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| 8603918691 | Bicameral | (of a legislative body) having two branches or chambers. | 0 | |
| 8603921796 | Constituency | a body of voters in a specified area who elect a representative to a legislative body | 1 | |
| 8603932019 | Coalition building | a temporary alliance or partnering of groups in order to achieve a common purpose or to engage in joint activity | 2 | |
| 8603938193 | Revenue | income, especially when of a company or organization and of a substantial nature | 3 | |
| 8603945033 | Chinese Nationalism | Ruled much of China for decades in the 20th century. The Republic of China; the government on the island of Taiwan. Established by Chiang Kai-shek in the late 1940s after he and his followers were driven from the mainland by the communists under Mao Zedong | 4 | |
| 8603953351 | Sun Yat Sen | Chinese politician who was elected provisional president of the republic after the fall of the Qing Dynasty (1911). He relinquished the presidency to Yuan Shikai (1912) but later opposed him and formed a military government in southern China | 5 | |
| 8603957533 | Guomindang | the political party founded in 1911 by Sun Yat-sen; it governed China under Chiang Kai-shek from 1928 until 1949 when the Communists took power and subsequently was the official ruling party of Taiwan. Kuomintang. | 6 | |
| 8603959067 | Chiang Kai Shek | was a political and military leader who served as the leader of the Republic of China between 1928 and 1975 | 7 | |
| 8603962901 | Bolshevik Revolution | A revolution in Russia in 1917-1918, also called the October Revolution, that overthrew the czar and brought the Bolsheviks, a Communist party led by Lenin, to power. The revolution was encouraged by Russian setbacks in World War I | 8 | |
| 8603985126 | Soviet Union | A former federation of Communist republics occupying the northern half of Asia and part of eastern Europe; capital, Moscow. Full name Union of SovietSocialist Republics | 9 | |
| 8603993252 | Vladimir Lenin | The architect of Russia's 1917 Bolshevik revolution and the first leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. A prominent Marxist,Lenin was born in 1870 inRussia with the last name Ulianov | 10 | |
| 8603995999 | Fascism | Fascism is a form of radical authoritarian nationalism, characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition and control of industry and commerce, which came to prominence in early 20th-century Europe | 11 | |
| 8604028710 | Mussolini | Italian Fascist statesman, prime minister 1922-43; known as Il Duce ('the leader'); full name Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini. He founded the Italian Fascist Party in 1921 | 12 | |
| 8604035065 | Potsdam Conference | Held near Berlin, the Potsdam Conference (July 17-August 2, 1945) was the last of the World War II meetings held by the "Big Three" heads of state. Featuring American President Harry S. Truman, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (and his successor, Clement Attlee) and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, the talks established a Council of Foreign Ministers and a central Allied Control Council for administration of Germany. The leaders arrived at various agreements on the German economy, punishment for war criminals, land boundaries and reparations. Although talks primarily centered on postwar Europe, the Big Three also issued a declaration demanding "unconditional surrender" from Japan. | 13 | |
| 8604039701 | Yalta Conference | The February 1945 Yalta Conference was the second wartime meeting of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. During the conference, the three leaders agreed to demand Germany's unconditional surrender and began plans for a post-war world. Stalin also agreed to permit free elections in Eastern Europe and to enter the Asian war against Japan, for which he was promised the return of lands lost to Japan in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05. Although most of these agreements were initially kept secret, the revelations of the conference particulars became controversial after Soviet-American wartime cooperation degenerated into the Cold War. | 14 | |
| 8604041465 | Berlin | On 23 May 1949 the sectors of Germany controlled by France, the UK and the USA were merged to form the Federal Republic of Germany. On 7 October 1949, the Soviet zone became the German Democratic Republic, splitting Germany into two states for the next 40 years. | 15 | |
| 8604073371 | Nuremberg Trials | Nuremberg, Germany, was chosen as a site for trials that took place in 1945 and 1946. Judges from the Allied powers—Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States—presided over the hearings of twenty-two major Nazi criminals. Twelve prominent Nazis were sentenced to death. Most of the defendants admitted to the crimes of which they were accused, although most claimed that they were simply following the orders of a higher authority. Those individuals directly involved in the killing received the most severe sentences. Other people who played key roles in the Holocaust, including high-level government officials, and business executives who used concentration camp inmates as forced laborers, received short prison sentences or no penalty at all. | 16 | |
| 8604080160 | Iron Curtain | former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill condemns the Soviet Union's policies in Europe and declares, "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent." Churchill's speech is considered one of the opening volleys announcing the beginning of the Cold War | 17 | |
| 8604117716 | Berlin Blockade | The Berlin Blockade (24 June 1948-12 May 1949) was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post-World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. | 18 | |
| 8604134302 | Berlin Airlift | The Berlin Airlift: The End of the Blockade. By spring 1949, it was clear that the Soviet blockade of West Berlin had failed. It had not persuaded West Berliners to reject their allies in the West, nor had it prevented the creation of a unified West German state. | 19 | |
| 8604155199 | Mutually Assured Destruction | Mutual assured destruction or mutually assured destruction (MAD) is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender (see pre-emptive nuclear strike and second strike) | 20 | |
| 8605858711 | Proxy War | During the Cold War, local or regional wars in which the superpowers armed, trained, and financed the combatants. a war instigated by a major power that does not itself become involved. | 21 | |
