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History - Ch.15 WWII Flashcards

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164315433Albert EinstienEinstien was a Jew who escaped Germany because of the threat of the Holocaust. He was a scientest who told America that he could help build an atomic bomb, but Germany was also in this process0
164315434Sigmund Freudaustrian physician whose work focused on the unconscious causes of behavior and personality formation; founded psychoanalysis1
164315435surrealisma 20th century movement of artists and writers (developing out of Dadaism) who used fantastic images and incongruous juxtapositions in order to represent unconscious thoughts and dreams2
164315436Jazza style of dance music popular in the 1920s3
164315437Charles Lindbergthe prospects for commercial flight seemed dim until the 1920's, when this man's famous solo flight from New York to Paris electrified the nation and the world4
164315438Weimar Republicthe new German republic the in 1921 owed 33 billion annually to the allied reparations commission, in order to recover from its severe economic issues the annual fees were reduced each year depending on the level of German economic prosperity and Germany received large loans each year from the United States5
164315439Great Depressionthe economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s6
164315440New Dealthe historic period (1933-1940) in the U.S. during which President Franklin Roosevelt's economic policies were implemented7
164315441Franklin D. Rooseveltoften referred to by his initials FDR, was the thirty-second President of the United States. Elected to four terms in office, he served from 1933 to 1945, and is the only U.S. president to have served more than two terms of office. He was a central figure of the 20th century during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war8
164315442Fascisma political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government (as opposed to democracy or liberalism)9
164315443Benito Mussolinifascist dictator of Italy (1922-1943), he led Italy to conquer Ethiopia (1935), joined Germany in the Axis pact (1936), and allied Italy with Germany in World War II, he was overthrown in 1943 when the Allies invaded Italy10
164315444Adolf Hitlerthis dictator was the leader of the Nazi Party, he believed that strong leadership was required to save Germanic society, which was at risk due to Jewish, socialist, democratic, and liberal forces11
164315445NazismAdolf Hitler used fascism to create this type of government based on totalitarian ideas and was used to unite Germany during the 1930s12
164315446Mein KampfBook written by Hitler while he was exiled, "my struggle"13
164315447Axis Powersin World War II, the nations of Germany, Italy, and Japan, which had formed an alliance in 193614
164315448Isolationisma policy of nonparticipation in international economic and political relations15
164315449Third Reichthe Nazi dictatorship under Hitler (1933-1945)16
164315450Munich Conference1938 conference at which European leaders attempted to appease Hitler by turning over the Sudetenland to him in exchange for promise that Germany would not expand Germany's territory any further17

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