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158762266DesertificationThe process of turning arable land into harsh desert, common throughout Sahara Desert nations.0
158762267The Five-Year PlanA plan similar to Stalin's 10-year plan made by Ataturk for the repairing of Turkey.1
158762268The Great DepressionThe 1930 decade was a horrible economic year for almost the entire world that was touched by WW1 and especially the United States.2
158762269Hitler YouthAn organization of young children traind by the Nazis in hopes of making numerous proud supportors of the Third Reich and Hitler.3
158762270il DuceA title affectionately given to Benito Mussolini by his many Italian fans in Fascist Italy.4
158762271Influenza PandemicThis atrocious disease claimed the lives of many soldiers after WW1, in fact perhaps more died because of this outbreak.5
158762272Jim Crow LawsThis was a list of segregational laws employed in the South United States, such rules made for various facilities for whites and blacks. An atrocity.6
158762273Josephine BakerAn exotic dancer who performed in Paris, she was a star because of her excellent dancing and her showing of African culture, her native homeland.7
158762274The League of NationsA short-lived predecessor of the United Nations, it was initially imaigned by Woodrow Wilson at the conclusion of WW1 in hopes that something so horrible wouldn't ever occur again.8
158762275Black ShirtsThe SS troopers were elite troops serving directly as Hitler's Bodyguard. And as elite commanders in the field as Lieutenants and other officer ranks.9
158762276Triumph of the WillA movie created in Nazi Germany, perhaps the grandest movie of mass rising and political propaganda ever.10
158762277Russian Civil WarA war between the "White" Tsar loyalists and the "Red" Soviets led by the Bolsheviks in Russia.11
158762278SatyagrahaA new form of protest created by Mohandes Ghandi that favored non-violence in order to not stir up warfare and to keep more people form being killed by the British.12
158762279ModernismThe theory of being at the front of the world in terms of advancement, to be truly ahead of the game.13
158762280ModernityThis word is interpreted by many people and people see it in many different ways. This word tries to be achieved by all nations.14
158762281AtaturkThe leader of the new Turkey that emerged from the Ottoman Empire's ashes after the first World War. Tried to modernize Turkey.15
158762282Brown ShirtsThese Nazi soldiers were higher up on the pecking order, and received their names from their cinnamon-colored apparel. However they were lower than the SS troopers.16
158762283The Woman QuestionShould females be given the right to vote? But we are an equal country, we should shouldn't we?17
158762284Theodore RooseveltAn American President, arguably one of the best ever, he ruled well and wildly, a very exciteable and pugnacious man, he ruled until 1904. Led the Progressive Era.18
158762285The Versailles ConferenceThe name of the meeting at which the USA, Britain, France, and Austria decided the fates of the Germans for the crime that was WW1.19
158762286BolsheviksFormer members of the Social Democratic Party who advocated the destrucction of capitalist political and economic institutions and started the Russian Revolution. In 1918 the Bolsheviks changed their name to the Russian Communist Party.20
158762287All India Women's Conference (AIWC)An organization of Indian women, they protested the rights of women numerous times during the English occupation and when Indians came to power.21
158762288"Massive Migrations" of the late 19th-mid 20th Centuries.These massive moves were mostly forced due to fear, sickness, and hopes for a better life elsewhere and these occurred beofre and just after World War 1.22
158762289Africa for the AfricansA morale-raising cry coined by African protestors demanding Africa to be returned to the Africans from the claws of Europe.23
158762290Black Tuesday(October 24, 1929) The day of the U.S. stock market crash and led the entire globe into the Great Depression.24
158762291DumaThe Russian Parliament (elimitated by Stalin)25
158762292Scientific ManagementNehru believed that the way to get India onto the path for modernization was to promote science and technology. (Post Ghandi)26
158762293Progressive EraU.S. Reform movement speared by Theodore Roosevelt in the early 20th Century to eliminate corruption in the USA's political corruption as well as to help better the working conditions of most factories and workplaces. Plus monopolists were weakened drastically.27
158762294PrimitivismWestern art movement of the late nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries that drew upon the so-called primitive art forms of Africa, Oceania, and pre-Columbian Africa.28
158762295Sigmund FreudAustrian neurologist who originated psychoanalysis (1856-1939)29
158762296Weimar RepublicConstitutional Republic of Germany that was subverted by Hitler soon after he became chancellor.30
158762297Sun Yat-SenThe founder of the Chinese Nationalist Party in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, he ruled prior to Chiang Kai-Shek.31
158762298KulaksOriginally a prejorative word used to designate better-off peasants, it was used to refer to any peasant perceived as a enemey of the Soviets in 1920's and 1930's.32
158762299Rashtriya Swayamsevak SanghAn organization that cmapaigned to organize Hindus as a militant, modern community. Anti-Muslim.33
158762300Muslim LeagueLed by Muhammad Ali Jinnah and they argued that in staets of India where there was a greater Muslim population they were to be allowed to be independent from the Hindus of India. Butted heads with Hindus a lot.34

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