The Newest Stage of World History: 1914-Present
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| 4322996588 | Western Front | war line between Belgium and Switzerland during World War I; featured trench warfare and massive casualties among combatants | 0 | |
| 4322996589 | Eastern Front | war zone from the Baltic to the Balkans where Germans, Austro-Hungarians, Russians, and Balkan nations fought | 1 | |
| 4322996590 | Archduke Franz Ferdinand | Austro-Hungarian heir to the throne assassinated at Sarajevo in 1914; precipitated World War I | 2 | |
| 4322996591 | Nicholas II | Russian tsar (r. 1894-1917); executed in 1918 | 3 | |
| 4322996594 | Armenian genocide | launched by Young Turk leaders in 1915; claimed up to one million lives | 4 | |
| 4322996595 | Submarine warfare | a major part of the German naval effort against the Allies during World War I; when employed against the US it precipitated American participation in the war | 5 | |
| 4322996596 | Armistice | November 11, 1918 agreement by Germans to suspend hostilities | 6 | |
| 4322996599 | Woodrow Wilson | American president who called for self-determination and the League of Nations | 7 | |
| 4322996600 | Treaty of Versailles | ended World War I; punished Germany with loss of territory and payment of reparations; did not satisfy any of the signatories | 8 | |
| 4322996601 | League of Nations | international organization of nations created after World War I; designed to preserve world peace; the US never joined | 9 | |
| 4322996602 | Indian National Congress | political party that grew from regional associations of Western-educated Indians in 1885; dominated by elites; was the principal party throughout the colonial period and after independence | 10 | |
| 4322996606 | M. K. Gandhi | Western-educated Indian lawyer and nationalist politician with many attributes of an Indian holy man; stressed nonviolent tactics and headed the movement for Indian independence | 11 | |
| 4322996607 | Satyagraha | "truth force"; Gandhi's policy of nonviolent opposition to British rule | 12 | |
| 4322996608 | Mustafa Kemal, Ataturk | president of Turkey (1923-1938); responsible for westernization of Turkey | 13 | |
| 4322996611 | Mandates | governments entrusted to victorious European World War I nations over the colonies of the defeated powers | 14 | |
| 4322996612 | Balfour Declaration | 1917; British promise of support for the establishment of Jewish settlement in Palestine | 15 | |
| 4322996613 | Zionism | European Jewish movement of the 1860s and 1870s that argued that Jews return to their Holy Land; eventually identified with settlement in Palestine | 16 | |
| 4322996617 | W.E.R. Du Bois and Marcus Garvey | African American leaders with major impact on rising African nationalism | 17 | |
| 4322996618 | Negritude | literary movement among African Americans and Africans; sought to combat unfavorable stereotypes of African culture and to celebrate African achievements; influenced early African nationalist movements | 18 | |
| 4322996619 | Kellogg-Briand Pact | 1928; a multnation treaty, sponsored by American and French leaders, that outlawed war | 19 | |
| 4322996620 | Cubist movement | headed by Pablo Picasso; rendered familiar objects as geometrical shapes | 20 | |
| 4322996621 | Fascism | political ideology that became predominant in Italy under Benito Mussolini during the 1920s; attacked the weakness of democracy and the corruption and class conflict of capitalism; promised vigorous foreign and military programs | 21 | |
| 4322996623 | Mexican Revolution | 1910-1920; civil war; challenged Porio Diaz in 1910 and initiated a revolution after losing fraudulent elections | 22 | |
| 4322996631 | Soviet | council of workers; seized the government of St. Petersburg in 1917 to precipitate the Russian Revolution | 23 | |
| 4322996633 | Russian Communist Party | Bolshevik wing of the Russian socialists; came to power under Lenin in the November 1917 revolution | 24 | |
| 4322996635 | Red Army | built up under the leadership of Leon Trotsky; its victories secured communist power after the early years of turmoil following the Russian Revolution | 25 | |
| 4322996636 | New Economic Policy (NEP) | initiated in 1921 by Lenin; combined the state establishing basic economic policies with individual initiative; allowed food production to recover | 26 | |
| 4322996637 | Supreme Soviet | communist-controlled parliament of the USSR | 27 | |
| 4322996639 | Joseph Stalin | Lenin's successor as leader of the USSR; strong nationalist view of communism; crushed opposition to his predominance; ruled USSR until his death in 1953 | 28 | |
| 4322996640 | Collectivization | creation of large state-run farms replacing individual holdings; allowed mechanization of agriculture and more efficient control over peasants | 29 | |
| 4322996642 | Sun Yatsen | head of Revolutionary Alliance that led the 1911 revolt against the Qing; president of China in 1911, but yielded to Yuan Shikai in 1912; created the Guomindang in 1919 | 30 | |
| 4322996643 | May Fourth Movement | acceptance at Versailles of Japanese gains in China during World War I led to demonstrations and the beginning of a movement to create a liberal democracy | 31 | |
