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| 10074653127 | MAIN Causes of WWI | The MAIN causes of WWI are militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism.This is important because WWI caused a lot of Europe to go in debt. |  | 0 |
| 10074653128 | WWI New Tech examples | Some WWI New Tech examples range from industrial killing machines to feminine hygiene. This is important because it allowed countries to advance in war and be strong. |  | 1 |
| 10074655128 | Total War | Total War was the government plans and controls economic and social life in order to keep up with the needs for the war. This is important because it allowed countries to be more ready for war. |  | 2 |
| 10074655838 | Non-European Theaters WWI | Non-European Theaters WWI were where the war began and ended. It is important because during the four years of conflict, battled was joined by armies of unprecedented size equipped with new mechanized technologies, leaving millions dead or wounded. |  | 3 |
| 10074656633 | Wilsonian Idealism | Wilsonian Idealism was Wilson's plan for an international League of Nations to prevent another major world war and to provide/maintain democracy in the world. This was important because the US mission was to fulfill a Divine Plan to bring democracy and stability to the world. |  | 4 |
| 10074657558 | Democratic Successor States | Democratic Successor States are Austria, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia. This is important because they were countries that craved out of the central powers and Russia. |  | 5 |
| 10074657559 | League of Nations | League of Nations was an international organization to promote world peace and cooperation that was created by the Treaty of Versailles (1919). This is important because many people looked to them to bring stability to the world. |  | 6 |
| 10074658198 | Russian Revolution | The Russian Revolution was an uprising in Russia, in which the Czarist government collapsed and a provisional government was established. Another part of the revolution was when a revolution to overthrow this provisional government by a coup d'etat, establishing the Soviet government. This is important because it generated a new way of thinking about economy, society, and the government. |  | 7 |
| 10074658199 | Bolsheviks | Bolsheviks was a radical marxist political party founded by Lenin in 1903. This is important because under Lenin's leadership, the Bolsheviks seized power in November 1917 during the Russian Revolution. |  | 8 |
| 10074659169 | New Economic Policy | It was a policy created by Lenin. It was important because it allowed capitalist ventures, state kept control of banks, foreign trade, and large industries, small businesses were allowed to reopen for private profit stopped harassing peasants for grain, and peasants held on to small plots of land and sold surplus. |  | 9 |
| 10074659170 | Russian Civil War | Russian Civil War was a conflict in which the Red Army successfully defended the newly formed Bolshevik government against various Russian and interventionist anti-Bolshevik armies. This is important because it defined Russia and it worked up to WWI and WWII. |  | 10 |
| 10074660973 | Stalin's rapid economic modernization plan | Stalin's rapid economic modernization plan was his 5 year plan and rapid industrialization. This is important because it allowed Russia to industrialize. |  | 11 |
| 10074660974 | Kulaks | Kulaks were the rich peasants in the Russian Empire who owned larger farms and used hired labor. They were their own class. This is important because Stalin wanted them destroyed as they threatened the concept of collectivization. |  | 12 |
| 10074662105 | Versailles Treaty 1919 | Versailles Treaty 1919 was a peace settlement between the allies and the end of the first world war. It was important because it gave German authorities little choice but to accept the terms of treaty presented by the Big Three. |  | 13 |
| 10074662106 | Weimar Republic | The Weimar Republic was Germany's new democratic government was set up in 1919. It was named the Weimar Republic after the city where the national assembly met. It was important because it was a very weak republic which led Germany to have lacked a strong democratic tradition, so postwar Germany had several major political parties and many minor ones. |  | 14 |
| 10074665388 | Existentialism | Existentialism was a a philosophical theory or approach that emphasizes the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible agent determining their own development through acts of the will. It is important because it helped understand the importance of human life. |  | 15 |
| 10074665389 | Postmodernism | Post modernism was a Post-World War II intellectual movement. It is important because the cultural attitude focusing on cultural pluralism and release from the confines and ideology of Western high culture. |  | 16 |
| 10074667220 | New physicists examples | New physicists examples are the origin of mass, the strong CP problem, and neutrino oscillations. This is important because it was physics beyond the Standard Model refers to the theoretical developments needed to explain the deficiencies of the Standard Model. |  | 17 |
| 10074671528 | Totalitarianism | Totalitarianism was an attempt by government to control a society totally through a dictatorship. It is important because it employs the modern methodds of communication- press radio, TV to glorify the state over the individual. |  | 18 |
| 10074671529 | Communism | Communism is a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs. This is important because Communism played a big role in WWII. |  | 19 |
| 10074672550 | Second Vatican Council/Vatican 2 | The Second Vatican Council/Vatican 2 began in 1962. It was called by John XXIII and was the largesrt council, bringing church up to date, mass language changed, and pope/apostles/bishops all shared apostolic authority. It was important because it made bible importance higher and it opened doors between denominations. |  | 20 |
