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| 6708744194 | Battle of Midway | a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II, halting Japanese conquests into the Pacific Ocean |  | 0 |
| 6708803855 | Bolshevik | a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which was renamed the Communist Party after seizing power in the October Revolution of 1917. | 1 | |
| 6708813541 | Brest-Litovsk Treaty | a peace treaty signed on 3 March 1918 between the new Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia and the Central Powers, that ended Russia's participation in World War I. | 2 | |
| 6708819662 | Central Powers | consisting of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria - hence also known as the Quadruple Alliance | 3 | |
| 6708834563 | Chiang Kai-shek | a Chinese political and military leader who served as the leader of the Republic of China between 1928 and 1975. Mao Zedong's rival. | 4 | |
| 6708839752 | Winston Churchill | a British statesman who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. | 5 | |
| 6708846697 | Cixi | a Chinese empress dowager and regent who effectively controlled the Chinese government in the late Qing dynasty for 47 years from 1861 until her death in 1908. | 6 | |
| 6708892126 | Collective security | the cooperation of several countries in an alliance to strengthen the security of each. | 7 | |
| 6708982905 | Conscription/Drafting | compulsory enlistment for state service, typically into the armed forces. | 8 | |
| 6708990509 | D-Day | The date of the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany's control. Codenamed Operation Overlord. | 9 | |
| 6709009137 | Democratic centralism | the Leninist organizational system in which policy is decided centrally and is binding on all members. | 10 | |
| 6709033676 | Eastern Front | a theater of conflict between the European Axis powers and co-belligerent Finland against the Soviet Union, Poland and other Allies, which encompassed Northern, Southern and Central and Eastern Europe from 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945. | 11 | |
| 6709046286 | Fascism | an authoritarian and extremely nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization. | 12 | |
| 6709055053 | Five Year Plans | a list of economic goals, created by General Secretary Joseph Stalin and based on his policy of Socialism in One Country. | 13 | |
| 6709059239 | Fourteen Points | a statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I. The principles were outlined in a January 8, 1918 speech on war aims and peace terms to the United States Congress by President Woodrow Wilson. | 14 | |
| 6709101159 | Genocide | the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. | 15 | |
| 6709105243 | Great Depression | lasted from 1929 to 1939, and was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world. It began after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. | 16 | |
| 6709129580 | "Great War" | "World War One" - a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918 | 17 | |
| 6709135388 | Guomindang | Nationalist political party founded on democratic principles by Sun Yat-sen in 1912. After 1925, the party was headed by Chiang Kai-shek, who turned it into an increasingly authoritarian movement. | 18 | |
| 6709150443 | Adolf Hitler | a German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party, Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and Führer of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. | 19 | |
| 6709225359 | Holocaust | a genocide in which some six million European Jews were killed by Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany, and the World War II collaborators with the Nazis. | 20 | |
| 6709236856 | Home front | the civilian population and activities of a nation whose armed forces are engaged in war abroad. | 21 | |
| 6709247028 | Island-hopping | a military strategy employed by the Allies in the Pacific War against Japan and the Axis powers during World War II. The idea was to bypass heavily fortified Japanese positions and instead concentrate the limited Allied resources on strategically important islands that were not well defended but capable of supporting the drive to the main islands of Japan. | 22 | |
| 6709262987 | Mustafa Kemal | 1881 - 1938, father of modern turkey, known as (Ataturk) let Turkey through an intensive period of reform that sought to eliminate vestiges of the Ottoman past and orient Turkey even more towards the West. | 23 | |
| 6709299904 | Alexander Kerensky | an agrarian socialist who became prime minister. He refused to confiscate land holdings and felt that continuation of war was most important. | 24 | |
| 6709301738 | John Maynard Keynes | English economist who advocated the use of government monetary and fiscal policy to maintain full employment without inflation (1883-1946) | 25 | |
| 6711115102 | League of Nations | an international organization, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, created after the First World War to provide a forum for resolving international disputes. | 26 | |
| 6711118838 | V.I. Lenin | Served as head of government of the Russian Republic from 1917 to 1918, of the Russian Soviet Federate Socialist Republic from 1918 to 1924, and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia and then the wider Soviet Union became a one-party socialist state governed by the Russian Communist Party. Was ideologically a Marxist. | 27 | |
| 6711123377 | Mandate system | The system established after World War I to administer former territories of the German and Ottoman empires. | 28 | |
| 6711159907 | Mao Zedong | Chinese communist revolutionary and founding father of the People's Republic of China, which he governed as the Chairman of the Communist Party of China from its establishment in 1949, until his death in 1976. |  | 29 |
| 6711162920 | Margin | borrowing money from a broker to purchase stock. | 30 | |
| 6711165279 | Marxism-Leninism | the doctrines of Marx as interpreted and put into effect by Lenin in the former Soviet Union and (at first) by Mao Zedong in China. | 31 | |
| 6711167709 | Mein Kampf | a 1925 autobiographical book by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler. The work outlines Hitler's political ideology and future plans for Germany. | 32 | |
| 6711169997 | Munich Conference | came as a result of a long series of negotiations. Adolf Hitler had demanded the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia; British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain tried to talk him out of it. | 33 | |
