totalitarianism

jazz age

new music that represented youthful desire for freedom/change

spanish flu

1918,kills more than wwl,

dada

modern, unreasonable

artists: duchamp, arp, manray

abstract art

-uses shapes, symbols, and colors to represent ideas

artists:Picasso, Kandinsky

surrealism

dreamlike, logical, unexpected content

artists:Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, max Ernst

Dawes plan

USA lends money to Germany, Germany uses increased tax revenues to pay reparations to France, France pays back loans to USA

Great depression

Global financial system crashes

indoctrination

where people are taught to accept a system of thoughts without questioning

AKA: brainwashing

propaganda

using newspapers, magazines, radio, speeches, and movies to give people a side message

censorship

where anything objectionable or critical to the ruling party is removed

terror

the use of violence to produce fear so people will obey the state

charisma

a quality about a leader that makes people eager to follow them

one party rule

only one political party is allowed to exist

Economic control

the state(gov.) decided what will be made and sold

extreme nationalism

the belief by a group of people that their country is better than any other country

communism

community ownership, equality(in theory), no classes(in theory)

fascism

far right, ultra nationalist idea

-glorification of a nation/race, singular dictator, use of force

soviet union

totalitarian regime with communist ideas

weimar republic

“New Germany”

-lacked unity

Gestapo

Hitlers secret police

inflation

made German money useless(people used it as kites, and wall paper)

Vladimir lenin

wanted industrial class to rise and overthrow capitlaism

Benito Mussulini

El duce

restore Italy to former greatness(Roman empire)

revenge against big three

Joseph Stalin

“Man of steel”

Goal:Russian Dominance

charismatic, intelligent, strategic, but also very paranoid

Adolf Hitler

lead Nazi party, Wiemar gov chooses Hitler over the communists, views treaty of Versailles as awful for Germany

Manchurian

seen as a solution to the Japanese economic problems, Military frames Chinese for bombing Japanese railroad

-this means war