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6808600672African National CongressANC; South African political party formed in 1912; strongly opposed to apartheid0
6808600674Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeinilived from 1900 to 1989; religious leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran1
6808600675Big Bang theorytheory which suggests that at some moment all matter in the universe was contained in a single point, which is considered the beginning of the universe2
6808600676Vladimir Leninborn Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov; lived from 1870 to 1924; the leader of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and premier of the Soviet Union3
6808600677Central Powersone of the two warring factions in World War I; composed of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria; also known as the Quadruple Alliance4
6808600678Charles de Gaullelived 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 19695
6808600679Che Guevaralived from 1928 to 1967; Argentine marxist revolutionary who was a major figure in the Cuban Revolution6
6808600680Chiang Kai-sheklived from 1887 to 1975; Chinese military officer who was leader of the Guomindang; fled to Taiwan after the Chinese Communist Party came to power in China7
6808600681Chinese Revolutionprolonged communist movement in China and lasted from 1946 to 1950; resulted in the communist takeover of mainland China8
6808600682Cold Wara sustained state of political and military tension between members of NATO and members of the Warsaw Pact; dissolution of the Soviet Union was the end of this "conflict"9
6808600683collectivizationalso known as collective farming and communal farming; system in which the holdings of several farmers are run collectively as a unit; imposed by the government in the Soviet Union10
6808600684command economya.k.a planned economy; the economic system in which decisions regarding production and investment are embodied in a plan formulated by a central authority, usually by a public body such as a government agency11
6808600685containmentthe United States policy to prevent the spread of communism abroad during the Cold War; a response to a series of moves by the Soviet Union to enlarge communist influence in Eastern Europe, China, Korea, Africa, and Vietnam12
6808600686Cuban missile crisisa 13-day confrontation in October 1962 between the Soviet Union and the United States; Soviet missiles moved to Cuban soil in an agreement by Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev; U.S. responds by blockading Cuba; Khrushchev and U.S. President John F. Kennedy reach an agreement in which the Soviets would remove their missiles from Cuba in return for an American promise not to invade Cuba13
6808600687cultural imperialismthe practice of promoting or imposing one's culture on another, usually between powerful societies and less-powerful ones14
6808600688Cultural Revolutionalso known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution; launched by Mao in the late 1960's; aimed to combat the capitalist tendencies he believed had penetrated even the highest ranks of the communist party itself; involved new policies to bring health care and education to the countryside and reinvigorate earlier efforts at rural industrialization under local control15
6808600689decolonizationthe process of the dissolution of colonial territories and the establishment of independent nations16
6808600690Deng Xiaopinglived from 1904 to 1997; successor to Mao Zedong; reformist who sought to incorporate The People's Republic of China into the world economy; dismantled collectivized farming, state enterprises given greater authority, welcomed foreign investment; crushed democracy movement in Beijing's Tiananmen Square17
6808600691environmentalismideology which regards the environmental concerns18
6808600692European Economic CommunityEEC; also known as the Common Market; founded in 1957; originally consisted of Italy, France, West Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg; expanded membership to almost all of Europe, including former communist states; renamed the European Union in 199419
6808600693Fascismpolitical ideology which was intensely nationalistic; celebrated action and placed faith in charismatic leaders; and condemned individualism, liberalism, feminism, parliamentary democracy, and communism; adopted by Italy, Germany, and Japan in the years following World War I20
6808600694Five Year Plana planned economy in which a committee came together to determine rations21
6808600695fundamentalismideology which demands strict adherence to orthodox theological doctrines22
6808600696Gamel Abdel Nasserlived from 1918 to 1970; second President of Egypt from 1956 to 1970; planned the overthrow of the monarchy and sought to nationalize the Suez Canal 1. forsake constitutional government --> militarism 2. strike for the fountainhead of Pan-Arab Nationalism 3. internationalism - akin to Nehru's nonalignment policy - cold war power --> new imperialism 4. extract military and economic assitence23
6808600697UN General Assemblyone of the six principal organs of the United Nations and the only one in which all member nations have equal representation; oversee the budget of the United Nations, appoint the non-permanent members to the Security Council, receive reports from other parts of the United Nations and make recommendations in the form of General Assembly Resolutions24
6808600698genocidethe systematic destruction of all or part of a racial, ethnic, religious or national group25
