Vocab Part 1
right to vote.
Suffrage
period of low economic activity and rising unemployment.
Depression
information designed to influence opinion.
Propaganda
movement for women’s rights.
Feminism
person who finds new business opportunities and new ways to make profit.
Entrepreneurs
WWI veteran, joins the National Socialist German Workers’ Party and becomes Chancellor of Germany. Creates Final Solution to exterminate the European Jews.
Hitler
“let the people do as they choose”
Laissez-Faire
concept that the entire society agrees to be governed by its general will and all individuals should be forced to abide by since it represents what is best for the entire community.
Social Contract
First ten amendments to the Constitution.
Bill of Rights
aggressive nationalism.
Fascism
a form of government in which the executive, legislative, and judicial branches limit and control each other through checks and balances.
Separation of Powers
the right to govern through the consent of the people.
Popular Sovereignty
Prime Minister of Japan, eager to attack U.S. and China.
Tojo
is extreme pride in one’s country.
Nationalism
applied to all intellectuals during the Enlightenment.
Philosophies
colonial gov’t in which local rulers are allowed to maintain their positions of authority and status.
Indirect Rule
system in which society, usually gov’t, owns and controls the means of production.
Socialism
war that involved the complete mobilization of resources and people, affecting the lives of all citizens in the country.
Total War
war based on wearing the other side down with constant attacks and heavy losses.
War of Attrition
British Prime Minister who proclaimed “peace in our time” after negotiations with Germany.
Neville Chamberlin
was the invention Henry Ford takes advantage of to Mass Produce his Automobile?
Assembly Line
gives the German government four years to ignore the Weimer Constitution and pass any laws to deal with Germany's problems.
Enabling Act
system in which rulers tried to govern by Enlightenment principles while maintaining royal powers.
Enlightened Absolutism
reliance on military strength.
Militarism
olitical unit that depends on another gov’t for its protection.
Protectorates
Extension of a nation’s power over other lands.
Imperialism
creates a totalitarian state in the USSR.
Joseph Stalin
Germany's plan in World War I to invade France through neutral Belgium, then focus on Russia.
Schlieffen Plan
18th century religious philosophy based on reason and natural law.
Deism
artistic style emerged in the 1730s; delicate, graceful designs colored in gold.
Rococo
step-by-step process that requires scientists to form a hypothesis, then collect and study data.
Scientific Method
colonial gov’t in which local rulers are removed from power by a new set of officials brought from the colonizing countries.
Direct Rule
belief that race determines a person’s traits and capabilities.
Racism
Fascist dictator of Italy.
Benito Mussolini
was signed by the United States that prohibits any European power from colonizing South, Central, or North America.
Monroe Doctrine