ww1 part B

Question 1

ifluenza pandemic

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an epidemic of an influenza virus that spreads on a worldwide scale and infects a large proportion of the world population

Question 2

surrealism

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a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings

Question 3

cubism

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an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music, literature and architecture.

Question 4

jazz

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Jazz is a music genre that originated amongst African Americans in New Orleans, United States,[1] in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in Blues and Ragtime.[

Question 5

functionalism

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belief in or stress on the practical application of a thing, in particular.

Question 6

prohibition era

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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.

Question 7

black tuesday

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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%. Black Tuesday is often cited as the beginning of the Great Depression.

Question 8

great depression

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an economic slump in North America, Europe, and other industrialized areas of the world that began in 1929 and lasted until about 1939.

Question 9

the new deal

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group of U.S. government programs of the 1930s.

Question 10

fdr

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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.

Question 11

maginot line

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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.

Question 12

ramsey mcdonald

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British statesman who was the first Labour Party Prime Minister, leading Labour governments in 1924

Question 13

irish republican army

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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.

Question 14

the easter rising

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an armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week, April 1916.

Question 15

the weimar republic

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unofficial, historical designation for the German state between 1919 and 1933

Question 16

mohandas gandhi

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the leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India.

Question 17

igbo womens war of 1929

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The “riots” or the war, led by women in the provinces of Calabar and Owerri in southeastern Nigeria in November and December of 1929, became known as the “Aba Women’s Riots of 1929” in British colonial history, or as the “Women’s War” in Igbo history.

Question 18

kenya

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country in East Africa with coastline on the Indian Ocean. It encompasses savannah, lakelands, the dramatic Great Rift Valley and mountain highlands.

Question 19

pan- affricansim

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the principle or advocacy of the political union of all the indigenous inhabitants of Africa

Question 20

civil disobedience

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the active, professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government, or of an occupying international power.

Question 21

indian national congress

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broad-based political party in India

Question 22

mussolini

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an Italian politician, journalist, and leader of the National Fascist Party, ruling the country as Prime Minister from 1922 to 1943.

Question 23

stalin

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was the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953.

Question 24

the black shirts

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colloquial term originally used to refer to the members of the Fasci di combattimento, units of the Fascist organization founded in Italy in Mar., 1919, by Benito Mussolini.

Question 25

corporatist state

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political culture and a form of corporatism whose adherents hold that the corporate group which is the basis of society is the state

Question 26

egypt

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country linking northeast Africa with the Middle East, dates to the time of the pharaohs

Question 27

adolf hitler

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German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party, Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and Führer of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945.

Question 28

anglo

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prefix indicating a relation to the Angles, England, the English people, or the English language, such as in the term Anglo-Saxon language

Question 29

egyptian treaty , kemal

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was one of a series of treaties[3] that the Central Powers signed after their defeat in World War I. Hostilities had already ended with the Armistice of Mudros.

Question 30

five year plan

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former Soviet Union) a government plan for economic development over five years. The first such plan in the Soviet Union was inaugurated in 1928.

Question 31

command economy

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economy in which production, investment, prices, and incomes are determined centrally by a government.

Question 32

ghana

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West Africa’s Gulf of Guinea, is known for diverse wildlife, old forts and secluded beaches, such as at Busua.

Question 33

belgian congo

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Belgian colony in Central Africa between 1908 and 1960 in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Colonial rule in the Congo began in the late 19th century.

Question 34

fasciasm

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an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization.
synony

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pablo pocasso

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known as Pablo Picasso, was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France.

Question 36

abstract expressionism

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post–World War II art movement in American painting, developed in New York in the 1940s.

Question 37

nazi party

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Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (help. · info), abbreviated NSDAP), commonly referred to in English as the Nazi Party (/ˈnɑːtsi/), was a political party in Germany that was active between 1920 and 1945 and practised the ideology of Nazism.

Question 38

mass communication

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imparting or exchanging of information on a large scale to a wide range of people.

Question 39

new economic policy

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based around a tax called prodnalog, which was a tax on food. By introducing a tax, Lenin was essentially admitting that he was taxing something people owned.

Question 40

collective farms

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jointly operated amalgamation of several small farms, especially one owned by the government.

Question 41

purge

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unwanted feeling, memory, or condition, typically giving a sense of cathartic release.

Question 42

authoritarianism

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enforcement or advocacy of strict obedience to authority at the expense of personal freedom.
lack of concern for the wishes or opinions of others.

Question 43

ss

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major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German

Question 44

secret police

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police force working in secret against a government’s political opponents.

Question 45

the spanish civil war

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widely known in Spain simply as The Civil War or The War, took place from 1936 to 1939