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| 6612684425 | Apartheid | A South African policy of complete legal separation of the races, including the banning of all social contacts between blacks and whites. |  | 0 |
| 6612684426 | Aswan Dam | It was built in 1956 to control the flooding of the Nile River. The dam gives Egyptian farmers a more dependable source of water for their crops. It also gives Egypt electrical power. |  | 1 |
| 6612684427 | Ayatollah Khomeini | Shi'ite philosopher and cleric who led the overthrow of the shah of Iran in 1979 and created an Islamic Republic of Iran. |  | 2 |
| 6612684428 | Castro, Fidel | (1962?-) leader of the Cuban Revolution and communist dictator of Cuba. He is responsible for making Cuba a socialist country which has often been at odds with the United States. notably, the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis. |  | 3 |
| 6612684429 | Collectivization | Creation of large, state-run farms rather than individual holdings; allowed more efficient control over peasants; part of Stalin's economic and political planning; often adopted in other Communist regimes. |  | 4 |
| 6612684430 | Decolonization | The collapse of colonial empires. Between 1947 and 1962, practically all former colonies in Asia and Africa gained independence. |  | 5 |
| 6612684431 | Eastern Bloc | Nations favorable to the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe during the cold war-particularly Poland, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Rumania, Hungary, and East Germany |  | 6 |
| 6612684432 | Fascism | A governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism. |  | 7 |
| 6612684433 | Gandhi | Indian nationalist and spiritual leader who developed the practice of nonviolent disobedience that forced Great Britain to grant independence to India (1947). He was assassinated by a Hindu fanatic. |  | 8 |
| 6612684434 | Global Warming | a gradual increase in the overall temperature of the earth's atmosphere generally attributed to the greenhouse effect caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide, chlorofluorocarbons, and other pollutants. |  | 9 |
| 6612684435 | Hi Chi Minh | Vietnamese revolutionary leader and president of the democratic republic of Vietnam from 1945 to 1969 he wanted to bring communism into South Vietnam. |  | 10 |
| 6612684436 | IMF | a United Nations agency to promote trade by increasing the exchange stability of the major currencies |  | 11 |
| 6612684437 | Iron Curtain | A term popularized by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to describe the Soviet Union's policy of isolation during the Cold War. The barrier isolated Eastern Europe from the rest of the world. |  | 12 |
| 6612684438 | Jihad | A holy struggle or striving by a Muslim for a moral or spiritual or political goal |  | 13 |
| 6612684439 | Liberal | A person whose views favor more govt involvemnt in business, social welfare, minority rights, &increased govt spending |  | 14 |
| 6612684440 | NAFTA | A trade agreement between Canada, the United States and Mexico that encourages free trade between these North American countries. |  | 15 |
| 6612684441 | Shah Reza | the leader of Iran after World War II that was supported by Western government and Western oil companies. He tried to weaken the political influence of religion in Iran by limiting the role of the Islamic legal and academic experts. He was forced to flee from Iran in January 1979. |  | 16 |
| 6612684442 | Recession | A slowdown in economic activity over a period of time. During one of these periods all of the following things decline: Gross Domestic Product (GDP), employment, investment spending, capacity utilization, household incomes, business profits and inflation. Meanwhile bankruptcies and the unemployment rate rise. |  | 17 |
| 6612684443 | Six Days War | a war between Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. The Arab states of Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria also contributed troops and arms.[15] At the war's end, Israel had gained control of the Sinai Peninsula, the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights. The results of the war affect the geopolitics of the region to this day. |  | 18 |
| 6612684444 | Third Reich | The Third Republic of Germany which began Hitler's rule in 1933 and ended with his defeat in 1945 |  | 19 |
| 6612684445 | Leon Trotsky | Russian revolutionary intellectual and close adviser to Lenin. A leader of the Bolshevik Revolution (1917), he was later expelled from the Communist Party (1927) and banished (1929) for his opposition to the authoritarianism of Stalin |  | 20 |
| 6612684446 | Westernization | An adoption of the social, political, or economic institutions of Western—especially European or American—countries. |  | 21 |
| 6612684447 | Armistice | Agreement to stop fighting |  | 22 |
| 6612684448 | Kemel Mustafa | "Father of the Turks"; first President of Turkey who helped to create Republic of Turkey and wanted to modernize and westernize Turkey as well as separate religion and government. |  | 23 |
| 6612684449 | Balfour Declaration | Statement issued by Britain's Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour in 1917 favoring the establishment of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine. |  | 24 |
| 6612684450 | Chiang Kai Shek | . general and leader of Nationalist China after 1925. Although he succeeded Sun Yat-sen as head of the Guomindang, he became a military dictator whose major goal was to crush the communist movement led by Mao Zedong. |  | 25 |
| 6612684452 | Deng Xioaping | leader after Mao Zadong; led a group of practical minded reformers, ended cultural revolution; shift towards family traditions, clothing changed, names not patriotic |  | 26 |
| 6612684451 | Communism | A theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state. |  | 27 |
| 6612684453 | Ethnic Cleansing | Effort to eradicate a people and its culture by means of mass killing and the destruction of historical buildings and cultural materials. It was used for example by both sides in the conflicts that accompanied the disintegration of Yugoslavia. |  | 28 |
| 6612684454 | First World | Relatively wealthy industrialized countries that share a commitment to varying forms of democratic political institutions and developed market economies (US,Japan,EU,Canada, and New Zealand) |  | 29 |
| 6612684455 | Marcus Garvey | Many poor urban blacks turned to him. He was head of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and he urged black economic cooperation and founded a chain of UNIA grocery stores and other business. |  | 30 |
