Details Title: 20th Century European History Description: Everything Total Flash Cards: 27 Created: 12/10/2007 20:15:23		New Users: To study from this flashcard set, or to create your own your own study flash cards, REGISTER HERE. Existing Users: CLICK HERE. Additional History Flashcards
Cards in this set: Term       Goebbels Definition -Had all 6 of his children poisoned   -He and wife were shot inside Hitler's bunker Term       Himmler Definition       -Head of Nazi Concentration Camps -Tried to escape in disguise -Captured -Killed himself with cyanide  Term       Goering   Definition   - Decided to go home after war -Arrested -Celeb @ Nuremburg  - Took poison in jail Term Definition Term       Ribbentrop  Definition - Convicted all of war crimes against Jews   - Mentioned Hitler while being hung Term       Suttner Definition - Encouraged Nobel to est. his peace prize   - "Lay Down Your Arms"  Term       Fawcett Definition   - purse stolen   - gets back as husbands prop.   - organizes womens voting Term         Pankhurst Definition     - founded women's political/social movement   - threatened male property Term         Beauvoir  Definition     - "The Second Sex"   - Women lived in conditions of necissity determined by reproduction and motherhood  Term Definition Term           Friedan  Definition       - "The Feminist Mystique"   - Women living meaningless lives  Term          Wittgenstein  Definition     - logical positivism   - words have different meaning to different people   - should be concerned w/ meaning of language  Term           Husserl  Definition     - the individ. person is cut off   - Phenomenology (we should be concerned w/ what's going on in someone's head)  Term     Heideggar   NAZI  Definition   - Phenomenological Existentialism   - What's it mean to be? - Bound by your culture and time - We should all want to be authentic  Term       Gadamer  Definition     - Hermeneutics   - Nature of human understanding, interpretation, tension, truth and method   - Real thinkers will have their PREJUDICES  Term       Foucault  Definition     - Discourses of pwr   - Attacks on enlightenment   - Control and manipulation  Term       Derrida  Definition     - Only thing that matters is interpretation   - Language can't convey stable meaning  Term       Khrushchev  Definition   - old bolshevik   - came into pwr in 1954 after Stalin   - announced de-stalinization   Start of USSR  Term        20th Pary Congress   FEB. 1956  Definition     - Khrushchev runs through Stalin's crimes   - Official beginning of the Rot of Russia   - Led to collapse / communism bad Term       Brezhnev  Definition     - Power after Khrushchev   - Transformed govt. to oligarchy   - "Capitalism a society w/o a future"  Term       Sakharov  Definition         - Winner of 1975 Nobel Peace Prize  Term       Solzhenitsyn  Definition     - Gulag   - wrote "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich"  Term       Gorbachev  Definition     - 1st Soviet since Lenin to have degree   - a yes man / good leader / morally corrupt   - knew west was racing ahead  Term       Yeltsin  Definition       - mayor of Moscow   - goes to Houston shopping mall   - goes against Gorbachev  Term       Karadzic  Definition     - attempted to set a Bosnia / Serbia country   - leads to civil war   - leads to gang rapes and maybe WWII  Term       Milosevic  Definition     - Serb   - socialist party sends him to Kosovo   - gives speech to fuel Serbian resistance   - comes to power (Slobo! Slobo!)  Term         Mladic  Definition     - responsible for mass killings     - still 'at large'