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| 348551591 | The Great War | Known as World War I and the War to End All Wars: a global military conflict that embroiled most of the world's great powers from 1914 to 1919. | 0 | |
| 348551592 | Treaty of Versailles | Created by the leaders of the victorious Allied Powers (France, Britain, US) and signed by Germany at the end of WW1. The treaty 1) stripped Germany of all Army, Navy, and Airforce, 2) forced German to repay for war damages ($33 billion), 3) forced Germany to acknowledge guilt for causing WWI 4) prohibited Germany to manufacture weapons. | 1 | |
| 348551593 | Spanish Flu | Pandemic that spread around the world in 1918, killing more than 50 million people. Affected people with strong immune systems, and resulted in a deficiency in a very concentrated age group (young adults). | 2 | |
| 348551594 | The Mandate System | Policy created by the League of Nations that broke up the middle east into "mandates" of territories of the former German and Ottoman Empires that the League considered incapable of ruling themselves. Violated promises made to Jews of the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine. Allies viewed it as a reasonable compromise between imperialism and self determination- peoples directly affected by it saw it as continued imperial rule cloaked by responsibility. | 3 | |
| 348551595 | Russian Civil War | 1918-1920: Conflict in which the Red Army successfully defeated the newly formed Bolshevik government against various Russian and interventionist anti-Bolshevik armies. Red (communist) vs. White (liberal/moderate/everyone else) armies. | 4 | |
| 348551596 | Modernization of Turkey | New Schools, industrialization, westernized form of government; end of Islamic control. | 5 | |
| 348551597 | Albert Einstein | 1879-1955. German born theoretical physicist. Best known for his theory of relativity and his theory of energy equivalence. Received Nobel Prize in 1921 for physics. During WW1 informed U.S. President Roosevelt of Nazi Germany's plans to build an atomic bomb. | 6 | |
| 348551598 | Sigmund Freud | Austrian neurologist who originated psychoanalysis (1856-1939); Said that human behavior is irrational; behavior is the outcome of conflict between the irrational unconscious driven by sexual, aggressive, and pleasure-seeking desires, ego (rationalizing conscious, what one can do) and superego (ingrained moral values, what one should do). | 7 | |
| 348551599 | Suburbs | Residential areas surrounding a city. Shops and businesses may move to suburbia as well as people. | 8 | |
| 348551600 | Five Year Plan | Stalin's economic policy to rebuild the Soviet economy after WWI. Tried to improve heavy industry and improve farm output, but resulted in widespread famine. | 9 | |
| 348551601 | The Great Depression | Extended depression (1929-1933) that led to widespread unemployment, bank failure, and a general downturn in the economy until World War II. Affected not only the U.S. but also countries associated with the country in trade. | 10 | |
| 348551602 | Fascism | A socio-political system headed by a dictator that calls for extreme nationalism, racism, and no tolerance of opposition. Ex. of dictators include Hitler, Mussolini. NOT to be confused with communism. | 11 | |
| 348551603 | Appeasement | Practice of giving in to the demands of an aggressive nation in order to avoid war. | 12 | |
| 348551604 | Chiang Kai-shek | General and leader of Nationalist China after 1925. Although he succeeded Sun Yat-sen as head of the Guomindang, he became a military dictator whose major goal was to crush the communist movement led by Mao Zedong. | 13 | |
| 348551605 | Mao Zedong | Founder of the Chinese Communist Party and Leader of the People's Republic of China from 1949 until his death. He initiated the (flawed) Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution in China. | 14 | |
| 348551606 | 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 not on the battlefields. | 15 | |
| 348551607 | Homefront | All the people in a country who are not in the military during wartime. Large factor of assistence in total war efforts. | 16 | |
| 348551608 | Blitzkreig | Meaning: "Lighting Wars", type of fast-moving warfare used by German forces against Poland in 1939. Usually combined land, sea, and air forces. | 17 | |
| 348551609 | A-Bomb | (Atomic Bomb) Powerful nuclear weapon that can destroy an entire city with one bomb. Nazi Germany attempted to develop one during WW1, and Albert Einstein alerted President Roosevelt in hopes that they could be stopped. America dropped A-bombs over the Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki towards the end on WW2. | 18 | |
| 348551610 | The Holocaust | The killing of millions of people across Europe during WWII. The genocide of the Jewish population, and other persecuted parties (gypsies, homosexuals, Poles, intellectuals, and anyone opposed to the Nazi party) was committed by the Nazi (National Socialist) Party that led Germany and controlled most of Europe. This was an attempt to "filter out" unwanted races to create a German "super-race". | 19 | |
| 367052223 | Decline of Ottoman Empire | The empire fell behind the industrial and political developments in Western Europe and America. They were invaded by powerful countries and lost a huge amount of land after WW1, since they sided with the Central Powers and lost the war. | 20 | |
| 367052224 | Decline of the Qing | External pressure from the West, & internal pressure in form of corruption, peasant unrest, incompetent leadership, rapid population growth, & food shortage were all factors that led to the people of China to want a new form of gov't (led to Republic). | 21 | |
| 367052225 | Green Revolution | The introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management of crops during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity. | 22 | |
| 367052226 | Nonaligned Movement | A movement of 3rd world states, led by India and Yugoslavia, that attempted to stand neutral from the US-Soviet rivalry during Cold War. | 23 | |
| 367052227 | Zionism | A nationalist movement for establishing and developing a national homeland for Jews in Palestine. | 24 | |
| 367052228 | Socialist Realism | Artistic and writing style whose goal was to promote socialism by showing Soviet life in a positive light. Novelists include Maxim Gorky, Louis Aragon. | 25 | |
| 367052229 | 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. | 26 | |
| 367052230 | Partition of India | The Partition of India is the process that led to the creation, on August 14, 1947 and August 15, 1947, respectively, of the sovereign states of Dominion of Pakistan (later Islamic Republic of Pakistan) and Union of India (later Republic of India) upon the granting of independence from the British Empire, marking the end of the British rule of India. | 27 |
