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Flappers During The Great Depression

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World History Chapter 13 Study Guide Vocab

Flapper
Flappers were rebellious young women in the United States and Europe during the 1920s who went outside of society’s norms and showed off more of their body than what was previously acceptable.
Prohibition
The ban on manufacturing and selling of alcoholic beverages in the United States from 1920 to 1933.
Speakeasies
Illegal bars that sprang up during prohibition so people could drink alcohol.
Harlem Renaissance
African American cultural movement in the 1920s and 1930s, centered in Harlem.
Psychoanalysis
A method of studying how the mind works and treating mental disorders.
Abstract
A style of art composing of lines, colors and shapes, sometimes with no recognizable …show more content…

Great Depression
A painful time of global economic collapse, which started in 1929 and lasted until 1939.
New Deal
A massive package of economic and social programs which were established by FDR to try and help Americans during the Great Depression.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
American statesman and political leader who served as the President of the United States from 1933 to 1945.
Benito Mussolini
Yeah idk who dis is tbh
Black Shirts
Any member of the militant combat squads of Italian Fascists set up under Mussolini.
March on Rome
The planned march of thousands of Fascist supporters to take control of Rome. In response to this, Mussolini was given the legal right to control Italy.
Totalitarian State
A government in which a one-party dictatorship regulates every aspect of citizens’ lives.
Fascism
Any centralized, authoritarian government system that is not communist whose policies glorify the state over the individual and are destructive to basic human rights.
Command Economy
The system in which government officials make all basic economic decisions.
Collectives
Large farms owned and operated by peasants as a group.
Kulaks
Wealthy peasants in the Soviet Union in the 1930s. …show more content…

Russification
The process of making a nationality culture more ethnically Russian.
Atheism
The belief that there is no God.
Comintern
Communist International; international association of communist parties led by the Soviet Union for the purpose of encouraging world-wide communist revolution.
Gestapo
The secret police in Nazi Germany.
Kristallnacht
Taking place on November 9 and 10, Nazi-led mobs attacked Jewish communities all over Germany, Austria, and the annexed portions of Czechoslovakia. The attacks were so brutal it was nicknamed “Night of Broken Glass”.
Theory of Relativity
Theory produced by Albert Einstein that stated that the increased relativistic mass of a body comes from the energy of motion of the body divided by the speed of light.
Cubism
Art style created in the early 20th century created by Pablo Picasso.
Sigmund Freud
Austrian neurologist and the father of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst.
Nuremberg Laws
Laws approved by the Nazi Party in 1935, depriving Jews of German citizenship and taking some rights away from

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