1900 - Present, taken from Princeton Review 2017
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| 6137901371 | Triple Alliance | WWI Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy (otto von Bismarck negotiate) | 0 | |
| 6137901372 | Schliffen Plan | German plan to attack France quickly through Belgium, then hold out against the Russians who take more time to prepare | 1 | |
| 6137901373 | Triple Entente | France, Russia, Britain | 2 | |
| 6137901374 | Sick Man of Europe | Ottoman Empire | 3 | |
| 6137901375 | Archduke Franz Ferdinand | Heir to Austria-Hungary throne visiting Sarajevo, Bosnia when assassinated- start of when AH declare war on Serbia | 4 | |
| 6137901376 | Gavrilo Princip | Serbian assassin of Ferdinand | 5 | |
| 6137901377 | Central Powers (triple alliance changed) | Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire | 6 | |
| 6137901378 | Isolationism | Focus on internet affairs (USA) | 7 | |
| 6137901379 | US enter WWI | German Submarine sink British ship | 8 | |
| 6137901380 | Zimmerman telegram | Secret message btw Germany and Mexico to join forces -intercepted by US pres. Wilson | 9 | |
| 6137901381 | WWI end/Treaty of Versailles | Central Powers give up-Germany take full responsibility for war | 10 | |
| 6137901382 | Fourteen Points | Wilson plan for future peace and balance power (not used b/c Treaty of Versailles) | 11 | |
| 6137901383 | League of Nations | Failed organization to keep peace and est. humanitarian goals (US refuse to join) | 12 | |
| 6137901384 | Russo-Japanese War | Japan win Manchuria and rename-Manchukuo (humiliate Russia) | 13 | |
| 6137901385 | Bloody Sunday | march on Czar's palace- shot by the guards | 14 | |
| 6137901386 | Duma | Body to represent Russian people (Czar disband when critical) | 15 | |
| 6137901387 | Russian revolution | b/f WWI end Nicholas to Alexander Kerensky | 16 | |
| 6137901388 | Bolsheviks | Socialist Russians | 17 | |
| 6137901389 | April Theses | Lenin demand peace/ give land to peasants/ power to soviets | 18 | |
| 6137901390 | Treaty of Brest-Litovsk | cede 1/3 of land to Germany and withdraw from WWI | 19 | |
| 6137901391 | Red Army | Military under Trotsky to stop white army of revolutionaries | 20 | |
| 6137901392 | Mustafa Kemal/Ataturk | "father of the Turks" turn Ottoman to Turkey | 21 | |
| 6137901393 | New Economic Policy (NEP) | Lenin allow some capitalistic aspects in USSR | 22 | |
| 6137901394 | Stalin | Take over after Lenin die - Est. 5 year plan in USSR b/c NEP too slow | 23 | |
| 6137901395 | Collectivization | Stalin wanted a productive agriculture- combine farms to state owned and use factories to produce | 24 | |
| 6137901396 | Great Purge | terror tactics of killings by secret police | 25 | |
| 6137901397 | The Great Depression | Hurt US and Germany the worst- countries turn to fascism | 26 | |
| 6137901398 | Fascism | destroy the will of the individual for "the people" unify society through extreme nationalism | 27 | |
| 6137901399 | Benito Mussolini | Lead 1st Fascist country in Italy | 28 | |
| 6137901400 | Weimar Republic | Conservative democratic republic est. in German | 29 | |
| 6137901401 | Nazis | National Socialist party | 30 | |
| 6137901402 | Reichstag Building | A fire allow for hitler to gain emergency power and become the leader | 31 | |
| 6137901403 | Third Reichstag | Germany under the rule of Hitler | 32 | |
| 6137901404 | Francisco Franco | control of a large portion of Spain w/ troops called "nationalist" | 33 | |
| 6137901405 | Munich Conference of 1938 (Appeasement) | Hitler, Mussolini, and Chamberlin (of Britain) meet to give Hitler Sudetenland in return for ceded expansion | 34 | |
| 6137901406 | Nazi-Soviet Pact | Hitler and Stalin will not invade or interfere w/ military | 35 | |
| 6137901407 | Start of WWII | Germany invade Poland (failed appeasement) | 36 | |
| 6137901408 | Twenty-one demands | Japan want to take control of China and gain influence in E. Asia (end sovereignty) British intervene | 37 | |
| 6137901409 | Anti-Comintern Pact | Japan withdraw from League of Nations and against communism | 38 | |
| 6137901410 | Rape of Nanjing | Japan invade China and rape many women | 39 | |
| 6137901411 | Blitzkrieg | Hitler's tactic of Lightning war to destroy everything w/ speed | 40 | |
| 6137901412 | Winston Churchill | new leader of Britain | 41 | |
| 6137901413 | Battle of Britain | Germany loose air attack on Britain b/c of their radar system | 42 | |
| 6137901414 | Tripartite Pact/ Axis powers | Japan, Italy, and Germany | 43 | |
| 6137901415 | Manhattan Project | US working on atomic bomb in secret | 44 | |
| 6137901416 | D-Day | Britain, US, and Canada land on shores of Normandy France to help liberate France | 45 | |