| 6612684456 | Great Leap Forward | China's second five-year plan under the leadership of the impatient Mao, it aimed to speen up economic development while simultaneously developing a completely socialitst society. This plan failed and more than 20 million people starved between 1958 and 1960. |  | 31 |
| 6612684457 | Hussein, Saddam | (1937- ) President of Iraq since 1979. He has led his control into two devastating wars, one against Iran in 1980 to 1988, and the Persian Gulf War in 1990 - 1991 which started as a result of his invading Kuwait. |  | 32 |
| 6612684458 | Intifada | an uprising by Palestinian Arabs (in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank) against Israel in the late 1980s and again in 2000 |  | 33 |
| 6612684459 | Isolationism | A policy of nonparticipation in international economic and political relations |  | 34 |
| 6612684460 | League of Nations | A world organization established in 1920 to promote international cooperation and peace. It was first proposed in 1918 by President Woodrow Wilson, although the United States never joined the League. Essentially powerless, it was officially dissolved in 1946. |  | 35 |
| 6612684461 | Mao Zedong | (1893-1976) Leader of the Communist Party in China that overthrew Jiang Jieshi and the Nationalists. Established China as the People's Republic of China and ruled from 1949 until 1976. |  | 36 |
| 6612684462 | NATO | ..., North Atlantic Treaty Organization; an alliance made to defend one another if they were attacked by any other country; US, England, France, Canada, Western European countries |  | 37 |
| 6612684463 | Palestine | Also called Holy Land. Biblical name, Canaan. an ancient country in SW Asia, on the E coast of the Mediterranean. |  | 38 |
| 6612684464 | Reparations | As part of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany was ordered to pay fines to the Allies to repay the costs of the war. Opposed by the U.S., it quickly lead to a severe depression in Germany. |  | 39 |
| 6612684465 | Sun Yat Sen | Chinese nationalist revolutionary, founder and leader of the Guomindang until his death. He attempted to create a liberal democratic political movement in China but was thwarted by military leaders. |  | 40 |
| 6612684466 | Third World | Also known as developing nations; nations outside the capitalist industrial nations of the first world and the industrialized communist nations of the second world; generally less economically powerful, but with varied economies. |  | 41 |
| 6612684467 | Truman Doctrine | 1947, President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology, mainly helped Greece and Turkey |  | 42 |
| 6612684468 | WTO | The initials of the international body established in 1995 to foster and bring order to international trade. |  | 43 |
| 6612684469 | Asian Tigers | Collective name for South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore-nations that became economic powers in the 1970s and 1980s. |  | 44 |
| 6612684470 | Atomic Energy | a former executive agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States, Created a monopoly for the Federal government's control of fissionable materials (Uranium and Plutonium), Control atomic energy, control spread of nuclear weapons. Russia refused to let the US inpect. |  | 45 |
| 6612684471 | Bolshevik Party | A political party that wanted Russia to lead an immediate worldwide revolution; it gained control of Russia by getting elected to the soviets by promising to leave World War I. |  | 46 |
| 6612684472 | Churchill, Winston | British prime minister who opposed Hitler and inspired the british people with his public |  | 47 |
| 6612684473 | Cultural Revolution | (1966-1976) Political policy in started in China by Mao Zedong to eliminate his rivals and train a new generation in the revolutionary spirit that created communist China. The Cultural Revolution resulted in beatings, terror, mass jailings, and the deaths of thousands. |  | 48 |
| 6612684474 | Democratization | The process of establishing representative and accountable forms of government led by popularly elected officials. |  | 49 |
| 6612684475 | European Union | An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members. |  | 50 |
| 6612684476 | Fourteen Points | The war aims outlined by President Wilson in 1918, which he believed would promote lasting peace; called for self-determination, freedom of the seas, free trade, end to secret agreements, reduction of arms and a league of nations. |  | 51 |
| 6612684477 | Globalization | Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope. |  | 52 |
| 6612684478 | Guerilla | a member of a loosely organized fighting force that makes surprise attacks on enemy troops occupying his/her country |  | 53 |
| 6612684479 | IAEA | International Atomic Energy Agency |  | 54 |
| 6612684480 | Iran-Iraq War | the war began when Iraq invaded Iran on September 22 1980 following a long history of border disputes and fears of Shia insurgency among Iraq's long suppressed Shia majority influenced by Iran's Islamic revolution. |  | 55 |
| 6612684481 | Israel | A Jewish state on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean, both in antiquity and again founded in 1948 after centuries of Jewish diaspora. |  | 56 |
| 6612684482 | Lenin, Vladimir | (1870-1924) Russian revolutionary leader and political theorist. He was the first leader of the new communist government of Soviet Russia. Later, he was also the first leader of the Soviet Union, which was composed of most of the republics of the former Russian Empire |  | 57 |
| 6612684483 | Marshall Plan | A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952) |  | 58 |
| 6612684484 | OPEC | Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries |  | 59 |
| 6612684485 | Radical | Favoring drastic political, economic, or social reforms. |  | 60 |
| 6612684486 | Sectarian | Devoted to a particular religious sect, particularly when referring to religious involvement in politics |  | 61 |
| 6612684487 | Terrorism | Acts of violence designed to promote a specific ideology or agenda by creating panic among an enemy population |  | 62 |
| 6612684488 | Totalitarian | A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) |  | 63 |
| 6612684489 | United Nations | An international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate co-operation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress and human rights issues. It was founded in 1945 at the signing of the United Nations Charter by 50 countries, replacing the League of Nations, founded in 1919. |  | 64 |
| 6612684490 | Young Turks Party | A Turkish revolutionary nationalist reform party, officially known as the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), whose leaders led a rebellion against the Ottoman sultan and effectively ruled the Ottoman Empire from 1908 until shortly before World War I. |  | 65 |
