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32 Cards in this Set
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Locarno treaties
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a series of treaties signed in 1925 by European nations signed in Locarno, Switzerland
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Kellogg-Briand Pact
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a treaty signed in 1928 by almost every independent nation promising to pursue disarment
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IRA
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Irish Republican Army which carried on guerrilla warfare
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Commonwealth of Nations
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in 1931, when Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa became an alliance
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Leon Blum
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the socialist liberal leader who united several political parties in 1936
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Maginot Line
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a useless line drawn by the British to portect from a German invasion
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New Deal
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a massive package of social and economic programs introduced by FDR
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disarmament
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- the reduction of armed forces and weapons
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overproduction
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-a condition in which production of goods exceeds the demand for them
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margin buying
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-paying part of the cost and borrowing the rest from brokers
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general strike
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- a strike by workers in many different industries at the same time
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What steps did the major powers take to protect the peace?
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- the Locarno treaties
- the Kellog-Brand Pact of 1928 - The League of Nations |
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Why did the moves to protect peace in Europe have limited effects
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- no way to enforce treaties
- L of N was powerless |
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How did overproduction lead to the Great Depression
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- it lowered the price of products, collapsing businesses
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How did margin buying lead to the great depression
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- paying part of the cost and borrowing the rest from brokers.
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How did high tariffs lead to the great depression
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- other nations retaliated by raising tariffs, causing all nations to lose trade
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Marie Curie
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- experimented with radioactivity
- won two nobel prizes |
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cubism
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-a style invented by Picasso and George Braque which broke 3-D objects into fragments and composed them into complex patterns of angles and planes
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Bauhaus
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- the belief that the function of a uilding should determine its form
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T.S Eliot
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author of the Waste Land, a poem porteraying the modern world as spiritually empty and barren
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Virginia Woolf
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- author of Mrs. Dalloway, a novel used stream of consciousness to explore the hidden thoughts of people as they go through the ordinary actions of everyday life
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James Joyce
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- author of Finnegans Wake, a novel which explores the mind of a hero who remains ound asleep throughout the novel
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Jazz age
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the 1920s
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psychoanalysis
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- a method of studying how the mind works and treating mental disorders
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abstract
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-composed of lines, colors, and shapes with no recognizable subject matter at all
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surrealism
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- a movement that attempted to portray the workings of the uncoscious mind
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stream of consciousness
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a write appears to probe a character's random thoughts and feelings without imposing any logic or order
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flapper
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- a group of jazz age women who rejected traditional styles of women
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How did the ideas of Einstein and Freud contribute to a sense of uncertainty
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- both challenged traditional beliefs, in Einstein's case, he challenged Newtonian science, and in Freud's case society's faith in reason
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How did postwar artists challegne older western traditions
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- they refused to try and reproduce the real world but illustrate other dimesions of shape and form
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What themes did postwar writers stress?
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- the moral breakdown of war
- a powerful disgust for war |
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How did flappers symbolize changes in western society?
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they rejected traditional limits of women
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