in between wars matching Flashcards

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Expatriates

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people who left their native country to live elsewhere, usually Paris

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The Lost Generation

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Many American writers, musicians, and painters left the US to live in Europe

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Weimar Republic

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Germanys new democratic government set up in 1919

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Dawes Plan

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Provided $200 million loan from American banks to stabalize the German currency

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Kellogg-Briand Pact

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almost every country in the world pledged to “renounce war as an instrument of national policy”

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surrealism

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art movement that linked the world of dreams with real life, called upon the unconscious of the mind

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Cubism

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Pablo Picasso

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Theory of Relativity

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while the speed of light is constant, other things that seem constant such as space and time, are not

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Existentialism

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Each person creates her own meaning in life through choices made and actions taken, no universal meaning of life

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Sigmund Freud

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Austrian Physician for patients with psychological problems, created theory about human mind

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New Deal

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government reform program in response to the Great Depression

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Stock Market Crash

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Price of stock plummeted to a new low, market collapsed

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Treaty of Versailles

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Made Germany pay war reparations and lower military amount

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14
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Charlie Chaplin

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comedian

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15
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Charles Lindberg

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first to fly the atlantic

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Charles Lindberg

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first to fly the atlantic

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Albert Einstein

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new ideas of space, time, energy, and matter

theory of relativity

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Age of ANxiety

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brutality of the war caused writers and philosophers to question ideas about reason and progress

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Coalition Government

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temporary alliance of several parties was needed to get majority vote in Parliament