6665082192 | Sarajevo | Capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina, location of Francis Ferdinand's assassination. | 0 | |
6665082193 | Bosnia-Herzegovina | Twin province initially under Ottoman rule, later annexed by Austria-Hungary. | 1 | |
6665082194 | Serbia | Kingdom next to Austria-Hungary. Conflicts with them led, ultimately, to WWI | 2 | |
6665082195 | Marne River | River in France where "Race to the Sea" led Germans and French to a stalemate. | 3 | |
6665082196 | Western Front | Trenches going from British Channel to Switzerland. Stalemate. | 4 | |
6665082197 | Southern Front | Italy left Triple Alliance, went neutral, then joined the Allies. Stalemate. | 5 | |
6665082198 | Eastern Front | Europeans and Balkans, eastern Europe. Russians, Poles, Prussians, etc. | 6 | |
6665082199 | Gallipoli | Peninsula near Dardanelles Strait. Tons of British forces (Australia, NZ, etc) died there. | 7 | |
6665082200 | Turkey | Previously under Ottoman control. Recognized as a nation with Treaty of Lausanne. | 8 | |
6665082201 | Gavrilo Princip | Only successful assassin (out of 7) to kill Ferdinand. Tried suicide, sentenced to 20 years in prison. Died. | 9 | |
6665082202 | Allies | Countries that entered into treaties with each other, promising aid during times of war. | 10 | |
6665082203 | Central Powers | AKA Triple Alliance- Germans, Italians, and Austro-Hungarians. Wanted to keep European political status quo. | 11 | |
6665082204 | Slavic Peoples | Poles, Czechs, etc. Ethnic groups in Austria-Hungary, wanted independence from them. | 12 | |
6665082205 | Alfred von Schlieffen | German. Created Schlieffen plan- if war, attack France first, then move to defend against Russians. | 13 | |
6665082206 | Mustapha Kemal | Commander of the Turkish division in Gallipoli. Played important part in creating Turkey. | 14 | |
6665082207 | TE Lawrence | British guy who helped organize Arab fighters against Ottomans. | 15 | |
6665082208 | Vladimir Lenin | Radical Marxist. Eventually led Bolsheviks, took power from provisional government that had replaced the Romanovs. | 16 | |
6665082209 | Bolsheviks | Russian revolutionaries. Led later by Lenin, were put in power. | 17 | |
6665082210 | Woodrow Wilson | US president, declared war on Germany in 1917 after years of staying neutral. | 18 | |
6665082211 | Total War | War in which governments engaged every single human and resource available. | 19 | |
6665082212 | Self-Determination | People with the same ethnicities, backgrounds, etc. should be allowed to form sovereign states. | 20 | |
6665082213 | Dreadnought | Super intense warship. Significant part of the naval race. | 21 | |
6665082214 | Triple Alliance | AKA Central Powers- alliance that gave Germany protection against France, Italians protection against France, and Austria the ability to interact with Balkans without Russia. | 22 | |
6665082215 | Triple Entente | Agreements and cooperation between Russia, France, and England. Lots of obligation, small actions could have big consequences. | 23 | |
6665082216 | Black Hand | Terrorist organization from Serbia, behind Ferdinand's assassination. | 24 | |
6665082217 | Ultimatums | Statements/declarations that basically meant agree or else. | 25 | |
6665082218 | Mobilization | Countries ordering military unites to be in a particular place. | 26 | |
6665082219 | Trench Warfare | Soldiers dug trenches to fight from. Super nasty. | 27 | |
6665082220 | Home Front | Home countries. Heavily involved in providing the necessities for war. | 28 | |
6665082221 | Propoganda | Government-issued advertisements that promoted their cause and discredited their enemies. | 29 | |
6665082222 | Twenty One Demands | Ultimatum sent from Japan to China, basically giving Japan a ton of power over Chinese. Some were honored, not all. | 30 | |