| 6711174062 | Benito Mussolini | an Italian politician, journalist, and leader of the National Fascist Party, ruling the country as Prime Minister from 1922 to 1943. He ruled constitutionally until 1925, when he dropped all pretense of democracy and set up a legal dictatorship. Was the founder of Italian Fascism. | 34 | |
| 6711178367 | Nanking Massacre | an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing, then the capital of the Republic of China during the Second Sino-Japanese War. |  | 35 |
| 6711183772 | Nationalism | patriotic feeling, principles, or efforts. | 36 | |
| 6711185644 | Nazi party | emerged from the German nationalist and racist paramilitary culture, which fought against the communist uprisings in post-World War I Germany. The party was created as a means to draw workers away from communism and into extreme nationalism. | 37 | |
| 6711193249 | New Deal | a series of programs, including, most notably, Social Security, that were enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938, and a few that came later. | 38 | |
| 6711201844 | New economic policy | an economic policy of Soviet Russia proposed by Vladimir Lenin, who described it as a progression towards "state capitalism" within the workers' state of the USSR. | 39 | |
| 6711211621 | Pan-Slavism | the principle or advocacy of the union of all Slavs or all Slavic peoples in one political organization. | 40 | |
| 6711212147 | Pearl Harbor | a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base on the morning of December 7, 1941. |  | 41 |
| 6711215198 | Primary producing economies | Countries in which producing raw materials and natural goods as exports was the main focus of their economy | 42 | |
| 6711221039 | Protectionism | the theory or practice of shielding a country's domestic industries from foreign competition by taxing imports. | 43 | |
| 6711224294 | Reparations | the making of amends for a wrong one has done, by paying money to or otherwise helping those who have been wronged. | 44 | |
| 6711226297 | Russian Revolution of 1905 | a wave of mass political and social unrest that spread through vast areas of the Russian Empire, some of which was directed at the government. It included worker strikes, peasant unrest, and military mutinies. was a peaceful massive procession of workers against the Czar at Winter Palace, troops opened fire and killed hundreds | 45 | |
| 6711236282 | Chinese Revolution of 1911 | Led by Sun Yat-sen; a group of revolutionaries in southern China led a successful revolt against the Qing Dynasty, establishing in its place the Republic of China and ending the imperial system. | 46 | |
| 6711242448 | Rome-Berlin Axis | Coalition formed in 1936 between Italy and Germany. | 47 | |
| 6711244581 | Self-determination | the process by which a country determines its own statehood and forms its own allegiances and government. | 48 | |
| 6711246023 | "Socialism in one country" | a theory put forth by Joseph Stalin in 1924, and was finally adopted by the Soviet Union as state policy. The theory held that given the defeat of all the communist revolutions in Europe in 1917-1921 except Russia's, the Soviet Union should begin to strengthen itself internally. | 49 | |
| 6711253171 | Soviet | a revolutionary council of workers or peasants in Russia before 1917. | 50 | |
| 6711264732 | Joseph Stalin | the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953. Holding the post of the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, he was effectively the dictator of the state. | 51 | |
| 6711270495 | Sun Yat-sen | the first president and founding father of the Republic of China. He played a big role in the overthrow of the Qing dynasty during the years leading up to the Xinhai Revolution. He was appointed to serve as Provisional President of the Republic of China when it was founded in 1912. He later co-founded the Nationalist Party of China, serving as its first leader. He was a uniting figure in post-Imperial China, and he remains unique among 20th-century Chinese politicians for being widely revered among the people from both sides of the Taiwan Strait. | 52 | |
| 6711278681 | Total war | a war that is unrestricted in terms of the weapons used, the territory or combatants involved, or the objectives pursued, especially one in which the laws of war are disregarded. | 53 | |
| 6711280646 | Trench warfare | a type of land warfare using occupied fighting lines consisting largely of trenches, in which troops are significantly protected from the enemy's small arms fire and are substantially sheltered from artillery. |  | 54 |
| 6711282636 | Tripartite pact | an agreement between Germany, Japan and Italy signed in Berlin on 27 September 1940 by, | 55 | |
| 6711284700 | Triple entente | association between Great Britain, France, and Russia, the nucleus of the Allied Powers in World War I. | 56 | |
| 6711287390 | Leon Trotsky | a Marxist revolutionary and theorist, and a Soviet politician who engineered the transfer of all political power to the Soviets. | 57 | |
| 6711291431 | "Vanguard of the revolution" | a strategy whereby the most class-conscious and politically advanced sections of the proletariat or working class form organizations in order to draw larger sections of the working class towards revolutionary politics and serve as manifestations of proletarian political power against its class enemies. | 58 | |
| 6711297152 | Versailles Treaties | the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. | 59 | |
| 6711298284 | Weimar Republic | an unofficial, historical designation for the German state between 1919 and 1933. Was Germany's first democracy and it failed miserably. It had leaders such as Stresseman and Hindenburg. | 60 | |
| 6711310915 | Western front | the main theatre of war during World War I. Following the outbreak of war in August 1914, the German Army opened it by invading Luxembourg and Belgium, then gaining military control of important industrial regions in France. | 61 | |
| 6711312390 | "What is to be done?" | Lenin argues that the working class will not spontaneously become political simply by fighting economic battles with employers over wages, working hours and the like. To convert the working class to Marxism, Lenin insists that Marxists should form a political party, or "vanguard," of dedicated revolutionaries to spread Marxist political ideas among the workers. | 62 |
