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| 13670952914 | African National Congress | ANC; South African political party formed in 1912; strongly opposed to apartheid | 0 | |
| 13670952917 | Big Bang theory | theory which suggests that at some moment all matter in the universe was contained in a single point, which is considered the beginning of the universe | 1 | |
| 13670952918 | Vladimir Lenin | Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR (1870-1924). |  | 2 |
| 13670952919 | Central Powers | Austria-Hungary, Germany, Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria | 3 | |
| 13670952920 | Charles de Gaulle | lived from 1890 to 1970; French general and statesman who led French forces in World War II; served as the president of France from 1959 to 1969 |  | 4 |
| 13670952921 | Che Guevara | lived from 1928 to 1967; Argentine marxist revolutionary who was a major figure in the Cuban Revolution |  | 5 |
| 13670952925 | collectivization | a system in which private farms are eliminated and peasants work land owned by the government | 6 | |
| 13670952926 | command economy | An economic system in which the government controls a country's economy. | 7 | |
| 13670952929 | cultural imperialism | the practice of promoting or imposing one's culture on another, usually between powerful societies and less-powerful ones | 8 | |
| 13670952933 | environmentalism | ideology which regards the environmental concerns | 9 | |
| 13670952936 | Five Year Plan | a planned economy in which a committee came together to determine rations | 10 | |
| 13670952937 | fundamentalism | ideology which demands strict adherence to orthodox theological doctrines | 11 | |
| 13670952941 | Getulio Vargas | became president of Brazil following a contested election of 1929; led an authoritarian state until deposed in 1945; became president again in 1950. | 12 | |
| 13670952944 | Great Depression | economic depression as a result of the crash of the American stock market; lasted from 1929 until World War II |  | 13 |
| 13670952946 | Great Purges | Stalin's mass systemic murder of millions to instill fear and to have someone to fight against | 14 | |
| 13670952948 | Adolf Hitler | lived from 1889 to 1945; leader of the Nazi party in Germany; |  | 15 |
| 13670952950 | Holocaust | the mass murder of approximately six million Jews during World War I| | 16 | |
| 13670952951 | International Monetary Fund | IMF; established in 1944 by the Bretton Woods Conference in New Hampshire; sought to promote market economies, free trade, and high growth rates | 17 | |
| 13670952952 | Indian National Congress | INC; organization established in 1885; gave expression to the idea of India as a single nation; played a major role in India's independence movement from British colonial rule | 18 | |
| 13670952954 | iron curtain | the heavily fortified border between Eastern and Western Europe | 19 | |
| 13670952956 | Jawaharlal Nehru | lived from 1889 to 1964; first Prime Minister of India and was a leading figure in the independence movement against British rule over India |  | 20 |
| 13670952959 | Mahatma Gandhi | lived from 1869 to 1948; leader of the Indian nationalist movement during British control over India; used nonviolent civil disobedience, such as hunger strikes |  | 21 |
| 13670952963 | military-industrial complex | an alleged alliance between military leaders and corporate leaders | 22 | |
| 13670952965 | Munich Conference | 1938 conference at which European leaders attempted to appease Hitler by turning over the Sudetenland to him in exchange for promise that Germany would not expand Germany's territory any further. | 23 | |
| 13670952966 | Benito Mussolini | lived from 1883 to 1945; leader of the Italian National Fascist Party; prime minister of Italy from 1922 to 1943 |  | 24 |
| 13670952967 | Mustafa Kemal Ataturk | lived from 1881 to 1938; founder and the first President of the Republic of Turkey; passed a series of reforms to transform the former Ottoman Empire into a modern, secular, and democratic nation | 25 | |
| 13670952970 | Nazi Germany | a.k.a the Third Reich; lasted from 1933 to 1945; Germany under the leadership of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party | 26 | |
| 13670952972 | New Deal | a series of reforms proposed by United States President Woodrow Wilson; lasted from 1933 to 1942. | 27 | |
| 13670952978 | Pan-Arabism | an ideology proposing the unification of the countries of North Africa and West Asia from the Atlantic Ocean to the Arabian Sea, referred to as the Arab World | 28 | |
| 13670952979 | Pan-Africanism | an ideology which encourages the unity of Africans worldwide | 29 | |
| 13670952982 | influenza epidemic | an epidemic caused by the H1N1 influenza virus; lasted from 1918 to 1920; resulted in 50 to 100 million deaths | 30 | |
| 13670952986 | Potsdam Conference | July 26, 1945 - Allied leaders Truman, Stalin and Churchill met in Germany to set up zones of control and to inform the Japanese that if they refused to surrender at once, they would face total destruction. | 31 | |
| 13670952990 | UN Security Council | A 15-member panel which bears the UN's major responsibility for keeping international peace. |  | 32 |
| 13670952992 | sphere of influence | A foreign region in which a nation has control over trade and other economic activities. | 33 | |
| 13670952993 | Joseph Stalin | Communist dictator of the Soviet Union |  | 34 |
| 13670952994 | theory of relativity | Albert Einstein's ideas about the interrelationships between time and space and between energy and matter |  | 35 |
| 13670952995 | Third World | term which describes the countries that did not align with the Soviet Union or the United States | 36 | |
| 13670952996 | total war | war which requires the mobilization of each country's entire populations | 37 | |
| 13670952998 | Treaty of Versailles | treaty which formally concluded the World War I in 1919; established the conditions for a World War II; |  | 38 |
| 13670952999 | trench warfare | type of warfare using occupied fighting lines consisting largely of trenches |  | 39 |
| 13670953001 | United Nations | An international organization formed after WWII to promote international peace, security, and cooperation. |  | 40 |
| 13670953003 | Weimar Republic | German republic founded after the WWI and the downfall of the German Empire's monarchy. | 41 | |
| 13670953004 | Winston Churchill | lived from 1874 to 1965; British politician; Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and from 1951 to 1955 |  | 42 |
| 13670953005 | weapon of mass destruction | WMD; a weapon which has the capability to kill large numbers of people and decimate large swaths of land | 43 | |
| 13670953008 | World Bank | a United Nations international financial institution that provides loans to developing countries for capital programs; its primary goal is to reduce poverty | 44 | |
| 13670953010 | World War II | War fought from 1939 to 1945 between the Allies and the Axis, involving most countries in the world. The United States joined the Allies in 1941, helping them to victory. |  | 45 |
| 13670953012 | Yalta Conference | 1945 strategy meeting between Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin |  | 46 |
| 13670953016 | Brazilian Solution | Combination of dictatorship, violent repression, and gov't promotion of industrialization in South American countries | 47 | |
| 13670953017 | Universal Declaration of Human Rights | A 1946 United Nations covenant binding signatory nations to the observance of specified rights. | 48 | |
| 13670953020 | keiretsu | a network of interlocking corporate affiliates | 49 | |
| 13671178948 | Facism | A political system headed by a dictator that calls for extreme nationalism and racism and has no tolerance for opposition | 50 |