6665082223 | Treaty of Brest-Litovsk | Agreement between Russia and Germany, got Russia out of war. Humiliating, but necessary for Russia. | 31 | |
6665082224 | Lusitania | British passenger ship, had US people on board, shot down by Germans, made US angry | 32 | |
6665082225 | Treaty of Versailles | Treaty signed by the Allies, limited German army/military. | 33 | |
6665082226 | Armenian Massacre | Ottomans and Armenians didn't get along, led to mass genocide of Armenians. 1 million + killed, either by starvation, disease, and/or murder. | 34 | |
6665082227 | Fourteen Points | Wilson's key peace terms during negotiations after end of Great War. Peace formula, really. | 35 | |
6665082228 | League of Nations | World organization that tried to keep peace, had agreements. | 36 | |
6665082229 | Mandate | System that was comparable to imperialism. | 37 | |
6665082230 | Albert Einstein | Famous physicist, theory of special relativity. | 38 | |
6665082231 | Sigmund Freud | Famous psychoanalyst. Used dreams/sexuality to determine mind. | 39 | |
6665082232 | Pablo Picasso | Famous artist. First artist to really do cubist art. | 40 | |
6665082233 | John Steinbeck | Author of "The Grapes of Wrath"- about the Great Depression | 41 | |
6665082234 | John Maynard Keynes | Influential economist. Wrote "The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money". | 42 | |
6665082235 | Joseph Stalin | Lenin's successor. Leader of official Soviet Union. | 43 | |
6665082236 | Benito Mussolini | Italian fascist. "Il Duce". | 44 | |
6665082237 | Franklin Roosevelt | US president during Depression. New Deal. | 45 | |
6665082238 | Lost Generation | The generation of people who were pessimistic towards the state of the US. | 46 | |
6665082239 | Uncertainty Principle | Heisenberg. More you know about atom's location, less you know about its velocity and vice versa. | 47 | |
6665082240 | Psychoanalysis | Being able to study and analyze human subconscious. | 48 | |
6665082241 | Cubism | Type of modern art form. | 49 | |
6665082242 | Bauhaus | Institution that brought together a community of innovative thinkers. | 50 | |
6665082243 | Black Thursday | Day when New York stock prices fell. | 51 | |
6665082244 | Tariff | Set limits on trade during Great Depression. | 52 | |
6665082245 | Economic Nationalism | Basically, international trade stopped, and countries were more reliant on themselves. | 53 | |
6665082246 | New Deal | FDR's plan to help Depression. Minimum wage, social security, etc. | 54 | |
6665082247 | New Economic Policy | Restored some free-markets to keep economies rolling in Russia. Lenin's idea. | 55 | |
6665082248 | First Five Year Plan | Wanted to turn USSR into industrial economy. | 56 | |
6665082249 | Collectivization | Farmers worked together (legally required to), "benefitted" all (government took resources). | 57 | |
6665082250 | The Great Purge | All enemies, people in the way of the Communist party were basically executed. | 58 | |
6665082251 | Fascism | Relied on punitive authority to keep control. Very nationalist. | 59 | |
6665082252 | Amritsar | City in Punjab, India. 379 protestors killed by British authorities. | 60 | |
6665082253 | Yan'an | End destination of the Long March, new headquarters for CCP. | 61 | |
6665082254 | Mukden | Part of Manchuria. Japanese blew up railroad tracks, blamed Chinese, led to war between China and Japan. | 62 | |
6665082255 | Manchukuo | Puppet state of Japan in Manchuria. | 63 | |
6665082256 | Mohandas Gandhi | Hindu leader in India. Believed in a simple life, nonviolence. Advocate for Indian independence from Britain. | 64 | |
6665082257 | Muhammad Ali Jinnah | Muslim lawyer, lived in India. Warned against unifying India, didn't want Hindu control. Promoted idea of Pakistan. | 65 | |