| 4322996644 | Guomindang (National Party) | founded by Sun Yatsen in 1919; main support from urban businesspeople and merchants; dominated by Chiang Kai-shek after 1925 | 32 | |
| 4322996645 | Chiang Kai-shek | leader of the Guomindang from 1925; contested with the communists for control of China until defeated in 1949 | 33 | |
| 4322996646 | Mao Zedong | communist leader who advocated the role of the peasantry in revolution; led the Communists to victory and ruled China from 1949 to 1976 | 34 | |
| 4322996647 | Long March | Communist retreat under Guomindang pressure in 1934; shifted center of communist power to Shanxi province | 35 | |
| 4322996648 | Totalitarian State | a 20th century form of government that exercised direct control over all aspects of its subjects; existed in Germany, Italy, the Soviet Union, and other Communist states | 36 | |
| 4322996649 | Spanish Civil War | civil war between republican and autocratic supporters; with support from Germany and Italy,the autocratic regime of Francisco Franco triumphed | 37 | |
| 4322996650 | Import substitution economies | Latin American and other nations' effort to produce what had formerly been imported | 38 | |
| 4322996651 | Corporatism | conservative political movement emphasizing the organic nature of society, with the state as mediator between different groups | 39 | |
| 4322996652 | Tojo Hideki | Japanese general who dominated internal politics from the mid-1930s; gave the military dominance over civilian cabinets | 40 | |
| 4322996654 | National Socialist (Nazi) Party | founded by Adolf Hitler in the period of the Great Depression in Germany | 41 | |
| 4322996655 | Blitzkrieg | German term meaning lightening warfare; involved rapid movement of troops and tanks | 42 | |
| 4322996656 | Vichy | collaborationist French government established in Vichy in 1940 following defeat by Germany | 43 | |
| 4322996657 | Winston Churchill | British prime minister during World War II; exemplified British determination to resist Germany | 44 | |
| 4322996658 | Holocaust | Germany's attempted extermination of European Jews and others; 12 million, including 6 million Jews, died | 45 | |
| 4322996659 | United Nations | global organization, founded by the Allies following World War II | 46 | |
| 4322996661 | Yalta Conference | 1945; agreed upon Soviet entry into the war against Japan, organization of the United Nations; left eastern Europe to the Soviet Union | 47 | |
| 4322996662 | Potsdam Conference | 1945; meeting between the leaders of the US, Britain, and the Soviet Union; allies accepted Soviet control of eastern Europe; Germany and Austria were divided among the victors | 48 | |
| 4322996665 | Muslim League | Indian organization that emerged at the end of World War II; backed Britain in the war | 49 | |
| 4322996666 | Muhammad Ali Jinnah | Muslim Indian nationalist; leader of the Muslim League; worked for a separate Muslim state; first president of Pakistan | 50 | |
| 4322996667 | Land Freedom Army | African revolutionary movement for reform of Kenyan colonial system; began a conflict in 1952; called the Mau Mau by the British | 51 | |
| 4322996668 | National Liberation Front (FLN) | Algerian nationalist movement that launched a guerrilla war during the 1950s; gained independence for Algeria in 1962 | 52 | |
| 4322996669 | Afrikaner National Party | became the majority in the all-white South African legislature in 1948; worked to form the rigid system of racial segregation called apartheid | 53 | |
| 4322996670 | Cold War | struggle from 1945 to 1989 between the communist and democratic worlds; ended with the collapse of Russia | 54 | |
| 4322996671 | Eastern bloc | the eastern European countries of Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, and Eastern Germany dominated by the Soviet Union during the cold war | 55 | |
| 4322996672 | Iron Curtain | term coined by Winston Churchill to describe the division between the Western and communist nations | 56 | |
| 4322996673 | Marshall Plan | 1947 United States program to rebuild Europe and defeat domestic communist movements | 57 | |
| 4322996674 | North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) | formed in 1949 under US leadership to group Canada and western Europe against the Soviets | 58 | |
| 4322996675 | Warsaw Pact | the Soviet response to NATO; made up of Soviets and their European satellites | 59 | |
| 4322996676 | Welfare state | Great Depression-inspired system that increased government spending to provide social insurance and stimulate the economy | 60 | |
| 4322996678 | Green movement | rise during the 1970s in Europe of groups hostile to uncontrolled economic growth | 61 | |
| 4322996679 | Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan | conservative leaders of the 1970s and 1980s; worked to cut welfare and to promote free enterprise; Cold Warriors | 62 | |
| 4322996680 | European Union | began by six nations as the European Economic Community (Commons Market); by the 21st century incorporated most of western European states and was expanding eastward | 63 | |
| 4322996681 | New feminism | a wave of agitation for women's rights dating from about 1949; emphasized equality between sexes | 64 | |
| 4322996682 | Solidarity | Polish labor movement beginning in the 1970s, taking control of the country from the Soviet Union | 65 | |
