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| 163595814 | National Socialist (Nazi) Party | Fascist party of Adolf Hitler in Germany. | 0 | |
| 163595815 | Blitzkrieg | Fast-moving "lightning war" used by Germany to invade its neighbors in World War II. Use of tanks and aircraft in coordination in an attack | 1 | |
| 163595816 | Winston Churchill | Inspirational Prime MInister of Britain in World War II. | 2 | |
| 163595817 | Battle of Britain | Failed German attempt to bomb Britain into submission in World War II. Britain's Royal Air Force (RAF) outlasted Hitler. | 3 | |
| 163595818 | Holocaust | Name given to the genocide of as many as 12 million people by the Nazi regime; 6 million of these were Jews. The Holocaust was notable for its especially brutal, systematic, and premeditated nature. | 4 | |
| 163595819 | Battle of the Bulge | Last German offensive on the Western Front in World War II. Its failure hastened German defeat. | 5 | |
| 163595820 | Pearl Harbor | American naval base in Hawaii that was surprise-attacked by the Japanese; triggered the official U.S. involvement in World War II. | 6 | |
| 163595821 | Battle of the Coral Sea; Midway Island | Turning point naval battles of the Pacific theater in World War II. Japanese advances halted after these defeats. | 7 | |
| 163595822 | United Nations | Successor to the League of Nations, this U.S.-backed international organization had more success in all ways than its predecessor. | 8 | |
| 163595823 | Tehran Conference | Allied war conference in Iran where later Cold War tensions first appeared. | 9 | |
| 163595824 | Yalta Conference | Most significant of the Allied war conferences; divided post-Nazi Europe and set the stage for Soviet-U.S. tensions for the next 45 years. Yalta is in the Crimea. | 10 | |
| 163595825 | Potsdam Conference | Final Allied war conference in Germany in which the Soviet Union pledged to enter the war against Japan. | 11 | |
| 163595826 | Total War | Concept in warfare in which all the industrial and civilian might of a nation is linked to strategy and tactics on the battlefield. | 12 | |
| 163595827 | Atlantic Charter | Alliance between the U.S. and Britain in 1941 that pledged mutual defense and the "right of all people to choose the form of government under which they live." | 13 | |
| 163595828 | Quit India Movement | Mass civil disobedience campaigns in India against British rule in 1942. | 14 | |
| 163595829 | Muslim League | Supported the partitioning of India into secular and Muslim states. The result of this political group's goal was the creation of Pakistan. | 15 | |
| 163595830 | Muhammad Ali Jinnah | Leader of the Muslim League and first president of Pakistan. | 16 | |
| 163595831 | Convention Peoples Party (CPP) | Founded by Nkrumah in Ghana to support independence from Britain. He organized mass rallies, strikes, and boycotts. | 17 | |
| 163595832 | Jomo Kenyatta; Kenya African Union | Leader of independence movement in Kenya; supported nonviolent protest. | 18 | |
| 163595833 | Land Freedom Army | More radical independence group in Kenya that conducted terrorism and guerilla warfare against the colonizers. | 19 | |
| 163595834 | Secret Army Organization | Reactionary settler military group that directed its aim at Arabs and Berbers in Algeria. | 20 | |
| 163595835 | Afrikaner National Party | Majority party in the all-white South African legislature, it won complete independence from Britain and maintained minority domination over the black majority. | 21 | |
| 163595836 | Apartheid | Rigid system of racial segregation in South Africa; established after 1948 and lasting until majority rule began there in the 1990s. | 22 | |
| 163595837 | Haganah | Zionist military force that spearheaded Jewish resistance to the British presence in Palestine. | 23 | |
| 163595838 | Vichy | French collaborationist government established in 1940 in southern France following defeat of French armies by the Germans. | 24 | |
| 163595839 | Kenya African Union (KAU) | Leading nationalist part in Kenya; adopted nonviolent approach to ending British control in the 1950s. | 25 | |
| 163595840 | National Liberation Front (FLN) | Radical nationalist movement in Algeria; launched sustained guerilla war against France in the 1950s; success led to independence of Algeria in 1958 | 26 | |
| 163595841 | Eastern Bloc | Soviet allies in eastern Europe, including Bulgaria, Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Hungary. | 27 | |
| 163595842 | Harry Truman | U.S. president after Franklin Roosevelt in the early years of the cold war. His foreign policy was to contain Communism through diplomacy and military strength. | 28 | |
| 163595843 | Iron Curtain | Term coined by British P.M. Churchill to describe the political division of Europe between free (western Europe) and repressed (eastern Europe) during the cold war. | 29 | |
| 163595844 | Marshall Plan | U.S. aid to western Europe after World War II helped it recover and concurrently staved off Communist inroads made in the interim. | 30 | |