6665082258 | Mao Zedong | Chinese communist. CCP. After the Long March, he led the CCP. | 66 | |
6665082259 | Dr. Sun Yatsen | Leading opponent of old regime, declared self president after fall of Qing dynasty. Prominent Nationalist leader. | 67 | |
6665082260 | Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek) | Took power after the death of Sun Yatsen. Led northern expedition. Turned against CCP, made Guomingdang official government. | 68 | |
6665082261 | Jomo Kenyatta | African nationalist. Helped lead Kenya to independence. | 69 | |
6665082262 | Marcus Garvey | Jamaican nationalist leader, pan-Africanism | 70 | |
6665082263 | Jose Carlos Mariategu | Marxist from Peru. Established socialist party of Peru | 71 | |
6665082264 | Diego Rivera | Mexican artist. Used art to inspire political action. Painted murals. | 72 | |
6665082265 | William Howard Taft | US president. Inspired "dollar diplomacy". | 73 | |
6665082266 | Getulio Dornelles Vargas | Dictator-president in Brazil, established industrialization, economic experimentation. | 74 | |
6665082267 | Anastacio Somoza Garcia | Commander of guard in Nicaragua, eventually became president of the guard. | 75 | |
6665082268 | Lazaro Cardenas | Mexican president, nationalized oil industry. | 76 | |
6665082269 | Carmen Miranda | Brazilian actress, softened Hollywood's image of Latin American women. Very popular/starred in movies. | 77 | |
6665082270 | Ahimsa | Gandhi's philosophy of tolerance and nonviolence. | 78 | |
6665082271 | Civil Disobedience | Gandhi prompted people to boycott British goods, etc. Sometimes led to violence. | 79 | |
6665082272 | Indian Act | Gave Indians the ability to establish bicameral government, other self governing actions. Eventually didn't work. | 80 | |
6665082273 | Muslim League | Headed by Muhammad Ali Jinnah, didn't want 1 unified India, rather, India + Pakistan. | 81 | |
6665082274 | May Fourth Movement | Movement in China that protested against foreign rule. | 82 | |
6665082275 | CCP | Chinese communist party. Blended Marxism, Leninism, Maoism. | 83 | |
6665082276 | Guomingdang | Nationalist people's party- other political party in China. In power. | 84 | |
6665082277 | Long March | CCP fled Guomingdang, ended up in Yang'an. Inspired others to join CCP. 100,000 KM, thousands died. | 85 | |
6665082278 | Maoism | Chinese form of Marxism-Leninism. Created by Mao Zedong. | 86 | |
6665082279 | Pan-Africanism | Idea that all Africans shared the same racial identity across the world. | 87 | |
6665082280 | Neocolonialism | Basically imperialism, not really. Europeans still control crap. | 88 | |
6665082281 | APRA | Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana- advocated against imperialism | 89 | |
6665082282 | Imperialism- painting. | Painting by Rivera, about US imperialism. | 90 | |
6665082283 | Dollar Diplomacy | Businesses building relations, not using as much military (President Taft) | 91 | |
6665082284 | Sweetheart Treaties | Guaranteed financial control (US) over Haiti and Dominican Republic, US Marines trained people. | 92 | |
6665082285 | Good Neighbor Policy | More conciliatory approach to Latin American countries. | 93 | |
6665082286 | United Fruit Company | Appropriated Carmen Miranda's image for Chiquita bananas. | 94 | |
6665082287 | Kellog-Briand Act | Agreement between Japan and USA where China's sovereignty was recognized and Japan couldn't invade China. | 95 | |
6665082288 | Nanjing | Capital of China, attacked by Japanese- "Rape of Nanjing" | 96 | |
6665082289 | Chongqing | Guomingdang government moved capital here. | 97 | |
6665082290 | Ethiopia | Invaded by Italy with a lot of unnecessary force, lots of death. | 98 | |
6665082291 | Sudetenland | Western portion of Czechoslovakia, home to many ethnic Germans, annexed to Germany to avoid military confrontation. | 99 | |
