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13768358041League of Nationsan international organization formed in 1920 to promote cooperation and peace among nations0
13768358042Black ThursdayOctober 24, 1929; stock market crashes and almost 13 million shares are sold that day alone1
13768358043Marshall PlanA United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952)2
13768358044North Atlantic Treaty OrganizationAn international organization that has joined together for military purposes3
13768358045December 7, 1941Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor4
13768358046Treaty of VersaillesTreaty particularly known for its harsh reparations towards the Germans after World War I.5
13768358047New DealThe name of President Roosevelt's program for getting the United States out of the depression6
13768358048European Economic CommunityAn international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.7
13768358049September 1, 1939Date WWII began with German invasion of Poland8
13768358050BolsheviksA group of revolutionary Russian Marxists who took control of Russia's government in November 19179
13768358051Vladimir LeninRussian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR (1870-1924).10
13768358052Chiang Kai-shekNationalist Chinese leader11
13768358053October 1917 RevolutionRussian Revolution, Overthrow of the provisional government12
13768358054Alexander KerenskyAn agrarian socialist who became prime minister. He refused to confiscate land holdings and felt that continuation of war was most important.13
13768358055China 1911The collapse of China's imperial order14
13768358056Joseph StalinRussian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition15
13768358057China 1949Mainland falls to Mao's communists16
13768358058Cold WarA 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
13768358059Proxy WarA war instigated by a major power that does not itself participate18
13768358060Glasnosta policy of the Soviet government allowing freer discussion of social problems19
13768358061PerestroikaAn 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 party20
13768358062Sun Yat-senthis man was a radical Chinese reformer who sought to overthrow the government21
13768358063Five Year Plansplans outlined by Joseph Stalin in 1928 for the development of the Soviet Union's economy22
13768358064Collectivizationa system in which private farms are eliminated and peasants work land owned by the government23
13768358065KulaksRich peasants in the Russian Empire who owned larger farms and used hired labour. They were their own class.24
13768358066GulagRussian prison camp for political prisoners25
13768358067Long March1934 retreat by Mao Zedong and his communist followers from the Guomindang26
13768358068Cultural 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
13768358069Great Leap ForwardStarted by Mao Zedong, combined collective farms into People's Communes, failed because there was no incentive to work harder, ended after 2 years.28
13768358070Tiananmen SquareSymbolic heart of Chinese politics; site in Beijing of protests and a massacre in 1989.29
13768358071Mikhail GorbachevSoviet statesman whose foreign policy brought an end to the Cold War and whose domestic policy introduced major reforms30

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