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Fascism
- -No clearly defined theory or program
- -Did not seek classless society each class had its place and function
- -Nationalists
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Both
- -Ruled by dictators
- -Denied individual rights
- -State was supreme
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Communism
- -Clearly defined theory and program
- -Sought classless society
- -Internationalists
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Thoery of Relativity
Albert Einstein's idea about the interralationships between time and space and between energy and matter
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Existentalism
A philosophy based on the idea that people give meaning to their lives through their choices and actions
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Surrealism
A 20th-century artistic movement that focuses ont he workings of the unconscious mind
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Jazz
A 20th-century style of popular music developed mainly by African-American musicians
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Coalition Government
A government controlled by a temporary alliance of several political parties
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Weimar Republic
The republic that was established in Germany in 1919 and ended in 1933
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Great Depression
The severe economic slump that followed the collapse of the U.S. stock market in 1929
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New Deal
U.S. president Franklin Roosevelt's economic reform program designed to solve the problems created by the Great Depression
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Fascism
A political movement that promotes an extreme form of nationalism, a denial of individual rights, and a dictorial one-party rule
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Nazism
The fascist policies of the National Socialist German Workers' party, based on totalitarianism, a belief in racial superiority, abd state control of industry
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Mein Kampf
"My Struggle"-a book written by Adolf Hitler during his imprisonment in 1923-1924, in which he set forth his beliefs and his goals for Germany
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Lebensraum
"livingspace"-the additional territory that, according to Adolf Hitler, Germany needed because it was overcrowded
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Appeasement
The making of concessions to an aggressor in order to avoid war
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Axis Powers
In WWII, the nations of Germany, Italy, and Japan, which had formed an alliance in 1936
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Isolationism
A policy of avoiding political or military involvement with other countries
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Third Reich
The third German Empire, established by Adolf Hitler in the 1930s
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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 Czechoslovakia's new borders
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