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| Albert Einstain’s ideas about the interrelationships between time and space and between energy and matter |
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| a philosophy based on the idea that people give meaning to their lives through their choices and actions (surrealism-imaginary world-like) |
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| a 20th-century style of popular music developed mainly by African –American musicians |
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| a government controlled by a temporary alliance of several political parties |
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| the republic that was est. in Germany in 1919 and ended in 1933, named after the city where the national assembly met, blamed for the defeat in WWI |
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| the severe economic slump that followed the collapse of the US stock market in 1929 |
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| US president Franklin Roosevelt’s economic reform program designed to solve the problems created by the Great Depression |
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| signed by nearly all major countries, renounce war, never fight each other again, Frank Kellog and Frances Briand arranged this, influenced by the “spirit of Locarno”, no military to back it up |
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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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| the fascist policies of the National Socialist German Workers’ party, based on totalitarianism, belief in racial superiority, and state control of industry |
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| “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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| “living space”-the additional territory that, according to Adolf Hitler, Germany needed because it was overcrowded |
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| a 1938 meeting of representative 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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| the making of concessions to an aggressor in order to avoid war |
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| in WWII, the nations of Germany, Italy, and Japan, which had formed an alliance in 1936 |
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| a policy of avoiding political or military involvement with other countries |
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| the Third German Empire, est. by Adolf Hitler in the 1930s |
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| an agreement in which nations promise not to attack one another |
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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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| Germans jokingly called the Phony War this “sitting war” |
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| a series of battles between German and British air forces, fought over Britain in 1940-1941 |
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