Chapter 36 Flashcards
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58983480 | Albert Einstein | is a German physicist who developed the theory of relativity, which states that there is no single spatial and chronological framework and that time, space, and mass are relative to the observer. | 0 | |
58983481 | Sigmund Freud | was an Austrian neurologist who originated psychoanalysis and said that human behavior is irrational. He believed that dreams held the key to the deepest revesses of the human psyche. He claimed to have discovered a so-called Oedipus complex in which male shildren develop an erotic attatchment to their mother and hostility toward their father. | 1 | |
58983482 | Pablo Picasso | was the leading proponent of cubism and his art displayed the influence of African art forms. | 2 | |
58983483 | Getulio Vargas | was the dictator-president of Brazil who overthrew the government and created Estado Novo ("New State). He emphasized industrialization and helped the urban poor but did little to alleviate the problems of the peasants. | 3 | |
58983484 | John Maynard Keynes | was the most influencial economist of the twentieth century. His seminal works of "The General Theory of Employment", "Interest", and "Money" was his answer to the central problem of the depression that millions of people who were willing to work could not find employment. He came up with a brilliant plan to stimulate the economy by governments o increase the money supply. | 4 | |
58983485 | Franklin Delano Roosevelt | was the 32nd U.S. President. He was the only president to serve more than 2 terms. (He served 4) His proposals for dealing with the national calamity which swept economic and social reforms were called the New Deal. The New Deal protected the social and economic welfare of the American people during the Great Depression. | 5 | |
58983486 | Joseph Stalin | was the general secretary of the Communist Part of the Soviet Union. His Five-Year Plan brought success to the Soviet Union during the Great Depression . Though controversial, he made Communism seem like a viable alternative. | 6 | |
58983487 | Benito Mussolini | was a fascist who seized power in Italy and forma=ed a fascist government that abolished free speech; He intergrated anti-Semetic policies shortly before making a Pact of Steel with Hitler's Nazi Germany | 7 | |
58983488 | Adolf Hitler | Born in Austria, Hitler became a radical German nationalist during World War I. He led the Nazi Party in the 1920s and became dictator of Germany in 1933. He led Europe into World War II. He persecuted thousands of Jews with anti-Semetic policies; He outlawed all other political parties. | 8 | |
58983489 | Mohandas Gandhi | was a pacifisti leader in the movement for Indian independence; he fought against racial prejudice against Indians, advocated civil disobedience, equal rights, no caste system, led salt march and other protest; His passive resistance and nonviolence overthrew British rule. | 9 | |
58983490 | Muhammad Ali Jinnah | a lawyer; He felt that a unified India was impossible to reach and it is better of being split. | 10 | |
58983491 | Mao Zedong | was a former teacher and librarian who viewed a Marxist-inspired social revolution as the cure for China's problems. He was a member of the Chinese Communist Party. | 11 | |
58983492 | Jiang Jieshi | He launched the Northern Expedition that unified China and brought it under Guomindang rule. | 12 | |
58983493 | Uncertainty Principle | The idea that we know nothing for certain and all we know is possibilities, probabilities, and tendencies. Put forth by German physicist Heisenberg. | 13 | |
58983494 | Psychoanalysis | was Sigmund Freud's theories about the link between dreams and the subconscious mind | 14 | |
58986476 | Bauhaus | is a community of innorators that created the famous glass box skyscrappers | 15 | |
58986477 | Smoot-Hawley Tariff | was a tariff passed by U.S Congress that resulted in other nations raising tariffs on U.S. imports which hurt production and income | 16 | |
58986478 | New Deal | was Franklin Roosevelt's economic reform program designed to solve the problems of the Great Depression | 17 | |
58986479 | New Economic Program | was a policy which was implemented by Lenin that restored the maeket economy | 18 | |
58986480 | Five-Year Plan | was Joseph Stalin's economic plan that increased production and replaced the New Economic Policies | 19 | |
58986481 | Collectivization | this forced peasants onto government run farms that resulted in the starvation of at least 3 million people | 20 | |
58986482 | Fascism | a political system headed by a dictator that calls for extreme nationalism and racism and no tolerance of opposition | 21 | |
58986483 | National Socialism | a.k.a. Nazism; it eliminated other parties and persected Jews | 22 | |
58986484 | Weimar Republic | Was the democratic government which ruled over Germany form 1919 to 1933. Was Germany's first democracy and it failed after the Nazis came and overthrew it for arresting Adolf Hitler | 23 | |
58986485 | Mein Kampf | was the book written by Hitler that was used as the Nazi Bible; meaning "My Struggle" | 24 | |
58986486 | Kristallnacht | Night of Broken Glass, Nov 9 1938 night when the Nazis killed or injured just about 100,000 jews & destroyed many jewish properties | 25 | |
58986487 | Ahimsa | a Buddhist and Hindu and especially Jainist doctrine holding that all forms of life are sacred and urging the avoidance of violence | 26 | |
58986488 | India Act | was the act which gave India tghe istutions of a self-governing state | 27 | |
58986489 | Chinese Communist Party | was a party of Chinese anti- imperialists organized and led by Mao Zedong | 28 | |
58986490 | Long March | was a 10,000 km journey held by Mau Zedong where Chinese communists fled from Nanjing China to Yan'an. | 29 | |
58986676 | Eugenics | science dealing with improving the hereditary qualities of the human race | 30 | |
58986677 | Nuremberg Laws | were established legal basis in Nazi Germany for discrimination against Jews. | 31 |