6665082292 | Stalingrad | Russian city. Germans attacked, unable to take the city. Victory for the Russians. | 100 | |
6665082293 | Normandy | Location where Allied forces attacked on D-Day, led to victory in Europe. | 101 | |
6665082294 | Midway | Island in Pacific, US able to intercept Japanese plans to attack. | 102 | |
6665082295 | Iwo Jima and Okinawa | Japanese islands where a lot of kamikaze missions occurred. | 103 | |
6665082296 | Vichy | Place where some French government existed. | 104 | |
6665082297 | Yalta | Where Soviet, US, and GB leaders met to discuss post-war things. | 105 | |
6665082298 | Potsdam | Another meeting place with the Allies, discussed what to do with Germany after the war. | 106 | |
6665082299 | Axis | Alliance between Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Japan, and other countries. | 107 | |
6665082300 | Allies (WWII) | France, GB + Commonwealth, Soviet Union, China, US, Latin American allies. | 108 | |
6665082301 | Francisco Franco | Spanish general, received military help from Germany and Italy. | 109 | |
6665082302 | Neville Chamberlain | British Prime Minister, said they'd achieved "peace for our time". | 110 | |
6665082303 | Tojo Hideki | Japanese Prime Minister, former defense minister general, planned attacks/war on US and GB. | 111 | |
6665082304 | Emperor Hirohoto | Japanese emperor, signed treaty surrendering to the US. | 112 | |
6665082305 | Cold War | "War" between Soviet Union and US (1947-1991), no actual fighting. | 113 | |
6665082306 | Rape of Nanjing | Japanese soldiers killed, raped, and injured thousands of Chinese. | 114 | |
6665082307 | Revisionist Nations | Japan, Germany, and Italy. Wanted to "revise" (overthrow) terms of Great War Peace. | 115 | |
6665082308 | Appeasement | Other nations agreed to concede to Hitler's demands. In return, Hitler would stop expanding. | 116 | |
6665082309 | Battle of Britain | Germans led an airstrike with their "Luftwaffe" on London, couldn't invade. | 117 | |
6665082310 | Lebensraum | "Living space" for resettled Germans after the war. | 118 | |
6665082311 | Operation Barbarossa | Code name for Hitler's attempt to invade Russia. Didn't succeed cause of Russian winters. | 119 | |
6665082312 | Lend-lease | Americans let Britain use destroyers and war goods in exchange for lease of naval bases. | 120 | |
6665082313 | December 7, 1941 | Pearl Harbor Day | 121 | |
6665082314 | June 6, 1944 | D-Day. Allied forces attacked just off the coast of Normandy. | 122 | |
6665082315 | Kamikaze | Japanese pilots, would dive-bomb into ships, killing themselves and destroying the ship. | 123 | |
6665082316 | Final Solution | Hitler's "solution" to his "problem"- exterminated all he deemed unworthy for Germany (Jews, Roma, homosexuals, etc.) | 124 | |
6665082317 | Comfort Women | Japanese women forced into prostitution to cater to Japanese soldiers. Killed and beaten, became casualties of war. | 125 | |
6665082318 | Truman Doctrine | Believed the US should support any people trying to gain freedom from political oppression. | 126 | |
6665082319 | Marshall Plan | Economic plan using cooperation and capitalism to rebuild poor European economies. | 127 | |
6665082320 | NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Supposed to help keep peace in Europe after the war. | 128 | |
6665082321 | Warsaw Pact | Soviet Union's countermeasure against NATO. Helped sort of egg on the Cold War. | 129 | |
6665082322 | Berlin | Capital city of Germany, divided up between British, Americans, Soviets, and the French. Home to a lot of issues. | 130 | |
6665082323 | Bay of Pigs | Place in Cuba where US tried to invade, didn't last. | 131 | |
6665082324 | Joseph McCarthy | US senator, wanted to expose communists within US government. | 132 | |
6665082325 | Charles de Gaulle | French president. Wanted to rely less on US, had own nuclear strike force. | 133 | |
