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6748433983May fourth movementA 1919 protest in China against the Treaty of Versailles and foreign influence.0
6748433984New 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
6748433985CartelsUnions of independent businesses in order to regulate production, prices, and the marketing of goods.2
6748433986Korean conflictWar between Communist North Korea, aided by China, and Capitalist South Korea, aided by the United States3
6748433987Cuban 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
6748433988Tehran 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
6748433989Spanish 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
6748433990Kabuki theaterA form of Japanese theater developed in the seventeenth century that features colorful scenery and costumes and an exaggerated style of acting.7
6748433991CoalitionA government based on temporary alli¬ances of several political parties.8
6748433992Yalta 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
6748433993Iron curtainA metaphorical description of the divide between the Communist East and Democratic Western Europe10
6748433994Welfare stateA nation in which the government plays an active role in providing services such as social security to its citizens.11
6748433995British 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
6748433996FascismA political movement that is characterized by extreme nationalism, one-party rule, and the denial of individual rights.13
6748433997Alliance 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
6748433998Treaty 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
6748433999GlasnostThe 1985 policy of Mikhail Gorbachev that allowed openness of expression of ideas in the Soviet Union.16
6748434000Persian gulf warThe 1991 war between Iraq and a U.S.-led coalition to liberate Kuwait from an Iraqi invasion.17
6748434001Deoxyribonucleic acidThe blueprint of heredity.18
6748434002No(h) theaterThe classical Japanese drama with music and dances performed on a simple stage by elaborately dressed actors.19
6748434003BrinkmanshipThe 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
6748434004Pan Slavic MovementA Russian attempt to unite all Slavic nations into a commonwealth relation¬ship under the influence of Russia.21
6748434005CubismA school of art in which persons and objects are represented by geometric forms.22
6748434006Al-QaedaA terrorist group based in Afghanistan in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.23
6748434007AyatollahA traditional Muslim religious ruler.24
6748434008RussificationA tsarist program that required non-Russians to speak only Russian and provided education only for those groups loyal to Russia.25
6748434009Import substitution IndustrializationAn economic system that attempts to strengthen a country's industrial power by restricting foreign imports.26
6748434010World Trade OrganizationAn international organization begun in 1995 to promote and organize world trade.27
6748434011International Monetary fundAn international organization founded in 1944 to promote market economies and free trade.28
6748434012European UnionAn organization designed to reduce trade barriers and promote economic unity in Europe; it was formed in 1993 to replace the European Community.29
6748434013MandateA 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
6748434014Marshall planA U.S. plan to support the recov¬ery and reconstruction of Western Europe after World War II.31
6748434015International space stationA vehicle sponsored by sixteen nations that circles the earth while car¬rying out experiments.32
6748434016Berlin wallA wall, built by the East German Communist government, to separate the Democratic Western Berlin33
6748434017World bankAn agency of the United Nations that offers loans to countries to promote trade and economic development.34
6748434018North American Free Trade OrganizationAn organization that prohibits tariffs and other trade barriers between Mexico, the United States, and Canada. (NAFTA)35
6748434019GuomindangChina'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
6748434020ContainmentCold War policy of the United States whose purpose was to prevent the spread of communism.37
6748434021Government of India ActIn 1935, The British law passed in 1935 which increased suffrage and turned provincial governments over to Indian leaders38
6748434022Central powersIn World War I, Germany, Aus¬tria-Hungary, Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire, and other nations who fought with them against the Allies.39
6748434023Allied 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
6748434024League of nationsInternational organization founded after World "War I to promote peace and cooperation among nations.41
6748434025Service industriesOccupations that provided a service rather than a manufactured or agricultural product.42
6748434026Organization Of Petroleum Exporting CountriesOrganization formed in I960 by oil-producing countries to regulate oil supplies and prices. (OPEC)43
6748434027EvangelicalPertaining to preaching the Gospel (the good news) or pertaining to theologically conservative Christians.44
6748434028Five 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
6748434029AppeasementPolicy of Great Britain and France of making concessions to Hitler in the 1930s.46
6748434030KulaksRussian peasants who became wealthy under Lenin's New Economic Policy.47
6748434031AfrikanersSouth Africans who were descended from the Dutch who settled in South Africa in the seventeenth century.48
6748434032Hubble space telescopeTelescope able to peer deep into space49
6748434033Treaty of Brest-LitovskThe 1918 treaty ending World War I between Germany and the Soviet Union.50
6748434034CollectivizationThe combination of several small farms into a large government-controlled farm.51
6748434035Great leap forwardThe disastrous economic policy introduced by Mao Zedong that proposed the implementation of small-scale industrial projects on individual peasant communes.52
6748434036SputnikThe first man-made satellite, launched by the Soviet Union53
6748434037AnschlussThe German annexation of Austria prior to World War II.54
6748434038United NationsThe international organization founded in 1945 to establish peace and cooperation among nations.55
6748434039HolocaustThe Nazi program during World War II that killed 6 million Jews and other groups considered undesirable.56
6748434040ReparationsThe payment of war debts by the losing side.57
6748434041Great depressionThe severe worldwide economic downturn that began in the late 1920s and con¬tinued into the 1930s throughout many regions of the world.58
6748434042ApartheidThe South African policy of separation of the races.59
6748434043McDonaldizationThe spread of American culture and values around the world60
6748434044EuroThe standard currency introduced and adopted by the majority of members of the European Union in January 2002.61
6748434045GenocideThe systematic killing of an entire ethnic group.62
6748434046Cold warThe tense diplomatic relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II.63
6748434047Mass consumerismTrade in products designed to appeal to a global market.64
6748434048National Organization For WomenU.S. organization founded in 1969 to campaign for women's rights.65
6748434049Potsdam 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
6748434050Geneva ConferenceA 1954 conference that divided Vietnam at the seventeenth parallel.67
6748434051Helsinki accordsA 1975 political and human rights agreement signed in Helsinki, Finland, by Western European countries and the Soviet Union.68
6748434052Cultural revolutionA Chinese movement from 1966 to 1976 intended to establish an egalitarian society of peasants and workers.69
6748434053European 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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