6808600699Getulio Vargaslived from 1882 to 1954; ruled Brazil from 1930 to 1945; discrediting of established export elites during the Great Depression leads to his dictatorship; supported the military; took steps to modernize Brazil's urban industrial sector26
6808600700global warmingterm which refers to the continuing rise in the average temperature of Earth's climate system; viewed as a result of human emissions of greenhouse gases27
6808600701globalization of democracythe spread of democracy throughout the world28
6808600702Great Depressioneconomic depression as a result of the crash of the American stock market; lasted from 1929 until World War II; causes drop in world trade, loss of investment, and businesses unable to make profit; countries or colonies tied to exporting one or two products hardhit as the West consumed less; conditions resulting in the Great Depression led to widespread unemployment and social tensions29
6808600703Great Leap Forwardlasted from 1958 to 1960; marked Mao's response to distortions of Chinese socialism; promoted smallscale industrialization in rural areas; tried to foster widespread and practical technological education for all rather than relying on a small elite of highly trained technical experts; envisioned an immediate transition to full communism in the "people's communes" rather than waiting for industrial development to provide the material basis for that transition; massive famine which followed temporarily discredited Mao's radicalism30
6808600704Great Purgesalso known as the Terror; period of immense paranoia in the Soviet Union of the late 1930's in which communist members accused each other being corrupted by capitalist ideals; enveloped tens of thousands of prominent communists, including all of Lenin's top associates, and millions more of ordinary peoples; based on suspicious associations in the past, denunciations by colleagues, connections to foreign countries, or bad luck; such people were arrested in the middle of the night, then tried and sentenced to either death or long harsh years in remote labor camps known as gulags; close to 1 million peoples executed between 1936 and 1941; additional 4 to 5 million people sent to the gulag, where they were forced to work in horrendous conditions and died in appalling numbers31
6808600705Green Revolutiona series of research, and development, and technology transfer initiatives, occurring between the 1940s and the late 1960s, that increased agriculture production worldwide, particularly in the developing world 1. India under Indira Gandhi32
6808600706Adolf Hitlerlived from 1889 to 1945; leader of the Nazi party in Germany; chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945; dictator of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 194533
6808600707Ho Chi Minhlived from 1890 to 1969; Vietnamese communist revolutionary leader; was prime minister (from 1945 to 1955) and president (from 1945 to 1969) of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam League for the Independence of Vietnam 1. independence 2. nationalism34
6808600708Holocaustthe mass murder of approximately six million Jews during World War II; a program of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi Germany; led by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party35
6808600709International Monetary FundIMF; established in 1944 by the Bretton Woods Conference in New Hampshire; sought to promote market economies, free trade, and high growth rates36
6808600710Indian National CongressINC; 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 rule37
6808600711Iranian Cultural Revolutionlasted from 1980 to 198; a period following the Iranian Revolution where intellectuals of Iran were purged of Western and non-Islamic influences to bring it in line with Shia Islam; closed universities between 1980 and 1983, banned many books, and purged thousands of students and lecturers from schools38
6808600712iron curtainthe heavily fortified border between Eastern and Western Europe39
6808600713Islamic renewal/ Islamismalso referred to as Islamic revival; refers to a renewing of the Islamic religion throughout the Islamic world, that began roughly sometime in 1970s; sought greater religious piety and a growing adoption of Islamic culture; rigorous enforcement of the sharia40
6808600714Jawaharlal Nehrulived from 1889 to 1964; first Prime Minister of India and was a leading figure in the independence movement against British rule over India41
6808600715League of Arab Statesa regional organization of Arab countries in and around North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and Southwest Asia; formed in Cairo in 1945 with six members: Egypt, Iraq, Transjordan (Jordan), Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Syria; currently has 22 members42
6808600716League of Nationsinternational peacekeeping organization founded as a result of the First World World; proposed by US president Woodrow Wilson; committed to the principle of "collective security" and intended to avoid the repetition of war43
6808600717Mahatma Gandhilived from 1869 to 1948; leader of the Indian nationalist movement during British control over India; used nonviolent civil disobedience, such as hunger strikes44
6808600718Mao Zedonglived from 1893 to 1976; Chinese communist revolutionary and leader of the People's Republic of China from its establishment 1949 to his death in 197645
6808600719Marshall Planplan which sought to rebuild and reshape devastated European economies; funneled Europe some $12 billion with numerous advisers and technicians; motivated by combination of humanitarian concern, a desire to prevent a new depression by creating overseas customers for American goods, and interest in undermining the growing appeal of European communist parties; required European nations to cooperate with one another46
