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| 376733522 | World War I | a war between the allies (Russia, France, British Empire, Italy, United States, Japan, Rumania, Serbia, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Montenegro) and the central powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria) from 1914 to 1918 | 0 | |
| 376733523 | Treaty of Versailles | the treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans | 1 | |
| 376733524 | Woodrow Wilson/14 Points | The President's vision for US involvement to promote principles such as peace in the post war world | 2 | |
| 376733525 | Great Depression | a severe, world wide economic crisis which lasted from the end of 1929 to the outbreak of World War II | 3 | |
| 376733526 | New Deal | The name of President Roosevelt's program for getting the United States out of the depression | 4 | |
| 376733527 | Fascism | A system of government characterized by strict social and economic control and a strong, centralized government usually headed by a dictator. First found in Italy by Mussolini. | 5 | |
| 376733528 | Mussolini | founded fascism and ruled Italy for almost 21 years, most of that time as dictator. He dreamed of building Italy into a great empire, but he led his nation to defeat in World War II (1939-1945) and was executed by his own people. | 6 | |
| 376733529 | Nazi Germany/Hitler | the Nazi dictatorship under Hitler (1933-1945)National Socialist Workers Party anti-democracy, violently anti-communist, racist, anti-semitic | 7 | |
| 376733530 | Rape of Nanjing | Japanese attack on Chinese capital from 1937-1938 when Japanese aggressorts slaughtered 100,000 civilians and raped thousands of women in order to gain control of China | 8 | |
| 376733531 | Total War | a war that involves the complete mobilization of resources and people, affecting the lives of all citizens in the warring countries, even those remote from the battlefields. | 9 | |
| 376733532 | Holocaust | A methodical plan orchestrated by Hitler to ensure German supremacy. It called for the elimination of Jews, non-conformists, homosexuals, non-Aryans, and mentally and physically disabled. | 10 | |
| 376733533 | Marshall Plan | A plan that the US came up with to revive war-torn economies of Europe. This plan offered $13 billion in aid to western and Southern Europe. | 11 | |
| 376733534 | EU | an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members (European Union) | 12 | |
| 376733535 | NATO | (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) an alliance made to defend one another if they were attacked by any other country; US, England, France, Canada, Western European countries | 13 | |
| 376733536 | Russian Revolution | Prompted by labor unrest, personal liberties, and elected representatives, this political revolution occurred in 1917 when Czar Nicholas II was murdered and Vladimir Lenin sought control to implement his ideas of socialism. | 14 | |
| 376733537 | Bolsheviks | Led by Vladimir Lenin it was the Russian communist party that took over the Russian goverment during WWI | 15 | |
| 376733538 | Lenin | Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR (1870-1924) | 16 | |
| 376733539 | Guomindang | the political party founded in 1911 by Sun Yat-sen | 17 | |
| 376733540 | Chinese Revolution | the republican revolution against the Manchu dynasty in China led by Mao Zedong | 18 | |
| 376733541 | Mao Zedong | This man became the leader of the Chinese Communist Party and remained its leader until his death. He declared the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949 and supported the Chinese peasantry throughout his life. | 19 | |
| 376733542 | Stalin | Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition (1879-1953) | 20 | |
| 376733543 | Collectivization | system in which private farms were eliminated, instead, the government owned all the land while the peasants worked on it. | 21 | |
| 376733544 | Cultural Revolution | Campaign in China ordered by Mao Zedong to purge the Communist Party of his opponents and instill revolutionary values in the younger generation. | 22 | |
| 376733545 | 5 Year Plans | Stalin's plan to build up Russia's military and industry | 23 | |
| 376733546 | Great Purges | Also called the Terror, the Great Purges of the late 1930s were a massive attempt to cleanse the Soviet Union of supposed "enemies of the people"; nearly a million people were executed between 1936 and 1941, and 4 million or 5 million more were sentenced to forced labor in the gulag. | 24 | |
| 376733547 | Cuban Missile Crisis | the 1962 confrontation bewteen US and the Soviet Union over Soviet missiles in Cuba | 25 | |
| 376733548 | Khrushchev | Soviet leader, publicly denounced Stalin, free many political prisoners eased censorship | 26 | |
| 376733549 | Gorbachev | Soviet statesman whose foreign policy brought an end to the Cold War and whose domestic policy introduced major reforms | 27 | |
| 376733550 | Deng Xioping | 1977-1992 leader of China after Mao; increased trade, farmers own land, reduce police force, modernized China | 28 | |
