13768358041 | League of Nations | an international organization formed in 1920 to promote cooperation and peace among nations | 0 | |
13768358042 | Black Thursday | October 24, 1929; stock market crashes and almost 13 million shares are sold that day alone | 1 | |
13768358043 | Marshall Plan | A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952) | 2 | |
13768358044 | North Atlantic Treaty Organization | An international organization that has joined together for military purposes | 3 | |
13768358045 | December 7, 1941 | Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor | 4 | |
13768358046 | Treaty of Versailles | Treaty particularly known for its harsh reparations towards the Germans after World War I. | 5 | |
13768358047 | New Deal | The name of President Roosevelt's program for getting the United States out of the depression | 6 | |
13768358048 | European Economic Community | An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members. | 7 | |
13768358049 | September 1, 1939 | Date WWII began with German invasion of Poland | 8 | |
13768358050 | Bolsheviks | A group of revolutionary Russian Marxists who took control of Russia's government in November 1917 | 9 | |
13768358051 | Vladimir Lenin | Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR (1870-1924). | 10 | |
13768358052 | Chiang Kai-shek | Nationalist Chinese leader | 11 | |
13768358053 | October 1917 Revolution | Russian Revolution, Overthrow of the provisional government | 12 | |
13768358054 | Alexander Kerensky | An agrarian socialist who became prime minister. He refused to confiscate land holdings and felt that continuation of war was most important. | 13 | |
13768358055 | China 1911 | The collapse of China's imperial order | 14 | |
13768358056 | Joseph Stalin | Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition | 15 | |
13768358057 | China 1949 | Mainland falls to Mao's communists | 16 | |
13768358058 | Cold War | A conflict that was between the US and the Soviet Union. The nations never directly confronted each other on the battlefield but deadly threats went on for years. | 17 | |
13768358059 | Proxy War | A war instigated by a major power that does not itself participate | 18 | |
13768358060 | Glasnost | a policy of the Soviet government allowing freer discussion of social problems | 19 | |
13768358061 | Perestroika | An economic policy adopted in the former Soviet Union, a policy initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev that involved restructuring of the social and economic status of the communist party | 20 | |
13768358062 | Sun Yat-sen | this man was a radical Chinese reformer who sought to overthrow the government | 21 | |
13768358063 | Five Year Plans | plans outlined by Joseph Stalin in 1928 for the development of the Soviet Union's economy | 22 | |
13768358064 | Collectivization | a system in which private farms are eliminated and peasants work land owned by the government | 23 | |
13768358065 | Kulaks | Rich peasants in the Russian Empire who owned larger farms and used hired labour. They were their own class. | 24 | |
13768358066 | Gulag | Russian prison camp for political prisoners | 25 | |
13768358067 | Long March | 1934 retreat by Mao Zedong and his communist followers from the Guomindang | 26 | |
13768358068 | Cultural Revolution (China) | Campaign in China ordered by Mao Zedong to purge the Communist Party of his opponents and instill revolutionary values in the younger generation. | 27 | |
13768358069 | Great Leap Forward | Started by Mao Zedong, combined collective farms into People's Communes, failed because there was no incentive to work harder, ended after 2 years. | 28 | |
13768358070 | Tiananmen Square | Symbolic heart of Chinese politics; site in Beijing of protests and a massacre in 1989. | 29 | |
13768358071 | Mikhail Gorbachev | Soviet statesman whose foreign policy brought an end to the Cold War and whose domestic policy introduced major reforms | 30 |
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