6808600720Mikhail Gorbachevborn in 1931; last general secretary of the Soviet Union (1985 to 1991); passed reforms such as perestroika and policies such as glasnost which led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union47
6808600721military-industrial complexthe policy and monetary relationships which exist between legislators, national armed forces, and the military industrial base that supports them; include political contributions, political approval for military spending, lobbying to support bureaucracies, and oversight of the industry; most often used in reference to the system behind the military of the United States48
6808600722Muhammad Ali Jinnahlived from 1876 to 1948; founder of Pakistan and the leader of the All-India Muslim League until Pakistan's independence49
6808600723Munich Conferencea conference in Munich which permitted Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia along German borders mainly inhabited by German speakers; territory now known as "Sudetenland"; widely regarded as a failed act of appeasement toward Germany; agreement was signed in the early hours of 30 September 1938; agreement was signed by Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and Italy; Czechoslovakia not invited to the conference50
6808600724Benito Mussolinilived from 1883 to 1945; leader of the Italian National Fascist Party; prime minister of Italy from 1922 to 194351
6808600725Mustafa Kemal Ataturklived 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 nation52
6808600726North American Free Trade AgreementNAFTA; regional alliance founded in 1993 and consists of Canada, Mexico, and the United States; the world's second largest free-trade zone53
6808600727North Atlantic Treaty OrganizationNATO; a military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed in 1949; alliance in which its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party; consists of 28 member states across North America and Europe54
6808600728Nazi Germanya.k.a the Third Reich; lasted from 1933 to 1945; Germany under the leadership of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party55
6808600729Nelson Mandelalived from 1918 to 2013; South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and politician; President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999; served as President of the African National Congress from 1991 to 199756
6808600730New Deala series of reforms proposed by United States President Woodrow Wilson; lasted from 1933 to 1942; experimental combination of reforms seeking to restart economic growth and prevent similar failures in the future; reflected the thinking of British economist John Maynard Keynes; argued that government actions and spending programs could moderate recessions and depressions; consisted of immediate programs of public spending (for dams, highways, bridges, and parks) and long-term reforms, such as the Social Security system, minimum wage, and various relief and welfare programs57
6808600731non-governmental organizationNGO; an organization that is neither a part of a government nor a conventional for-profit business58
6808600732Nikita Khrushchevlived from 1894 to 1971; leader of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964; responsible for the de-Stalinization of the Soviet Union and backing of the Soviet space program59
6808600733Osama bin Ladenlived from 1957 to 2011; Islamic militant who was the leader of the terrorist group al-Qaeda; mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks; played a key role in the US-backed effort to aid mujahideen who fought Soviet forces in Afghanistan60
6808600734al-Qaeda"the base"; terrorist organization formerly headed by Osama bin Laden; behind the 9/11 attacks61
6808600735Palestinian Liberation OrganizationPLO; an organization founded in 1964 with the purpose of creating an independent State of Palestine62
6808600736Pan-Arabisman 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 Sparked by support for Arabs in Palestine after gaining support for their freedom63
6808600737Pan-Africanisman ideology which encourages the unity of Africans worldwide64
6808600738HIV/AIDS epidemicepidemic which was first discovered in 1981 among homosexual men and intravenous drug users in New York and San Francisco; eventually became widespread around the world, particularly sub-Saharan Africa; virus attacks and destroys the immune system, which causes a fatal disorder in the immune system; spread through sexual contact with an infected person, contact with contaminated blood, and transmission from mother to child during pregnancy and breastfeeding65
6808600739ebola epidemican epidemic caused by the Ebola virus; symptoms include fever, throat and muscle pains, headaches, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea, and decreased functioning of the liver and kidneys; an 2014 outbreak in West Africa has led to a reported 142 deaths66
6808600740influenza epidemican epidemic caused by the H1N1 influenza virus; lasted from 1918 to 1920; resulted in 50 to 100 million deaths, ranking it one of the most deadliest natural disasters in human history67
6808600741perestroikaan economic program launched by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev which freed state enterprises from government regulation, permitted small-scale private businesses, offered opportunities for private farming, and welcomed foreign investment in joint enterprises68
