Totalitarianism/ Democracy in Crisis

Please write two meaningful sentences that are related to each of the following terms. One can be a definition and the other an example or two of the terms relevance from the text. This discipline insures that you have improved comprehension and command of the material. (Remember to double space between terms for easier viewing).
 
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apartheid: An apartheid is a racial segregation act.  In 1910 and 1940 the white people started getting a hard grip on Africa again after they imposed apartheid.

civil disobedience: Civil disobedience is to refuse unjust laws.  Gandhi showed an act of peaceful civil disobedience to free the people of India. 

Diego Rivera: He was a great painter from Mexico.  He painted many famous murals which showed things such as struggle for the Mexican  peoples’ liberty. 

Hirohito: This man resigned from power to help Japan by getting another ruler in from 1926 to 1989.  During the time after he resigned Japan went trough a huge tragedy of having bad leaders. 

Jiang Jieshi: Jiang Jieshi was a new ruler for China.  Jiang Jieshi started going throughout China and taking over warlords here and there, but he also tried destroying the Communist Party by killing tons of people who supported it.

Muhammad Ali Jinrah: He was a man who felt there should be a separate state for the Muslims.  He felt this because of the disputes between the Hindus and the Muslims. 

Nationalization: Nationalization is the government takeover of natural resources. The new constitution of Mexico allowed nationalization, even thought it gave people more help in the areas of religion, labor, and addressing land. 

Pancho Villa: Pancho was a man who killed 17 Americans.  This got the U.S upset and they invaded Mexico in 1916. 

Cause of the 1910 Mexico Revolution: The main causes for the Mexican revolution was centered around the poor peasants like normal.  The causes were poverty, hard labor, low wages, and land problems.

Pan-Africanism: This is the nationalism of Africans all around the world.  The African people started to gain a lot of pride while white people were in control over Africa. 

Mandate System (M. East): There was a dispute over land because the British did not give them their land after the war.  Then Britain added Jordan to the British mandate so all the Arabs felt betrayed.

Great Salt March: This is the great march that the leader Gandhi lead to show peaceful civil disobedience.  Him and his followers Marches 100’s of miles down to the ocean and made their own salt in an act of defiance. 

May Fourth Movement:This movement was by many Asian students in Beijing.  They all sought for revolution and really wanted to have democracy.  

Effect of Great Depression in Japan: The great depression for Japan really hurt its economy.  The main reason it did this was because countries, especially the Americans, could not buy their goods because they had economic problems as well. 
 
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general strike: A general strike is a strike with many different types of workers from different industries at the same time.  In 1926 there was a general strike which involved over 3 million workers. 

stream of consciousness:: This is a technique of writing where the writer probes a character’s random thoughts and feelings without being in a specific order.  Writers started to use this technique including a famous one named Freud. 

 
flapper: Flappers were European girls who adopted the fashionable ways of the Americans.  In fact one of the queens who resigned during the Jazz Age was a flapper. 

concentration camp: These camps were detention centers for civilians considered enemies of the state.  Millions of Jews during Hitler’s reign were sent to these camps and killed in many different ways.  

Leon Blum: He made a government which would solve labor and social legislative problems.  Not many leftists liked his government though so it was brought down by them. 

Marie Curie: She was a polish-born French scientist who was experimenting with radioactivity.  She helped to discover things like atoms had things called uranium and radium in them which release charged particles. 

Franklin D. Roosevelt: Roosevelt was the U.S president during the times of the Great depression.  He set up things such as welfare which still has stuck with the U.S till today and is not necessarily a good thing.  

Virginia Woolf: Woolf was a famous writer who wrote using the technique called stream of consciousness.  He used this to show the thoughts of people throughout their every day lives. 

Albert Einstein: Albert Einstein was a brilliant scientist who taught his theories of relativity and felt that space and time were measurements and not absolute.  Einstein at first was not easily accepted but after a while most scientists accepted his theory of relativity. 

James Joyce: Joyce was a popular writer who wrote the book Finnegan’s Wake which explores the mind of a hero while he is asleep the whole novel.  He sometimes invented words, some over 100 letters long. 

Pablo Picasso: Picasso was a Spanish artist who created a new style of art called Cubism.  Picasso would break 3-D objects and put the pieces at strange angles. 

Joseph Pilsudski: He was the dictator of Poland.  He got his power by saying he would bring order like Hitler. 

Frank Lloyd Wright: He was an American architect which through his things he built showed his Bauhus beliefs.  He used materials and designed which fit the environment. 

Kellog-Briand Pact: In 1925 almost every independent nation signed this Pact.  It wanted to renounce war as a national policy. 

Fascism: Fascists were crazy people with the views that’s everyone is for the central power and that individual was unimportant.  They were for people like Mussolini and were for things like teaching youth how to be tough and obey strict military discipline.  

Adolph Hitler: Hitler was an amazing leader just with the wrong motives.  He killed millions of Jews and basically tried to destroy all Jewish population.  He put people in concentration camps and designed symbols such as the swastika to show anti-Semitism.

Totalitarian rule: Totalitarian rule is where a leader has complete control over every aspect of his peoples’ lives.  Adolph Hitler, like many other large powerful leaders, had a totalitarian rule over Germany.  He got everyone to do what he wanted. 

Mein Kampf: This was the book Hitler wrote while he was in prison.  This book was the holy book to the nazis and basically showed Hitler’s extreme nationalism, racism, and anti-Semitism. 

campaign against the Jews: Adolph Hitler lead the campaign against the Jews because he felt they were imperfect people who were causing great problems.  In the campaign against the Jews, millions of Jews were killed in brutal and disgusting ways.  

Great Depression: The Great Depression was a time when everyone’s economy was down the gutter.  There was poverty everywhere for a number of reasons and it was much harder for people to live at that time.  

Mussolini: Mussolini was a man who was given his power from King Victor when Italy was having great problems.  The main way this man stayed empowered was because of the fascist people who supported him and his crazy views.  One time Mussolini even went around to women and collected their wedding bands to get more money. 

Weimar Republic: This was made up by the national assembly which went to Weimar and made an emergency constitution.  They mad a new republic but it was having problems because of all the communists. 

Kristallnacht: This means “the night of broken glass.”  This is the night when mobs of Nazi-led soldiers attacked Jewish communities all over Germany. 

List causes of Great Depression- some reasons for the Great Depression were a crash in the stock market, banks failing, and mainly overproduction.  The reason overproduction was a problem was because during the war tons of goods were being produced but after the war not as many were needed, which lowered prices and hurt the economy.