165895142 | agriculture | the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock | 0 | |
165895143 | abicate | (v.) to resign, formally give up an office or a duty; to disown, discard synonyms: step down, relinquish,renounce antonyms: retain | 1 | |
165895144 | allies | the alliance of nations that fought the Axis in World War II and which (with subsequent additions) signed the charter of the United Nations in 1945 | 2 | |
165895145 | armaments | The weapons and supplies of war with which a military unit is equipped | 3 | |
165895146 | atomic energy | the energy released by a nuclear reaction | 4 | |
165895147 | capitalism | an economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of wealth is made and maintained chiefly by private individuals or corporations, esp. as contrasted to cooperatively or state-owned means of wealth. | 5 | |
165895148 | cold war | The ideological struggle between communism (Soviet Union) and capitalism (United States) for world influence. The Soviet Union and the United States came to the brink of actual war during the Cuban missile crisis but never attacked one another. (831) | 6 | |
165895149 | conservative | disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change. | 7 | |
165895150 | containment | (military) the act of containing something or someone | 8 | |
165895151 | decolonization | the action of changing from colonial to independent status | 9 | |
165895152 | deposed | removed from office or power | 10 | |
165895153 | democratization | the spread of representative government to more countries and the process of making governments more representative | 11 | |
165895154 | doctrine | a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school | 12 | |
165895155 | egalitarian | A person who believes in the equality of all people | 13 | |
165895156 | ethnic cleansing | the mass expulsion and killing of one ethic or religious group in an area by another ethnic or religious group in that area | 14 | |
165895157 | exodus | a journey by a large group to escape from a hostile environment | 15 | |
165895158 | fascism | a political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government (as opposed to democracy or liberalism) | 16 | |
165895159 | first world | the largely democratic and free-market states of the United States and Western Europe (Cold War to today) | 17 | |
165895160 | front line | the line along which opposing armies face each other | 18 | |
165895161 | globalizations | ongoing process by which regional economies, societies, and cultures have become integrated through a globe-spanning network of exchange | 19 | |
165895162 | global warming | an increase in the average temperature of the earth's atmosphere (especially a sustained increase that causes climatic changes) | 20 | |
165895163 | guerilla warfare | military strategy in which an army does not engage the enemy head on | 21 | |
165895164 | US intervention | reducing competitive nature of markets | 22 | |
165895165 | jihad | a holy struggle or striving by a Muslim for a moral or spiritual or political goal | 23 | |
165895166 | legislature | persons who make or amend or repeal laws | 24 | |
165895167 | liberal | a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties | 25 | |
165895168 | militarism | a political orientation of a people or a government to maintain a strong military force and to be prepared to use it aggresively to defend or promote national interests | 26 | |
165895169 | nationalism | love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it | 27 | |
165895170 | nationalize | put under state control or ownership | 28 | |
165895171 | nation-state | A country who's population share a common identity. | 29 | |
165895172 | natural resources | resources (actual and potential) supplied by nature | 30 | |
165895173 | national socialist party | Nazi Party | 31 | |
165895174 | nuclear | (weapons) deriving destructive energy from the release of atomic energy | 32 | |
165895175 | radical | markedly new or introducing radical change | 33 | |
165895176 | recession | the state of the economy declines | 34 | |
165895177 | reparations | payment for damages after a war | 35 | |
165895178 | revolution | the overthrow of a government by those who are governed | 36 | |
165895179 | rivalry | the act of competing as for profit or a prize | 37 | |
165895180 | secular | concerning those not members of the clergy | 38 | |
165895181 | terrorism | the calculated use of violence (or threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature | 39 | |
165895182 | third world | underdeveloped and developing countries of Asia and Africa and Latin America collectively | 40 | |
165895183 | totalitarian | characterized by a government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control | 41 | |
165895184 | westernization | assimilation of Western culture | 42 | |
165895185 | apartheid | a social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic and legal discrimination against non-whites | 43 | |
