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Unit 11 vocab
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05/28/2011

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Existentialism
Definition
A philosophy based on the idea that people give meaning to their lives through their choices and actions.
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Theory of Relativity
Definition
Albert Einstein's ideas about the interrelationships between time and space and between energy and matter.
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Surrealism
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A 20th-century artistic movement the focuses on the workings of the unconscious mind.
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Jazz
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A 20th-century style  of popular music developed mainly be African American musicians.
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Coalition Government
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A government controlled by a temporary alliance of several political parties.
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Weimar Republic
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The republic that was established in Germany in 1919 and ended in 1933.
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Great Depression
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The severe economic slump that follows the collapse of the U.S stock market in 1929.
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New Deal
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U.S president Franklin Roosevelt's economic reform program designed to solve the problems created by the Great Depression.
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Kellogg-Briand Pact
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Made by U.S Secretary of State Frank Kellogg, arranged it with France's Briand. Every country pledge to renounce war as an instrument of national policy.
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Fascism
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A political movement that promotes an extreme form of nationalism, a denial of individual rights, and a dictatorial one-party rule.
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Nazism
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The fascist policies of the National Socialist German Workers' party, based on totalitarianism, a belief in racial superiority, and state control of industry.
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Mein Kampf
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"My Struggle" - a book written be 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
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"Living space"- the additional territory that,according to Adolf Hitler, Germany needed because it was overcrowded.
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Munich Conference
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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 in return for Adolf Hitler's pledge to respect Czechoslovakia's new borders.
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Appeasement
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The making of concessions to an aggressor in order to avoid war. 
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Axis Powers
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In World War II, the nations of Germany, Italy, and Japan, which had formed an alliance in 1936.
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Isolationism
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A policy of avoiding political or military involvement with other countries.
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Third Reich
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The Third Germany Empire, established by Adolf Hitler in the 1930s.
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Nonaggression Pact
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An agreement in which nations promise not to attack one another.
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Blitzkrieg
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"Lightning War"- a form of warfare in which surprise attacks with fast- moving airplanes are followed by massive attacks with infantry forces. 
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Sitzkrieg
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"Sitting War" Germany waited for an attack form France and British forces, but nothing happened.
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Battle Of Britain
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A series of battles between Germany and British air forces, fought over Britain in 1940-1941.
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