Wall Street Crash
1929 stock market collapse that began the Great Depression.
Prohibition
U.S. law banning alcohol from 1920–1933.
The Lost Generation
Writers who felt hopeless after World War I.
Ataturk
Founder of modern Turkey who made it secular and westernized.
Secularism
Separation of religion from government.
Apartheid
System of racial segregation in South Africa.
Pan-Africanism
Movement promoting unity among people of African descent.
Mao
Communist leader who founded the People’s Republic of China.
May 4th Movement
Chinese student protests calling for modernization and nationalism.
Proletariat
Working class people.
Nuremberg Laws
Nazi laws that took rights away from Jews.
Freud
Psychologist who studied the unconscious mind.
Gestapo
Nazi secret police.
Diaz
Mexican dictator overthrown in the Mexican Revolution.
Villa
Mexican revolutionary leader who supported farmers.
Zapata
Mexican revolutionary who fought for land reform.
Carranza
Leader who became president during the Mexican Revolution and was later overthrown and killed while Obregón took power.
Mexican Revolution
Violent uprising that ended dictatorship in Mexico.
Good Neighbor Policy
U.S. policy of respecting Latin American nations.
Balfour Declaration
British promise to support a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
Gandhi
Indian leader who fought British rule with nonviolence.
Soul force
Gandhi’s idea of nonviolent resistance.
Asia Minor
Another name for modern-day Turkey.
Pan-Arabism
Movement to unite Arab nations.