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Wall Street Crash

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1929 stock market collapse that began the Great Depression.

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Prohibition

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U.S. law banning alcohol from 1920–1933.

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The Lost Generation

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Writers who felt hopeless after World War I.

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Ataturk

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Founder of modern Turkey who made it secular and westernized.

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Secularism

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Separation of religion from government.

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Apartheid

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System of racial segregation in South Africa.

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Pan-Africanism

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Movement promoting unity among people of African descent.

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Mao

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Communist leader who founded the People’s Republic of China.

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May 4th Movement

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Chinese student protests calling for modernization and nationalism.

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Proletariat

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Working class people.

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Nuremberg Laws

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Nazi laws that took rights away from Jews.

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Freud

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Psychologist who studied the unconscious mind.

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Gestapo

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Nazi secret police.

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Diaz

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Mexican dictator overthrown in the Mexican Revolution.

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Villa

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Mexican revolutionary leader who supported farmers.

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Zapata

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Mexican revolutionary who fought for land reform.

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Carranza

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Leader who became president during the Mexican Revolution and was later overthrown and killed while Obregón took power.

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Mexican Revolution

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Violent uprising that ended dictatorship in Mexico.

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Good Neighbor Policy

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U.S. policy of respecting Latin American nations.

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Balfour Declaration

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British promise to support a Jewish homeland in Palestine.

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Gandhi

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Indian leader who fought British rule with nonviolence.

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Soul force

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Gandhi’s idea of nonviolent resistance.

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Asia Minor

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Another name for modern-day Turkey.

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Pan-Arabism

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Movement to unite Arab nations.

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Untouchables
Lowest caste in India, treated unfairly.
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Nonviolent protest
Peaceful resistance without violence.
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Twenty-One Demands
Japan’s attempt to control China in 1915; Gave Japan major control over Chinese land, resources, and government.
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Chinese Civil War and Japan
Conflict between Chinese Nationalists and Communists while Japan invaded China.
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Roaring Twenties
1920s period of economic growth and social change.
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Fascists
Extreme nationalists who support dictatorship.
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Nazi
German fascist party led by Hitler.
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Stalin
Soviet dictator after Lenin.
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Franco
Fascist dictator of Spain.
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Trotsky
Communist leader exiled by Stalin.
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Loyalists (Spain)
Supporters of Spain’s elected government.
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Republicans (Spain)
Same as Loyalists; defended democracy.
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Francoists
Supporters of Franco.
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Nationalists (Spain)
Franco’s forces in the Spanish Civil War.
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Spanish Civil War
War between Republicans and Franco’s Nationalists.
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Foreign involvement Spanish Civil War
Germany and Italy helped Franco; USSR helped Republicans.
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Surrealism art
Dream-like art influenced by Freud.
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SS
Elite Nazi military group.
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Brown Shirts
Nazi street fighters.
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Black Shirts
Mussolini’s fascist militia. Look at photo on Powerpoint!
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Hirohito
Emperor of Japan during World War II.
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Manchuria
Chinese region invaded by Japan.
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Flapper
Independent young woman of the 1920s.
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Gulags
Soviet prison labor camps. Look at photo on PowerPoint!
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Five-Year Plan
Stalin’s program to industrialize Russia.
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The Great Purge
Stalin’s mass arrests and executions.
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Economic Nationalism
Government control of economy to strengthen nation.
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Guomindang
Chinese Nationalist Party; Wanted a strong, united, non-communist China with modern reforms.
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Negritude
Movement celebrating Black culture.
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Harlem Renaissance
African American cultural revival in 1920s.
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Haciendas
Large Mexican farms owned by wealthy elites.
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Japanese expansion
Japan taking land in Asia.
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Maginot Line
French defensive wall built to stop Germany.
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Chamberlain
British Prime Minister who pursued a policy of appeasement toward Hitler, allowing Nazi Germany to take territory in hopes of avoiding war.