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| 13587647720 | Globalization | Actions or processes that involve the entire world becoming increasingly interconnected | 0 | |
| 13587653796 | Capitalism | An economic system based on private property, competition, and free enterprise. | 1 | |
| 13587661065 | Partition of India | India was separated into 2 countries Pakistan for Muslims and India for Hindus | 2 | |
| 13587665385 | Gandhi, Mohandas K. | Usually referred to by his soubriquet "Mahatma" (Great Soul), Gandhi (1869-1948) was a political leader and the undoubted spiritual leader of the Indian drive for independence from Great Britain. | 3 | |
| 13587677081 | Islamic Fundamentalism | believers within Islam who offer a critique of secular states and seek to change states and individual behaviors to conform to a strict reading of Islamic texts | 4 | |
| 13587685011 | Al Qaeda | a network of Islamic terrorist organizations, led by Osama bin Laden, that carried out multiple terror attacks | 5 | |
| 13587694358 | Colonialism | Attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principles in another territory. | 6 | |
| 13587697691 | De-colonization | The collapse of colonial empires. Between 1947 and 1962, practically all former colonies in Asia and Africa gained independence. European powers experienced the disintegration of their colonial empires after WWII | 7 | |
| 13587705297 | 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. | 8 | |
| 13587708579 | Proxy War | a war in which the powers in conflict use third parties as substitutes instead of fighting each other directly | 9 | |
| 13587711227 | 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. | 10 | |
| 13587717190 | Mao Zedong | Chinese communist leader; millions died under his rule | 11 | |
| 13587724856 | Josef Stalin (USSR) | leader of Soviet Union during WWII; heated up tensions with the United States | 12 | |
| 13587741086 | Korean War | The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea. | 13 | |
| 13587748520 | Cuban Missile Crisis | 1962 crisis that arose between the United States and the Soviet Union over a Soviet attempt to deploy nuclear missiles in Cuba | 14 | |
| 13587752426 | Mutually Assured Destruction | (MAD) if either US or the USSR was hit with a nuclear weapons they would respond with the same | 15 | |
| 13587758862 | NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) | A 1949 defense alliance initiated by the US, Canada, and 10 Western European nations | 16 | |
| 13587763190 | Warsaw Pact (1955) | An alliance between Russia and Eastern communist countries against Western capitalist countries | 17 | |
| 13587766400 | Containment | American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world | 18 | |
| 13587769806 | Domino Theory | A theory that if one nation comes under Communist control, then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control. | 19 | |
| 13587769807 | John F. Kennedy | President of the US during the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis | 20 | |
| 13587778300 | Berlin Wall | A fortified wall surrounding West Berlin, Germany, built in 1961 to prevent East German citizens from traveling to the West. Its demolition in 1989 symbolized the end of the Cold War. This wall was both a deterrent to individuals trying to escape and a symbol of repression to the free world. | 21 | |
| 13587781884 | Iron Curtain Speech | Winston Churchill's term for the Cold War division between the Soviet-dominated East and the U.S.-dominated West. | 22 | |
| 13587794192 | Corporation | A business owned by stockholders who share in its profits but are not personally responsible for its debts | 23 | |
| 13587807891 | Treaty of Versailles | the treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans | 24 | |
| 13587824842 | Benito Mussolini | Fascist Dictator of Italy that at first used bullying to gain power, then never had full power. | 25 | |
| 13587833715 | Fall of Soviet Union (1991) | Gorbachev decreased nuclear arsenals, Communist Party lost power, Boris Yeltsin (president of Russian Republic) led Muscovites to take control | 26 | |
| 13587838084 | Glasnot | Policy in the Soviet Union of speaking openly about problems. | 27 | |
| 13587840803 | Perestroika | A policy initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev that involved restructuring of the social and economic status quo in communist Russia towards a market based economy and society | 28 | |
| 13587843856 | Nelson Mandela | South African statesman who was released from prison to become the nation's first democratically elected president in 1994 (born in 1918) | 29 | |
| 13587846878 | Apartheid | Laws (no longer in effect) in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas. | 30 | |
| 13587850684 | Nehru, Jawaharlal | (1889-1964) Indian nationalist leader and the first prime minister of independent India from 1947 to 1964. Advocated for nonalignment during the Cold War | 31 | |
| 13587856868 | Nonalignment | political and diplomatic independence from both Cold War powers | 32 | |
| 13587862899 | PanAfricanism | movement that began in the 1920s that emphasized the unity and strength of Africans and people of African descent around the world | 33 | |
| 13587868481 | Indian National Congress (INC) | Major Indian political party; began as leading organization of Indian independence movement in order to secure freedom from Britain | 34 | |
| 13587886587 | Global South | a term used to designate the less-developed countries located primarily in the Southern Hemisphere | 35 | |
| 13587898354 | Feminism | The belief that women should have economic, political, and social equality with men | 36 | |
| 13587905536 | national self-determination | the right of people to decide how they should be governed | 37 | |
| 13587918486 | Neoliberalism | A strategy for economic development that calls for free markets, balanced budgets, privatization, free trade, and minimal government intervention in the economy. | 38 | |
| 13587923663 | Age of Access | rise of communication technology like the internet | 39 | |
| 13587939853 | Black Consciousness | movement to encourage blacks to take pride in their race, overcoming lies they have been told about whites being better than them | 40 | |
| 13587946059 | 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 | 41 | |
| 13587959601 | Collectivization of Agriculture | The forcible consolidation of individual peasant farms into large state-controlled enterprises in the Soviet Union under Stalin. | 42 | |
| 13587963359 | 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 (deaths of millions) | 43 | |
| 13587978703 | Silent Spring | 1962 book by Rachel Carson that started the environmental movement | 44 | |
| 13587992127 | Che Guevara | was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, intellectual, guerrilla leader, diplomat, military theorist, and major figure of the Cuban Revolution. Since his death, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous counter-cultural symbol. | 45 | |
| 13587996158 | global warming | An increase in the average temperature of the earth's atmosphere | 46 | |
| 13588000711 | environmental degradation | damage to or destruction of the natural environment | 47 | |
| 13588006903 | Second Wave Feminism | Women's rights movement that revived in the 1960s with a different agenda than earlier women's suffrage movements; second-wave feminists demanded equal rights for women in employment and education, women's right to control their own bodies, and the end of patriarchal domination. | 48 | |
| 13588013253 | Transnational Corporation | A company that conducts research, operates factories, and sells products in many countries, not just where its headquarters or shareholders are located. | 49 | |
| 13588021175 | Prague Spring | The term for the attempted liberation of Czechoslovakia in 1968. | 50 | |
| 13588139511 | economic inequality | the extent of the wealth gap between rich and poor | 51 | |
| 13588147503 | sweat shop | where employees are payed low wages for long hours, and under poor conditions | 52 | |
| 13589207941 | Communist Manifesto | A socialist manifesto written by Marx and Engels (1848) describing the history of the working-class movement according to their views. | 53 | |
| 13589207942 | Bolshevik Revolution | The overthrow of Russia's Provisional Government in the fall of 1917 by Lenin and his Bolshevik forces, made possible by the government's continuing defeat in the war, its failure to bring political reform, and a further decline in the conditions of everyday life. | 54 | |
| 13605837054 | Nonaggression Pact | Peace Treaty Signed by Hitler and Stalin during WWII | 55 |