165895186 | asian tigers | Collective name for South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore-nations that became economic powers in the 1970s and 1980s. (p. 861) | 44 | |
165895187 | aswan dam | one of the world's largest dams on the Nile River in southern Egypt | 45 | |
165895188 | kemel mustafa | ... | 46 | |
165895189 | ayatollah khomeini | Iranian religious leader of the Shiites | 47 | |
165895190 | berlin airlift | airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin | 48 | |
165895191 | berlin wall | a wall separating East and West Berlin built by East Germany in 1961 to keep citizens from escaping to the West | 49 | |
165895192 | bolshevik party | the party that seized power under Lenin's leadership. | 50 | |
165895193 | fidel castro | Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba (born in 1927) | 51 | |
165895194 | chian kai shek | Leader of the Nationalist forces in China | 52 | |
165895195 | winston churchill | A noted British statesman who led Britain throughout most of World War II and along with Roosevelt planned many allied campaigns. He predicted an iron curtain that would separate Communist Europe from the rest of the West. | 53 | |
165895196 | cuban missile crisis | an international crisis in October 1962, the closest approach to nuclear war at any time between the U.S. and the USSR. When the U.S. discovered Soviet nuclear missiles on Cuba, President John F. Kennedy demanded their removal and announced a naval blockade of the island; the Soviet leader Khrushchev acceded to the U.S. demands a week later. | 54 | |
165895197 | cultural revolution | a radical reform in China initiated by Mao Zedong in 1965 and carried out largely by the Red Guard | 55 | |
165895198 | deng xioaping | ... | 56 | |
165895199 | eastern bloc | Nations favorable to the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe during the cold war-particularly Poland, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Rumania, Hungary, and East Germany | 57 | |
165895200 | european economic community | an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members | 58 | |
165895201 | european union | an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members | 59 | |
165895202 | fourteen points | the war aims outlined by President Wilson in 1918, which he believed would promote lasting peace; called for self-determination, freedom of the seas, free trade, end to secret agreements, reduction of arms and a league of nations | 60 | |
165895203 | mahatmas ghandi | A 20th-century Indian who helped lead his country to independence by using nonviolent resistance to colonial rule. | 61 | |
165895204 | marcus garvey | Many poor urban blacks turned to him. He was head of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and he urged black economic cooperation and founded a chain of UNIA grocery stores and other business | 62 | |
165895205 | great leap forward | Started by Mao Zedong, combined collective farms into People's Communes, failed because there was no incentive to work harder, ended after 2 years | 63 | |
165895206 | adolph hitler | german leader of Nazi Party. 1933-1945. rose to power by promoting racist and national views | 64 | |
165895207 | ho chi minh | Vietnamese communist statesman who fought the Japanese in World War II and the French until 1954 and South vietnam until 1975 (1890-1969) | 65 | |
165895208 | holocaust | an act of great destruction and loss of life | 66 | |
165895209 | saddam hussein | As president of Iraq, Saddam maintained power through the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988) and the first Persian Gulf War (1991). During these conflicts, Saddam repressed movements he deemed threatening to the stability of Iraq, particularly Shi'a and Kurdish movements seeking to overthrow the government or gain independence, respectively. While he remained a popular hero among many disaffected Arabs everywhere for standing up to the West and for his support for the Palestinians, U.S. leaders continued to view Saddam with deep suspicion following the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Saddam was deposed by the U.S. and its allies during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. | 67 | |
165895210 | IAEA | the United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy | 68 | |
165895211 | IMF | a United Nations agency to promote trade by increasing the exchange stability of the major currencies | 69 | |
165895212 | intifada | an uprising by Palestinian Arabs (in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank) against Israel in the late 1980s and again in 2000 | 70 | |
165895213 | Iran-Iraq war | The war began when Iraq invaded Iran on September 22 1980 following a long history of border disputes and fears of Shia insurgency among Iraq's long suppressed Shia majority influenced by Iran's Islamic revolution. | 71 | |
165895214 | iron curtain | term coined by Winston Churchill in 1946 to describe an imaginary line dividing Communist countries in the Soviet bloc from countries in Western Europe during the Cold War | 72 | |
