Years of Crisis Vocabulary

Question 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Question 1

Existentialism

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A philosophy based on the idea that people give meaning to their life through their choices and actions.

Question 2

Charles Lindbergh

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

Question 3

Coalition Government

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A government controlled by a temporary alliance of several political parties

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Weimar Republic

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The republic that was 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 United States stock market in 1929.

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Franklin D Roosevelt

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Elected in 1932, won in 1933, he was confident and sought to restore Americans faith in their nation.

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New Deal

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United States president Franklin D Roosevelt’s second economic reform program was designed to solve the problems created by the Great Depression.

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Fascism

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

Question 9

Benito Mussolini (1833-1945)

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A news paper politician boldly promised to rescue Italy by reviving its economy and rebuilding its armed forces.

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March on Rome

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A March by which Italian dictator Mussolini national fascist party came to power in the kingdom of
Italy. The March took place from 22nd to the 29th of October in 1922.

Question 11

Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)

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A little known political leader whose early life was marked with disappointment (soon became nazi dictator) known for WW2

Question 12

Nazism

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The fascist policies of nationals socialist German workers’ party, based on totalitarianism, a belief in racial superiority and state control of industry.

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Mein Kampf

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“My struggle” a book written by Adolf Hitler during his imprisonment 1923-24 in which he set forth his belief his goals for Germany.

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Lebrensraum

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“Living space” the additional territory that, according to Adolf Hitler, Germany needed because Germany was “overcrowded”

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Appeasement

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The making of concessions to an aggressor in order to avoid war.

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Axis powers

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In world war 2 the nations of Germany, Italy, and Japan, which had an alliance in 1933.

Question 17

Francisco Franco

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A general, along side Hitler and Mussolini in a revolt, thus begging a civil war that dragged on for 3 years

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Kellogg-Briand pact

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A 1928 international agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve disputes.

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Disarmament

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The reduction of withdrawal of

Military Forcest weapons

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Isolationism

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A policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interacts of other groups, especially political affairs of other countries.

Question 21

Third Reich

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3rd German empire, established by Adolf Hitler in the 1930’s

Question 22

Gestapo

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Official secret police of Nazi Germany and German occupied.

Question 23

Nuremberg laws

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Anti Jewish statues enacted by Germany on September 15th 1935, Making a major step in clarifying racial policy.

Question 24

Munich conference

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