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9969371817May fourth movementA 1919 protest in China against the Treaty of Versailles and foreign influence.0
9969371818New 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
9969371819CartelsUnions of independent businesses in order to regulate production, prices, and the marketing of goods.2
9969371820Korean conflictWar between Communist North Korea, aided by China, and Capitalist South Korea, aided by the United States3
9969371821Cuban 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
9969371822Spanish 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.5
9969371823CoalitionA government based on temporary alli¬ances of several political parties.6
9969371824Iron curtainA metaphorical description of the divide between the Communist East and Democratic Western Europe7
9969371825FascismA political movement that is characterized by extreme nationalism, one-party rule, and the denial of individual rights.8
9969371826Treaty 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.9
9969371827Persian gulf warThe 1991 war between Iraq and a U.S.-led coalition to liberate Kuwait from an Iraqi invasion.10
9969371828Pan Slavic MovementA Russian attempt to unite all Slavic nations into a commonwealth relation¬ship under the influence of Russia.11
9969371829Al-QaedaA terrorist group based in Afghanistan in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.12
9969371830World Trade OrganizationAn international organization begun in 1995 to promote and organize world trade.13
9969371831International Monetary fundAn international organization founded in 1944 to promote market economies and free trade.14
9969371832European UnionAn organization designed to reduce trade barriers and promote economic unity in Europe; it was formed in 1993 to replace the European Community.15
9969371833MandateA 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.16
9969371834Marshall planA U.S. plan to support the recov¬ery and reconstruction of Western Europe after World War II.17
9969371835International space stationA vehicle sponsored by sixteen nations that circles the earth while car¬rying out experiments.18
9969371836Berlin wallA wall, built by the East German Communist government, to separate the Democratic Western Berlin19
9969371837World bankAn agency of the United Nations that offers loans to countries to promote trade and economic development.20
9969371838North American Free Trade OrganizationAn organization that prohibits tariffs and other trade barriers between Mexico, the United States, and Canada. (NAFTA)21
9969371839GuomindangChina'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.22
9969371840ContainmentCold War policy of the United States whose purpose was to prevent the spread of communism.23
9969371841Central powersIn World War I, Germany, Aus¬tria-Hungary, Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire, and other nations who fought with them against the Allies.24
9969371842Allied 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.25
9969371843League of nationsInternational organization founded after World "War I to promote peace and cooperation among nations.26
9969371844Service industriesOccupations that provided a service rather than a manufactured or agricultural product.27
9969371845Five 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.28
9969371846AppeasementPolicy of Great Britain and France of making concessions to Hitler in the 1930s.29
9969371847Hubble space telescopeTelescope able to peer deep into space30
9969371848CollectivizationThe combination of several small farms into a large government-controlled farm.31
9969371849Great leap forwardThe disastrous economic policy introduced by Mao Zedong that proposed the implementation of small-scale industrial projects on individual peasant communes.32
9969371850United NationsThe international organization founded in 1945 to establish peace and cooperation among nations.33
9969371851HolocaustThe Nazi program during World War II that killed 6 million Jews and other groups considered undesirable.34
9969371852Great depressionThe severe worldwide economic downturn that began in the late 1920s and con¬tinued into the 1930s throughout many regions of the world.35
9969371853ApartheidThe South African policy of separation of the races.36
9969371854EuroThe standard currency introduced and adopted by the majority of members of the European Union in January 2002.37
9969371855GenocideThe systematic killing of an entire ethnic group.38
9969371856Cold warThe tense diplomatic relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II.39
9969371857Mass consumerismTrade in products designed to appeal to a global market.40
9969371858National Organization For WomenU.S. organization founded in 1969 to campaign for women's rights.41
9969371859Cultural revolutionA Chinese movement from 1966 to 1976 intended to establish an egalitarian society of peasants and workers.42
9969371860European Economic CommunityA Common Market organized in 1958 whichreduced tariffs among member nations and created a common tariff policy for other world nations.43

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