Between Wars

Pacifism

Belief in peace and refuse to fight in wars.

Surrealism

An artistic movement that displayed vivid dream worlds and fantastic unreal images

Functionalism

A new principle of building design that focused on buildings being functional which means serving the purpose it was made for best

Communism

a form of socialism that abolishes private ownership under a dictatorship

Fascism

a political system headed by a dictator that calls for extreme nationalism and racism and has no tolerance for opposition

Propaganda

ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause

Black Shirts

Mussolini's private army who helped him violently attack socialists and bring about his fascist regime

Isolationism

a national policy of avoiding involvement in world affairs

Consumerism

the theory that an increasing consumption of goods is economically beneficial

Great Depression

a severe, world wide economic crisis which lasted from the end of 1929 to the outbreak of World War II.

Corporatist State

System in which a country's major economic activities, such as agriculture, transportation, manufacturing, and commerce are formed into syndicates that resemble corporations.

Jazz

a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles

cubism

An Artistic movement that focused on geometric shapes, complex lines, and overlapping planes.

Dadaists

artists that were obsessed with the idea that life has no purpose and were revolted by what they saw as the insanity of life and tried to express that feeling in their art

Flappers

Young women of the 1920s that behaved and dressed in a radical fashion

Prohibition

the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment

Lost Generation

Group of writers in 1920s who shared the belief that they were lost in a greedy, materialistic world that lacked moral values and often choose to flee to Europe

New Deal

The name of President Roosevelt's program for getting the United States out of the depression

Market Speculation

risky investments in the stock market

during the 1920s, millions of Americans engaged in this

Black Tuesday

October 29, 1929; the day the stock market crashed. Lead to the Panic of 1929

Economic Nationalism

The idea that countries should protect and foster their own businesses by imposing high protective tariffs on imported goods as well as eliminating tariffs within the country.

Social Security Act

A 1935 law passed during the Great Depression that was intended to provide a minimal level of sustenance to older Americans and thus save them from poverty.

Nationalization

changing something from private to state ownership or control

Popular Front

was the French political alliance that allied the Communists, the Socialists, and the Radicals together.

Maginot Line

a fortification built before World War II to protect France's eastern border

General Strike

a strike by workers in many different industries at the same time

Sinn Fien

"We Ourselves" a group of Irish that fought for Irish freedom

Irish Republican Army

a militant organization of Irish nationalists who used terrorism and guerilla warfare in an effort to drive British forces from Northern Ireland and achieve a united independent Ireland

Mussolini

fascist dictator of Italy

Nazi Party

National Socialist Party; fascist political party of Adolf Hitler governed on totalitarian lines and advocating German racial superiority

Adolf Hitler

German Nazi dictator during World War II

Rome-Berlin Axis

The alliance between Italy and Germany (Mussolini and Hitler)