6808600742glasnosta Soviet policy established by Mikhail Gorbachev which permitted cultural and intellectual freedoms69
6808600743post-modernisma late 20th Century movement in the arts, architecture, and criticism; includes skeptical interpretations of culture, literature, art, philosophy, history, economics, architecture, fiction, and literary criticism70
6808600744Potsdam Conferencea conference which was held from July 17 to August 2, 1945; participants include the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States; gathered to decide how to punish Nazi Germany, sought to establish a post-war order, address peace treaty issues, and counter the effects of World War II71
6808600745Prague Springa period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia during the era of Soviet domination; began on January 5, 1968, when reformist Alexander Dubček was elected First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, and continued until August 21 when the Soviet Union and other members of the Warsaw Pact invaded the country to halt the reforms72
68086007461917 Russian Revolutiona collective term for the series of revolutions in 1917 which ousted Tsar Nicholas II and the tsarist autocracy and replaced it with the communist Bolshiveks73
6808600747second-wave feminisma period of feminist activity that first began in the United States in the early 1960s and eventually spread throughout the Western world; later became a worldwide movement that was strong in Europe and parts of Asia, such as Turkey and Israel; focused on sexuality, family, the workplace, reproductive rights, and various legal and de facto inequalities74
6808600748UN Security Councilone of the six principal organs of the United Nations; in charge of the maintenance of international peace and security; this body is able to establish peacekeeping operations, establish international sanctions, and authorize military action through resolutions; the only UN body with the authority to issue binding resolutions to member states75
6808600749space racelasted from 1955 to 1972; a competition between the Soviet Union and the United States for supremacy in spaceflight capability; pioneered advancements such as artificial satellites, as well as manned and unmanned missions into outer space76
6808600750sphere of influencea concept in which a state or organization has a level of cultural, economic, military, or political exclusivity, accommodating to the interests of powers outside the sphere; examples include European "semi-colony" of China77
6808600751Joseph Stalinlived from 1878 to 1953; the leader of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1952; implemented a highly centralized command economy, which resulted in the transformation of Russian society from agrarian to industrialized; imprisoned millions in labor camps and deported many to remote areas; issued the Great Purges, in which hundreds of thousands, including many prominent communists, were executed78
6808600752theory of relativitytheory which is composed of special relativity and general relativity; proposed by Albert Einstein; proposes that measurements of various quantities are relative to the velocities of observers, space and time should be considered together and in relation to each other (Spacetime), and the speed of light is constant79
6808600753Third Worldterm which describes the countries that did not align with the Soviet Union or the United States80
6808600754total warwar which requires the mobilization of each country's entire populations81
6808600755transnational corporationsa.k.a multi-national corporation; an organization that owns or controls production or services facilities in one or more countries other than its home country82
6808600756Treaty of Versaillestreaty which formally concluded the World War I in 1919; established the conditions for a World War II; Germany losses colonial empire and 15% of its European territory, required to pay heavy reparations to the winners, had its military forces severely restricted, and had to accept sole responsibility for the war; immense German resentment created from the treaty83
6808600757trench warfaretype of warfare using occupied fighting lines consisting largely of trenches, in which troops are significantly protected from the enemy's small arms fire and are substantially sheltered from artillery; resulted in enormous casualties while gaining or losing a few yards of ground during World War I84
6808600758Truman Doctrinean international relations policy set by the U.S. President Harry Truman in a speech on March 12, 1947; stated that the U.S. would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid to prevent them from falling into the Soviet sphere; often referred to as the beginning of the US policy of containment85
6808600759United Nationsorganization established in 1945 as a successor to the League of Nations; attempts to find solutions to global problems and deal with virtually any matter of concern to humanity86
6808600760Vietnam Warwar which occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1956 to 1975; U.S. entered the war to prevent South Vietnam from becoming communist, as a result of its containment policy; Soviet Union backed Northern Vietnamese forces in an attempt to spread communism to Southeast Asia; resulted in the unification of Vietnam under a communist government and the spread of communism to Cambodia and Laos87
6808600761Weimar Republicthe federal republic and semi-presidential representative democracy established in 1919 in Germany to replace the imperial form of government after World War I; lasted until the Nazi Party rose to power in 1933; faced numerous problems, including hyperinflation, political extremists and continuing contentious relationships with the victors of World War I88
