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4265346024Great Warname originally given to the First World War (1914-1918).0
4265346025Guamindangnationalist party founded by Sun Yat-sen1
4265346026home frontthe civilian population (and their activities) of a country at war2
4265346027island-hoppingstragety of Allies in World War 2 of capturing some Japanese-held islands and going around others3
4265346028Alexander Kerenskyan agrarian socialist who became prime minister. He refused to confiscate land holdings and felt that continuation of war was most important.4
4265346029John Maynard KeynesEnglish economist who advocated the use of government monetary and fiscal policy to maintain full employment without inflation (1883-1946)5
4265346030mandate systema half-way system between outright imperial domination and independence, it was used to split Germany's empire after WW I.6
4265346031marginbuying a stock by paying only a fraction of the stock price and borrowing the rest7
4265346032Mein KampfBook written by Hitler while he was exiled, My Struggle.8
4265346033Munich Conference1938; Chamberlain, France and other countries (not the USSR); they agreed that Sudentenland should be ceded to Germany; Chamberlain secured peace with Germany.9
4265346034Benito MussoliniItalian fascist dictator (1883-1945)10
4265346035New Dealthe economic policy of F. D. Roosevelt11
4265346036New Economic PolicyLenin's economy reform that re-established economic freedom in an attempt to build agriculture and industry`12
4265346037Pan-Slavisma movement to create a nation state of Slavic people13
4265346038Pearl HarborUnited States military base on Hawaii that was bombed by Japan, bringing the United States into World War II. Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941.14
4265346039primary producing economieseconomies that mainly export raw materials15
4265346040protectionismthe policy of imposing duties or quotas on imports in order to protect home industries from overseas competition16
4265346041Rome-Berlin Axisthe alliance between Italy and Germany (Mussolini and Hitler)17
4265346042self-determinationthe ability of a government to determine their own course of their own free will18
4265346043socialism in one countrypolicy adopted by Stalin in the autumn of 1924, in which the notion of a worldwide socialist revolution was abandoned in favor of making the Soviet Union a successful socialist state.19
4265346044sovietcouncil of workers and soldiers set up by Russian revolutionaries in 191720
4265346045total warthe channeling of a nation's entire resources into a war effort21
4265346046Tripartite Pact1940 alliance between Japan, Germany, and Italy.22
4265346047Triple Ententean alliance between Great Britain, France and Russia in the years before WWI.23
4265346048Weimar RepublicGerman republic founded after the WWI and the downfall of the German Empire's monarchy.24
4265346049Western Frontin WWI, the region of Northern France where the forces of the Allies and the Central Powers battled each other.25
4265346050African National Congressan organization dedicated to obtaining equal voting and civil rights for the black inhabitants of South Africa.26
4265346051All-African People's Conferencemeetings of Africans from across the continent27
4265346052Salvador AllendeSocialist politician elected president of Chile in 1970 and overthrown by the military in 1973. He died during the military attack.28
4265346053Fulgencio Batistapro-American dictator of Cuba before Castro. His overthrow led to Castro and communists taking over Cuba, who was now friendly to the Soviets.29
4265346054Lazaro CardenasPresident of Mexico (1934-1940). He brought major changes to Mexican life by distributing millions of acres of land to the peasants, bringing representatives of workers and farmers into the inner circles of politics, and nationalizing the oil industry30
4265346055civil disobediencea group's refusal to obey a law because they believe the law is immoral (as in protest against discrimination)31
4265346056corporatisman arrangement in which government officials interact with people and groups outside the government before they set policy.32
4265346057Charles De GaulleFrench general and statesman who became very popular during World War II as the leader of the Free French forces in exile (1890-1970)33
4265346058Blaise DiagneSenegalese political leader. He was the first African elected to the French National Assembly.34
4265346059W.E.B DuBois1st black to earn Ph.D. from Harvard, encouraged blacks to resist systems of segregation and discrimination, helped create NAACP in 191035
4265346060General Assemblythe supreme deliberative assembly of the United Nations36
4265346061Che Guevara(1928-1967) Argentinean revolutionary leader; he was an aide to Fidel Castro during the Cuban revolution.37
4265346062Samuel Huntingtonargued that our most important and dangerous future conflicts will be based on clashes of civilizations, not on socio-economic or even ideological differences38
4265346063import substitution industrializationan economic system that attempts to strengthen a country's industrial power by restricting foreign imports.39
4265346064Iranian Cultural Revolution(Iran) revolution after 1979 aimed at purifying the country from secular values and behaviors40
4265346065Islamic fundamentalismbelievers within Islam who offer a critique of secular states and seek to change states and individual behaviors to conform to a strict reading of Islamic texts41
4265346066Muhammad Ali JinnahIndian statesman who was the founder of Pakistan as a Muslim state (1876-1948)42
4265346067Jomo Kenyattaa nationalist leader who fought to end oppressive laws against Africans; later became the first Prime Minister of Kenya43
4265346068Ruhollah KhomeiniIranian religious leader who denounced the government44
4265346069League of Arab Statesregional organization designed to strengthen and unite countries with Arab majorities45
4265346070"limited war"a small scale war without nuclear weapons that involves just one area of the world46
4265346071Nelson MandelaSouth African statesman who was released from prison to become the nation's first democratically elected president in 1994 (born in 1918)47
4265346072Gamel Abdel Nasserpresident of Egypt when Israel teamed up with Britain and France to invade the Sinai peninsula; looked good to the Arabs because he stood up to the imperialists48
4265346073Jawaharlal NehruIndian statesman. He succeeded Mohandas K. Gandhi as leader of the Indian National Congress. He negotiated the end of British colonial rule in India and became India's first prime minister (1947-1964).49

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