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4243369157May fourth movementA 1919 protest in China against the Treaty of Versailles and foreign influence.0
4243369158New DealU.S. President Roosevelt's program to relieve the economic problems of the Great Depression; it increased government involvement in the society of the United States.1
4243369159CartelsUnions of independent businesses in order to regulate production, prices, and the marketing of goods.2
4243369160Korean conflictWar between Communist North Korea, aided by China, and Capitalist South Korea, aided by the United States3
4243369161Cuban missile crisisWhen In 1962, the Soviets constructed nuclear missiles in Cuba which brought days of tense confrontation between Khrushchev and U.S. President Kennedy. Khrushchev ultimately backed down, and the missiles were removed.4
4243369162Tehran conferenceA 1943 meeting of leaders of the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union; it agreed on the opening of a second front in France.5
4243369163Spanish civil warA conflict from 1936 to 1939 that resulted in the installation of fascist dictator Francisco Franco as ruler of Spain; Franco's forces were backed by Germany and Italy, whereas the Soviet Union supported the opposing republican forces.6
4243369164Kabuki theaterA form of Japanese theater developed in the seventeenth century that features colorful scenery and costumes and an exaggerated style of acting.7
4243369165CoalitionA government based on temporary alli¬ances of several political parties.8
4243369166Yalta conferenceA meeting of the leaders of the Soviet Union, Great Britain, and the United States in 1945; the Soviet Union agreed to enter the war against Japan in exchange for influence in the Eastern European states. The Yalta Conference also made plans for the establishment of a new international organization.9
4243369167Iron curtainA metaphorical description of the divide between the Communist East and Democratic Western Europe10
4243369168Welfare stateA nation in which the government plays an active role in providing services such as social security to its citizens.11
4243369169British commonwealthA political community consisting of the United Kingdom, its dependen¬cies, and former colonies of Great Britain that are now sovereign nations; currently called the Commonwealth of Nations.12
4243369170FascismA political movement that is characterized by extreme nationalism, one-party rule, and the denial of individual rights.13
4243369171Alliance for progressA program of economic aid for Latin America in exchange for a pledge to establish democratic institutions; part of U.S. President Kennedy's international program.14
4243369172Treaty of VersaillesThe 1919 peace treaty between Germany and the Allied nations; it blamed the war on Germany and assessed heavy reparations and large territorial losses on the part of Germany.15
4243369173GlasnostThe 1985 policy of Mikhail Gorbachev that allowed openness of expression of ideas in the Soviet Union.16
4243369174Persian gulf warThe 1991 war between Iraq and a U.S.-led coalition to liberate Kuwait from an Iraqi invasion.17
4243369175Deoxyribonucleic acidThe blueprint of heredity.18
4243369176No(h) theaterThe classical Japanese drama with music and dances performed on a simple stage by elaborately dressed actors.19
4243369177BrinkmanshipThe Cold War policy of the Soviet Union and the United States of threatening to go to war at a sign of aggression on the part of either power.20
4243369178Pan Slavic MovementA Russian attempt to unite all Slavic nations into a commonwealth relation¬ship under the influence of Russia.21
4243369179CubismA school of art in which persons and objects are represented by geometric forms.22
4243369180Al-QaedaA terrorist group based in Afghanistan in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.23
4243369181AyatollahA traditional Muslim religious ruler.24
4243369182RussificationA tsarist program that required non-Russians to speak only Russian and provided education only for those groups loyal to Russia.25
4243369183Import substitution IndustrializationAn economic system that attempts to strengthen a country's industrial power by restricting foreign imports.26
4243369184World Trade OrganizationAn international organization begun in 1995 to promote and organize world trade.27
4243369185International Monetary fundAn international organization founded in 1944 to promote market economies and free trade.28
4243369186European UnionAn organization designed to reduce trade barriers and promote economic unity in Europe; it was formed in 1993 to replace the European Community.29
4243369187MandateA type of colony in which the government is overseen by another nation, as in the Middle Eastern mandates placed under European control after World War I.30
4243369188Marshall planA U.S. plan to support the recov¬ery and reconstruction of Western Europe after World War II.31
4243369189International space stationA vehicle sponsored by sixteen nations that circles the earth while car¬rying out experiments.32
