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18 Cards in this Set
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Kellog-Briand Pact of 1928
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Document created by American and French leaders outlawing war forever, was ratified by a number of nations
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Welfare State
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Increased government spending, providing new levels of social insurance to illness or unemployment
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New Deal
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Franklin Roosevelt's attempts to stimulate the economy from 1933 onward
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Popular Front
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Alignment of liberal, socialist, and communist parties to take the 1936 French election
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Fascism
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Doctrine attacking the weakness of parlimentary democracy and the corruption of Western capitalism
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Totalitarian State
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Government exercising direct control over almost all aspects of the lives of its citizens
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Gestapo
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Nazi secret police service
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Christian Democratic Movement
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Democratic institution dedicated to moderate social reforms
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Federal Republic of Germany
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Commonly known as West Germany; a merging of American, British, and French war holdings
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Technocrat
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New breed of bureaucrat with intense training in engineering or economics, with a devotion to national planning
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Margaret Thatcher
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Conservative British Prime Minister, beginning in 1979
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Marshall Plan
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1947 plan set forward by the Americans to spur Western Europe to economic recovery
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European Economic Community
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1958 creation of single economic entity between six West European countries, the Common Market later expanded to include more nations
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New Feminism
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New wave of women's rights actvists beginning in 1949
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The Second Sex
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Publication by femininst French intellectual Simone de Beauvoir
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The Feminine Mystique
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Popularization and Americanization of new feminism, written by Betty Friedan in 1963
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John Keynes
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British economist that emphasized importance of government spending to compensate for the common man's loss of purchasing power in depressions
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Cubist Movement
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Practice of rendering familiar shapes into abstract, geometric designs focusing on mood, led by Pablo Picasso
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