6808600762Winston Churchilllived from 1874 to 1965; British politician; Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and from 1951 to 195589
6808600763weapon of mass destructionWMD; a weapon which has the capability to kill large numbers of people and decimate large swaths of land90
6808600764Woodrow Wilsonlived from 1856 to 1924; 28th President of the United States (1913-1921); leader of the Progressive Movement; famous for his Fourteen Points, which sought to avoid another worldwide conflict91
6808600765Fourteen Pointsa statement given on January 8, 1918 by United States President Woodrow Wilson declaring that World War I was being fought for a moral cause and called for postwar peace in Europe92
6808600766World Banka United Nations international financial institution that provides loans to developing countries for capital programs; its primary goal is to reduce poverty93
6808600767World War Iwar which lasted from 1914 to 1918; also known as the Great War; pitted the Allies (United Kingdom, France, Russia, Italy, Japan, and the United States) and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria); resulted in an Allied victory and Treaty of Versailles, which set the stage for another world war94
6808600768World War IIwar which lasted from 1939 to 1945; pitted the Allied Powers (Soviet Union, United Kingdom, United States, China and France) against the Axis Powers (Germany, Japan, and Italy); resulted in an Allied victory, the creation of the United Nations, and set the stage for the Cold War95
6808600769World Trade OrganizationWTO; established in 1994 by the 123 members of GATT; took over GATT activities in 1995; developed into a forum for settling international trade disputes96
6808600770Yalta Conferenceconference which lasted from February 4 to February 11, 1945; meeting attended by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Premier Joseph Stalin for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization; convened in the Livadia Palace near Yalta in Crimea97
6808600771Zionist Movementthe national movement of Jews and Jewish culture that supports the creation of a Jewish homeland in the territory defined as the Land of Israel the Holocaust and the British policy of limiting Jewish migration to Palestine after the war USSR and US supported98
6808600772Brazilian SolutionCombination of dictatorship, violent repression, and gov't promotion of industrialization in South American countries99
6808600773Universal Declaration of Human RightsA 1946 United Nations covenant binding signatory nations to the observance of specified rights.100
6808600774nongovernmental organizationsOrganizations that are not established or associated with any specific organizations. They may be recognized, however, they run on their own. Examples are Green Peace and Amnesty International.101
6808600775Tiananmen SquareSite 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.102
6808600776keiretsuJapanese business groups after the post-WWII dismantling of the zaibatsu. They are Alliances of corporations each often centered around a bank. They dominate the post-WWII Japanese economy.103
6808600777Salvador AllendeThe first Marxist politician elected president in the Americas. He was elected president of Chile in 1970 and overthrown by a US-backed military coup in 1973.104
6808600778NATOAn international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.105
6808600779Warsaw PactAn alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations. This was in response to the NATO106
6808612620Partition of IndiaIndian independence inspired nations and set a pattern for grappling with decolonization107
6808622678nonaligned movementnew African and Asian countries at the Bandung Conference neutrality in the cold war and stressed the struggle against colonialism and racism failed - lack of unity108
6808645196geneva conferencenorth remained communist by Ho Chi Ming the US intervened (Domino effect) bypass the election NLF109
6809045604suez crisisfurther tangled cold war power politics divided the US and its allies in western Europe110
6809084449pattern of decolonization in Africanations adopt new names that shunned the memory of European rule and drew from the glory of Africa's past empires Ghana Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe111
6809128158FLNforce in Algeria that fought against France adopted tactics of nationalist liberation group in Asia - guerrilla warfare112
6809167572Frantz Fanon vs. GandhiAlgeria's war of independence he urged the use of violennce against colonial oppressors113
6809659271apartheid"separateness"; a series of laws initiated by the Afrikaner National Party in South Africa which was designed to divide South African society by skin color and ethnicity; this system also reserved South Africa's resources for whites institutionalized the racial segregation established in the years before 1948114
6809736790MaoismMaoism has clearly represented a revolutionary method based on a distinct revolutionary outlook not necessarily dependent on a Chinese or Marxist-Leninist context. 1. revolutionism (大跃进) 2. anti-intellectualism (文化大革命) 3. guerrilla tactics 4. rural peasentry Rebels in Nepal Naxalites in India115
6809801596stalinismStalinism is associated with a regime of terror and totalitarian rule. 1. practical approach to revolution 2. monolithic party 3. no freedom of speech 4. "socialism in one country," 5. the state must instead become stronger before it could be eliminated116

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