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| 13494967313 | Opium Wars (1839-860) | The wars between China and Britain. Britain faced an imbalance of trade with China over silk and tea, so Britain sold opium to the Chinese. The Chinese foreign minister Lin Xezu closed the ports. This led to Britain attacking the Chinese fleet for access. The result was the Treaty of Nanking, in which Britain got access to Chinese ports | 0 | |
| 13494995885 | Neocolonialism | Also called economic imperialism, this is the domination of newly independent countries by foreign business interests that causes colonial-style economies to continue, which often caused monoculture (a country only producing one main export like sugar, oil, etc). | 1 | |
| 13494995886 | Lenin | Founded the Communist Party in Russia and set up the world's first Communist Party dictatorship. He led the October Revolution of 1917, in which the Communists seized power in Russia. He then ruled the country until his death in 1924. | 2 | |
| 13495002903 | Communism | A theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state. | 3 | |
| 13495007783 | Five Year Plan | Stalin's economic policy to rebuild the Soviet economy after WWI. tried to improve heavy industry and improve farm output, but resulted in famine | 4 | |
| 13495007784 | Gulag | Russian prison camp for political prisoners | 5 | |
| 13495012390 | Stalin | Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition (1879-1953) | 6 | |
| 13495015463 | Mao Zedong | (1893-1976) Leader of the Communist Party in China that overthrew Jiang Jieshi and the Nationalists. Established China as the People's Republic of China and ruled from 1949 until 1976. | 7 | |
| 13495021490 | Cultural Revolution | Campaign in China ordered by Mao Zedong to purge the Communist Party of his opponents and instill revolutionary values in the younger generation. | 8 | |
| 13495021491 | Great Depression | the economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s | 9 | |
| 13495024566 | Fascisim | a political movement that promotes an extreme form of nationalism, a denial of individual rights, and a dictorial one-party rule | 10 | |
| 13495029798 | New Deal | A series of reforms enacted by the Franklin Roosevelt administration between 1933 and 1942 with the goal of ending the Great Depression. | 11 | |
| 13495029799 | Hitler | German Nazi dictator during World War II (1889-1945), Nazi leader and founder; had over 6 million Jews assassinated during the Holocaust | 12 | |
| 13495036197 | Mussolini | Italian fascist dictator (1883-1945) | 13 | |
| 13495042101 | Hirohito | Emperor of Japan during WWII | 14 | |
| 13495048313 | Dehumanization | The deprivation of human qualities, rights, or understanding. | 15 | |
| 13495048314 | Atomic Bomb | a nuclear weapon in which enormous energy is released by nuclear fission (splitting the nuclei of a heavy element like uranium 235 or plutonium 239) | 16 | |
| 13495051712 | Genoicide | the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. | 17 | |
| 13495061514 | Partition of India | This led to the movement of millions of people in South Asia after India got its independence from Britian. | 18 | |
| 13495061515 | Ghandi | He became a leader in India against British rule. He had a movement of passive resistance against Britain. He lived a spiritual life. He started boycotts and encouraged Indians to refuse to obey unjust laws. He as also involved in the Indian National Congress | 19 | |
| 13495075710 | Nehru | Indian statesman. He succeeded Mohandas K. Gandhi as leader of the Indian National Congress. He negotiated the end of British colonial rule in India and became India's first prime minister (1947-1964). | 20 | |
| 13495078671 | Jinnah | Indian statesman who was the founder of Pakistan as a Muslim state (1876-1948). He was also the Leader of the Muslim League | 21 | |
| 13495092436 | Muslim League | an organization formed in 1906 to protect the interests of India's Muslims, which later proposed that India be divided into separate Muslim and Hindu nations | 22 | |
| 13495097499 | Kenya | An East African Country | 23 | |
| 13495109456 | Ghana | First known kingdom in sub-Saharan West Africa between the sixth and thirteenth centuries C.E. Also the modern West African country once known as the Gold Coast. gold and salt trade. | 24 | |
| 13495122348 | Nkrumah | Ghana's leader who wanted to form a socialist confederation of all African nations; ousted by a military revolt. (Ghanas first president) | 25 | |
| 13495140881 | Kenyatta | Leader of Kenyan nationalist group Became the leader of Kenya | 26 | |
| 13495147891 | postcolonial states | New Nations after Decolonization | 27 | |
| 13495163695 | Cold War | A 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. | 28 | |
