World History- Unit 9

Holocaust

Adolf Hitler

Fascist, German Dictator

Benito Mussolini

Fascist, Italian Dictator

Joseph Stalin

Communist dictator of the Soviet Union

Hideki Tojo

Fascist military leader of Japan

Francisco Franco

Fascist leader of the Spanish revolution, helped by Hitler and Mussolini

Surrealism

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

Impressionism

An artistic movement that sought to capture a momentary feel, or impression, of the piece they were drawing

Pointillism

A method for applying paint in small dabs of pure color, which create optical mixtures in the eye when seen from several feet away.

Dadaism

An artistic movement of the 1920s and 1930s that attacked all accepted standards of art and behavior and delighted in outrageous conduct.

Adolf Hitler

became Chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933

Erich Maria Remarque

author who based his best-selling novel, "All Quiet on the Western Front," off of real-life experiences attained while in the German army

Gertrude Stein

coined the expression "Lost Generation"

Fascism

Biggest opponent of Communism

Monet

impressionist painter of "Rouen Cathedral" and "Luncheon on the Grass"

Van Gogh

Starry Night

Renoir

Impressionist painter of "Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette"

Cassat

Impressionist painter

Associates of the Irish Independence Movement

Eamon de Valera, Michael Collins, and Sinn Fein

Associates of Mahatma Gandhi

Lord Mountbatten, Henry David Thoreau, and Jawalhara Nehru

Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

Eliot

The Wasteland

Stein

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, "A Rose is a Rose is a Rose"

T.S. Eliot

The Hollow Men

Auschwitz

worst extermination camp in Poland

Paris, France

Where you will find most expatriate and other Lost Generation writers.

Nuremburg Laws (1935)

Took away the citizenship rights of German Jews in 1935

Expressionism

20th century art movement developed to rebel against the mechanized, unemotional, and impersonal elements of the modern age

Munich Pact

allowed Hitler to take the Western part of Czechoslovakia

Final Solution

Hitler's policy of exterminating European Jews

Arbeit macht frei

"work brings freedom." This phrase was posted at the entrance gates to many Nazi camps.

Republic of Ireland

Catholic

Norther Ireland

Protestant

Tojo, Mussolini, and Hitler

leaders of the Axis Powers

Organized the "March to the Sea" to protest British salt tax

Gandhi

General Franco

became dictator of Spain after the Nationalists forces were victorious in the Spanish Civil War

Mahatma

"Great Soul"; title given to Gandhi

satyagraha

the form of nonviolent resistance initiated in India by Mahatma Gandhi in order to oppose British rule and to hasten political reforms; "devotion to truth"

South African Lawyer

Gandhi

Il Duce

"the leader," Mussolini's nickname

Guemica

Franco, Picasso, and German Luftwaffe were all associated with this painting

Associated with Hitler's consolidation of power in the 1930s

Nuremburg Laws, Night of the Long Knives, and the Enabling Act of 1933

Describes the 1920s

disillusionment, loss of hope, and growing discontentment of government