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6871280637Fourteen PointsA list of terms issued by president wilson to end world war 1 and prevent future wars0
6871280638ReparationsPayments for war damage1
6871280639ProletariatA growing class of factory and railroad workers, minors, and urban wage earners2
6871280640ZeppelinsLarge gas filled balloons used by Germany to drop bombs3
6871280641UrbanizationThe movement of people to cities4
6871280642Robert OwenUtopian socialist who set up a model community in new Lanark, Scotland5
6871280643EnterpriseA business organization in areas such as shipping, mining, or factories6
6871280644TurnpikeA private toll road7
6871280645AnestheticA drug that prevents pain during surgery, patented by a dentist8
6871280646TenementAn apartment building for the working class9
6871280647ElectorateThe body of people allowed to vote10
6871280648Manifest destinyIdea that it was inevitable that the United States would expand across the continent11
6871280649Capital offenseA crime punishable by death12
6871280650Louisiana purchaseLand acquisition that doubled the size of the United States13
6871280651CoalitionAn alliance of different political parties14
6871280652Home ruleLocal self government15
6871280653SegregationLegal separation of the races16
6871280654Genetic engineeringThe manipulation of genetic material to produce specific results17
6871280655First artificial satelliteSputnik18
6871280656GlobalizationThe process by which national economies, politics, and societies become integrated with those of other nations19
6871280657OutsourcingSending work to the developing world to save money20
6871280658EpidemicA rapidly spreading disease21
6871280659DeforestationThe results of cutting down trees without replacing them22
6871280660Ngo Dinh DiemAmerican supported ruler of south Vietnam23
6871280661DetenteA relaxation of tensions24
6871280662Anti ballistic missilesSeen as a particular threat to the balance of terror during the SALT talks25
6871280663Ho chi minhCommunist ruler of north Vietnam after 195426
6871280664Domino theoryThe belief that one communist victory would lead to many others27
6871280665AppeasementGiving in to an aggressors demands to maintain peace28
6871280666Neutrality ActsIntended to prevent us involvement in European war29
6871280667AnschlussHitler's plan for the union of Austria and Germany30
6871280668YaltaSore of allied war strategy meeting31
6871280669BlitzkriegLightning war32
6871280670PacifismOpposition to all war33
6871280671Claude MonetImpressionist painter who relied on the viewers eye to blend brush strokes into patches of color34
6871280672Guglielmo MarconiInvented the radio35
6871280673Alfred NobelInvented dynamite, a safer form of explosive than others at that time36
6871280674Ludwig van BeethovenRomantic composer who was the first to take full advantage of the broad range of instruments in the modern orchestra37
6871280675Urban renewalRebuilding poor areas of a city38
6871280676Women's suffrageReform movement concerned with voting rights39
6871280677Louis PasteurEstablished a link between microbes and disease40
6871280678QingThe new dynasty that ruled china after the decline of the king dynasty41
6871280679GoaAn island off the coast of India seized by the Portuguese42
6871280680MacaoA Portuguese trading post in ming china43
6871280681Ferdinand MagellanLed an expedition that became the first to circumnavigate earth44
6871280682MoluccasAn island chain once called the spice islands45
6871280683Affonso 1A ruler of Kongo who tried to halt the space trade in his lands46
6871280684Prince HenryLed the way in sponsoring exploration in Portugal47
6871280685Osei TutuUnited his people by claiming that they shared spiritual bonds48
6871280686RococoLight and delicate artistic style popular during the reign of Louis XV49
6871280687Thomas JeffersonPrincipal author of the Declaration of Independence50
6871280688SalonInformal social gathering where enlightenment thinkers exchanged ideas51
6871280689Thomas JeffersonGrand, ornate style of art and architecture popular during the age of Louis XIV52
6871280690Desmond tutuAn Anglican bishop who won the Nobel peace prize for leadership against apartheid53
6871280691Slobodan MilosevicSerbian president who opposed albanians54
6871280692HutusThe majority group in Rwanda55
6871280693Nelson MandelaThe first South African president elected after the end of apartheid56
6871280694SurrealismAn artistic movement that attempts to portray the workings of the unconscious57
6871280695KulaksA class of wealthy farmers whom Stalin destroyed58
6871280696KristallnachtNight of broken glass59
6871280697El GrecoA Greek painter who was a master of the Spanish style60
6871280698BoyarsLandowning Russian nobles under peter the great61
6871280699MercenariesSoldiers for hire62
6871280700Johann GutenbergStarted a printing revolution63
6871280701PredestinationThe idea that god long ago decided who would be saved and who would not64
6871280702FlorenceThe city that produced many renaissance artists and scholars with the support of the Medici family65
6871280703Nicolaus CopernicusProposed a heliocentric model of the universe66
6871280704Isaac newtonShowed that gravity keeps planets in orbit67
6871280705GuillotineMethod for carting out executions during the reign of terror68
6871280706Olympe de gougesExecuted for demanding equal rights for French women69
6871280707PlebiscitePopular vote by ballot70
6871280708MercantilismAn economic policy based a nation exporting more goods than it imports71
6871280709ViceroysThose who ruled Spain's colonies in the name of the Spanish monarchs72
6871280710EncomiendasA system used to force native Americans to labor under brutal conditions73
6871280711EntrepreneursPeople who take funicular risk to make profits74

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