AP World History Chapter 34 Vocab Flashcards
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6495389053 | Adolf Hitler | Born in Austria, became a radical German nationalist during World War I. He became dictator of Germany in 1933. He led Europe into World War II. | ![]() | 0 |
6495389054 | Albert Einstein | Physicist born in Germany who formulated the special theory of relativity and the general theory of relativity. | ![]() | 1 |
6495389055 | Antisemitism | Prejudice against Jews | ![]() | 2 |
6495389056 | Benito Mussolini | Fascist 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 Italy. | ![]() | 3 |
6495389057 | Black Thursday | October 24, 1929; stock market crashes and almost 13 million shares are sold that day alone | ![]() | 4 |
6495389058 | Chauvinism | Boastful devotion to one's country | ![]() | 5 |
6495389059 | Dadaism | An artistic movement that had a purposely nonsensical name, expressing its total rejection of previous modern art. | ![]() | 6 |
6495389060 | Eugenics | Science of improving a breed or species through selection of parents | 7 | |
6495389061 | 1st 5 Year Plan | Plan that doubled industrial output | 8 | |
6495389062 | FDR | 32nd President of the United States | ![]() | 9 |
6495389063 | Great Purge | A campaign of terror directed at eliminating anyone who threatened Stalin's power | ![]() | 10 |
6495389064 | John Maynard Keynes | British economist who argued that for a nation to recovery fully from a depression, the govt had to spend money to encourage investment and consumption | ![]() | 11 |
6495389065 | Stalin | Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition | ![]() | 12 |
6495389066 | Kulkas | Wealthy peasants. | 13 | |
6495389067 | National Socialism | A form of socialism featuring racism and expansionism | 14 | |
6495389068 | New Deal | A series of reforms enacted by the Franklin Roosevelt administration between 1933 and 1942 with the goal of ending the Great Depression. | ![]() | 15 |
6495389069 | Pogrom | An organized massacre of a particular ethnic group, in particular that of Jews in Russia or eastern Europe. | ![]() | 16 |
6495389070 | Freud | Austrian physician who approached psychology while trying to treat mental disorders, focused on the unconscious | ![]() | 17 |
6495389071 | War Communism | A system introduced under Bolshevik rule after 1917 which involved land being seized and redistributed, factories given to the workers, banks being nationalized, and church property being granted to the state. This was enforced by the Cheka. | 18 | |
6495389072 | Xenophobia | Fear or hatred of foreigners | ![]() | 19 |