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Great Depression
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International economic crisis following the first world war; began with collapse of American Stock market in 1929; actual caused included collapse of agricultural prices in 1920's; included collapse of banking houses in the U.S. and Western Europe, massive unemployment; contradicted optimistic assumptions at 19th century.
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Socialism in one country
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Joseph Stalin's concept of Russian communism based soley on the Soviet Union rather than the Leninist concept of International Revolution; by cutting off the Soviet Union from other economies, the USSR avoided worst consequences of the Great Depression
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Getulio Vargas
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Elected president of Brazil in 1929; launched centralized political program by imposing federal administrators over state governments; held off coups by communists in 1935 and fascists in 1937; imposed a new constitution based on Mussolini's Italy; learned to communists after 1949; committed suicide in 1954.
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Politburo
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Executive committee of the soviet communist party, 20 members.
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Juan D. Peron
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Military leader in Argentina who became dominant political figure after military coup in 1943; used position as minister of Labor to appeal to working groups and the poor; became president in 1946; forced in exile in 1955 returned and won presidency in 1973.
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Socialist realism
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Attempt within the USSR to realize formal culture to the masses in order to avoid adoption of western Europeans culture forms; began under Joseph Stalin; Fundamental method of Soviet fiction, art, and literary criticism.
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Five-year Plans
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Stalin's plans to hasten industrialization of USSR; constructed massive factories in metalurgy mining and electric power; led to massive state planned industrialization at cost of availablity of consumer products.
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Syndicalism
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Economic and political system based on the organization of labor; imported in Latin America from European political movements; militant forces in Latin American politics.
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