4243369190Berlin wallA wall, built by the East German Communist government, to separate the Democratic Western Berlin33
4243369191World bankAn agency of the United Nations that offers loans to countries to promote trade and economic development.34
4243369192North American Free Trade OrganizationAn organization that prohibits tariffs and other trade barriers between Mexico, the United States, and Canada. (NAFTA)35
4243369193GuomindangChina's Nationalist political party founded by Sun Yat-sen in 1912 and based on democratic principles; in 1925, the party was taken over by Jiang Jieshi, who made it into a more authoritarian party.36
4243369194ContainmentCold War policy of the United States whose purpose was to prevent the spread of communism.37
4243369195Government of India ActIn 1935, The British law passed in 1935 which increased suffrage and turned provincial governments over to Indian leaders38
4243369196Central powersIn World War I, Germany, Aus¬tria-Hungary, Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire, and other nations who fought with them against the Allies.39
4243369197Allied powersIn World War I, the nations of Great Britain, France, Russia, the United States, and others that fought against the Central Powers; in World War II, the group of nations includ¬ing Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States, that fought against the Axis Powers.40
4243369198League of nationsInternational organization founded after World "War I to promote peace and cooperation among nations.41
4243369199Service industriesOccupations that provided a service rather than a manufactured or agricultural product.42
4243369200Organization Of Petroleum Exporting CountriesOrganization formed in I960 by oil-producing countries to regulate oil supplies and prices. (OPEC)43
4243369201EvangelicalPertaining to preaching the Gospel (the good news) or pertaining to theologically conservative Christians.44
4243369202Five year plansPlans for industrial production first introduced to the Soviet Union in 1928 by Stalin; they succeeded in making the Soviet Union a major industrial power by the end of the 1930s.45
4243369203AppeasementPolicy of Great Britain and France of making concessions to Hitler in the 1930s.46
4243369204KulaksRussian peasants who became wealthy under Lenin's New Economic Policy.47
4243369205AfrikanersSouth Africans who were descended from the Dutch who settled in South Africa in the seventeenth century.48
4243369206Hubble space telescopeTelescope able to peer deep into space49
4243369207Treaty of Brest-LitovskThe 1918 treaty ending World War I between Germany and the Soviet Union.50
4243369208CollectivizationThe combination of several small farms into a large government-controlled farm.51
4243369209Great leap forwardThe disastrous economic policy introduced by Mao Zedong that proposed the implementation of small-scale industrial projects on individual peasant communes.52
4243369210SputnikThe first man-made satellite, launched by the Soviet Union53
4243369211AnschlussThe German annexation of Austria prior to World War II.54
4243369212United NationsThe international organization founded in 1945 to establish peace and cooperation among nations.55
4243369213HolocaustThe Nazi program during World War II that killed 6 million Jews and other groups considered undesirable.56
4243369214ReparationsThe payment of war debts by the losing side.57
4243369215Great depressionThe severe worldwide economic downturn that began in the late 1920s and con¬tinued into the 1930s throughout many regions of the world.58
4243369216ApartheidThe South African policy of separation of the races.59
4243369217McDonaldizationThe spread of American culture and values around the world60
4243369218EuroThe standard currency introduced and adopted by the majority of members of the European Union in January 2002.61
4243369219GenocideThe systematic killing of an entire ethnic group.62
4243369220Cold warThe tense diplomatic relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II.63
4243369221Mass consumerismTrade in products designed to appeal to a global market.64
4243369222National Organization For WomenU.S. organization founded in 1969 to campaign for women's rights.65
4243369223Potsdam conferenceA 1945 meeting of the leaders of Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union in which it was agreed that the Soviet Union would be given control of eastern Europe and that Germany would be divided into zones of occupation.66
4243369224Geneva ConferenceA 1954 conference that divided Vietnam at the seventeenth parallel.67
4243369225Helsinki accordsA 1975 political and human rights agreement signed in Helsinki, Finland, by Western European countries and the Soviet Union.68
4243369226Cultural revolutionA Chinese movement from 1966 to 1976 intended to establish an egalitarian society of peasants and workers.69
4243369227European Economic CommunityA Common Market organized in 1958 whichreduced tariffs among member nations and created a common tariff policy for other world nations.70

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