| 10074672551 | Cubism | Cubism is a 20th century avant-garde art movement. In cubist artworks, objects are broken up, analyzed, and re-assembled in an abstracted form. It is important because it revolutionized European painting and sculptures, and it inspired related movements in music, literature and architecture. |  | 21 |
| 10074672552 | Surrealism | Surrealism is a 20th century avant-garde movement in art in literature. It is important because it sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, for example by the irrational juxtaposition of images. |  | 22 |
| 10074673491 | Bauhaus | A Weimar (german) architectural school created by Walter Gropius. It is important because it combined the fine arts and functionalism. |  | 23 |
| 10074674722 | Modernism | Modernism was a cultural movement embracing human empowerment and rejecting traditionalism as outdated. It was important because rationality, industry, and technology were cornerstones of progress and human achievement. |  | 24 |
| 10074674723 | Post Modernism | Post Modernism was a thought that rejects Western belief in an objective truth and instead focuses on the reality nature of reality and knowledge. It is important because postmodernist like Ferdinand de Saussure was able to hypothesize that humans had no capacity for knowledge before language, where meaning seeks expression through language. |  | 25 |
| 10074676574 | Igor Stravinsky | Igor Stravinsky was a composer who wrote Rite of Spring. He is important because his music and scenes shocked crowds. |  | 26 |
| 10074677474 | Franz Kafka | Franz Kafka was a Czech novelist who wrote in German. He is important because his writings were about a nightmarish world of isolated and troubled individuals. |  | 27 |
| 10074677475 | Virginia Woolf | Virginia Woolf was a British novelist. She is important because she was a major influence in modern day fiction. |  | 28 |
| 10074679454 | Lost generation | The lost generation was a group of writers in the 1920s. This is important because they shared the belief that they were lost in a greedy materialistic world that lacked moral values and often chose to flee to Europe. |  | 29 |
| 10074679455 | Disillusionment | Disillusionment is a feeling of disappointment. This is important because the feeling came from the discovery that something is not as good as one believed it to be. |  | 30 |
| 10074681428 | Simon d Beauvoir | Simon d Beauvoir was a french writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist and social theorist. She is important because she developed an existentialist ethics that condemned the "spirit of seriousness" in which the people too readily identify with certain abstractions at the expense of individual freedom and responsibility. |  | 31 |
| 10074681429 | Fascist States | Fascist States were ruled by a strong central government and the public or other branches of government are given no avenue for removing the central authority, whether that authority is made up of a singe person or a large group of politicians. This is important because fascist states often possessed authoritarianism. |  | 32 |
| 10074681999 | Mussolini | Mussolini was a facist dictator of Italy. He is important because he led Italy to conquer Ethiopia, joined Germany in the Axis pact, and allied Italy with Germany in WWII. | | 33 |
| 10074682000 | Franco | Franco was a conflict between the Second French Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia. It is important because complete Prussian and German victory brought about the final unification of Germany under King Wilhelm I of Prussia. |  | 34 |
| 10074682001 | Spanish Civil War | The Spanish civil war was a 1936 rebellion erupted in Spain after a coalition of Republicans, Socialists, and Communists were elected. General Francisco led the rebellion. It is important because the revolt quickly led to a civil war. |  | 35 |
| 10074682978 | Great Depression | The great depression was the economic crisis and period of low business activity in the U.S. and other countries. It is important because it affected economic activity across the globe. |  | 36 |
| 10074682979 | Keynesian Economics | Keynesian Economics was an economic theory based on the ideas of British economist John Maynard Keynes. It is important because according to Keynesian Economics, government can spend their economies out of a depression by using deficit spending to encourage employment and stimulate growth. |  | 37 |
| 10074696549 | Blitzkrieg | Blitzkrieg was a type of war Hitler used against the allies. It is important because it was the first example of which Hitler used to crush Poland in four weeks. |  | 38 |
| 10074684240 | Marshall Plan | Marshall Plan was a plan that the US came up with to revive war-torn economies of Europe. This is important because it offered $13 billion in aid to western and Southern Europe. |  | 39 |
| 10074696550 | Axis powers | Axis powers were a group of countries that opposed the allied powers in WWII, including Germany, Italy, and Japan as well as Bulgaria, Hungry, Romania, and Yugoslavia. This is important because it was led by Nazi Germany. |  | 40 |
| 10074697332 | "new racial order" | "new racial order" was the racial policy of Nazi Germany when policies and laws were made to implemented by Nazi Germany. It is important because it asserted the superiority of the "Aryan Race" and based on a specific racist doctrine which claimed scientific legitimacy. |  | 41 |
| 10074697333 | Holocaust | Holocaust was a methodical plan orchestrated by Hitler to ensure German supremacy. It called for the elimination of Jews, non-conformists, homosexuals, non-Ayrans, and mentally and physically disabled. It was important because it killed 12 million people and cause misplaced people. |  | 42 |