| 4322996683 | Socialist realism | Soviet effort to replace Western literature and arts with works glorifying state-approved achievements by the masses | 66 | |
| 4322996684 | Third World | term for nations not among the capitalist industrial nations of the first world or the industrialized communist nations of the second world | 67 | |
| 4322996685 | North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) | agreement between the US, Mexico, and Canada that lowered trade barriers | 68 | |
| 4322996686 | Liberation theology | combination of Roman Catholic and socialist principles aiming to improve the lives of the poor | 69 | |
| 4322996687 | Banana republics | conservative, often dictatorial, Latin American governments friendly to the US; exported tropical products | 70 | |
| 4322996688 | Good Neighbor Policy | introduced by US president Franklin Roosevelt in 1933 to deal fairly, without intervention, with Latin American states | 71 | |
| 4322996689 | Alliance for Progress | 1961 US programs for economic development of Latin America | 72 | |
| 4322996690 | Indira Gandhi | Prime Minister of India (1966-1977, 1980-1984); daughter of former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru; dominated Indian politics for several decades | 73 | |
| 4322996691 | Primary products | food or industrial crops with a high demand in industrialized economies; their prices tend to fluctuate widely | 74 | |
| 4322996692 | Neocolonialism | continued dominance of new nations by their former rulers | 75 | |
| 4322996693 | Gamal Abdul Nasser | member of the Free Officers Movement who seized power in Egypt in a 1952 military coup; became leader of Egypt; formed a state-directed reforming regime; ousted Britain from the Suez Canal in 1956; most reforms were unsuccessful | 76 | |
| 4322996695 | Ayatollah Khomeini | religious leader of Iran following the 1979 revolution; worked for fundamentalist Islamic religious reform and elimination of Western influences | 77 | |
| 4322996696 | Apartheid | Afrikaner policy of racial segregation in South Africa designed to create full economic, social, and political exploitation of African majority | 78 | |
| 4322996698 | African National Congress (ANC) | South African political organization founded to defend African interests; became the ruling political party after the 1994 elections | 79 | |
| 4322996699 | Nelson Mandela | ANC leader imprisoned by Afrikaner regime; released in 1990 and elected president of South Africa in 1994 | 80 | |
| 4322996701 | Douglas MacArthur | American commander during the war against Japan; headed American occupation government of Japan after the war; commanded United Nations forces during the Korean War | 81 | |
| 4322996703 | Republic of Korea | southern half of Korea occupied by the US after World War II; developed parliamentary institutions under authoritarian rulers; underwent major industrial and economic growth after the 1950s | 82 | |
| 4322996704 | Democratic People's Republic of Korea | northern half of Korea dominated by USSR after World War II; formed a communist dictatorship under Kim Il-Song; attacked South Korea to begin the Korean War | 83 | |
| 4322996706 | Great Leap Forward | economic policy of Mao Zedong introduced in 1958; proposed small-scale industrialization projects integrated into peasant communities; led to economic disaster and ended in 1960 | 84 | |
| 4322996707 | People's Liberation Army | military, and dominant, arm of the communist structure in China | 85 | |
| 4322996708 | Cultural Revolution | initiated by Mao Zedong in 1965 to restore his dominance oveer the pragmatists; disgraced and even killed bureaucrats and intellectuals; called off in 1968 | 86 | |
| 4322996711 | Red Guard | student brigades active during the Cultural Revolution in supporting Mao Zedong's policies | 87 | |
| 4322996712 | Gang of Four | Jiang Qing and her allies who opposed the pragmatists after the death of Mao Zedong | 88 | |
| 4322996716 | Communist Party of Vietnam | the primary nationalist party after the defeat of the VNQDD in 1929; led from 1920s by Ho Chi Minh | 89 | |
| 4322996717 | Ho Chi Minh | shifted to a revolution based on the peasantry in the 1930s; presided over the defeat of France in 1954 and the unsuccessful US intervention in Vietnam | 90 | |
| 4322996718 | Viet Minh | Communist Vietnamese movement; fought the Japanese during World War II and the French afterwards | 91 | |
| 4322996719 | Viet Cong | the communist guerrilla movement in southern Vietnam during the Vietnamese War | 92 | |
| 4322996720 | Mikhail Gorbachev | leader of the USSR (1985-1991); inaugurated major reforms that led to the disintegration of the communist regime | 93 | |
| 4322996721 | Glasnost | term meaning openness; Gorbachev policy opening the opportunity to criticize the government | 94 | |
| 4322996722 | Perestroika | term meaning economic restructuring; Gorbachev policy for the economic rebuilding of the USSR by allowing more private ownership and decentralized economic control | 95 | |
| 4322996723 | Globalization | the increasing interconnectedness of all parts of the world; opposed by many environmental and social justice groups | 96 | |
| 4322996724 | Multinational corporations | business organizations with connections across political borders | 97 |