165895215 | israel | In antiquity, the land between the eastern shore of the Mediterranean and the Jordan River, occupied by the Israelites from the early second millennium B.C.E. The modern state of Israel was founded in 1948. (p. 98) | 73 | |
165895216 | korean war | a war between North and South Korea | 74 | |
165895217 | league of nations | an international organization formed in 1920 to promote cooperation and peace among nations | 75 | |
165895218 | vladimir lenin | Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR (1870-1924) | 76 | |
165895219 | 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. | 77 | |
165895220 | marshall plan | a United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952) | 78 | |
165895221 | NAFTA | A trade agreement between Canada, the United States and Mexico that encourages free trade between these North American countries. | 79 | |
165895222 | NATO | an international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security | 80 | |
165895223 | OPEC | an organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the production and sale of petroleum | 81 | |
165895224 | shah reza pahlavi | the leader of Iran after World War II that was supported by Western government and Western oil companies. He tried to weaken the political influence of religion in Iran by limiting the role of the Islamic legal and academic experts. He was forced to flee from Iran in January 1979. | 82 | |
165895225 | palestine | an ancient country is southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean | 83 | |
165895226 | 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 | 84 | |
165895227 | six days war | The war where 3 countries attacked Isreal at once (Jordan, Egypt, and Syria) | 85 | |
165895228 | josef stalin | dictator of the Soviet Union, turned the Soviet Union into a totalitarian state | 86 | |
165895229 | sun yat sen | Chinese physician and political leader who aimed to transform China with patriotic, democratic, and economically progressive reforms. | 87 | |
165895230 | third reich | The Third Republic of Germany which began Hitler's rule in 1933 and ended with his defeat in 1945 | 88 | |
165895231 | 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 | 89 | |
165895232 | trench warfare | war from inside trenches enemies would try killing eachother with machine guns and tanks, and poison gas | 90 | |
165895233 | leon trotsky | Russian revolutionary and Communist theorist who helped Lenin and built up the army | 91 | |
165895234 | truman doctrine | President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology | 92 | |
165895235 | USSR | a former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia | 93 | |
165895236 | United Nations | an organization of independent states formed in 1945 to promote international peace and security | 94 | |
165895237 | Vietnam War | a prolonged war (1954-1975) between the communist armies of North Vietnam who were supported by the Chinese and the non-communist armies of South Vietnam who were supported by the United States | 95 | |
165895238 | War on Terror | Initiated by President George W. Bush after the attacks of September 11, 2001, the broadly defined war on terror aimed to weed out terrorist operatives and their supporters throughout the world. | 96 | |
165895239 | Warsaw Pact | treaty signed in 1945 that formed an alliance of the Eastern European countries behind the Iron Curtain; USSR, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania | 97 | |
165895240 | Woodrow Wilson | 28th President of the United States | 98 | |
165895241 | WTO | an international organization based in Geneva that monitors and enforces rules governing global trade | 99 | |
165895242 | WWI | Machine Gun: helped stalemate. Women: kept economy going. Innvolvment of US: when Germay sunk Lusitania; zimmerman note. Archduke Ferdinand: Led to AH declarign war on Serbia, killed by Black Hand. Dates: 1914-1919. | 100 | |
165895243 | WWII | began when Germany invaded Poland in 1934; US became in WWII when Pearl Harbor was bombed by Japan in 1941 | 101 | |
165895244 | young turks party | A Turkish revolutionary nationalist reform party, officially known as the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), whose leaders led a rebellion against the Ottoman sultan and effectively ruled the Ottoman Empire from 1908 until shortly before World War I. | 102 | |
165895245 | abolish | do away with | 103 | |
165895246 | absolute monarch | ruler with complete control over the government and the lives of the people. | 104 | |
165895247 | assembly line | mechanical system in a factory whereby an article is conveyed through sites at which successive operations are performed on it | 105 | |
165895248 | capital | wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value | 106 | |
165895249 | capitalism | an economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of wealth is made and maintained chiefly by private individuals or corporations, esp. as contrasted to cooperatively or state-owned means of wealth. | 107 | |
165895250 | cartel | a consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service | 108 | |