| 8669571084 | NATO | The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European countries based on the North Atlantic Treaty that was signed on 4 April 1949 | 22 | |
| 8669576764 | Warsaw Pact | Warsaw Pact definition. A military alliance of communist nations in eastern Europe. Organized in 1955 in answer to NATO, the Warsaw Pact included Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union. | 23 | |
| 9832725156 | Truman Doctrine | The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. It was first announced to Congress by President Harry S. Truman on March 12, 1947 and further developed on July 12, 1948 when he pledged to contain threats to Greece and Turkey. | 24 | |
| 9832730857 | Marshall Plan | The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13 billion (nearly $110 billion in 2016 US dollars) in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. | 25 | |
| 9832732896 | Containment | Containment was a United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad. A component of the Cold War, this policy was a response to a series of moves by the Soviet Union to enlarge its communist sphere of influence in Eastern Europe, China, Korea, and Vietnam. | 26 | |
| 9832736141 | ICBM | An intercontinental ballistic missile is a guided ballistic missile with a minimum range of 5,500 kilometers primarily designed for nuclear weapons delivery | 27 | |
| 9832738943 | New Feminism | In 1945 the UN Charter became the first international declaration to refer to the equal rights of women as well as men in support of fundamental human rights and peace, and against the 'scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind'. | 28 | |
| 9832742438 | Pop Culture | In the years following the Second World War, American popular culture mirrored the anxieties that developed between the United States and the USSR. Although allies in the war against fascism, the two nations became increasingly agitated by mutual suspicion. This state of continuous tension, known as the Cold War (1946-1991), became a subject and theme in films, fiction, television, and other genres. In many cases, popular culture served to subvert Cold War anxieties by questioning the reigning assumptions of both the government and the public | 29 | |
| 9832745560 | Fidel Castro | born 1927, Cuban revolutionary and statesman: led the communist overthrow of the Batista dictatorship in 1959; prime minister (1959-76), president (1976-2008) | 30 | |
| 9832749669 | Cuban Blockade | A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962 over the presence of missile sites in Cuba; one of the "hottest" periods of the cold war. | 31 | |
| 9832751429 | Che Guevara | June 14, 1928 - October 9, 1967) was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat and military theorist. | 32 | |
| 9832753997 | Nicaragua | officially the Republic of Nicaragua help Nicaragua gained independence from Spain in 1821. | 33 | |
| 9832758863 | Sandinistas | a member of a left-wing Nicaraguan political organization, the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), which came to power in 1979 after overthrowing the dictator Anastasio Somoza. Opposed during most of their period of rule by the US-backed Contras, the Sandinistas were voted out of office in 1990. | 34 | |
| 9832763494 | Colombia | Republic in northwestern South America, bordered by Panama to the northwest, Venezuela to the northeast, Ecuador and Peru to the south, and Brazil to the southeast. Its capital and largest city is Bogotá. Note: Its major legal crop is coffee. | 35 | |
| 9832766108 | FARC | The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia—People's Army was a guerrilla movement involved in the continuing Colombian armed conflict from 1964 to 2017. | 36 | |
| 9832774262 | Mao Zedong | Mao Zedong, commonly known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who became the founding father of the People's Republic of China, which he ruled as the Chairman of the Communist Party | 37 | |
| 9832777209 | Great Leap Forward | It was an effort made by the Communist Party of China (CPC) under the leadership of Mao Zedong (also known as Mao Tse-tung) to transform China into a society capable of competing with other Western industrialized nations, within a short, five-year time period. | 38 | |
| 9832780408 | Cultural Revolution | The Cultural Revolution, formally the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in China from 1966 until 1976. | 39 | |
| 9832782969 | Mao Zedong Thought | Maoism, known in China as Mao Zedong Thought, is a political theory derived from the teachings of the Chinese political leader Mao Zedong, whose followers are known as Maoists. | 40 | |
| 9832786512 | North Korea | North Korea definition. Republic on northern Korean Peninsula on east coast of Asia, bounded on the north by China, on the northeast by Russian Siberia, on the east by the Sea of Japan, on the south by South Korea, and on the west by the Yellow Sea and Korea Bay. Its capital and largest city is P'yongyang. | 41 | |
| 9832787956 | Kim Il Sung | Kim Il-sung or Kim Il Sung was the leader of North Korea from its establishment in 1948 until his death in 1994. He held the posts of Premier from 1948 to 1972 and President from 1972 to 1994. | 42 | |
| 9832790027 | Josep Broz Tito | Josip Broz, commonly known as Tito, was a Yugoslav communist revolutionary and political leader, serving in various roles from 1943 until his death in 1980 | 43 | |
| 9832792194 | Ho Chi Minh | A Vietnamese revolutionary leader of the twentieth century. Ho Chi Minh led the communists of Vietnam in their efforts to drive out the forces of Japan in the 1940s, France in the 1950s, and the United States in the 1960s. He died in 1969. | 44 | |
| 9832795284 | Cambodia | Nation in Southeast Asia; bordered by Laos to the north, Vietnam to the east, the Gulf of Siam to the south, and Thailand to the west and north. Phnom Penh is its capital and largest city. Note: Part of French-ruled Indochina until 1946, it then became self-governing. | 45 | |
| 9832797741 | Khmer Rouge | The Khmer Rouge was a Communist faction that ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979. The name comes from the word for Cambodian people (Khmers) and the French word for red (rouge). The Khmer Rougewas led by Pol Pot, and through his leadership, they were responsible for the deaths of over 1 1/2 million Cambodians. | 46 |
