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Great Depression and WWII. Essential Questions . How can economic decisions create conflict? How can a leader’s ambition create conflict? Why do countries cooperate?. Vocabulary Words . Propaganda – information that is spread to try to persuade people’s opinions
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Essential Questions • How can economic decisions create conflict? • How can a leader’s ambition create conflict? • Why do countries cooperate?
Vocabulary Words • Propaganda – information that is spread to try to persuade people’s opinions • Appeasement- to yield or concede to the demands of a nation to help keep peace • Depression – time of economic failure • Genocide – systematic killing of a group of people
Anti-Semitism – hatred of Jews • Totalitarianism – a government that has absolute control over its people • Fascism – the political regime of Mussolini in Italy which encouraged militarism and nationalism that has complete control over its people • Persecution – a program to exterminate, drive away, or subjugate a people because of their religion, race, or beliefs