6665082326 | Marshal Tito | Yugoslavia's ruler. Became independent on Soviet Union, joined forces with non-aligned nations. | 134 | |
6665082327 | Mujahideen | Muslim warriors from Afghanistan. | 135 | |
6665082328 | Taliban | Group of "religious students" that tried to unify Afghan lands. | 136 | |
6665082329 | Viet Cong | Communists "national liberation front" in Vietnam | 137 | |
6665082330 | Ronald Reagan | President, US, during 80s, proposed SDI (Star Wars) | 138 | |
6665082331 | Mikhail Gorbachev | Soviet leader, addressed economic issues, brought down Czechoslovakia, sort of toned down the Soviet Union. | 139 | |
6665082332 | Lech Walsea | Solidarity president in Poland. | 140 | |
6665082333 | Boris Yeltsin | President of Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, promoted independence, seized power from Gorbachev, led to fall of Soviet Union. | 141 | |
6665082334 | Berlin Airlift | British and US forces brought supplies, etc. to Western Germany. | 142 | |
6665082335 | Containment | Western world wanted to keep communism contained, not allowed to spread. | 143 | |
6665082336 | Domino Theory | US idea that if one country became communist, subsequent countries would follow. | 144 | |
6665082337 | Cuban Missile Crisis | US discovered USSR missiles in Cuba, negotiated to have them removed. | 145 | |
6665082338 | Black Nationalists | Black people rallying together to advocate for their rights. | 146 | |
6665082339 | ICBM | "Intercontinental Ballistic Missile"- Russia's powerful missile. | 147 | |
6665082340 | De-Stalinization | After Stalin's death, Russian leaders got rid of all things Stalin. | 148 | |
6665082341 | Brezhnev Doctrine | USSR's doctrine that justified invading any socialist country deemed dangerous. | 149 | |
6665082342 | Detente | Policy to reduce hostility. | 150 | |
6665082343 | SALT | Strategic Arms Limitations Talks- between USSR and USA | 151 | |
6665082344 | Vietnamization | Nixon's plan to turn Vietnam War over to S. Vietnam, escalated fighting. | 152 | |
6665082345 | First Five Year Plan- China | Chinese economic plan. | 153 | |
6665082346 | Watergate | Scandal with Nixon, tried to cover up too much. | 154 | |
6665082347 | Star Wars/SDI | Provided US with high-tech things to protect the US from nuclear attacks. | 155 | |
6665082348 | Perestroika | Gorbachev's economic restructuring, decentralized economy. | 156 | |
6665082349 | Glasnost | Soviet society opened to criticism, admission of past mistakes. | 157 | |
6665082350 | Kashmir | Province claimed by both India and Pakistan | 158 | |
6665082351 | Bandung, Indonesia | Location of Bandung conference. | 159 | |
6665082352 | Palestine/Israel | Palestine was the homeland for Jews, split to create Israel. CONFLICTS! | 160 | |
6665082353 | Algeria | French colony. Fought for independence, many Algerians killed. | 161 | |
6665082354 | Ghana | Formerly British colony. Obtained independence with nonviolence. | 162 | |
6665082355 | Kenya | Another British colony. Issues between settlers and natives. Eventually independent. | 163 | |
6665082356 | Guatemala/Nicaragua | Fought against US colonialism. | 164 | |
6665082357 | South Africa | Had extreme segregation, overcame that and is now a stable country. | 165 | |
6665082358 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | African state. Lots of violence. | 166 | |
6665082359 | Ho Chi Minh | Communist leader of North Vietnam. | 167 | |
6665082360 | Gamal Abdel Nasser | President of Egypt. Promoted Arab nationalism, neutrality. | 168 | |
6665082361 | Frantz Fanon | Algerian revolutionary. Promoted violence towards colonists. Associated with revolution. | 169 | |
6665082362 | Kwame Nkrumah | Ghanan leader when Ghana gained independence. Pan-Africanism. | 170 | |
