WW1 Part B Flashcards
Irluenza Pandemic
AnInfluenza pandemicis an epidemic of aninfluenzavirus that spreads on a worldwide scale and infects a large proportion of the world population. In contrast to the regular seasonal epidemics ofinfluenza, thesepandemicsoccur irregularly - there have been about 9Influenza pandemicsduring the last 300 years
Surrealism
Surrealismis a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings. The aim was to “resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality”.
Cubism
Cubismis an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music, literature and architecture.Cubismhas been considered the most influential art movement of the 20th century
Jazz
a type of music of black American origin characterized by improvisation, syncopation, and usually a regular or forceful rhythm, emerging at the beginning of the 20th century. Brass and woodwind instruments and piano are particularly associated with jazz, although guitar and occasionally violin are also used; styles include Dixieland, swing, bebop, and free jazz.
Functionalism
belief in or stress on the practical application of a thing, in particular.
Prohabition Era
the action of forbidding something, especially by law
Black Tuesday
Black Tuesdayrefers 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 Tuesdayis often cited as the beginning of the Great Depression.
Great Depression
The Great Depressionwas an economic slump in North America, Europe, and other industrialized areas oftheworld that began in 1929 and lasted until about 1939. It wasthelongest and most severedepressionever experienced bytheindustrialized Western world.
The New Deal
The New Dealwas a group of U.S. government programs of the 1930s. President Franklin D. Roosevelt started the programs to help the country recover from the economic problems of the Great Depression.
FDR
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 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.
Maginot Line
TheMaginot Line(French: LigneMaginot, IPA: [liɲ maʒino]), named after the French Minister of War AndréMaginot, was alineof concrete fortifications, obstacles, and weapon installations built by France in the 1930s to deter invasion by Germany.
Ramsey Mcdonald
James Ramsay MacDonald, FRS was a British statesman who was the first Labour Party Prime Minister, leading Labour governments in 1924, 1929–1931 and, having been expelled from the party he had helped
The Irish Republican Army
TheIrish Republican Army(IRA) is any of several armed movements inIrelandin the 20th and 21st centuries dedicated toIrishrepublicanism, the belief that all ofIrelandshould be an independent republic. It was also characterised by the belief that political violence was necessary to achieve that goal.
The Easter Rising
The Easter Rising, also known as the Easter Rebellion, was an armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week, April 1916
Weimar Republic
Weimar Republic is an unofficial, historical designation for the German state between 1919 and 1933. The name derives from the city of Weimar, where its constitutional assembly first took place.
