Irluenza Pandemic Flashcards
Irluenza Pandemic
An Influenza pandemic is an epidemic of an influenza virus that spreads on a worldwide scale and infects a large proportion of the world population.
Surrealism
Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings.
Cubism
Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music, literature and architecture.
Jazz
The Jazz Age was a period in the 1920s, ending with the Great Depression, in which jazz music and dance styles became popular, mainly in the United States, but also in Britain, France and elsewhere.
Functionalis
belief in or stress on the practical application of a thing, in particular.
Prohibition Era
Prohibition in the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages that remained in place from 1920 to 1933.
Black Tuesday
Black Tuesday refers to October 29, 1929, when panicked sellers traded nearly 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange (four times the normal volume at the time), and the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell -12%.
Great Depression
The Great Depression was an economic slump in North America, Europe, and other industrialized areas of the world that began in 1929 and lasted until about 1939.
The New Deal
The New Deal was a group of U.S. government programs of the 1930s.
FDR
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, commonly known as FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.
Maginot Line
The Maginot Line, named after the French Minister of War André Maginot, was a line of concrete fortifications, obstacles, and weapon installations built by France in the 1930s to deter invasion by Germany.
Ramsey McDonald
a British statesman who was the first Labour Party Prime Minister, leading Labour governments in 1924.
Irish Republican Army
The Provisional Irish Republican Army was an Irish republican paramilitary organization that sought to remove Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom and to bring about an independent republic encompassing all of Ireland.
The Easter Rising
The Easter Rising, also known as the Easter Rebellion, was an armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week, April 1916.
The Weimar Republic
Weimar Republic is an unofficial, historical designation for the German state between 1919 and 1933.
Mohandas Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was the leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India.
Igbo Women’s War of 1929
The Women’s War’ or Aba Women’s Riots was an insurrection in British Nigeria which occurred in November 1929.
Kenya
Kenya is a country in East Africa with coastline on the Indian Ocean. It encompasses savannah, lakelands, the dramatic Great Rift Valley and mountain highlands.
