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| 140098150 | Kellogg-Briand Pact | A multinational treaty sponsored by American and French diplomats that outlawed war; an example of the optimism that existed during part of the 1920's. (ROARING 20S WOOOOOO) | 0 | |
| 140098151 | Interwar Period | The 1920's and 1930's, shaped by the results of WWI | 1 | |
| 140098152 | The Roaring Twenties | Great social and economic changes were the hallmark of this decade. | 2 | |
| 140098153 | Cubist movements | Artistic style rendering familiar objects in geometric shapes; headed by Pablo Picasso, who was influenced by African art. | 3 | |
| 140098154 | Fascism | Nationalist political form that featured an authoritarian leader, aggressive foreign policy, and government-guided economics; started in Italy. | 4 | |
| 140098155 | Benitu Mussolini | Founder and dictator of the Fascist Party in Italy. | 5 | |
| 140098156 | Settler societies | Australia, Canada, and New Zealand; forged separate 'autonomous communities; within the British empire, called the British Commonwealth of Nations | 6 | |
| 140098157 | Zaibatsu | In Japan, industrial corporations with close government cooperation that expanded rapidly in this era into shipbuilding and other heavy industries. | 7 | |
| 140098158 | Porfiro Diaz | Mexico's long-serving dictator who resisted political reforms; his policies triggered the Mexican Revolution | 8 | |
| 140098159 | Pancho Villa | Mexican revolutionary who led guerrilla fighting in the North; pursued unsuccessfully by the US government in 1913. | 9 | |
| 140098160 | Emiliano Zapata | Mexican revolutionary who led guerrilla fighting in the South; mottow as 'Tierra y Libertad'; demanded land reform | 10 | |
| 140098161 | Soldaderas | Women who were guerilla fighters in the Mexican Revolution | 11 | |
| 140098162 | Victoriano Huerta | Sought to impose a Diaz-type dictatorship; forced from power by Villa and Zapata. | 12 | |
| 140098163 | Alvaro Obregon | Emerged as Mexico's leader at the end of the revolution' wrote a new constitution that promised land reforms | 13 | |
| 140098164 | Lazaro Cardenas | Mexican president who enacted land reform and rural public education. | 14 | |
| 140098165 | Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente Orzco | World-renowned artists who depicted glorified versions of Mexico's Indian heritage and potential Marxist future in murals. | 15 | |
| 140098166 | Cristeros | Conservative peasant movement in 1920's in Mexico; backed by the Catholic church and many politicians; resisted the secularization of the culture and government. | 16 | |
| 140098167 | Party of the Industrialized Revolution (PRI) | This Mexican political party dominated politics from the 1930s to the end of the century. | 17 | |
| 140098168 | Alexander Kerensky | Leader of the provisional government in Russia after the fall of the tsar; kept Russia in WWI and resisted major reforms; overthrown by Bolsheviks at the end of 1917. | 18 | |
| 140098169 | Bolsheviks | Violent, radical wing of the Social Democrats in Russia, led by Vladimir Lenin; took power from provisional government; later renamed 'Communists' | 19 | |
| 140098170 | Russian Civil War | 1918-1921; Millions died in the struggle between the Reds (pro-communist forces) and Whites (an amalgam of non-Communists); the Reds won, largely because of the organizational skills of Leon Trotsky. | 20 | |
| 140098171 | Leon Trotsky | Lenin deputy who organized the Red Army during the civil war and later lost a power struggle to Stalin | 21 | |
| 140098172 | New Economic Policy | Lenin's temporary measure that allowed some capitalism within a Communist framework; food production increased under this program, ended by Stalin. | 22 | |
| 140098173 | Union of Soviet Socialist Republics | Moscow-based multiethnic Communist regime from 1923-1991 | 23 | |
| 140098174 | Supreme Soviet | Parliment under the USSR that had many of the trappings but few of the powers of its Western counterparts | 24 | |
| 140098175 | Joseph Stalin | Assistant to Lenin who beat out Trotsky for undisputed control of the USSR after Lenin's death; installed the nationalistic 'socialism in one country' program, collectivization, and widespread purges. | 25 | |
| 140098176 | Sun Yat-sen | Western-educated leader of the Revolutionary Alliance, the Guomindang, and at times, China, in the 1910s and 1920s; struggled with warlords for control of the nation. | 26 | |
| 140098177 | Yuan Shikai | Chinese warlord who was the country's leader from 1912 to 1916; he hoped to establish himself as the ruler of a dynasty to replace the Qing; forced from power. | 27 | |
| 140098178 | May Fourth Movement | ... | 28 | |
| 140098179 | Li Dazhao | Headed Marxist study circle at University at Beijing; saw peasants as harbingers of Communist revolution in China; influenced Mao Zedong | 29 | |
| 140098180 | Mao Zedong | Leader of the Chinese Communist Party and later dictator. | 30 | |
| 140098181 | Guomindang | Nationalist party in China; it was the Communist Party's greatest rival, yet the Guomindang and Communists forged and alliance against Japanese aggression; the ruling party in mainland China until 1949, it failed to implement most of the domestic programs it proposed. | 31 | |
