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| 6715215496 | Winston Churchill | British prime minister during World War II; exemplified British determination to resist Germany | 0 | |
| 6715220264 | Holocaust | Germany's attempted extermination of European Jews and others; 12 million, including 6 million Jews, died | 1 | |
| 6715227876 | United Nations | global organization, founded by the Allies following World War II | 2 | |
| 6715231002 | Tehran Conference | 1944; meeting between the leaders of Britain, the US, and the Soviet Union; decided to open a new front against Germany in France; gave the Russians a free hand in eastern Europe | 3 | |
| 6715233001 | Yalta Conference | 1945; agreed upon Soviet entry into the war against Japan, organization of the United Nations; left eastern Europe to the Soviet Union | 4 | |
| 6715236690 | 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 | 5 | |
| 6715242696 | Atlantic Charter | 1941; pact between the US and Britain; gave Britain a strong ally; in return the document contained a clause recognizing the right of all people to select their own government | 6 | |
| 6715245893 | Quit India movement | mass civil disobedience campaign against British rule of India in 1942 | 7 | |
| 6715248155 | Muslim League | Indian organization that emerged at the end of World War II; backed Britain in the war | 8 | |
| 6715254162 | Muhammad Ali Jinnah | Muslim Indian nationalist; leader of the Muslim League; worked for a separate Muslim state; first president of Pakistan | 9 | |
| 6715255441 | Land Freedom Army | African revolutionary movement for reform of Kenyan colonial system; began a conflict in 1952; called the Mau Mau by the British | 10 | |
| 6715261411 | National Liberation Front (FLN) | Algerian nationalist movement that launched a guerrilla war during the 1950s; gained independence for Algeria in 1962 | 11 | |
| 6715263517 | 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 | 12 | |
| 6715264709 | Cold War | struggle from 1945 to 1989 between the communist and democratic worlds; ended with the collapse of Russia | 13 | |
| 6715269628 | Eastern bloc | Eastern European countries of Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, and Eastern Germany dominated by the Soviet Union during the cold war | 14 | |
| 6718441452 | Iron Curtain | term coined by Winston Churchill to describe the division between the Western and communist nations | 15 | |
| 6718442802 | Marshall Plan | 1947 United States program to rebuild Europe and defeat domestic communist movements | 16 | |
| 6718444948 | North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) | formed in 1949 under US leadership to group Canada and Western Europe against the Soviets | 17 | |
| 6718446769 | Warsaw Pact | Soviet response to NATO; made up of Soviets and their European satellites | 18 | |
| 6718448041 | Welfare state | Great Depression-inspired system that increased government spending to provide social insurance and stimulate the economy | 19 | |
| 6718450983 | Technocrat | New type of bureaucrat trained in the sciences or economics and devoted to the power of national planning; rose to importance in governments after World War II | 20 | |
| 6718455825 | Green movement | rise during the 1970s in Europe of groups hostile to uncontrolled economic growth | 21 | |
| 6718457960 | Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan | conservative leaders of 1970s and 1980s; worked to cut welfare and to promote free enterprise; Cold Warriors | 22 | |
| 6718460074 | 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 | 23 | |
| 6718461026 | New feminism | wave of agitation for women's rights dating from about 1949; emphasized equality between sexes | 24 | |
| 6718463384 | Solidarity | Polish labor movement beginning in the 1970s, taking control of the country from the Soviet Union | 25 | |
| 6718465378 | Socialist realism | Soviet effort to replace Western literature and arts with works glorifying state-approved achievements by the masses | 26 | |
| 6718467288 | Third World | Nations not among capitalist industrial nations of the world or industrialized communist nations of the world | 27 | |
| 6718472175 | North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) | agreement between the US, Mexico, and Canada that lowered trade barriers | 28 | |
| 6718473179 | Liberation theology | combination of Roman Catholic and socialist principles aiming to improve the lives of the poor | 29 | |
| 6718475138 | Banana republics | conservative, often dictatorial, Latin American governments friendly to the US; exported tropical products | 30 | |
| 6718476814 | Good Neighbor Policy | US President Franklin Roosevelt (1933) policy to deal fairly, without intervention, with Latin American states | 31 | |
| 6718481752 | Alliance for Progress | 1961 US programs for economic development of Latin America | 32 |