| 163595845 | NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization. U.S.-led alliance including western Europe, Canada, and Turkey against Soviet aggression there; now includes some former communist countries of eastern Europe | 31 | |
| 163595846 | Warsaw Pact | Soviet response to NATO. | 32 | |
| 163595847 | Welfare state | State-run "cradle to grave" care that developed in western Europe and spread in varying forms to the U.S., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. | 33 | |
| 163595848 | Technocrat | A type of bureaucrat in this era who often had training in engineering or economics, hired to support the welfare state bureaucracy. | 34 | |
| 163595849 | Green Movement | Political movement and party that arose in several western European nations in the 1970s that opposed unfettered free market economies and unchecked industrial pollution. | 35 | |
| 163595850 | European Union | Final name of the Common Market; an economic and, later, political movement in Europe that supported free markets to compete with the U.S. and eventually, the goal of forming a common government in much of Europe. | 36 | |
| 163595851 | New Feminism | A wave of women's rights agitation reappeared in the 1960s promoting job opportunities and other civil rights issues for women. Two early leaders were Simone de Beauvoir and Betty Friedan. | 37 | |
| 163595852 | Berlin Wall | Barrier built by the U.S.S.R. in 1961 in East Germany to keep that nation's subjects from fleeing to liberty in West Berlin. Major cold war symbol until it was torn down in 1989. | 38 | |
| 163595853 | Solidarity | Trade union movement in Poland that developed into a political pressure group that supported reforms from the Communist leadership. | 39 | |
| 163595854 | Aleksandr Solzhentsyn | Soviet writer of anti-Communist expose The Gulag Archipelago, who was exiled to the West; he later returned to Russia after the fall of the U.S.S.R. | 40 | |
| 163595855 | Nikita Khrushchev | Leader of U.S.S.R. after Stalin's death. Criticized his predecessor's abuses, signaling a bit of a thaw in the cold war. After backing down in the Cuban Missile Crisis, he was removed from power and exiled within the U.S.S.R. | 41 | |
| 163595856 | Zapatistas | Guerilla movement named in honor of Emiliano Zapata; originated in 1994 in Mexico's southern state of Chiapas; government responded with a combination of repression and negotiation. | 42 | |
| 163595857 | Third World | Also known as developing nations; nations outside the capitalist industrial nations of the first world and the industrialized communist nations of the second world; generally less economically powerful, but with varied economies. | 43 | |
| 163595858 | PRI | Party of the Industrialized Revolution. Dominated Mexico in 20th century. | 44 | |
| 163595859 | Zapatistas | Armed guerrilla movement in Mexico in the 1990s. | 45 | |
| 163595860 | NAFTA | North American Free Trade Agreement. Non-tariff policy between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico that began in the 1990s. | 46 | |
| 163595861 | Juan José Arevalo | Elected president of Guatemala in the 1940s. His attempts at reform brought him into conflict with the United Fruit Company. | 47 | |
| 163595862 | United Fruit Company | U.S. corporation that controlled the banana trade in much of Latin America. Largest foreign-based corporation in that region | 48 | |
| 163595863 | Fulgencio Batista | Authoritarian ruler of Cuba until overthrown by Castro. | 49 | |
| 163595864 | Fidel Castro | Communist dictator of Cuba since 1959 who recently retired and turned control over to his brother, Raul. Once heavily supported by Soviet regime. The Cuban Revolution he led inspired similar attempts in Latin America. | 50 | |
| 163595865 | "Che" Guevara | Militant Argentine revolutionary who assisted Castro in Cuba and was killed attempting a similar revolt in Bolivia. | 51 | |
| 163595866 | Liberation Theology | A combination of Catholic theology and socialism, promoted (but not employed) in Latin America by some clergy and fewer politicians. | 52 | |
| 163595867 | Salvador Allende | Socialist leader of Chile; overthrown by military junta in 1973. | 53 | |
| 163595868 | Sandinista party | Leftist political group in Nicaragua backed by the U.S.S.R. Ousted in elections in 1990. | 54 | |
| 163595869 | Banana republics | Term used to describe Latin American nations with corrupt governments. | 55 | |
| 163595870 | Good Neighbor Policy | U.S. policy toward Latin America, begun in the 1930s, that promised less intervention. | 56 | |
| 163595871 | Alliance for Progress | U.S. policy toward Latin America, begun in the 1960s, that promised economic aid. | 57 | |
| 163595872 | Gabriel García Marquez | a Latin American writer rejecting traditional form as unsuitable for representing reality; turned to "magical realism." Wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude | 58 |
