59226111 | Albert Einstein | physicist born in Germany who formulated the special theory of relativity and the general theory of relativity | 0 | |
59226112 | Sigmund Freud | austrian physician whose work focused on the unconscious causes of behavior and personality formation; founded psychoanalysis | 1 | |
59226113 | Pablo Picasso | a Spanish artist, founder of Cubism, which focused on geometric shapes and overlapping planes | 2 | |
59226114 | Getulio Vargas | Dictator of Brazil from 1930 to 1945 and from 1951 to 1954. Defeated in the presidential election of 1930, he overthrew the government and created Estado Novo ('New State'), a dictatorship that emphasized industrialization. (823) | 3 | |
59226115 | John Maynard Keynes | English economist who advocated the use of government monetary and fiscal policy to maintain full employment without inflation (1883-1946) | 4 | |
59226116 | Franklin Delano Roosevelt | President 1933-45, took us out of the depression and into WWII, the new deal | 5 | |
59226117 | Joseph Stalin | Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition (1879-1953) | 6 | |
59226118 | Benito Mussolini | Known as "Il Duce" -- the Leader -- Mussolini was the Fascist dictator of Italy during World War II. | 7 | |
59226119 | Adolf Hitler | German Nazi dictator during World War II (1889-1945) | 8 | |
59226120 | Mohandas Gandhi | Great leader from India who used non-violence to protest for independence, gender equity, and peaceful conflict resolution | 9 | |
59226121 | Muhammad Ali Jinnah | Indian statesman who was the founder of Pakistan as a Muslim state (1876-1948) | 10 | |
59226122 | Mao Zedong | Chinese communist leader (1893-1976) | 11 | |
59226123 | Jiang Jieshi | formerly called Chiang Kai-shek headed the Kuomintang after the death of Sun Yixian. | 12 | |
59226124 | Uncertainty Principle | The idea that we do know no anything for certain and all we know is possibilities, probabilities, and tendencies. Put forth by German physicist Heisenberg. | 13 | |
59226125 | Bauhaus | a German style of architecture begun by Walter Gropius in 1918 | 14 | |
59226126 | Smoot Hawley Tariff | 1930 - U.S. legislation that raised import duties by as much as 50%, adding considerable strain to the worldwide economic climate of the Great Depression. Despite a petition from 1,000 economists urging Pres. Herbert Hoover to veto the act, it was passed as a protective measure for domestic industries. It contributed to the early loss of confidence on Wall Street and signaled U.S. isolationism. Other countries retaliated with similarly high protective tariffs, and overseas banks began to collapse. In 1934 Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Trade Agreements Act, which reduced such tariffs. | 15 | |
59226127 | New Deal | series of economic programs passed by Congress during the first term of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States, from 1933 to his reelection in 1937. Few new programs were enacted after 1936, and many agencies were disbanded during World War II. | 16 | |
59226128 | New Economic Program | was a policy which was implemented by Lenin that restored the maeket economy | 17 | |
59226129 | Collectivization | the organization of a nation or economy on the basis of collectivism | 18 | |
59226130 | Fascism | a political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government (as opposed to democracy or liberalism) | 19 | |
59226131 | National Socialism | a form of socialism featuring racism and expansionism | 20 | |
59226132 | Weimar Republic | the German republic founded at Weimar in 1919 | 21 | |
59226133 | Mein Kampf | Book written by Hitler while he was exiled, my struggle. | 22 | |
59226134 | Eugenics | the study of methods of improving genetic qualities by selective breeding (especially as applied to human mating) | 23 | |
59226135 | Neremberg Laws | deprived Jews of German citizenship and plced severe restrictions on them | 24 | |
59226136 | Kristallnacht | Night of Broken Glass, Nov 9 1938 night when the Nazis killed or injured many jews & destroyed many jewish propertys | 25 | |
59226137 | Ahimsa | a Buddhist and Hindu and especially Jainist doctrine holding that all forms of life are sacred and urging the avoidance of violence | 26 | |
59226138 | Indian Act | Law describing rights and responsibilities of Aboriginal peoples and the government of Canada | 27 | |
59226139 | Chinese Communist Party | formed the People's Republic of China in 1949 and is quick to quiet those who oppose it | 28 | |
59226140 | Long March | A 6000-mile, year-long trek of Mao and his followers to escape the non-Communist Guomindang; symbol of Communist heroism | 29 |
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