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| 13735794738 | 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. | 0 | |
| 13735794739 | Authoritarianism | A political system in which a small group of individuals exercises power over the state without being constitutionally responsible to the public. | 1 | |
| 13735794740 | Genocide | the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. | 2 | |
| 13735794741 | Propaganda | information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view. | 3 | |
| 13735794742 | Suffrage | the legal right to vote | 4 | |
| 13735794743 | Great Depression | (HH) , starting with collapse of the US stock market in 1929, period of worldwide economic stagnation and depression. Heavy borrowing by European nations from USA during WW1 contributed to instability in European economies. Sharp declines in income and production as buying and selling slowed down. Widespread unemployment, countries raised tariffs to protect their industries. America stopped investing in Europe. Lead to loss of confidence that economies were self adjusting, HH was blamed for it | 5 | |
| 13735794744 | Pan-Slavism | A movement to promote the independence of Slav people. Roughly started with the Congress in Prague; supported by Russia. Led to the Russo-Turkish War of 1877. | 6 | |
| 13735794745 | Protectionism | the practice of shielding one or more industries within a country's economy from foreign competition through the use of tariffs or quotas | 7 | |
| 13735794746 | Soviet | council of workers and soldiers set up by Russian revolutionaries in 1917 | 8 | |
| 13735794747 | Total War | A war that involves the complete mobilization of resources and people, affecting the lives of all citizens in the warring countries, even those remote from the battlefields. | 9 | |
| 13735794748 | 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 | 10 | |
| 13735794749 | Iron Curtain | Winston Churchill's term for the Cold War division between the Soviet-dominated East and the U.S.-dominated West. | 11 | |
| 13735794750 | Space Race | A competition of space exploration between the United States and Soviet Union. | 12 | |
| 13735794751 | Fundamentalism | Literal interpretation and strict adherence to basic principles of a religion (or a religious branch, denomination, or sect). | 13 | |
| 13735794752 | passive resistance | Nonviolent opposition to authority, especially a refusal to cooperate with legal requirements. | 14 | |
| 13735794753 | Perestroika | A policy initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev that involved restructuring of the social and economic status quo in communist Russia towards a market based economy and society | 15 | |
| 13735794754 | Glastnost | the Soviet Union's plan to allow more political freedom in the 1980's--Gorbechev was the leader "Openness" | 16 | |
| 13735794755 | supranational organizations | A venture involving three or more nation-states involving formal political, economic, and/or cultural cooperation to promote shared objectives. The European Union is one such organization | 17 | |
| 13735794756 | mixed economy | An economy in which private enterprise exists in combination with a considerable amount of government regulation and promotion. | 18 | |
| 13735794757 | market economy | economic system in which decisions on production and consumption of goods and services are based on voluntary exchange in markets | 19 | |
| 13735794758 | welfare state | A government that undertakes responsibility for the welfare of its citizens through programs in public health and public housing and pensions and unemployment compensation etc. | 20 | |
| 13735794759 | Decolonization | The collapse of colonial empires. Between 1947 and 1962, practically all former colonies in Asia and Africa gained independence. | 21 | |
| 13735794760 | non-governmental organization (NGO) | a voluntary citizens' group that is organized on a local, national or international level and works ; they perform a variety of service and humanitarian functions, bring citizen concerns to governments, advocate for certain issues such as human rights or the environment, and encourage political participation; also known as international non-governmental organization (INGO) | 22 | |
| 13735794761 | feminism | The belief that women should have economic, political, and social equality with men | 23 | |
| 13735794762 | Consumerism | a movement advocating greater protection of the interests of consumers | 24 | |
| 13735794763 | Neocolonialism | Also called economic imperialism, this is the domination of newly independent countries by foreign business interests that causes colonial-style economies to continue, which often caused monoculture (a country only producing one main export like sugar, oil, etc). | 25 |