165895251 | commercial | connected with or engaged in or sponsored by or used in commerce or commercial enterprises | 109 | |
165895252 | communism | a form of socialism that abolishes private ownership | 110 | |
165895253 | constitution | United States 44-gun frigate that was one of the first three naval ships built by the United States | 111 | |
165895254 | corporation | a business owned by stockholders who share in its profits but are not personally responsible for its debts | 112 | |
165895255 | doctrine | ..., The church's teachings about God and our salvation, based on the Bible. | 113 | |
165895256 | domestic | ..., of concern to or concerning the internal affairs of a nation | 114 | |
165895257 | emancipation of the serfs | ..., Tsar Alexander II ended rigorous serfdom in Russia in 1861; serfs obtained no political rights; required to stay in villages until they could repay aristocracy for land. | 115 | |
165895259 | enlightenment | ..., An intellectual movement concentrated in France during the 1700's developed rational laws to describe social behavior and applied their findings in support of human rights and liberal economic theories. | 116 | |
165895262 | free market | ..., individuals decide what to produce and sell | 117 | |
165895265 | european imperialism | ..., -Expansion of European nations and acquiring colonies became part of European power struggle -Based on rapid progress in science, technology, economic skills, political organization -European nations populated the world and used their resources for their own countries gain→now a global competition for power among European empires and frantic race to occupy unclaimed parts of the world - Britain emerged as colonial giant -Result: world fallen under European or western domination - Imperialists imposed their western culture on all other cultures | 118 | |
165895267 | industrial revolution | the change from an agricultural to an industrial society and from home manufacturing to factory production, especially the one that took place in England from about 1750 to about 1850. | 119 | |
165895268 | laissez faire | ..., policy based on the idea that government should play as small a role as possible in the economy | 120 | |
165895271 | marxism | ... | 121 | |
165895273 | nationalism | ... | 122 | |
165895278 | social darwinism | ... | 123 | |
165895280 | socialism | ... | 124 | |
165895289 | berlin conference 1884 | ..., called by otto von bismarck, set rules for future annexations of african territory, success at averting war but not in reducing tension, called for free commerce and efforts at ending slave trade | 125 | |
165895290 | bloody sunday | ..., In Russia 1905 Russian soldiers inadvertently opened fire on demonstrators, turning them against the tsar. Possibly the start of the Revolution. | 126 | |
165895291 | boxer rebellions | ..., 1899 rebellion in Beijing, China started by a secret society of Chinese (the Boxers) who opposed the "foreign devils". The rebellion was ended by British troops. | 127 | |
165895292 | boer war | ..., a conflict, lasting from 1899 to 1902, in which the Boers and the British fought for control of territory in South Africa | 128 | |
165895293 | british east india company | ..., A joint stock company that controlled most of India during the period of imperialism. This company controlled the political, social, and economic life in India for more than 200 years. | 129 | |
165895296 | communist manifesto | ..., This is the 1848 book written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels which urges an uprising by workers to seize control of the factors of production from the upper and middle classes. | 130 | |
165895297 | congress of vienna | ..., Meeting of representatives of European monarchs called to reestablish the old order after the defeat of Napoleon I. 1814-1815 | 131 | |
165895299 | declarations of the right of man | ... | 132 | |
165895300 | the diet of japan | ... | 133 | |
165895301 | emanicipation of serfs | ... | 134 | |
165895302 | empress cixi | ... | 135 | |
165895303 | frederich engles | ... | 136 | |
165895304 | execution of Louis the XVI | ... | 137 | |
165895305 | miguel hidalgo | ... | 138 | |
165895306 | indian national congress | ... | 139 | |
165895307 | intolerable acts | ... | 140 | |
165895308 | the jewel in the crown | ... | 141 | |
165895309 | mahmut II | ... | 142 | |
165895310 | karl marx | ... | 143 | |
165895311 | maxim guns | ... | 144 | |
165895312 | meiji restoration | ... | 145 | |
165895313 | monroe doctrine | ... | 146 | |
165895314 | muhammad ali | ... | 147 | |
165895315 | muslim league | ... | 148 | |
165895316 | napoleon bonaparte | ... | 149 | |
165895317 | open door policy | ... | 150 | |
165895318 | opium wars | ... | 151 | |
165895319 | panama canal | ... | 152 | |
165895320 | the Raj | ... | 153 | |
165895321 | reign of terror | ... | 154 | |
165895322 | cecil rhodes | ... | 155 | |
165895323 | arudyard kipling | ... | 156 | |
165895324 | russification | ... | 157 | |
