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| 344605134 | internationalization | the idea that peoples should unite across national boundaries; gained popularity during the 19th century; led to the establishment of organizations like the International Red Cross | 0 | |
| 344605135 | World Court | permanent arbitration court established at The Hague in 1899; failed to resolve problems of international conflict | 1 | |
| 344605136 | western front | war line between Belgium and Switzerland during World War I; featured trench warfare and massive casualties among combatants | 2 | |
| 344605137 | Italian front | war line between Italy and Austria-Hungary; also produced trench warfare | 3 | |
| 344605138 | eastern front | war zone from the Baltic to the Balkans where Germans, Austro-Hungarians, Russians, and Balkan nations fought | 4 | |
| 344605139 | submarine warfare | a major part of the German naval effort against the allies during World War I; when employed against the United States it precipitated American participation in the war | 5 | |
| 344605140 | Balfour Declaration(1917) | British promise of support for the establishment of Jewish settlement in Palestine | 6 | |
| 344605141 | Brest-Litovsk Treaty (1918) | Russia and Germany agreement; Russia withdrew from the World War I and lost territory to Germany in return for peace | 7 | |
| 344605142 | Treaty of Versailles | ended World War I; punished Germany with loss of territory and payment of reparations; did not satisfy any of the signatories | 8 | |
| 344605143 | League of Nations | international organization of nations created after World War I; designed to preserve world peace; United States never a member | 9 | |
| 344605144 | socialism in one country | Stalin's concept of Russian communism based solely upon internal Soviet development; the resulting isolation helped the Soviet Union to avoid some of the consequences of the Great depression | 10 | |
| 344605145 | National Socialist(Nazi) Party | led by Hitler in Germany; gained support during economic chaos after World War I and the Great Depression; advocated an authoritarian state and an aggressive foreign policy; gained power in 1933 | 11 | |
| 344605146 | Adolf Hitler | Nazi leader of Germany from 1933 to 1945; led Germany into World War II | 12 | |
| 344605147 | Benito Mussolini | Italian leader who created a fascist government during the 1920s; stressed an aggressive foreign policy and nationalist glories | 13 | |
| 344605148 | anschluss | union between Germany and Austria under Hitler in 1938 | 14 | |
| 344605149 | Munich Conference | meeting caused by German occupation of part of Czechoslovakia in 1939; Western leaders agreed to the action after Germany promised future peace | 15 | |
| 344605150 | appeasement | name given to the policy of British leader Neville Chamberlain because of his acceptance at the Munich Conference of German aggression | 16 | |
| 344605151 | Tripartite Pact | 1940 alliance between Japan, Germany, and Italy | 17 | |
| 344605152 | Munich conference | 1938 meeting between German, French, and British leaders; allowed Czechoslovakia to be dismembered by Germany in return for promises of future peace | 18 | |
| 344605153 | Tripartite Pact (1940) | treaty between Germany, Japan, and Italy | 19 | |
| 344605154 | Pearl Harbor | American naval base in Hawaii attacked by Japan in December 1941; caused American entry into World War II | 20 | |
| 344605155 | blitzkrieg | German term meaning lightening warfare; involved rapid movement of troops and tanks | 21 | |
| 344605156 | Vichy | collaborationist French government established at Vichy in 1940 following defeat by Germany | 22 | |
| 344605157 | Winston Churchill | British prime minister during World War II; exemplified British determination to resist Germany | 23 | |
| 344605158 | siege of Stalingrad | 1942 turning point during Germany's invasion of Russia; Russians successfully defended the city and then went on the offensive | 24 | |
| 344605159 | Hiroshima and Nagasaki | two Japanese cities on which the US dropped atomic bombs in 1945; caused Japanese surrender | 25 | |
| 344605160 | Holocaust | Germany's attempted extermination of European Jews; resulted in six million deaths | 26 | |
| 344605161 | Teheran Conference(1943) | meeting between the leaders of the US, Britain, and the Soviet Union; decided to open a new front against Germany in France; gave the Russians a free hand in eastern Europe | 27 | |
| 344605162 | Yalta Conference (1945) | agreed upon Soviet entry into war against Japan, organization of the United nations; left eastern Europe to the Soviet Union | 28 | |
| 344605163 | Potsdam Conference | meeting btwn the leaders of the US, Britain, and the Soviet Union in 1945; the allies accepted Soviet control of eastern Europe; Germany and Austria were divided among the victors | 29 | |
| 344605164 | Cold War | struggle from 1945 to 1989 btwn the communist and democratic worlds; ended with the collapse of Russia | 30 | |
| 344605165 | eastern block | the eastern European countries of Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, and Eastern Germany dominated by the Soviet Union during the Cold WAr | 31 | |
| 344605166 | iron curtain | term coined by Churchill for the division btwn the Western and Soviet spheres | 32 | |
| 344605167 | Marshall Plan | US program begun in 1947 to help Western European nations recover from the devastation of World War II | 33 | |
| 344605168 | NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization; formed in 1949 to counter the threat of Soviet Union; included western European democracies, Canada, and the US | 34 | |
| 344605169 | Warsaw Pact | the Soviet response to NATO; made up of Soviets and their European satellites | 35 | |
| 344605170 | Korean War | war following the 1949 invasion of South Korea by North Korea; communist powers supported the former, the Western powers the latter | 36 | |
| 344605171 | Vietnamese war | a long struggle beginning with the Vietnamese effort to expel the French; the United States unsuccessfully intervened to prevent communist victory | 37 | |
| 344605172 | nonalignment | newly independent former colonial nations who proclaimed neutrality during the Cold War | 38 |
