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Rise of Totalitarianism
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03/03/2009

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flapper
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a rebellious young woman of the 1920's
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emancipation
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granting freedom to serfs or slaves
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Prohibition
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a ban on the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages in the US from 1920 - 1933
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speakeasies
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illegal bars
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Harlem Renaissance
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African American cultural movement in the 1920s and 1930s, centered in Harlem
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spontaneously
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caused by inner forces, self-generated
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psychoanalysis
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a method of studying how the mind works and treating mental disorders pioneered by Freud
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abstract
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artwork composed only of lines, colors, and shapes, sometimes with not recognizable subject matter at all.
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dada
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art movement reject all conventions, intending to shock and disturb viewers
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surrealism
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art movement that attempted to portray the workings of the subconscious mind
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Picasso
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Important artist of the last century known for Cubism
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suppressed
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put down by force, subdued
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Maginot Line
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massive fortifications built by the French along the border of Germany in the 1930s.
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Kellog-Briand Pact
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international agreement, signed by almost every nation in 1928, to stop using war as a method of national policy
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disarmament
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reduction of armed forces and weapons
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general strike
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strike by workers in many different industries at the same time
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affluent
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rich, wealthy
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overproduction
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condition in which production of goods exceeds the demand for them
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Federal Reserve
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central banking system of the US that regulates banks
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Great Depression
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a painful time of global economic collapse, starting in 1929 and lasting until about 1939
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The Dust Bowl
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After years of drought and over-farming, winds blowing across the plains carried away topsoil and caused erosion, and destroyed crops, land and equipment.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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US President elected in 1932 who argued that the government had to take an active role in combating the depression
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New Deal
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massive package of economic and social programs established by FDR to help Americans during the Great Depression
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Benito Mussolini
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Intense, charismatic Nationalist leader of Italy who organized his people into the Fascist Party.
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Black Shirts
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any member of the militant combat squads of Italian Fascists set up under Mussolini
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March on Rome
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planned march of thousands of Fascist supporters to take control of Rome; in response Mussolini was given leag right to control Italy.
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proclaimed
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announced officially
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totalitarian state
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government in which a one-party dictatorship regulates every aspect of citizen's lives
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fascism
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any centralized, authoritarian government system that is not communist whose policies glorify the state over the individual and are destructive to human rights
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ideology
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system of thought ab belief
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command economy
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system in which government officials made all basic economic decisions
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collective
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large farm owned by peasants as a group
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kulaks
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wealthy peasant in the Soviet Union in the 1930s
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Gulag
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in the Soviet Union, a system of forced labor camps in which millions of criminals and political prisoners were held under Stalin
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socialist realism
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artistic style whose goal was to promote socialism by showing Soviet life in a positive light
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conform
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to obey as a set of standards
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russification
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making a nationality's culture more ethnically Russian
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atheism
Definition
belief that there is no god
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access
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a way of using
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Comintern
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Communist International, association of communist parties led by the Soviet Union for the purpose encouraging worldwide communist revolution
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chancellor
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highest official of a monarch, prime minister
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Ruhr Valley
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coal-rich industrial region of Germany
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passive
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not active, nonviolent
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Adolph Hitler
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extreme nationalist leader of Nazi Germany
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Third Reich
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official name of the Nazi party for its regime in Germany, held power from 1933 to 1945
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Gestapo
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secret police in Nazi Germany
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Nuremberg Laws
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laws approved by the Nazi Party in 1935, depriving Jews of German citizenship and taking some right away from them
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regime
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a government in power
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