Interwar Vocab

Art movement of the 1920s & 1930a that created dreamlike images, inspired by the writings of Freud

School of modern architecture that advocated clean, modern style. Centered in Weimar Germany, led by Walter Gropius. "Form follows function"

Motto associated w/ guiding principle of the Bauhaus School of Architecture. Means that the shape of something should relate to what it does

Lenin's program of reviving Soviet economy by allowing capitalist economic concepts: small businesses & profits tolerated. A big success

Early Bolshevik leader & founder of Red Army, key to the victory of the commis in Russian Civil War. Main rival of Stalin

1918-1921 war between Bolsheviks (Reds) & anti-Bolsheviks (Whites) that left over a million dead. Communists were victorious

Soviet programs of setting ambitious economic growth targets

Organized Fascist Party in Italy & took power in 1922. He was a militarist, nationalist, anti-communist leader and became close to Hitler

Oct. 1922 event when 50,000 Blackshirts (Fascists) marched to Rome and demanded the King make Mussolini the Prime Minister. A success

Synonym for Fascism

Clause in the Versailles Treaty that forced Germany to accept sole blame for WWI

1922 friendship agreement between Weimar Germany and the Soviet Union, the 2 outcast nations

1925 treaty, signed by several European nations, that marked the return of Germany to the diplomatic family of Europe

Idealistic 1928 international agreement signed by over 60 nations, each promising to never use war as a means to solve differences. Failed.

The second major leader of the Soviet Union and one of the most bloody dictator in world history

The second major leader of the Soviet Union and one of the most bloody dictator in world history

Term for the Soviet practice of consolidating all agriculture into massive, state-owned businesses. A massive failure

Term for prosperous peasants who did well under NEP and resisted Stalin's efforts to collectivize agriculture. They were massacred by Stalin