| 6137901417 | President Truman | call bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | 46 | |
| 6137901418 | "The Final Solution" | Holocaust of Jews and undesirables | 47 | |
| 6137901419 | Superpowers after WWII end | US and Soviet Union | 48 | |
| 6137901420 | Marshall Plan | US aid Europe recovery w/ money for reconstruction | 49 | |
| 6137901421 | United Nations | international organization replacing the league go nations | 50 | |
| 6137901422 | WTO | World trade organization (GATT general agreement of trade and tariffs) | 51 | |
| 6137901423 | Cold War | Battle btw superpowers after WWII | 52 | |
| 6137901424 | Yalta/Potsdam | Conferences of the Allies to divide Germany | 53 | |
| 6137901425 | Berlin Blockade | Berlin blocked by the USSR | 54 | |
| 6137901426 | Berlin Airlift | West (Allies w/ US) send in supplies by plane | 55 | |
| 6137901427 | Truman Doctrine | est. Containment w/ US support of countries against communism | 56 | |
| 6137901428 | NATO | North Atlantic Trade Organization- military alliance | 57 | |
| 6137901429 | Warsaw Pact | Eastern bloc military alliance in response to NATO | 58 | |
| 6137901430 | Iron Curtain | split btw influence of superpowers | 59 | |
| 6137901431 | Chinese Revolution | led by Sun Yat-sen to westernize in hopes of gaining strength against Japan and Europe influence | 60 | |
| 6137901432 | Chiand Kai-shek (democratic) | Rule Republic of China for its short rule until flee to Taiwan | 61 | |
| 6137901433 | Mao Zedong (Communist) | take out Republic to est. Peoples Republic of China | 62 | |
| 6137901434 | Great Leap Forward | Plan to improve agriculture and Industrialization but "great leap backwards" | 63 | |
| 6137901435 | Cultural Revolution | Attempt to rid China of western culture (elite, educated, anyone suspected) | 64 | |
| 6137901436 | Tiananmen Square massacre | Protest for democratic reform shot down by Mao Zedong | 65 | |
| 6137901437 | Indochina (Vietminh) | Resistance to French through Guerrilla warfare | 66 | |
| 6137901438 | 17th parallel | Divide Vietnam into south under Ho Chi Minh and north under Ngo Dihn Deim | 67 | |
| 6137901439 | Gorbachv | Last leader of the USSR before fall | 68 | |
| 6137901440 | glasnost | openness-allo criticism of govt. | 69 | |
| 6137901441 | perestroika | reconstructing- the gov. and economics | 70 | |
| 6137901442 | Mohandas Gandhi | lead nonviolent movement in India- passive resistance (anti partition) participate in Satyagraha "truth and firmness" | 71 | |
| 6137901443 | Muhammad Ali Jinnah | aim for Muslim homeland of Pakistan | 72 | |
| 6137901444 | Nasser | overthrow king of Egypt and lead republic w/ control of the Suez canal | 73 | |
| 6137901445 | Ghana | First to gain independence peacefully | 74 | |
| 6137901446 | Algeria | last to gain independence violently | 75 | |
| 6137901447 | OAU - Organization of African Unity | independent african countries unite economically and politically | 76 | |
| 6137901448 | apartheid | "separation of the races" in South Africa divide blacks from white taking the good land to farm | 77 | |
| 6137901449 | Zionist | Jewish Nationalist | 78 | |
| 6137901450 | Balfour Declaration | support jewish homeland but not displace palestine | 79 | |
| 6137901451 | Pogroms | violence against Jews in Russia | 80 | |
| 6137901452 | Iraq-Iran war | Khomeini (Shia) of Iran- Hussein (Sunni) of Iraq | 81 | |
| 6137901453 | OPEC | Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries - increase price in US by embargo | 82 | |
| 6137901454 | NGO | Nongovernment organizations | 83 | |
| 6137901455 | NAFTA | North American Free Trade Agreement | 84 | |
| 6137901456 | EU | European Union - compete with US | 85 | |
| 6137901457 | GATT | General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs | 86 | |
| 6137901458 | Kristallnacht | "Night of broken glass" attack jews in Germany | 87 | |
| 6137901459 | The New Deal | programs under Roosevelt | 88 | |
| 6137901460 | Bauhaus | modernist look with practicality | 89 | |
| 6137901461 | Nuremberg Laws | prohibit sex/marriage btw Aryan and Jew | 90 | |
| 6137901462 | MAD | Mutually Assured Destruction | 91 | |
| 6137901463 | Bay of Pigs Invasion | US invade Cuba b/c of their missiles | 92 | |
| 6137901464 | Great Calcutta Killing | extreme deaths during migration btw Pakistan and India | 93 | |
| 6137901465 | Frantz Faron | Algerian revolutionary urging violence against colonialism | 94 | |
| 6137901466 | Detente | reduced hostility btw us and ussr | 95 | |
| 6137901467 | SALT Treaty | Strategic Arms Limitation Talks- limit nuclear weapons | 96 | |
| 6137901468 | Khrushchev | promote peaceful existence in USSR and lead destalinization | 97 |
