Unit 5 review Flashcards
Rasputin
Rasputin was an illiterate peasant that self proclaimed himself a “holy man”. The tsarina came to him hoping that he could help her son.
Nicholas II
Nicholas II was the last czar of Russia.
Lenin
Lenin promised to pull Russian troops out of World War I, and he became the first communist president.
Bolsheviks
Bolsheviks were the communist group that took over Russia after the civil war.
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ended Russian participation in World War I.
Gandhi
Gandhi launched several nonviolent actions against British rule.
Boycott
Boycott is to withdraw from an event, commercial, or social relations as a punishment or a protest.
Flappers
Flappers were young women that rejected old ways in favor of new exciting freedom.
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter and sculptor. He is known as one of the best artists of all time.
5 Years Plan
The 5 years plan was a plan to increase industrial output and agricultural output.
Kulaks
Kulaks were peasants that worked on the huge farms.
Chancellor
Chancellor was the title held by the prime minister.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein was best known for being one of the greatest physicists of all time and saying E=Mc squared.
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud was an Austrian physician who challenged faith in reason.
Charles Lindbergh
Charles Lindbergh was an American aviator who is best known for flying across the Atlantic Ocean in his monoplane, Spirit of St. louis.
Weimar Republic
The Weimar Republic signed the Treaty of Versailles.
Margin
Margin is buying stocks for 20% of their value.
Great Depression
The Great Depression was a financial panic that started with the stock market crash in the United States, banks closed, under consumption, overproduction, and uneven distribution of wealth.
Collectivization
Collectivization is the forcible consolidation of peasant farmers into large state controlled farms.
Model T
Model T was one of the most bought cars in the United States that was made using assembly lines and giving many people jobs.
The New Deal
The new deal was Theodore Roosevelt’s slogan when he ran for president.
Untouchables
Untouchables were people of the lowest class, who did the dirtiest work for a very low pay.
Kellog Briand-Pact
Kellog Briand-Pact said that no country could threaten war.
John Keynes
John Keynes was a British economist who denounced the Treaty of Versailles.
Business Cycle
Business cycle was expansion, peak, contraction, and trough.
Benito Mussolini
Benito Mussolini was the dictator of Italy, that lead them to join the Nazis in World War II.
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was a World War I veteran and the leader of the Nazis.
Gulag
Gulag was a system of labor camps in Russia.
Dada Art
Dada was a type of art that rejected all traditional conventions and believed that there was no sense or truth in the world.
Overproduction
Overproduction was the production of goods that exceeded the demand for them.
Nuremberg Laws
The Nuremberg Laws said that Jews were deprived of German citizenship Jews must wear the yellow star of David as identification
Kristallnacht
The Kristallnacht is when Nazi mobs destroyed Jewish homes and businesses and beat up Jews.
Fascism
A political movement that promotes an extreme form of nationalism, a denial of rights and a dictatorial one-party rule.
Atheism
Atheism is not believing God.
Mein Kampf
Mein Kampf (My struggle) was a book written when Adolf Hitler was in prison.
Venustainia Caranza
Venustainia Caranza was the first elected president in Mexico.
Pan-Africanism
Pan-Africanism emphasized unity and strength of Africans.
Enabling act
Enabling act was the law that gave Hitler dictatorial rule.
Provisional Government
The Provisional Government was a temporary government in Russia that stayed in World War I.
Surrealism
Surrealism is an attempt to portray the working of the unconscious mind.
Good Neighbor Policy
Good Neighbor was FDR’s promise that the U.S will interfere less with Latin America.
Third Reich
Third Reich was the name for Hitler’s Empire.
Speakeasies
Speakeasies were illegal underground bars.
Ruhr Valley
Ruhr Valley was the area France and Belgium entered with troops to take Germany’s things.
