World History

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Friedrich Nietzsche

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Wrote that western ideas such as reason, democracy, and progress has shifted people’s creativity and actions

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Existentialism

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Belief that there is no universal meaning to life

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Charles Lindbergh

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Captured world attention with a 33-hour solo flight from New York to Paris

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Coalition government

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Temporary alliance of several parties

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Weimar Republic

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Established in Germany in 1919 and ended in 1933

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Great Depression

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The severe economic slump that followed the collapse of the u.s stock market in 1929

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Elected 1932, won 1933, the new president sought to restore Americans faith in their nation

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New deal

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FDR’s economic reform program designed to solve the problems created by the Great Depression

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Fascism

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Political movement that promotes an extreme form of nationalism, a denial of individual rights, and a dictorial one party rule

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Benito Mussolini

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Newspaper editor & politician promised to rescue Italy by reviving its economy and rebuilding its armed forces

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March on Rome

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March by which Italian dictator Benito Mussolinis national fascist party, came to power in the kingdom of Italy, to place from 22-29

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Adolf Hitler ( 1889-1945 )

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Political leader whose early life had been marked by disappointment

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Nazism

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It’s policies formed the German brand of fascism

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Mein Kampf

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Book wrote by Hitler while in jail, set forth his beliefs and his goals for Germany

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Lebernsraum

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Living space

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Appeasement

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Giving in to an aggressor to keep peace

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Axis powers

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In world war 2, the nations of Germany, Italy, and Japan, which had formed an alliance in 1936

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Francisco Franco

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General alongside Hitler in a revolt

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Kellogg Briand pact

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International agreement in which signatory states promise not to use war to resolve

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Disarmament

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Reduction or withdrawal of military forces and weapons

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Isolationism

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Belief that political ties to other countries should be avoided

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Third Reich

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3rd German Empire established by Adolf Hitler in the 1930s

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Gestapo

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Official secret police of Nazi Germany and German occupied Europe

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Nuremberg laws

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Anti-Jewish statues enacted by Germany on September 15, 1935 Marking a major step in clarifying racial policy

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Munich conference

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Settlement permitting nazi Germany annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia along the country’s borders mainly inhabited by German speakers