
An African American cultural movement in the 1920s and 1930s
Harlem Renaissance
What was the name of the Austrian physician who pioneered psychoanalysis, a method of studying how the mind works and treating mental disorders
Sigmund Freud
A painful time of global economic collapse, starting in 1929 and lasting until about 1939
The Great Depression
In 1922, who reached an agreement with Britain to become a self-governing free nation?
Ireland
he reduction of armed forces and weapons is called
disarmament
The central banking system of the United States, which regulates banks
Federal Reserve
An international agreement signed by almost every nation in 1928, to stop using war as a method of national policy
KellogBrian pact
Any centralized, authoritarian government system that is not communist whose policies glorify the state over the individual and are destructive to basic human rights
fascism
Name of the fascist leader in Italy from 1922 – 1945
Benito Mussolini
A planned march of thousands of fascist supporters to take control of Rome in 1922, which led to Mussolini being given the legal right to control Italy
March on Rome
Members of the militant combat squads of Italian fascists set up under Mussolini
Black Shirts
A government in which a one-party dictatorship regulates every aspect of citizens’ lives
totalitarian
Under Stalin’s regime in Russia, it became a state policy that citizens maintain the belief that there is no god. This is called
atheism
What was the name for the wealthy farmers who resisted collectivization in Russia?
kulaks
In the Soviet Union, a system of forced labor camps in which millions of criminals and political prisoners were held under Stalin
gulags
The type of economy in which government officials make all basic economic decisions
command economy
A series of nationwide economic plans under Stalin that focused on building heavy industry and improving transportation
Five Years plan
Hostility or prejudice against Jewish people
anti-semitism
Laws approved by the Nazi party in 1935, depriving Jews of German citizenship as well as taking away other rights
Nuremberg Laws
While in prison, Hitler wrote a book that would become a guide for future Nazi goals and ideologies. The book translates to mean “My struggle”
Mein Kampf
The government in Germany from 1919 to 1933, which hoped to bring an end to Germany’s post war economic and political problems
Weimar Republic
Secret police in Nazi Germany
Gestapo
On November 9 and 10, 1938, Hitler staged a Nazi-led attack on Jewish communities all over Germany, Austria, and portions of Czechoslovakia called
Night of Broken Glass “Kristallnacht”
