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Ap World History Ch 36
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10th Grade
04/14/2009

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the term "lost generation" was coined by
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Gertrude Stein
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in Karl Barth's "Epistle to the Romans" he
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attacked liberal Christian theology that embraced idea of progress
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author of "all quiet on the western front" was
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Erich Maria Remarque
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the notion that space and time are relative to the person measuring them was articulated by
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• Albert Einstein theory of special relative came out after the Great War saying that nothing was absolute in the Universe and things were always changing and it took away people's ideas of a common universe
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the uncertainty principal is associated with
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Werner Heisenberg
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John Maynard Keynes
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• John Maynard Keynes most influential economist of 20th century wrote The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money he said that the depression was caused from inadequate demand of items and his idea of fixing the problem was to print more money to stimulate the economy
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Painter Influenced by primitive art of Tahiti was
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Paul Gauguin
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The deliberate violation of perspective by japanese artists influenced
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Edgar Degas
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The term Bauhaus is associated with what type of art?
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• Bauhaus was an institution that brought together artistic types to create 20th century art and architecture
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by 1929 the price for a bushel of wheat was?
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$.38
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on black Thursday(24 October 1929)
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the stock market crashed and 11 people committed suicide
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during lowest point of US great depression what percentage of banks were out of business?
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10%
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in response to the great depression, John Maynard Keynes
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• John Maynard Keynes most influential economist of 20th century wrote The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money he said that the depression was caused from inadequate demand of items and his idea of fixing the problem was to print more money to stimulate the economy
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Lenin's new economic policy of 1921...
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allowed small businesses to reopen for private profit while the state continued to control banks, foreign trade, and large industries
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the first 5-year plan was initiated by...
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Joseph Stalin promoted the idea of socialism in one country
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the term Fascism first used by
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-Benito Mussolini
movement and ideology that create a new type of society against liberal democracy and spread of socialism and communism word came from roman word fasces symbol of authority also symbol of Italian Fascism
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Author of "Mein Kampf" was
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Adolf Hitler
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1935 Nuremberg Laws
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racist and anti-Semitic laws passed in Nazi Germany
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satyagrapha
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satyagrapha (truth and firmness)
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Muhammad Ali Jinnah called for creation of
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was a lawyer who said India's independence represented an increasing conflict between Muslims and Hindus so he said they should create a "land of the pure" or Pakistan
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• Mao Zedong's main rival after 1925 was
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Wang Ming, Wang Shiwei
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the May 4 Movement
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happened after the Paris Peace Conference when China expected the US to support China but instead the US approved of the Japanese controlling China so students and intellectuals protected anything foreign
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the long march
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was a journey of 6,215 miles where marchers arrived in Shaanxi Province in October 1935 and headquarters at Yan an inspired many Chinese to join the communist party
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the Mukden incident
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• 1931 Japanese blew up a piece of their Manchurian Railroad in China and blamed it on China which was the cause of another war "Mukden Incident"
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