| 10074698788 | National Self-Determination | National Self-Determination was the notion that people should be able to choose their own national governments through democratic majority-rule elections and live free form outside interference in nation-states with clearly defined borders. It is important because it was mentioned in the Fourteen Points. |  | 43 |
| 10074698789 | Mandate Territories | Mandate Territories is an allocation of former German colonies and Ottoman possessions to the victorious powers after WWI. It was to be administered under the League of Nations supervision. It is important because it was used especially in reference to the Western European possessions of the Middle East after WWI. |  | 44 |
| 10074699737 | Iron Curtain | The iron curtain was the notional barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events. It was important because it was used by the Soviet Union to seal off itself and its dependent eastern and central European allies from open contact with the West and other non communist areas. |  | 45 |
| 10074699738 | Cold War | Cold War was a conflict that was between the US and the Soviet Union. The nations never directly confronted each other on the battlefield but deadly threats went on for years. It was important because it showcased the battle between Capitalism and Communism. |  | 46 |
| 10074699739 | "hot wars" | "hot wars" were aggressive, violent conflicts. They were important because the USSR and the USA were directly involved. |  | 47 |
| 10074700811 | NATO | NATO is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization which is an alliance made to defend one another if they were attacked by any other country; US, England, France, Canada, Western European Countries. This is important because it gave each country the piece of mind they needed against the Communists. |  | 48 |
| 10074700812 | IMF | IMF (International Monetary Fund) is a United Nations agency to promote trade by increasing the exchange stability of the major currencies. It is important because it helped globally. |  | 49 |
| 10074700813 | COMECON | COMECON (Council for Mutual Economic Assistance) was an organization for economic cooperation in European Communist states. It is important because it helped facilitate and coordinate the economic development of the eastern European countries belonging to the Soviet bloc. |  | 50 |
| 10074702896 | Warsaw Pact | The Warsaw pact was an alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations. It is important because it was only in response to the NATO. |  | 51 |
| 10074702897 | Gorbachev | Gorbachev was the leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991. He is important because he wanted reform, he renounced the Brezhnev Doctrine, pulled troops out of Afghanastan, supported Glasnost, and urged perestroika; but all this failed. |  | 52 |
| 10074703737 | Perestroika | Perestroika was a policy intiated by Gorbachev. It is important because it involved restructuring of the social and economic status quo in communist Russia towards a market based economy and society. |  | 53 |
| 10074703738 | Glasnost | Glasnost was a newly emerging openness of the government and media during Gorbachev's rule. It is important because it contrasted sharply to the censorship, uniformity, and lies characterized during the rule of previous leaders. |  | 54 |
| 10074704323 | Balkan Genocide | Balkan Genocide was the Bosnian Christian Serbs murdering Muslim civilians. It is important because they called it ethnic cleansing to exterminate people. |  | 55 |
| 10074705852 | European Coal and Steel Community | The European Coal and Steel Community was used as a common market by 6 member countries (France, West Germany, Benelux countries, Italy) for steel and coal products by eliminating tarriffs and other trade barriers. It is important because was called for an integration of the coal and steel industries of France and West Germany. It finally added Italy and the Benelux states. |  | 56 |
| 10074705853 | EU | The EU was an international organization of European countries formed after World War II. This i important because it was to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members. |  | 57 |
| 10074707756 | Separatist movements | Separatist movements racked Europe in this time period. Some examples would be the Spanish Civil War, Aeschylus, and Palestine. They are important because it was a major cause of numerous conflicts. |  | 58 |
| 10074713149 | Ethnic Cleansing examples post WWII | Some examples of ethic cleansing post WWII were the Rwanda genocide, Sudan, Yugoslavia. This is important because it shows that ethnic cleansing still existed after the Holocaust. |  | 59 |
| 10074713150 | Margaret Thatcher | Margaret thatcher was the leader of conservatives in Great Britain who came to power. Pledged to limit social welfare, restrict union power, and end inflation. She was important because she formed Thatcherism, in which her economic policy was termed, and improved the British economic situation. . |  | 60 |
| 10074713934 | Green Parties | Green Party was a political party that began during the later part of the twentieth century. They are important because it represents many citizens wanting a political party that reflects environmental concerns. |  | 61 |
| 10074713935 | 1968 Revolts | 1968 Revolts were protests of thousands of students who rejected the excesses of capitalism and consumerism. They were soon joined by a strike of a 11 million workers. This was important because it brought the entire French government and economy to a virtual halt. |  | 62 |
| 10074715416 | Guest Workers | A guest worker is a person with temporary permission to work in another country, especially in Germany. This is important because its gave a safety net and chance for self-improvement. |  | 63 |
