6871280637 | Fourteen Points | A list of terms issued by president wilson to end world war 1 and prevent future wars | 0 | |
6871280638 | Reparations | Payments for war damage | 1 | |
6871280639 | Proletariat | A growing class of factory and railroad workers, minors, and urban wage earners | 2 | |
6871280640 | Zeppelins | Large gas filled balloons used by Germany to drop bombs | 3 | |
6871280641 | Urbanization | The movement of people to cities | 4 | |
6871280642 | Robert Owen | Utopian socialist who set up a model community in new Lanark, Scotland | 5 | |
6871280643 | Enterprise | A business organization in areas such as shipping, mining, or factories | 6 | |
6871280644 | Turnpike | A private toll road | 7 | |
6871280645 | Anesthetic | A drug that prevents pain during surgery, patented by a dentist | 8 | |
6871280646 | Tenement | An apartment building for the working class | 9 | |
6871280647 | Electorate | The body of people allowed to vote | 10 | |
6871280648 | Manifest destiny | Idea that it was inevitable that the United States would expand across the continent | 11 | |
6871280649 | Capital offense | A crime punishable by death | 12 | |
6871280650 | Louisiana purchase | Land acquisition that doubled the size of the United States | 13 | |
6871280651 | Coalition | An alliance of different political parties | 14 | |
6871280652 | Home rule | Local self government | 15 | |
6871280653 | Segregation | Legal separation of the races | 16 | |
6871280654 | Genetic engineering | The manipulation of genetic material to produce specific results | 17 | |
6871280655 | First artificial satellite | Sputnik | 18 | |
6871280656 | Globalization | The process by which national economies, politics, and societies become integrated with those of other nations | 19 | |
6871280657 | Outsourcing | Sending work to the developing world to save money | 20 | |
6871280658 | Epidemic | A rapidly spreading disease | 21 | |
6871280659 | Deforestation | The results of cutting down trees without replacing them | 22 | |
6871280660 | Ngo Dinh Diem | American supported ruler of south Vietnam | 23 | |
6871280661 | Detente | A relaxation of tensions | 24 | |
6871280662 | Anti ballistic missiles | Seen as a particular threat to the balance of terror during the SALT talks | 25 | |
6871280663 | Ho chi minh | Communist ruler of north Vietnam after 1954 | 26 | |
6871280664 | Domino theory | The belief that one communist victory would lead to many others | 27 | |
6871280665 | Appeasement | Giving in to an aggressors demands to maintain peace | 28 | |
6871280666 | Neutrality Acts | Intended to prevent us involvement in European war | 29 | |
6871280667 | Anschluss | Hitler's plan for the union of Austria and Germany | 30 | |
6871280668 | Yalta | Sore of allied war strategy meeting | 31 | |
6871280669 | Blitzkrieg | Lightning war | 32 | |
6871280670 | Pacifism | Opposition to all war | 33 | |
6871280671 | Claude Monet | Impressionist painter who relied on the viewers eye to blend brush strokes into patches of color | 34 | |
6871280672 | Guglielmo Marconi | Invented the radio | 35 | |
6871280673 | Alfred Nobel | Invented dynamite, a safer form of explosive than others at that time | 36 | |
6871280674 | Ludwig van Beethoven | Romantic composer who was the first to take full advantage of the broad range of instruments in the modern orchestra | 37 | |
6871280675 | Urban renewal | Rebuilding poor areas of a city | 38 | |
6871280676 | Women's suffrage | Reform movement concerned with voting rights | 39 | |
6871280677 | Louis Pasteur | Established a link between microbes and disease | 40 | |
6871280678 | Qing | The new dynasty that ruled china after the decline of the king dynasty | 41 | |
6871280679 | Goa | An island off the coast of India seized by the Portuguese | 42 | |
6871280680 | Macao | A Portuguese trading post in ming china | 43 | |
6871280681 | Ferdinand Magellan | Led an expedition that became the first to circumnavigate earth | 44 | |
6871280682 | Moluccas | An island chain once called the spice islands | 45 | |
6871280683 | Affonso 1 | A ruler of Kongo who tried to halt the space trade in his lands | 46 | |
6871280684 | Prince Henry | Led the way in sponsoring exploration in Portugal | 47 | |
6871280685 | Osei Tutu | United his people by claiming that they shared spiritual bonds | 48 | |
6871280686 | Rococo | Light and delicate artistic style popular during the reign of Louis XV | 49 | |
6871280687 | Thomas Jefferson | Principal author of the Declaration of Independence | 50 | |
6871280688 | Salon | Informal social gathering where enlightenment thinkers exchanged ideas | 51 | |
6871280689 | Thomas Jefferson | Grand, ornate style of art and architecture popular during the age of Louis XIV | 52 | |
6871280690 | Desmond tutu | An Anglican bishop who won the Nobel peace prize for leadership against apartheid | 53 | |
6871280691 | Slobodan Milosevic | Serbian president who opposed albanians | 54 | |
6871280692 | Hutus | The majority group in Rwanda | 55 | |
6871280693 | Nelson Mandela | The first South African president elected after the end of apartheid | 56 | |
6871280694 | Surrealism | An artistic movement that attempts to portray the workings of the unconscious | 57 | |
6871280695 | Kulaks | A class of wealthy farmers whom Stalin destroyed | 58 | |
6871280696 | Kristallnacht | Night of broken glass | 59 | |
6871280697 | El Greco | A Greek painter who was a master of the Spanish style | 60 | |
6871280698 | Boyars | Landowning Russian nobles under peter the great | 61 | |
6871280699 | Mercenaries | Soldiers for hire | 62 | |
6871280700 | Johann Gutenberg | Started a printing revolution | 63 | |
6871280701 | Predestination | The idea that god long ago decided who would be saved and who would not | 64 | |
6871280702 | Florence | The city that produced many renaissance artists and scholars with the support of the Medici family | 65 | |
6871280703 | Nicolaus Copernicus | Proposed a heliocentric model of the universe | 66 | |
6871280704 | Isaac newton | Showed that gravity keeps planets in orbit | 67 | |
6871280705 | Guillotine | Method for carting out executions during the reign of terror | 68 | |
6871280706 | Olympe de gouges | Executed for demanding equal rights for French women | 69 | |
6871280707 | Plebiscite | Popular vote by ballot | 70 | |
6871280708 | Mercantilism | An economic policy based a nation exporting more goods than it imports | 71 | |
6871280709 | Viceroys | Those who ruled Spain's colonies in the name of the Spanish monarchs | 72 | |
6871280710 | Encomiendas | A system used to force native Americans to labor under brutal conditions | 73 | |
6871280711 | Entrepreneurs | People who take funicular risk to make profits | 74 |
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