Vocabulary found in Chapter 30 in the second edition of The Earth and its Peoples A Global History.
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| 23175730 | Albert Einstein | German physicist who developed the theory of relativity. (1879-1955) | 0 | |
| 23175731 | Balfour Declaration | Statement issued by Britain's Foreign Secretary Arthur Balffur in 1917 favoring the establishment of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine | 1 | |
| 23175732 | 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 | 2 | |
| 23175733 | Faisal | Arab prince, leader of teh Arab Revolt in World War I. The British made him king of Iraq in 1921, and he reigned under British protection untill 1933. (1885-1933) | 3 | |
| 23175734 | 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 | 4 | |
| 23175735 | League of Nations | International organization founded in 1919 to promote world peace and cooperation but greatly weakened by the refusal of the US to join. It proved ineffectual in stopping aggression by Italy, Japan, and Germany in the 1930s, and it was superseded by the United Nations in 1945. | 5 | |
| 23175736 | mandate system | Allocation of former German colonies and Ottoman possessions to the victorious powers after World War I, to be administered under League of Nations supervision. | 6 | |
| 23175737 | Max Planck | German physicist who developed quantum theory and was award teh Nobel Prize for physics in 1918. | 7 | |
| 23175738 | New Economic Policy | Policy proclaimed by Vladimir Lenin in 1924 to encourage the revival of the soviet economy by allowing small provate enterprises. Joseph Stalin ended the N.E.P. in 1928 and replaced it with a series of Five-Year Plans. | 8 | |
| 23175739 | Sun Yat-sen | Chinese nationalist revolutionary, founder and leader of teh Guomindang until his death. He attempted to create a liberal democratic political movement in China but was thwarted by military leaders. (1867-1925) | 9 | |
| 23175740 | Theodore Herzl | Austrian journalist and founder of the Zionist movement urging the creation of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine. (1860-1904) | 10 | |
| 23175741 | Treaty of Versailles | The treaty imposed on Germany by France, Great Britain, the US, and other Allied Powers after World War I. It demanded that Germany dismantle its miliary and give up some lands to Poland. It was resented by many Germans. (1919) | 11 | |
| 23175742 | Vladimir Lenin | Leader of the Bolshevik Party. He lived in exile in Switzerland until 1917, then returned to Russia to lead the Bolsheviks to victory during the Russian Revolution and the civil war that followed. (1870-1924) | 12 | |
| 23175743 | Western Front | A line of trenches and fortifications in World War I that stretched without a break from Switzerland to the North Sea. Scene of most of the fighting between Germany, on the one hand, and France and Britain, on the other | 13 | |
| 23175744 | Woodrow Wilson | President of the US and the leading figure at teh Paris Peace conference of 1919. He was unable to persuade the U.S. Congress to ratify the Treaty of Versailles or join the League of Nations | 14 | |
| 23175745 | Yugan Shikai | Chinese general and first president of the Chinese Republic. He stood in the way of the democratic movements led by Sun Yat-sen. | 15 |
