vocab Flashcards
What is appeasement?
The making of concessions to an aggressor in order to avoid war.
What is a coalition government?
A government controlled by a temporary alliance of several political parties.
What is existentialism?
A philosophy based on the idea that people give meaning to their lives through their choices and actions.
What is fascism?
A philosophy based on the idea that people give meaning to their lives through their choices and actions.
What was the Great Depression?
The severe economic slump that followed the collapse of the U.S. stock market in 1929.
What is isolationism?
A policy of avoiding political or military involvement with other countries.
What does Lebensraum mean?
“Living space” —the additional territory that, according to Adolf Hitler, Germany needed because it was overcrowded.
What is Mein Kampf?
“My Struggle” —a book written by Adolf Hitler during his imprisonment in 1923-1924, in which he set forth his beliefs and his goals for Germany.
What was the Munich Conference?
A 1938 meeting of representatives from Britain, France, Italy, and Germany, at which Britain and France agreed to allow Nazi Germany to annex part of Czechoslovakia in return for Adolf Hitler’s pledge to respect Czechoslovakia’s new borders.
What is Nazism?
The fascist policies of the National Socialist German Workers’ party, based on totalitarianism, a belief in racial superiority, and state control of industry.
What is the New Deal?
U.S. president Franklin Roosevelt’s economic reform program designed to solve the problems created by the Great Depression.
What is surrealism?
A 20th-century artistic movement that focuses on the workings of the unconscious mind.
What is the Theory of Relativity?
Albert Einstein’s ideas about the interrelationships between time and space and between energy and matter.
What was the Third Reich?
The Third German Empire, established by Adolf Hitler in the 1930s.
What was the Weimar Republic?
The republic that was established in Germany in 1919 and ended in 1933.
