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| 149783752 | Winston Churchill | British prime minister | 0 | |
| 149783753 | Franklin Roosevelt | President of the United States | 1 | |
| 149783754 | Joseph Stalin | Communist dictator of the Soviet Union | 2 | |
| 149783755 | Tehran Conference | 1943, the Soviet govt encouraged the western powers to open a new front in France | 3 | |
| 149783756 | Yalta Conference | 1945, the countries could not agree on a cooperative approach to handling post-war Germany so Germany was divided into four occupation zones: Britian, the US, France and the Soviet Union | 4 | |
| 149783757 | Postdam Conference | July 1945, war in Europe was over but still going on in the Pacific | 5 | |
| 149783758 | Truman Doctrine | "I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjunction by armed minorities or by outside pressures" | 6 | |
| 149783759 | Marshall Plan | a program that provided loans to aid the nations of western Europe to rebuild war-torn lands | 7 | |
| 149783760 | United Nations Charter | ratified on October 24, 1945; drafted by United States, Britian, Russia, and China | 8 | |
| 149783761 | General Assembly | one of the two main bodies created by the united nations charter; had representitives from all member states | 9 | |
| 149783762 | Security Council | one of two main bodies created by rhe united nations charter; dominated by major Allied powers | 10 | |
| 149783763 | Korean War | began when communist North Korea invaded non-communist South Korea in 1950; lasted until 1953 | 11 | |
| 149783764 | "Limited War" | a new style of fighting that emerged during the post-World War II era; from the Korean War | 12 | |
| 149783765 | Ho Chi Minh | led a nationalist rebellion against the French; was a MArxist in Moscow who defeated the French on the battlefield and installed a communist regime in the nothern half of the country in 1954. | 13 | |
| 149783766 | Vietnam War | a prolonged war (1954-1975) between the communist armies of North Vietnam who were supported by the Chinese and the non-communist armies of South Vietnam who were supported by the United States | 14 | |
| 149783767 | Cuban Missile Crisis | the 1962 confrontation bewteen US and the Soviet Union over Soviet missiles in Cuba | 15 | |
| 149783768 | Sputnik | a satellite launched into space by the U.S.S.R in 1957 | 16 | |
| 149783769 | Space Race | the 'competition' between the U.S.S.R and the U.S to see who could accomplish the most quicker | 17 | |
| 149783770 | Containment | preventing the spread of communism beyond areas where it has already spread | 18 | |
| 149783771 | Mao Zedong | Chinese communist leader (1893-1976) | 19 | |
| 149783772 | Chiang Kai-shek | Leader of the Nationalist Party in China after 1925 | 20 | |
| 149783773 | "Two Chinas" | People's Republic of China (PRC), Republic of China | 21 | |
| 149783774 | Cultural Revolution | a much more profound reform in that it encompassed political and social change, as well as economic | 22 | |
| 149783775 | Deng-Xiaoping | Communist Party leader who forced Chinese economic reforms after the death of Mao Zedong | 23 | |
| 149783776 | Samuel Huntington | American revolutionary leader who signed the Declaration of Independence and was president of the Continental Congress (1731-1796) | 24 | |
| 149783777 | Decolonization | former colonies becoming independent countries | 25 | |
| 149873021 | Mohandas K. Gandhi | an english-educated Hindu who practiced law in South Africa; he came from a well-to-do-family but showed sympathy for poor by dressing like them; lead followers on 80-mile walk to salt mines | 26 | |
| 149873022 | Civil Disobedience | peacefully breaking unjust laws | 27 | |
| 149873023 | Muhammad Ali Jinnah | leader of the Muslim League | 28 | |
| 149873024 | Jawaharlal Nehru | Gandhis successor; supported the creation of a modern industrial India | 29 | |
| 149873025 | W.E.B Du Bois | an American scholar that led the All-African People's Conference | 30 | |
| 149873026 | Blaise Diagne | Senegalese political leader that led the All-African People's Conference | 31 | |
| 149873027 | Kwame Nkrumah | African leader from Ghana; led the movement in Ghana, and after indepenence was won in 1957, he convened the All-African People's Conference at Accra (Ghanas capital), the first time that the conference was held in Africa | 32 | |
| 149873028 | Jomo Kenyatta | African leader from Kenya | 33 | |
| 149873029 | African National Congress (ANC) | formed in 1913 as a party of protest, but was unable to convince the white govt to liberalize its racial policies | 34 | |
| 149873030 | Apartheid | segregation of races | 35 | |
| 149873031 | Nelson Mandela | South African statesman who was released from prison to become the nation's first democratically elected president in 1994 (born in 1918) | 36 | |
| 149873032 | Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) | unified Turkey as an independent country in 1923 | 37 | |
| 149873033 | Pahlavi Dynasty | dynasty in Iran founded in the 1920s by Colonel Reza Khan | 38 | |
| 150354822 | Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini | Shi'ite philosopher and cleric who led the overthrow of the shah of Iran in 1979 and created an Islamic republic | 39 | |
| 150354823 | Islamic Fundamentalism | emphasized literal interpretation of Islamic texts, social conservatism, and political traditionalism | 40 | |
| 150354824 | League of Arab States | regional organization designed to strengthen and unite countries with Arab majorities | 41 | |
| 150354825 | Gamel Abdel Nasser | Egypts new nationalist leader | 42 |