| 376733551 | Perestroika/Glasnost | Gorbachev's reforms for restructuring and openness (took out censorship) | 29 | |
| 376733552 | Decolonization | The collapse of colonial empires. Between 1947 and 1962, practically all former colonies in Asia and Africa gained independence. | 30 | |
| 376733553 | Indian National Congress | A movement and political party founded in 1885 to demand greater Indian participation in government. Its membership was middle class, and its demands were modest until World War I. Led after 1920 by Mohandas K. Gandhi, appealing to the poor. | 31 | |
| 376733554 | Gandhi | political and spiritual leader during India's struggle with Great Britain for home rule known for his nonviolent protests | 32 | |
| 376733555 | Satyagraha | literally means "truth force," it was Gandhi's name for his non-violent resistance in order to oppose British rule | 33 | |
| 376733556 | Muslim League | an organization formed in 1906 to protect the interests of India's Muslims, which later proposed that India be divided into separate Muslim and Hindu nations | 34 | |
| 376733557 | Muhammad Ali Jinnah | Indian statesman who was the founder of Pakistan as a Muslim state (1876-1948) | 35 | |
| 376733558 | African National Congress | An organization dedicated to obtaining equal voting and civil rights for black inhabitants of South Africa. Founded in 1912 as the South African Native National Congress, it changed its name in 1923. Eventually brought equality. | 36 | |
| 376733559 | Nelson Mandela | South African statesman who was released from prison to become the nation's first democratically elected president in 1994 (born in 1918) | 37 | |
| 376733560 | Black Consciousness | movement to encourage blacks to take pride in their race, overcoming lies they have been told about whites being better than them | 38 | |
| 376733561 | Soweto | Impoverished black neighborhood outside Johannesburg, South Africa, and the site of a violent uprising in 1976 in which hundreds were killed; that rebellion began a series of violent protests and strikes that helped end apartheid. | 39 | |
| 376733562 | Ataturk | Turkish statesman who abolished the caliphate and founded Turkey as a modern secular state (1881-1938) | 40 | |
| 376733563 | Ayatollah Khomeini | Iranian religious leader of the Shiites | 41 | |
| 376733564 | Neo-Liberalism | A strategy for economic development that calls for free markets, balanced budgets, privatization, free trade, and minimal government intervention in the economy. | 42 | |
| 376733565 | Reglobalization | The quickening of global economic transactions after World War II. | 43 | |
| 376733566 | Transnational Corporations | large corporations that are headquartered in one country but sell and produce goods and services in many countries | 44 | |
| 376733567 | North/South Gap | Growing disparity between the Global North and the Global South that appears to be caused by current world trade practices. | 45 | |
| 376733568 | Antiglobalization | Major international movement that protests the development of the global economy on the grounds that it makes the rich richer and keeps poor regions in poverty while exploiting their labor and environments. | 46 | |
| 376733569 | Prague Spring | The term for the attempted liberation of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Under Alexander Dubcek | 47 | |
| 376733570 | Che Guevara | (1928-1967) Argentinean revolutionary leader; he was an aide to Fidel Castro during the Cuban revolution. | 48 | |
| 376733571 | Fidel Castro | Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba (born in 1927) | 49 | |
| 376733572 | Banana Republic | a small country (especially in Central America) that is politically unstable and whose economy is dominated by foreign companies and depends on one export (such as bananas) | 50 | |
| 376733573 | Second Wave Feminism | The feminist movement starting in the 1960s, particularly in America, where women campaigned for social and economic rights in addition to the more basic rights they had won during first-wave. | 51 | |
| 376733574 | Fundamentalism | Literal interpretation and strict adherence to basic principles of a religion (or a religious branch, denomination, or sect). | 52 | |
| 376733575 | Hindutva | a desire to remake India as a society in which Hindu principles prevail | 53 | |
| 376733576 | Islamic Renewal | Large number of movements in Islamic lands that promote a return to strict adherence to the Quran and the sharia in opposition to key elements of Western culture. | 54 | |
| 376733577 | Osama bin Laden/ al-Qaeda | Saudi Militant who heads the terrorist group, al Qaeda, is responsible for 9/11 and other terrorist attacks. Osama is a strong Muslim which was his main purpose towards his attacks. | 55 | |
| 376733578 | Global Warming | an increase in the average temperature of the earth's atmosphere (especially a sustained increase that causes climatic changes) | 56 | |
| 376733579 | Environmentalism | the activity of protecting the environemnt from pollution or destruction | 57 |
