History Studyguide 3/16

facism

a political movement that promotes an extreme form of nationalism, a denial of individual rights, and a dictatorial one-party rule

surrealism

sought to link the world of dreams with real life

appeasement

the making of concessions to an aggressor in order to avoid war

existentialism

a philosophy based on the idea that people give meaning to their lives through their choices and actions

lebensraum

“living space”- the additional territory that according to adolf hitler, germany needed because it was overcrowded

isolationism

a policy of avoiding political or military involvement with other countries

totalitarianism

government control over every aspect of public and private life

nazism

the facist policies of the national socialist german workers party, based on totalitarianism, a belief in radical superiority, and state control of industry

coalition government

a government controlled by a temporary alliance of several political parties

theory of relativity

albert einsteins ideas about the interrelationships between time and space and between energy and matter

Albert Einstein

german-born physicist gave new ideas on space,time,energy, and matter

sigmund freud

austrian physician that believed that mind has an unconscious that the conscious is unaware of

Friedrich Nietzsche

German that rejected moral principles and values and suggested life is meaningless

Charles Linderbergh

Flew solo flight from NY to Paris

Benito Mussolini

A newspaper editor and politician who promised to rescue Italy by reviving its economy and building armed forces

Adolf Hitler

A military dictator who was a terrible man. he killed millions of jews

Francisco Franco

The facist leader, wins civil war and becomes spains dictator

joseph stalin

a cold, hard, and impersonal man. during his early days as a bolshevik, he changed his name to Stalin “man of steel”

Weimar Republic

A new democratic government adopted by germany after ww1

The dawes plan

A plan that would provide loans to germany from american and british bakers, enabling them

Kellogg-Briand Pact

A signed pact in 1928 tha renounced war

New deal

U.S. president franklin roosevelts economic reform program designed to solve the problems from the great depression

Mein Kampf

“my struggle”- a book written by adolf hitler during his imprisonment in 1923-1924, in which he set for his beliefs and his goals for germany

Third Reich

The third german empire, established by hitler in the 1930’s

Munich Conference

A 1938 meeting of representatives from britain, france, italy and germany, at which britain and france agreed to allow nazi germany to annex part of gzechoslovakia in return for adolf hitler pledge to respect czechoslovakias new borders

non aggression pact

an agreement in which nations promise not to attack one another

the popular front

passed a series of reforms to help the workers

aryans

to the nazis, the germanic people who formed a “master race”

black tuesday

Oct 29,1929 the stock market crashed

Hirohito

Military kept emperor as head of state