Chapter 28 Vocab (World History)

In the United States and Europe in the 1920's, a rebellious young women

A ban on the manufacture and sale of alcohol in the United States from 1920-1933

Illegal Bars

An African American cultural movement in the 1920's and 1930's, centered in Harlem

A method of studying how the mind works and treating mental disorders

Style of art composed of lines, colors, and shapes, sometimes with no recognizable subject matter

Artistic movement in which artists rejected tradition and produced works that often shocked their viewers

Artistic movement that attempts to portray the workings of the unconscious mind

Massive Fortifications built by the French along their border with Germany in the 1930's to protect against invastion

An international agreement, signed by almost every nation in 1928, to stop using war as a method of national policy

Reduction of armed forces and weapons

Strike by workers in many different industries at the same time

Condition in which production of goods exceeds the demand for them

The management of money matters including the circulation of money, loans, investments, and banking.

Central banking system of the United States, which regulates banks

A painful time of global economic collapse, starting in 1929 and lasting until about 1939

President in 1932. Introduced the New Deal, FDIC, and social security

A massive package of economic and social programs established by FDR to help Americans during the Great Depressions

Fascist leader of Italy

Any member of the militant combat squads of Italian Fascists set up under Mussolini

Planned march of thousands of Fascist supporters to take control on Rome; in response Mussolini was given the legal right to control Italy

Government in which a one-party dictatorship regulates every aspect of citizens lives

Any centralized, authoritarian government system that is not communist whose policies glorify the state over the individual and are destructive to basic human rights

System in which government officials make all basic economic decisions.

Large farm owned and operated by peasants as a group

Wealthy peasant in the Soviet Union in the 1930s

In the Soviet Union, a system of forced labor camps in which millions of criminals and political prisoners were held under Stalin

Artistic style whose goal was to promote socialism by showing Soviet life in a positive light

Making a nationalities culture more ethnically Russian

Belief that there is no god

Communist International, international association of communist parties led by the Soviet Union for the purpose of encouraging worldwide communist revolution

The highest official of a monarch; Prime minister

Coal-rich industrial region of Germany

Official name of the Nazi party for its regime in Germany; held power from 1933-1945

Secret police in Nazi Germany

Laws approved by the Nazi Party in 1935, depriving Jews of German citizenship and taking some rights away from them