Mr. Brown AP World ECHHS
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| 375029807 | Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928) | a multi-national treaty, sponsored by American and French leaders that outlawed war | 0 | |
| 375029808 | welfare state | Great Depression-inspired system that increased government spending to provide social insurance and stimulate the economy | 1 | |
| 375029809 | New Deal | President Franklin Roosevelt's program to combat economic depression | 2 | |
| 375029810 | Popular Front | alliance of French socialist, liberal, and communist parties, won election in 1936; blocked from reform efforts by conservative opposition; fell in 1938 | 3 | |
| 375029811 | Fascism | political ideology that became the predominant in Italy and then Germany in the 1920s and 1930s; attacked the weakness of democracy and the corruption and class conflict of capitalism; promised vigorous foreign and military programs | 4 | |
| 375029812 | totalitarian state | a 20th century form of government that exercised direct control over all aspect of its subjects; existed in Germany, Italy, the Soviet Union, and other communist states | 5 | |
| 375029813 | Christian Democratic movement | western European political movements after World War II; joined ideas of democratic institutions and moderate social reform | 6 | |
| 375029814 | Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) | created by merging French, British, and American occupation zones | 7 | |
| 375029815 | new feminism | a wave of agitation for women's rights dating from about 1949; emphasized equality between sexes | 8 | |
| 375029816 | Simone de Beauvoir and Betty Friedan | two important leaders in the new feminism movement; authors of "The Second Sex" and "The Feminine Mystique" | 9 | |
| 375029817 | John Keynes | British economist who stressed the importance of government spending to compensate for loss of purchasing power during a depression; influenced the policies of the New Dal and postwar European economic planning | 10 | |
| 375029818 | cubist movement | twentieth-century art style; represented by Pablo Picasso; rendered objects as geometric shapes | 11 | |
| 375029819 | European Union | began by six nations as the European Economic Community (Common Market); by the 1990s incorporated most western European states | 12 |
