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| 147281952 | The Great War | lasted from August 1914 to November 1918 and involved more countries than any other war in history; also called World War I | 0 | |
| 147281953 | Total war | when governments mobilized virtually every person and natural resource available to support the war effort | 1 | |
| 147281954 | Self-determination | inspired many people in eastern Europe to fight for their independence | 2 | |
| 147281955 | Allied Powers | France, Britian, and Russia | 3 | |
| 147281956 | The Central Powers | Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire | 4 | |
| 147281957 | Western Front | where German troops faced French and British troops | 5 | |
| 147281958 | Eastern Front | where Germany and Austria-Hungary fought against Russia | 6 | |
| 147281959 | Trench warfare | style of fighting on the western front where soldiers dug opposing trenches for protection from the enemy | 7 | |
| 147281960 | Home front | support from civilians that ran parallel to the actual war fronts where the fighting took place | 8 | |
| 147281961 | Brest-Litovsk Treaty | a peace treaty signed in March 1918, between the Russian SFSR and the Central Powers, marking Russia's exit from World War I | 9 | |
| 147281962 | Fourteen Points | President Woodrow Wilson's document expressing his point of view and presented it to the other Allied Powers as a plan for peace | 10 | |
| 147281963 | Reparations | payment of war expenses | 11 | |
| 147281964 | League of Nations | the new international peace organization created by the treaty | 12 | |
| 147281965 | Mandate system | set up territories as "trusteeships" under the care of the newly created League of Nations | 13 | |
| 147281966 | Mustafa Kemal / Ataturk | Turkish leader who managed to negotiate a new Turkish republic in 1923 | 14 | |
| 147281967 | Collective security | the agreement that if any member of the League of Nations were attacked, the others were bound to give military aid | 15 | |
| 147281968 | Soviet | councel of Russian workers | 16 | |
| 147281969 | Alexander Kerensky | Leader of Provincial Government installed in Russia following the March 1917 Revolution; overthrown by Lenin's Bolsheviks | 17 | |
| 147281970 | V.I. Lenin | arrived from exhile in Switzerland to lead his Bolsheviks in a second revolution that toppled the provisional govt. | 18 | |
| 147281971 | "Vanguard of the revolution" | Lenins interpretation of Marxism, forced its way to the top by dismantling other parties and declaring the victory of the proletariat | 19 | |
| 147281972 | Red Army | Lenins army, but was lead by his second-in-command Leon Trotsky | 20 | |
| 147281973 | Leon Trotsky | Lenins second-in-command | 21 | |
| 147281974 | New Economic Policy | promised small business owers and land-owning peasants the retention of their rights and freedoms, while the state set basic economic policies | 22 | |
| 147281975 | Democratic centralism | was a cenrtalized policy-making for the good of the people | 23 | |
| 147281976 | Joseph Stalin | ruled Russia from 1927 till his death in 1953 | 24 | |
| 147281977 | Chiang Kai-shek | also known as Jiang Jieshi; took over Sun's party after he died in 1925 | 25 | |
| 147281978 | Guomindang | National peoples party | 26 | |
| 147281979 | Mao Zedong | leader of the Chinese Communist Party | 27 | |
| 147281980 | Long March | the 1934-1936 pursuit of Mao's army across China by Chiang and his supporters | 28 | |
| 147281981 | Great Depression | the worldwide economic patterns that didnt change for the better until after WWII | 29 | |
| 147281982 | Weimar Rebublic | a direction of new government which faced what ultimately became insurmountable problems | 30 | |
| 147281983 | Protectionism | high tariff barriers that meant to protect each country's industries and nationalistic concerns t the expense of world economic growth | 31 | |
| 147281984 | Margin | putting up only a small fraction of stock's price in cash and borrowing the remainder from stock brokers | 32 | |
| 147281985 | Primary Producing Economies | such as Latin america, export of raw materials and agricultural goods plummeted as demand from industralized countries decreased | 33 | |
| 147281986 | John Maynard Keynes | warned that if people dont consume enough or invest enough, the national income will fall | 34 | |
| 147281987 | New Deal programs | started by Roosevelt; involved massive govtspending aimed to prevent the collapse of the banking system, provide jobs and farm subsidies, give workers the right to organize and bargain collectively, guarantee minimum wages, and provide social security in old age | 35 | |
| 147281988 | Kulaks | prosperous peasants who refused to give land, animals, food, ect, to the govt | 36 | |
| 147281989 | Benito Mussolini | gained controlled of Itsly in 1922 and established s one-party dictatorship | 37 | |
| 147281990 | Nazi Party | led by Adolf Hitler | 38 | |
| 147281991 | Maginot Line | fortress built by French along French/German line | 39 | |
| 147281992 | Appeasement policy | allowed Germany to keep Sudetenland in return for Hitler's promise to cease his aggretions | 40 | |
| 147281993 | Rome-Berlin axis | Germany and Italy's allience as Mussolini declared that the rest of Europe would revolve around this central pact between the two countries | 41 | |
| 147312397 | Tripartite Pact | united Germany, Italy, and Japan as the three strongest of the Axis Powers | 42 | |
| 147312398 | Holocaust | mass extermination of targeted people by Nazi Germany | 43 | |
| 147312399 | Genocide | the wholesale murder of an entire people | 44 | |
| 147312400 | Blitzkrieg | "Lightening war" | 45 | |
| 147312401 | Winston Churchill | withstood a massive air attack from the German Luftwaffe (air force) that lasted from June to September while leading Britian | 46 | |
| 147312402 | Battle of Britian | British Royal Air Force successfully counterattacked the German planes, using the new technology of radar to detect the enemies approach | 47 | |
| 147312403 | Pearl Harbor, Hawaii | American naval base that was attacked by the Japanese on December 7, 1941 | 48 | |
| 147312404 | Battle of Midway | west of Hawaii, Japan lost 4 out of 6 large aircraft carriers | 49 | |
| 147312405 | D-Day | June 6, 1944 | 50 | |
| 147312406 | Battle at the Bulge | Allies advanced into Belgium where they defeted the Germans | 51 |