| 140098182 | Whampoa Military Academy | Established in China with Soviet help; it gave the Nationalists a military dimension previously missing; first leader was Chiang Kai-shek | 32 | |
| 140098183 | CHian Kai-shek | Successor to Sun as leader of the Nationalists; fierce opponent of the Communists, yet he formed an alliance with them to fight Japan. | 33 | |
| 140098184 | Long March | To escape the Nationalists, 90,000 Mao supporters traveled thousands of miles to remote regions; solidified Mao's leadership and created much of his myth. | 34 | |
| 140098185 | Syndicalism | Economic and political system based on the organization of labor; imported in Latin American from European political movements; militant force in Latin American politics. | 35 | |
| 140098186 | Mexican Revolution | Fought over a period of almost 10 years from 1910; resulted in ouster of Porfirio Diaz from power; opposition forces led by Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata. | 36 | |
| 140098187 | Francisco Madero | Moderate democratic reformer in Mexico; proposed moderate reforms in 1910; arrested by Diaz, initiated revolution against Diaz when released from prison; temporarily gaine dpower, but removed and assassinated in 1913. | 37 | |
| 140098188 | Mexican Constitution of 1917 | Promised land reform, limited foreign ownership of key resources, guaranteed the rights of workers, and placed restrictions on clerical education; marked the formal end of the Mexican Revolution. | 38 | |
| 140098189 | Red Army | Military organization constructed under leader of Leon Trotsky, Bolshevik follower of Lenin; made use of people of humble background. | 39 | |
| 140098190 | Comintern | International office of communism under USSR dominance established to encourage the formation of Communist parties in Europe and the world. | 40 | |
| 140098191 | Lazaro Cardenas | President of Mexico from 1934 to 1940; responsible fro redistribution of land, primarily to created ejidos, or communal farms; also began program of primary and rural education. | 41 | |
| 140098192 | Great Depression | Worldwide economic collapse that began in late 1929 and continued until the outset of WWII. | 42 | |
| 140266392 | Socialism in one country | Stalin's program to build a self-sufficient Communist state based on industrial production. | 43 | |
| 140266393 | Popular Front | Liberal, socialist, and Communist parties in France that forged a short lived alliance in the 1930's. | 44 | |
| 140266394 | New Deal | The United State's answer to the Great Depression, consisting of government assistance to people affected by the crisis and of government reform of economic institutions. | 45 | |
| 140266395 | Nazi | Hitler's National Socialist German Worker's Party, under the guise of political unity, the Nazis forged a totalitarian state. (But we all know who the Nazis were.) | 46 | |
| 140266396 | Gestapo | Hitler's secret police that imprisoned and killed his real and imagined opposition | 47 | |
| 140266397 | Anschluss | Hitler's union with Austria | 48 | |
| 140266398 | Appeasement | Britain and France's policy of compromise with Hitler and mussolini | 49 | |
| 140266399 | Spanish Civil War | Fascists led by General Franco fought supporters of the existing republic in the 1930's, Germany and Italy aided the victorious Franco. | 50 | |
| 140266400 | Import substitution industrialization | CUt off from supplies it had imported before the Great Depression, Latin American began to produce for itself through the rapid expansion of insutrialization. | 51 | |
| 140266401 | Syndicalism | In Latin America, organizing labor for the purpose of gaining control of political power | 52 | |
| 140266402 | Tragic Week | In Argentina in 1919, the government brutally repressed labor strikes. | 53 | |
| 140266403 | Corporatism | In Latin America, a movement aimed at curbing capitalism and Marxism that proposed using the state as a mediator between different social and economic groups | 54 | |
| 140266404 | Getulio Vargas | President of Brazil who imposed a pro-Western Fascist-like authoritarian regime. | 55 | |
| 140266405 | Juan Peron | Argentina's leader who, like Vargas, antionalized key industries and led through a combination of charisma and intimidation. | 56 | |
| 140266406 | Training to endure hardship | Term used to describe the Japanese policy establisehd in Korea to induce the people there to cooperate with the conqueror's wishes. | 57 | |
| 140266407 | Kulaks | The relatively wealthy peasants in the Soviet Union who were starved and murdered by the millions under Stalin's direction. | 58 | |
| 140266408 | Collectivization | Soviet policy of eliminating private ownership of farmland and creating large state-run farms. | 59 | |
| 140266409 | Five-Year Plan | State planning of industrial proudction in the Soviet Union | 60 | |
| 140266410 | Socialist Realism | School of art in the USSR that emphasized heroic idealizations of workers, soldiers, and peasants | 61 | |
| 140266411 | Ppolitburo | Political Bureau in the USSR that was titularly the executive committee but in reality was, especially under Stalin, a rubber-stamp organization. | 62 |
