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Unit 6 Vocabulary

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Unit 6

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Proletariat

the class of wage earners, especially those who earn their living by manual labor

Bolsheviks

a member of the Russian Communist Party

Vladimir Lenin

communist revolutionary and founding father of the Soviet Union

Rasputin

best known for his role as a mystical adviser in the court of Czar Nicholas II of Russia.

Provisional Government

an transitional government inherited political authority after the abdication of Nicholas II

Soviet

any similar council or assembly connected with a socialistic governmental system elsewhere

Communist Party

a political party advocating the principles of communism, developed by Marx and Lenin

Joseph Stalin

General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Totalitarianism

absolute control by the state or a governing branch of a highly centralized institution

Great Purge

a campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union which occurred from 1936 to 1938.

Command Economy

An economy where supply and price are regulated by the government rather than market forces

Five-year Plan

a series of nationwide centralized economic plans in the Soviet Union

Collective Farm

farms organized as a unit, worked by a community under the supervision of the state

Albert Einstein

physicist who developed the special theories of relativity and won the Nobel Prize for Physics

Theory of Relativity

Einstein determined that massive objects cause a distortion in space-time, which is felt as gravity

Sigmund Freud

the father of psychoanalysis and one of the 20th century's most influential thinkers

Existentialism

a philosophy that emphasizes individual existence, freedom and choice

Friedrich Nietzsche

a German philosopher who challenged the foundations of Christianity and traditional morality

Surrealism

a cultural movement that is best known for its visual artworks and writings

Jazz

a music built on individual and compromise, independence and cooperation

Charles Lindbergh

an American aviator, made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean

Coalition Government

a cabinet of a parliamentary government in which several parties cooperate

Weimar Republic

an unofficial, historical designation for the German state between 1919 and 1933

Great Depression

a severe worldwide economic depression that took place during the 1930s

Franklin D. Roosevelt

an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of United States

New Deal

the domestic program of the administration of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Fascism

an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization

Benito Mussolini

leader of the National Fascist Party, ruling the country as Prime Minister from 1922 to 1943

Adolf Hitler

a German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party

Nazism

a set of political beliefs associated with the Nazi Party of Germany

Lebensraum

the land or territory that a country's leaders believe it requires in order to grow and flourish

Mein Kampf

a 1925 autobiographical book by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler