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| 161274803 | National Socialist (Nazi) | Led by Adolf Hitler in Germany; picked up political support in chaos of the Great Depression; advocaed authoritarian state under a single leader. | 0 | |
| 161274804 | Winston Churchhill | Britist prime minister during WW2; responsible for British resistance to German air assaults. | 1 | |
| 161274805 | Blitzkrieg | German term for lightning warfare; involved rapid movement of airplanes, tanks, and mechanized troop carriers; resulted in early German victories. | 2 | |
| 161274806 | Vichy | French collaborationist government est. in 1940 in southern French armies be the Germans. | 3 | |
| 161274807 | Holocaust | Term for Hitler's genocide of European Jews during WW2; resulted in deaths of 6million Jews. | 4 | |
| 161274808 | Battle of the Bulge | Hitler's last-ditch effort to repel the invaiding Allied armies in the winter of 1944-1945. | 5 | |
| 161274809 | Midway Island | WW2 Pacific battle; decisive U.S. victory over powerful Japanese carrier force. | 6 | |
| 161274810 | United Nations | International orginization formed in the aftermath of WW2; included all of victorious Allies; its primary mission was to provide a forum for negotiating disputes. | 7 | |
| 161274811 | Yalta Conference | Meeting among leaders of the U.S.; Britain; and Soviet Union; agreed to Soviet entry into the Pacific war in return for possessions in Manchuria, org. of United Nations. | 8 | |
| 161274812 | Postdam Conference | Meeting among leaders of U.S., Britain, & Soviet Union right before the end of WW2; Germany and Austria to be divided among victorious Allies. | 9 | |
| 161274813 | Total War | Warfare of 20century; vast resources and emotional commitments of beligrent nations were marshaled to support military efforts. | 10 | |
| 161274814 | Atlantic Charter of 1914 | WW2 alliance agreement b/ U.S. and Britain; included clause that recognised right of all people to choose government under wich they live. | 11 | |
| 161274815 | Quit India Movement | Mass civli dissobedience campaign that began in summer of 1942 to end British control of India. | 12 | |
| 161274816 | Aparthied | Policy of strict racial segregation imposed in South Africa to permit continued dominance of whites politically and economically. | 13 | |
| 161274817 | Cold War | state of relations b/ U.S. and its allies and Soviet Union and its allies; based on creation of political spheres of influence and a nuclear arms race rather than warfare. | 14 | |
| 161274818 | Eastern Bloc | Nations favorable to Soviet Union in eastern Europe during cold war-particularly Poland, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, & East Germany. | 15 | |
| 161274819 | Iron Curtain | Phrase coined by Winston Churchill to describe division b/ free and communist socities taking shape in Europe. | 16 | |
| 161274820 | Marshal Plan | Program of substantial loans initiated by U.S.; designed to aid Western nations in rebuilding fromthe war's devastation. | 17 | |
| 161274821 | North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato) | Created under U.S. leadership to group most of the western European powers plus Canada in a defensive alliance against possible Soviet aggression. | 18 | |
| 161274822 | Warsaw Pact | Allience orgainized by Soviet Union w/ its eastern European satellites to balance formation of Nato by Western powers. | 19 | |
| 161274823 | Welfare State | New activism of western European state in economic policy & welfare issues after WW2; introduced programs to reduce impact of economic inequality; typically included medical programs & economic planning. | 20 | |
| 161274824 | Green Movement | Politcal parties, esp. in Europe focusing envirometal issues and economic growth. | 21 | |
| 161274825 | European Union | Began as European Economic Community an allience of Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Luxuimbourg, and the Netherlands to create a single ecnomic entity across national boundries. | 22 | |
| 161274826 | New Feminism | New wave of women's rights agitation; emphasized more literal equality that would play down domestic roles and qualities for women; promoted specific reforms & redefinition of what it ment to be a female. | 23 | |
| 161274827 | Berlin Wall | Built to hault the flow of imigration from west Berlin to east Berlin; immigration was in response to lack of consumer goods & close Soviet control of economy & politcs; torn down @ end of Cold War. | 24 |