165895325 | Russo Japanese war | ... | 158 | |
165895326 | scramble for africa | ... | 159 | |
165895327 | sepoy mutiny | ... | 160 | |
165895328 | seven years war | ... | 161 | |
165895329 | sino japanese war | ... | 162 | |
165895330 | social darwinism | ... | 163 | |
165895331 | spanish american war | ... | 164 | |
165895332 | spheres of influence | ... | 165 | |
165895333 | suez canal | ... | 166 | |
165895334 | the state of duma of russia | ... | 167 | |
165895335 | steam engine | ... | 168 | |
165895336 | taiping rebellion | ... | 169 | |
165895337 | unequal treaties | ... | 170 | |
165895338 | otto von bismark | ... | 171 | |
165895339 | white man's burden | ... | 172 | |
165895340 | witte industrialization program | ... | 173 | |
165895341 | young turks party | ... | 174 | |
165895342 | absolute monarch | ... | 175 | |
165895343 | agrarian | ... | 176 | |
165895344 | atheists | ... | 177 | |
165895345 | capitalism | ... | 178 | |
165895346 | cash crop | ... | 179 | |
165895347 | circumnavigate | ... | 180 | |
165895348 | colonization | ... | 181 | |
165895349 | commerce | ... | 182 | |
165895350 | commercial | ... | 183 | |
165895351 | commonwealth | ... | 184 | |
165895352 | consequeces | ... | 185 | |
165895353 | contiuity | ... | 186 | |
165895354 | convent | ... | 187 | |
165895355 | deists | ... | 188 | |
165895356 | demography | ... | 189 | |
165895357 | divine right | ... | 190 | |
165895358 | dominant | ... | 191 | |
165895359 | economy | ... | 192 | |
165895360 | hedonism | ... | 193 | |
165895361 | hinder | ... | 194 | |
165895362 | humanism | ... | 195 | |
165895363 | lef wing | ... | 196 | |
165895364 | mercantilism | ... | 197 | |
165895365 | monastic | ... | 198 | |
165895366 | papacy | ... | 199 | |
165895367 | parlaiment | ... | 200 | |
165895368 | right wing | ... | 201 | |
165895369 | satire | ... | 202 | |
165895370 | vassals | ... | 203 | |
165895371 | venerate | ... | 204 | |
165895372 | vernacular | ... | 205 | |
165895373 | age of reason | ... | 206 | |
165895374 | akbar the great | ... | 207 | |
165895375 | batavia indonesia | ... | 208 | |
165895376 | john clavin | ... | 209 | |
165895377 | columbian exchange | ... | 210 | |
165895378 | counter reformation | ... | 211 | |
165895379 | dutch east india company | ... | 212 | |
165895380 | eastern orthodox | ... | 213 | |
165895381 | eastern orthodx | ... | 214 | |
165895382 | edicts of nantes | ... | 215 | |
165895383 | encomienda system | ... | 216 | |
165895384 | english bill of rights | ... | 217 | |
165895385 | english commonwealth | ... | 218 | |
165895386 | european exploration | ... | 219 | |
165895387 | floating empires | ... | 220 | |
165895388 | gutenbergs printing press | ... | 221 | |
165895389 | hacienda system | ... | 222 | |
165895390 | heliocentric theory | ... | 223 | |
165895391 | holy roman emire | ... | 224 | |
165895392 | hugeanots | ... | 225 | |
165895393 | inquisition | ... | 226 | |
165895394 | jannisary corps | ... | 227 | |
165895395 | law of heavenly bodies | ... | 228 | |
165895396 | manchu china | ... | 229 | |
165895397 | potosi silver mine | ... | 230 | |
165895398 | shogun | ... | 231 | |
165895399 | straits of malacca | ... | 232 | |
165895400 | tokugawa bakufu system | ... | 233 | |
165895401 | treaty of westphalia | ... | 234 | |
165895402 | zheng he | ... | 235 | |
165895403 | caliphate | ... | 236 | |
165895404 | dowry | ... | 237 | |
165895405 | fiefs | ... | 238 | |
165895406 | garrisons | ... | 239 | |
165895407 | hajj | ... | 240 | |
165895408 | heresy | ... | 241 | |
165895409 | heretic | ... | 242 | |
165895410 | hijab | ... | 243 | |
165895411 | monetary system | ... | 244 | |
165895412 | primogeniture | ... | 245 | |
165895413 | pax romana | ... | 246 | |
165895414 | byzantium | ... | 247 | |
165895415 | shi haung diblack death | ... | 248 | |
165895416 | siddhartha gautamachang'an | ... | 249 | |
165895417 | empress wu | ... | 250 | |
165895418 | the vedas of hinduism | ... | 251 | |
165895419 | ghengis khan | ... | 252 | |
165895420 | hanseatic league | ... | 253 | |
165895421 | hundred years war | ... | 254 | |
165895422 | code of justinian | ... | 255 | |
165895423 | magna carta | ... | 256 | |
165895424 | mansa musa | ... | 257 | |
165895425 | cyrillic alphabet | ... | 258 | |
165895426 | schism in christianity | ... | 259 | |
165895427 | schism in islam | ... | 260 | |
165895428 | timbuktu | ... | 261 | |
165895429 | william the conqueror | ... | 262 | |
165895430 | paleolithic | ... | 263 | |
165895431 | sustenance | ... | 264 | |
165895432 | analects of confucious | ... | 265 | |
165895433 | code of hammurabi | ... | 266 | |
165895434 | cuneiform | ... | 267 | |
165895435 | four noble truths | ... | 268 | |
165895436 | the huns | ... | 269 | |
165895437 | hellenism | ... | 270 | |
165895438 | indian ocean trade | ... | 271 | |
165895439 | pastoral | ... | 272 | |
165895440 | ziggurats | ... | 273 | |
165895441 | franks | ... | 274 | |
165895442 | theocracy | ... | 275 | |
165895443 | the torah | ... | 276 |
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