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| 154173972 | Kellogg-Briand Pact | A treaty coauthored by American and French leaders in 1928; in principle outlawed war forever; ratified subsequently by other nations. | 0 | |
| 154173973 | Cubist movement | 20th-century art style; best represented by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso; rendered familiar objects as geometrical shapes. | 1 | |
| 154173974 | Fascism | Political philosophy that became predominant in Italy and then Germany during the 1920s and 1930s; attacked weakness of democracy, corruption of capitalism; promised vigorous foreign and military programs; undertook state control of economy to reduce social friction. | 2 | |
| 154173975 | Mussolini | Italian Fascist leader after World War I; created first fascist government based on aggressive foreign policy and new nationalist glories. | 3 | |
| 154173976 | Zaibatsu | The large family-controlled banking and industrial groups that owned many companies in Japan before World War II. | 4 | |
| 154173977 | Porfirio Diaz | a dictator who dominated Mexico, permitted foriegn companies to develop natural resources and had allowed landowners to buy much of the countries land from poor peasants | 5 | |
| 154173978 | Alexander Kerensky | Liberal revolutionary leader during the early stages of the Russian Revolution of 1917; sought development of parliamentary rule, religious freedom. | 6 | |
| 154173979 | Leon Trotsky | Supporter of Lenin who helped in the takeover of Petrograd and the Bolshevik revolution | 7 | |
| 154173980 | Soldaderas | Women who were guerrilla fighters in the Mexican Revolution | 8 | |
| 154173981 | Joseph Stalin | Successor to Lenin as head of the USSR; strongly nationalist view of communism; represented anti-Western strain of Russian tradition; crushed opposition to his rule; established series of five-year plans to replace New Economic Policy; fostered agricultural collectivization; led USSR through World War II; furthered Cold War with western Europe and the United States; died in 1953 | 9 | |
| 154173982 | Bolsheviks | Radical Marxist political party founded by Vladimir Lenin in 1903. Under Lenin's leadership, the Bolsheviks seized power in November 1917 during the Russian Revolution. | 10 | |
| 154173983 | Sun Yat Sen | Chinese physician and political leader who aimed to transform China with patriotic, democratic, and economically progressive reforms. | 11 | |
| 154173984 | May 4th movement | Resistance to Japanese encroachments in China began on this date in 1919; spawned movement of intellectuals aimed at transforming China into a liberal democracy; rejected Confucianism. | 12 | |
| 154173985 | Mao Zedong | Communist leader in revolutionary China; advocated rural reform and role of peasantry in Nationalist revolution; influenced by Li Dazhao; led Communist reaction against Guomindang purges in 1920s, culminating in Long March of 1934; seized control of all of mainland China by 1949; initiated Great Leap Forward in 1958. | 13 | |
| 154173986 | The Long March | Communist escape from Hunan province during civil war with Guomindang in 1934; center of Communist power moved to Shanxi province; firmly established Mao Zedong as head of the communist party in China. | 14 | |
| 154173987 | Comintern | International office of communism under USSR dominance established to encourage the formation of Communist parties in Europe and elsewhere. | 15 | |
| 154173988 | Soviet | Council of workers and soldiers set up by Russian revolutionaries in 1917 | 16 | |
| 154173989 | Guomindang | Chinese nationalist party founded by Sun Yat-sen in 1919; drew support from local warlords and Chinese criminal underworld; initially forged alliance with Communists in 1924; dominated by Chiang Kai-shek after 1925. | 17 |
