AP World Chapter 29 Terms Flashcards

Mr. Brown AP World ECHHS

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