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| 347043946 | Smoot-Hawley Tarriffs | increased tariffs on goods imported to the U.S.; led to the "tariff war" | 0 | |
| 347043947 | Great Depression | Resulted from the Smoot-Hawley Tariffs, overspending, bank failure, Dust Bowl, Germany: hyperinflation, overproduction, and crash of the stock market in October of 1929 | 1 | |
| 347553006 | New Deal | policies promoted by FDR that offered more direct aid to Americans at risk through increased unemployment benefits and other measures | 2 | |
| 347043948 | Benito Mussolini | Italian fascist leader who was "elected"/appointed Prime Minister of Italy | 3 | |
| 347043949 | Adolf Hitler | German fascist leader who came to power after the abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm II, Weimar Republic fell, and the election of the Nazi Party | 4 | |
| 347043950 | Spanish Civil War | "Nationalists vs. Republicans"; nationalists (led by Franco) invade the Republican government in 1936 and seize control; Franco becomes dictator of Spain | 5 | |
| 347043951 | Guernica | An aerial attack on the town of Guernica (in Spain); city was bombed with German and Italian planes/bombs; caused widespread destruction and civilian deaths; Pablo Picasso painted a mural to illustrate the tragedies inflicted upon the Spaniards as a result of this attack | 6 | |
| 347043952 | socialism | equal distribution of wealth; government holds economic power; rise of the proletariat (urban working poor) | 7 | |
| 347043953 | October Revolution | (1917 'revolution') the rise of the proletariat; Lenin comes into power | 8 | |
| 347553007 | Alexander Kerensky | Russian revolutionay leader eager to see genuine parliamentary rule; wanted religious freedoms (as well as other freedoms); and more political and legal changes | 9 | |
| 347043954 | NEP (New Economic Policy) | Russian government program that benefitted the farmers, poor, and proletariat | 10 | |
| 347043955 | USSR | big Russian (/Soviet) "group" that formed in 1923 | 11 | |
| 347043956 | collectivization | (1928) Stalin's policy of socialism | 12 | |
| 347043957 | kulaks | peasant/minority who have become wealthy through the NEP | 13 | |
| 347043958 | 5-Year Plans | program for speedy industrialization; 1) built up national defense industries; 2) indep. from the West; led USSR to be less affected by the Great Depression because they've isolated themselves | 14 | |
| 347043959 | Joseph Stalin | totalitarian ruler of the USSR; promoted collectivization and the 5-Year Plans; expelled/killed opponents/dissidents; "Reign of Terror" | 15 | |
| 347553008 | Comintern | Communist International office set up by revolutionary leaders for encouragement to communist parties to guide the upheaval of ocmmunism throughout the Western industrial world | 16 | |
| 347043960 | Politburo | inner circle of the Communist Party | 17 | |
| 347043961 | Lazaro Cardenas | leader in Mexico who handed out 40 mil. acres of land; established a credit system; promoted an education program | 18 | |
| 347043962 | Getulio Vargas | (1872-1954) leader brought to power by a 1929 civil war in Brazil; established a centralized government | 19 | |
| 347043963 | Estado Novo | (1937) new constitution in Brazil written based on fascism | 20 | |
| 347043964 | Juan Peron | 1943 coup brings leader to power; supporter of populist regime; wife's name was Eva (Evita) | 21 | |
| 347043965 | descamisados | Eva (Juan Peron's wife) acted as the spokesperson/promoted "the shirtless ones" | 22 | |
| 347043966 | Porfirio Diaz | (1876) dictator of Mexico; favored the wealthy and foreign investors; repressed the poor | 23 | |
| 347043967 | Francisco Madero | challenged Diaz (jailed); released from jail and came to power, but proved to be too moderate | 24 | |
| 347043968 | Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata | the two supporters of Madero (from the N and S) who eventually remove Madero from power | 25 | |
| 347043969 | Victoriano Huerta | supported by Zapata and Villa, but becomes a dictator; keeps/increases foreign investments--US becomes an ally | 26 | |
| 347043970 | Venustiano Carranza | new President of Mexico;promoted land reforms; limited foreign investments; supported workers' rights; limited Church power; was later challenged by the Church | 27 | |
| 347043971 | cristeros | people against secularization | 28 | |
| 347043972 | Sun Yat-Sen | first President of the Republic of China | 29 | |
| 347043973 | Yuan Shikai | regional lord who challenged Sun Yat-Sen; ruled like a dictator/warlord; wanted to seize the Manchu throne | 30 | |
| 347043974 | May Fourth Movement | nationalist-led movement desiring Western-style reforms; wanted to diminish/decrease the Confucian power within the government | 31 | |
| 347043975 | Whampoa Military Academy | military academy esablished in the Republic of China | 32 | |
| 347043976 | Li Dazhao | wanted a peasant-led revolution in China | 33 | |
| 347043977 | Chiang Kai-Shek | first military head of the Nationalist Party; director of the Whampoa Military Academy | 34 |
