1. CHAPTER 15 YEARS OF CRISIS 1919 - 1939 Mrs. Tucker World History Victor Valley High School

2. Vocabulary Terms – Frayer Method  Definition Picture/Icon  Vocabulary Term  Example/Characteristic Non-Example/Non-Characteristic

3. EXISTENTIALISM  Jean Paul Sartre’s philisophy that  There is no universal meaning to  life. People create their own meaning  In life through their choices & actions;  Importance of choice;Belief in meaning of life;

4. COALITION GOVERNMENT  Temporary alliance of several  Parties needed to form a  Parliamentary majority;  Combination Sole party

5. WEIMAR REPUBLIC  New democratic government in  Germany that was weak and blamed  For Signing Treaty of Versailles;  Weak RepublicStrong Stable Government

6. GREAT DEPRESSION  Long business slump along with  The 1929 Stock Market Crash in  US—it would effect all countries;  A business slump a boom

7. NEW DEAL  Program of government reforms  Including public works projects to  Provide jobs for the unemployed  And aid to farmers and businesses;  Government Reforms Laissez Faire

8. FASCISM  New, militant political movement  That emplasized loyalty to state  And obedience to its leader;  Extreme NationalismCommunism

9. NAZISM  Fascist National Socialist German  Workers Party led by Adolph  Hitler with swastika for a symbol;  FascismCommunism

10. LEBENSRAUM  Hitler’s declaration that Germany  Needed more “living space.”  ExpansionNon-Expansion

11. APPEASEMENT  Giving in to an aggressor to  Keep peace;  Giving infighting back

12. AXIS POWERS  Germany, Italy & Japan  Germany, Italy & Japan Great Britain, France, USSR, & USA 

13. ISOLATIONSIM  Avoiding political ties with other  Countries;  US Staying out of WWIIInvolvement with other countries/Alliances

14. MUNICH CONFERENCE  Meeting of Germany, France, Britain,  And Italy in Munich, Germany where  Germany was allowed to take  Czechoslovakia (Sudetenland) to keep  Peace;  Meeting to give in to Hitler’s Confrontation regarding  Demands; Germany’s aggression;