| 13495166714 | Soviet Union | A Communist nation, consisting of Russia and 14 other states, that existed from 1922 to 1991. | 29 | |
| 13495174535 | Marshal Plan (1948) | $12 billion to rebuild western Europe and help defence Marsh=Rebuild West | 30 | |
| 13495174536 | NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) | A 1949 defense alliance initiated by the US, Canada, and 10 Western European nations | 31 | |
| 13495185067 | Warsaw Pact Ideology | An alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations. This was in response to the NATO | 32 | |
| 13495196865 | Ho Chi Minh | Communist leader of North Vietnam | 33 | |
| 13495202786 | Vietnam War | A prolonged war (1954-1975) between the communist armies of North Vietnam who were supported by the Chinese and the non-communist armies of South Vietnam who were supported by the United States. | 34 | |
| 13495211426 | Domino Effect | The fear that if Vietnam fell to communism, so would the surrounding countries. | 35 | |
| 13495220743 | Proxy War | A war instigated by a major power that does not itself participate- A mini war | 36 | |
| 13495230487 | dicatorship | a government leader who has almost total power over the entire country | 37 | |
| 13495234680 | Nassar | leader of Egypt during the Suez Crisis | 38 | |
| 13495259326 | Non-Aligned Movement | The group of nations that didn't side with either the US or the USSR during the Cold War. | 39 | |
| 13495263287 | relgious fundamentalism | religious movement whose objectives are to return to the foundations of the faith and to influence state policy | 40 | |
| 13495275652 | Iranian Revolution | (1978-1979) a revolution against the shah of Iran led by the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, which resulted in Iran becoming an Islamic republic with Khomeini as its leader | 41 | |
| 13495283216 | Afghanistan | In South Asia and a Islamic Republic | 42 | |
| 13495303620 | free market | An economic system in which prices and wages are determined by unrestricted competition between businesses, without government regulation or fear of monopolies. | 43 | |
| 13495308093 | Transnational Corporation | A company that conducts research, operates factories, and sells products in many countries, not just where its headquarters or shareholders are located. | 44 | |
| 13495312069 | World Trade Organization | Administers the rules governing trade between its 144 members. Helps producers, importers, and exporters conduct their business and ensure that trade flows smoothly. | 45 | |
| 13495315379 | United Nations | An international organization formed after WWII to promote international peace, security, and cooperation. | 46 | |
| 13495320795 | Tiananmen Square | Site in Beijing where Chinese students and workers gathered to demand greater political openness in 1989. The demonstration was crushed by Chinese military with great loss of life. | 47 | |
| 13495329212 | Deng Xiaoping | Communist Party leader who forced Chinese economic reforms after the death of Mao Zedong. | 48 | |
| 13495329354 | NAFTA | North American Free Trade Agreement | 49 | |
| 13495332906 | ASEAN | Association of Southeast Asian Nations | 50 | |
| 13495339752 | fiber-optic cable | A cable that transmits data at close to the speed of light along glass or plastic fibers. | 51 | |
| 13495347330 | Containerization | grouping individual items into an economical shipping quantity and sealing them in protective containers for transit to the final destination | 52 | |
| 13495355281 | Vacines | contain damaged/dead bacteria, used to teach immune system to recognize bacteria so later infection system to recognize bacteria so later infection will trigger immediate immune system. | 53 | |
| 13495358955 | antibiotic | a medicine used to save lives because it destroys harmful bacteria and cures infections | 54 | |
| 13495366149 | Negritude Movement | a movement to celebrate African culture, heritage, and values | 55 | |
| 13495366150 | Apartheid | Laws (no longer in effect) in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas. | 56 | |
| 13495374617 | multinational corporation | An organization that manufactures and markets products in many different countries and has multinational stock ownership and multinational management | 57 | |
| 13495378161 | Neoliberalism | A strategy for economic development that calls for free markets, balanced budgets, privatization, free trade, and minimal government intervention in the economy. | 58 | |
| 13495384563 | Ottoman Empire | A Muslim empire based in Turkey that lasted from the 1300's to 1922. | 59 | |
| 13495384564 | Gunpowder Empires | Muslim empires of the Ottomans, Safavids, and the Mughals that employed cannonry and gunpowder to advance their military causes. | 60 | |
