World history Chapter 15

Depression

A period of low economic activity and rising unemployment

Annual

Yearly

Collective bargaining

The right of unions to negotiate with employers over wages and hours

Deficit spending

When a government pays out more money than it takes in through taxation and other revenues, thus going into debt

Appropriate

Suitable or compatible; fitting

Surrealism

an artistic movement that seems to depict the world of the unconscious

Uncertainty principle

The idea put forth by Werner Heisenberg in 1927 that the behavior of subatomic particles is uncertain, suggesting that all of the physical laws governing the universe are based on uncertainty

Totalitarian State

A government that aims to control the political, Economic social intellectual, and cultural lives of its citizens

Fascism

A political philosophy that glorifies the state above the individual by emphasizing the need for a strong central government led by a dictatorial ruler

Media

Channels or systems of communication

Attitude

A mental position regarding a fact or state

Collectivization

A system in which private farms are eliminated and peasants work land owned by the government

Authoritarian

Favoring or enforcing strict obedience to authority, especially that of the government, at the expense of personal freedom

Nazi

Shortened form of the German Nazional or the national socialist German workers party: a member of such party

Concentration Camp

A camp where prisoners of war political prisoners, or members of minority groups are confined, typically under harsh conditions

Aryan

A term used to identify people speaking Indo-European languages: Nazis misused the term, treating it as a racial designation and identifying the Aryans with The ancient Greeks and Romans and twentieth Century Germans and Scandinavians

Require

To demand as being necessary

Prohibit

To prevent or to forbid