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| 4047758923 | Allies | Composed of France, Britain, and Russia, and later Japan and Italy, the Allies fought the Central Powers in World War I. The United States joined the Allies in 1917, and after major economic and military blows, World War I ended with the Treaty of Versailles. | 0 | |
| 4047763705 | Apartheid | A social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic and legal discrimination against non-whites. |  | 1 |
| 4047765209 | Armistice | An agreement to stop fighting |  | 2 |
| 4047768758 | Asian Tigers | Collective name for South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore-nations that became economic powers in the 1970s and 1980s. | 3 | |
| 4047773890 | Ataturk | "Father of the Turks" who helped to create Republic of Turkey and wanted to modernize [westernize] Turkey as well as separate religion and government |  | 4 |
| 4047776751 | Kemal Mustafa | turkish WW1 hero who defeated greek forces and announced start of republic of turkey (aka kemal ataturk) | 5 | |
| 4047781877 | 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. | 6 | |
| 4047784895 | Ayatollah Khomeini | (1900?-1989) Islamic religious leader who led a fundamentalist revolution in Iran in 1979. Ruled until 1989. |  | 7 |
| 4047787624 | Balfour Declaration | British document that promised land in Palestine as homeland for Jews in exchange for Jews help in WWI |  | 8 |
| 4047791010 | Berlin Airlift | Airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin |  | 9 |
| 4047791777 | Berlin Wall | A wall separating East and West Berlin built by East Germany in 1961 to keep citizens from escaping to the West |  | 10 |
| 4047798046 | 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. | 11 | |
| 4047799284 | Castro | Communist leader of Cuba |  | 12 |
| 4047800112 | Fidel | (n) faithful, loyalty; strict observance of duty; accuracy in reproducing a sound or image | 13 | |
| 4047804605 | 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. |  | 14 |
| 4047807369 | Churchill | British Prime Minister who opposed the policy of appeasement and led Great Britain through World War II |  | 15 |
| 4047810888 | Winston | A noted British statesman who led Britain throughout most of World War II and along with Roosevelt planned many allied campaigns. He predicted an iron curtain that would separate Communist Europe from the rest of the West. | 16 | |
| 4047816264 | Cultural Revolution | Campaign in China ordered by Mao Zedong to purge the Communist Party of his opponents and instill revolutionary values in the younger generation. |  | 17 |
| 4047817362 | Cold War | A conflict that was between the US and the Soviet Union. The nations never directly confronted each other on the battlefield but deadly threats went on for years. |  | 18 |
| 4047820264 | 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. |  | 19 |
| 4047821396 | 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. |  | 20 |
| 4047823958 | Containment | American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world |  | 21 |
| 4047825412 | Decolonization | The collapse of colonial empires. Between 1947 and 1962, practically all former colonies in Asia and Africa gained independence. |  | 22 |
| 4047828406 | Democratization | the process of creating a government elected by the people |  | 23 |
| 4047830119 | Doctrine | (n.) a belief, principle, or teaching; a system of such beliefs or principles; a formulation of such beliefs or principles |  | 24 |
| 4047834059 | Egalitarian | A person who believes in the equality of all people |  | 25 |
| 4047834060 | Ethnic Cleansing | Process in which more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region |  | 26 |
| 4047834061 | Fascism | A political system headed by a dictator that calls for extreme nationalism and racism and no tolerance of opposition |  | 27 |
| 4047835591 | First World | the largely democratic and free-market states of the United States and Western Europe (Cold War to today) |  | 28 |
| 4047837117 | Front Line | The area between enemy territories where the fighting takes place | 29 | |
| 4047838609 | Holocaust | A methodical plan orchestrated by Hitler to ensure German supremacy. It called for the elimination of Jews, non-conformists, homosexuals, non-Aryans, and mentally and physically disabled. |  | 30 |
| 4047839850 | Globalization | Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope. |  | 31 |
| 4047843822 | 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. | 32 | |
| 4047843823 | Guerilla | a member of a loosely organized fighting force that makes surprise attacks on enemy troops occupying his/her country |  | 33 |
| 4047846675 | Adolf Hitler | Austrian-born founder of the German Nazi Party and chancellor of the Third Reich (1933-1945). His fascist philosophy, embodied in Mein Kampf (1925-1927), attracted widespread support, and after 1934 he ruled as an absolute dictator. Hitler's pursuit of aggressive nationalist policies resulted in the invasion of Poland (1939) and the subsequent outbreak of World War II. His regime was infamous for the extermination of millions of people, especially European Jews. He committed suicide when the collapse of the Third Reich was imminent (1945). |  | 34 |
| 4047847673 | Hussein | Ali's son, led a revolt during Umayyad against the people who killed Ali, lost, led to Shia/Sunni split | 35 | |
| 4047847674 | Saddam | Was a dictator in Iraq who tried to take over Iran and Kuwait violently in order to gain the land and the resources. He also refused to let the UN into Iraq in order to check if the country was secretly holding weapons of mass destruction. |  | 36 |
| 4047850541 | Isolationism | A policy of nonparticipation in international economic and political relations |  | 37 |
| 4047852047 | Iron Curtain | A political barrier that isolated the peoples of Eastern Europe after WWII, restricting their ability to travel outside the region |  | 38 |
| 4047853189 | Israel | A Jewish state on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean, both in antiquity and again founded in 1948 after centuries of Jewish diaspora. |  | 39 |
| 4047853190 | Jihad | A holy struggle or striving by a Muslim for a moral or spiritual or political goal |  | 40 |
| 4047854845 | Liberal | tolerant or broad-minded; generous or lavish |  | 41 |
| 4047856705 | M.A.I.N. | Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism | 42 | |
| 4047858803 | 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. |  | 43 |
| 4047858804 | Nazi | Adolf Hitler used fascism to create this type of government based on totalitarian ideas and was used to unite Germany during the 1930s. |  | 44 |
| 4047859922 | Recession | A slowdown in a nation's economy | 45 | |
| 4047863178 | Josef Stalin | The leader of Russia during WWII - wanted to spread communism throughout the world |  | 46 |
| 4047863179 | Terrorism | Acts of violence designed to promote a specific ideology or agenda by creating panic among an enemy population |  | 47 |
| 4047831484 | Treaty of Versailles | (1919) treaty ending World War I; required Germany to pay huge war reparations and established the League of Nations |  | 48 |
| 4084326444 | Trench Warfare | A form of warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield. |  | 49 |
| 4084326445 | USSR | Union of Soviet Socialist Republics |  | 50 |
| 4084329196 | Westernization | adoption of western ideas, technology, and culture | 51 |
