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| 13972007593 | May fourth movement | A 1919 protest in China against the Treaty of Versailles and foreign influence. |  | 0 |
| 13972007594 | New Deal | U.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 |
| 13972007595 | Cartels | Unions of independent businesses in order to regulate production, prices, and the marketing of goods. |  | 2 |
| 13972007596 | Korean conflict | War between Communist North Korea, aided by China, and Capitalist South Korea, aided by the United States |  | 3 |
| 13972007597 | Cuban missile crisis | When 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 |
| 13972007598 | Spanish civil war | A 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 |
| 13972007599 | Coalition | A government based on temporary alli¬ances of several political parties. |  | 6 |
| 13972007600 | Iron curtain | A metaphorical description of the divide between the Communist East and Democratic Western Europe |  | 7 |
| 13972007601 | Fascism | A political movement that is characterized by extreme nationalism, one-party rule, and the denial of individual rights. |  | 8 |
| 13972007602 | Treaty of Versailles | The 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 |
| 13972007603 | Persian gulf war | The 1991 war between Iraq and a U.S.-led coalition to liberate Kuwait from an Iraqi invasion. |  | 10 |
| 13972007604 | Pan Slavic Movement | A Russian attempt to unite all Slavic nations into a commonwealth relation¬ship under the influence of Russia. |  | 11 |
| 13972007605 | Al-Qaeda | A terrorist group based in Afghanistan in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. |  | 12 |
| 13972007606 | World Trade Organization | An international organization begun in 1995 to promote and organize world trade. |  | 13 |
| 13972007607 | International Monetary fund | An international organization founded in 1944 to promote market economies and free trade. |  | 14 |
| 13972007608 | European Union | An organization designed to reduce trade barriers and promote economic unity in Europe; it was formed in 1993 to replace the European Community. |  | 15 |
| 13972007609 | Mandate | A 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 |
| 13972007610 | Marshall plan | A U.S. plan to support the recov¬ery and reconstruction of Western Europe after World War II. |  | 17 |
| 13972007611 | International space station | A vehicle sponsored by sixteen nations that circles the earth while car¬rying out experiments. |  | 18 |
| 13972007612 | Berlin wall | A wall, built by the East German Communist government, to separate the Democratic Western Berlin |  | 19 |
| 13972007613 | World bank | An agency of the United Nations that offers loans to countries to promote trade and economic development. |  | 20 |
| 13972007614 | North American Free Trade Organization | An organization that prohibits tariffs and other trade barriers between Mexico, the United States, and Canada. (NAFTA) |  | 21 |
| 13972007615 | Guomindang | China'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 |
| 13972007616 | Containment | Cold War policy of the United States whose purpose was to prevent the spread of communism. |  | 23 |
| 13972007617 | Central powers | In World War I, Germany, Aus¬tria-Hungary, Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire, and other nations who fought with them against the Allies. |  | 24 |
| 13972007618 | Allied powers | In 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 |
| 13972007619 | League of nations | International organization founded after World "War I to promote peace and cooperation among nations. |  | 26 |
| 13972007620 | Service industries | Occupations that provided a service rather than a manufactured or agricultural product. |  | 27 |
| 13972007621 | Five year plans | Plans 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 |
| 13972007622 | Appeasement | Policy of Great Britain and France of making concessions to Hitler in the 1930s. |  | 29 |
| 13972007623 | Hubble space telescope | Telescope able to peer deep into space |  | 30 |
| 13972007624 | Collectivization | The combination of several small farms into a large government-controlled farm. |  | 31 |
| 13972007625 | Great leap forward | The disastrous economic policy introduced by Mao Zedong that proposed the implementation of small-scale industrial projects on individual peasant communes. |  | 32 |
| 13972007626 | United Nations | The international organization founded in 1945 to establish peace and cooperation among nations. |  | 33 |
| 13972007627 | Holocaust | The Nazi program during World War II that killed 6 million Jews and other groups considered undesirable. |  | 34 |
| 13972007628 | Great depression | The severe worldwide economic downturn that began in the late 1920s and con¬tinued into the 1930s throughout many regions of the world. |  | 35 |
| 13972007629 | Apartheid | The South African policy of separation of the races. |  | 36 |
| 13972007630 | Euro | The standard currency introduced and adopted by the majority of members of the European Union in January 2002. |  | 37 |
| 13972007631 | Genocide | The systematic killing of an entire ethnic group. |  | 38 |
| 13972007632 | Cold war | The tense diplomatic relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II. |  | 39 |
| 13972007633 | Mass consumerism | Trade in products designed to appeal to a global market. |  | 40 |
| 13972007634 | National Organization For Women | U.S. organization founded in 1969 to campaign for women's rights. |  | 41 |
| 13972007635 | Cultural revolution | A Chinese movement from 1966 to 1976 intended to establish an egalitarian society of peasants and workers. |  | 42 |
| 13972007636 | European Economic Community | A Common Market organized in 1958 whichreduced tariffs among member nations and created a common tariff policy for other world nations. |  | 43 |