| 13495387885 | Savafid Empire | Iran Abbas the Great: leads golden age, absolute monarch Shiite Muslim | 61 | |
| 13495397446 | Castes | social groups into which people are born and cannot change | 62 | |
| 13495397447 | Monopoly | A market in which there are many buyers but only one seller. | 63 | |
| 13495402574 | Ming Dynasty | Succeeded Mongol Yuan dynasty in China in 1368; lasted until 1644; initially mounted huge trade expeditions to southern Asia and elsewhere, but later concentrated efforts on internal development within China. | 64 | |
| 13495408635 | Qing dynasty empire | Ruling dynasty of China from 1644 to 1912; the Qing rulers were originally from Manchuria, which had conquered China. | 65 | |
| 13495408637 | Forbidden City | The walled section of Beijing where emperors lived between 1121 and 1924. A portion is now a residence for leaders of the People's Republic of China. | 66 | |
| 13495417373 | Tokugawa Shogunate | Japanese ruling dynasty that strove to isolate it from foreign influences | 67 | |
| 13495423451 | Mercantilism | An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought | 68 | |
| 13495427347 | Capitalism | An economic system based on private ownership of capital | 69 | |
| 13495433532 | Deism | A popular Enlightenment era belief that there is a God, but that God isn't involved in people's lives or in revealing truths to prophets. | 70 | |
| 13495437614 | Consumerism | a movement advocating greater protection of the interests of consumers | 71 | |
| 13495442280 | Hiroshima | City in Japan, the first to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, on August 6, 1945. The bombing hastened the end of World War II. | 72 | |
| 13495462319 | Taj Mahal | beautiful mausoleum at Agra built by the Mogul emperor Shah Jahan (completed in 1649) in memory of his favorite wife/ Combined Islam and Hindu Ideals | 73 | |
| 13495483279 | Vizer | a high official in some Muslim countries, especially in Turkey under Ottoman rule. | 74 | |
| 13495494531 | Nazi | National Socialist German Workers Party that were against the Jews | 75 | |
| 13495511037 | Spanish-American War | In 1898, a conflict between the United States and Spain, in which the U.S. supported the Cubans' fight for independence | 76 | |
| 13495514616 | Spanish Civil War | In 1936 a rebellion erupted in Spain after a coalition of Republicans, Socialists, and Communists was elected. General Francisco Franco led the rebellion. The revolt quickly became a civil war. The Soviet Union provided arms and advisers to the government forces while Germany and Italy sent tanks, airplanes, and soldiers to help Franco. | 77 | |
| 13495527918 | Inflation | A general and progressive increase in prices | 78 | |
| 13740344438 | Totalitarian | A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | 79 | |
| 13740354743 | Treaty of Versailles | Treaty particularly known for its harsh reparations towards the Germans after World War I. | 80 | |
| 13740356849 | Holocaust | A methodical plan orchestrated by Hitler to ensure German supremacy. It called for the elimination of Jews, non-conformists, homosexuals, non-Aryans, and mentally and physically disabled. | 81 | |
| 13740360056 | Kristallnacht | (Night of the Broken Glass) November 9, 1938, when mobs throughout Germany destroyed Jewish property and terrorized Jews. | 82 | |
| 13740362060 | Weimar Republic | German republic founded after the WWI and the downfall of the German Empire's monarchy. | 83 | |
| 13740367964 | Genocide | Deliberate extermination of a racial or cultural group | 84 | |
| 13740368553 | Proxy War | A war instigated by a major power that does not itself participate | 85 | |
| 13740370045 | Paris Peace Conference | The great rulers and countries excluding Germany and Russia met in Versailles to negotiate the repercussions of the war, such leaders included Loyd George (Britain), Woodrow Wilson (America), Cleamancu (France) and Italy. The treaty of Versailles was made but not agreed to be signed and the conference proved unsuccessful. | 86 | |
| 13740371328 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 32nd US President - He began New Deal programs to help the nation out of the Great Depression, and he was the nation's leader during most of WWII | 87 | |
| 13740370662 | Woodrow Wilson | 28th president of the United States, known for World War I leadership, created Federal Reserve, Federal Trade Commission, Clayton Antitrust Act, progressive income tax, lower tariffs, women's suffrage (reluctantly), Treaty of Versailles, sought 14 points post-war plan, League of Nations (but failed to win U.S. ratification), won Nobel Peace Prize | 88 | |
| 13740377227 | Bay of Pigs Invasion | A failed invasion of Cuba in 1961 when a force of 1,200 Cuban exiles, backed by the United States, landed at the Bay of Pigs. | 89 |