6665082363 | Deng Xiaoping | Heir of Mao Zedong. Had to put country back together (sort of) | 171 | |
6665082364 | Yasser Arafat | Leader of PLO, promoted Palestinian rights. | 172 | |
6665082365 | Ayatollah Khomeini | Leader of Islamist movement in Iran | 173 | |
6665082366 | Saddam Hussein | President of Iraq. Launched attack on Iran, starting war that killed millions. | 174 | |
6665082367 | Eva Peron | Husband was president of Argentina. Well-loved by her people, did a lot of good. | 175 | |
6665082368 | Somozas | Ruling/in power family in Nicaragua. Brutal, corrupt, Pro-US. | 176 | |
6665082369 | Sandinistas | Against Somozas. Used guerilla-operations, assumed power in Nicaragua. | 177 | |
6665082370 | Jimmy Carter | Moderated US Cold War policies in Latin America. Committed to human rights. | 178 | |
6665082371 | Mobutu Sese Seko | Took power in Congo. Dictator. | 179 | |
6665082372 | Bandung Conference | Africans and Asians met to discuss nonalignment. First international meeting of POC. | 180 | |
6665082373 | 17th Parallel | Where North and South Vietnam split. | 181 | |
6665082374 | Balfour Declaration | British vow to help Jews establish a Jewish state in Palestine. | 182 | |
6665082375 | Arab Nationalism | Wanted to get rid of Israel, promoted Pan-Arabian dominance. | 183 | |
6665082376 | Baghdad Pact | British/US inspired pact with Turkey, Iraq, and Iran. | 184 | |
6665082377 | Suez Crisis | Nasser nationalized Suez canal, some Europeans attacked, killed diplomacy. | 185 | |
6665082378 | Great Leap Forward | Mao's plan to communalize property, industrialize- failed. Led to famine and death. | 186 | |
6665082379 | Cultural Revolution | Mao got rid of all "elites"- intellectuals, foreigners, etc. Humiliated, persecuted, killed. | 187 | |
6665082380 | Green Revolution | Indian agriculture increased yields. | 188 | |
6665082381 | AMNLAE | Women in Nicaragua that fought for their rights/liberation. | 189 | |
6665082382 | OAU | Organization of African Unity- wanted to prevent conflicts | 190 | |
6665082383 | New International Economic Order | Proposals from countries to help improve trade. | 191 | |
6665082384 | Rachel Carson | Wrote "Silent Spring", documented environmental damage | 192 | |
6665082385 | Osama bin Laden | Leader of al-Qaeda, orchestrated 9/11 and other terrorist attacks. | 193 | |
6665082386 | al-Qaeda | Terrorist group in Afghanistan. Wanted all Muslims to kill Americans. Under bin Laden | 194 | |
6665082387 | taliban | Extremist Muslim group that "liberated" Afghanistan. | 195 | |
6665082388 | Daw Aung San Suu Kyi | Helped overthrow fascist government in Myanmar, won election. | 196 | |
6665082389 | GATT | General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade- signed by noncommunist nations to keep global trade un-restricted. | 197 | |
6665082390 | WTO | World Trade Organization- took over GATT in 1995. Forum to help settle trade disputes, helped increase world trade. | 198 | |
6665082391 | Little Tigers | Originally Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan- modeled Japan for economic growth. | 199 | |
6665082392 | EU | Has common market and free trade, uses common currency. | 200 | |
6665082393 | OPEC | Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Middle Eastern oil people. raised oil prices, led to debt issues in developing countries | 201 | |
6665082394 | ASEAN | Association of SE Asian Nations- promoted economic growth in SE Asia. | 202 | |
6665082395 | NAFTA | N. American Free Trade Agreement- regional trade grouping. | 203 | |
6665082396 | Limits to Growth | "Club of Rome" tried to decide the carrying capacity of the Earth, don't think we can go much further. | 204 | |
6665082397 | Silent Spring | Book, helped kickstart environmental movement in US. | 205 |
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