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| 367192921 | Mohandas K. Gandhi | Leader of the Indian independence movement and advocate of nonviolent resistance. After being educated as a lawyer in England, he returned to India and became leader of the Indian National Congress in 1920. | 0 | |
| 367192922 | Jawaharlal Nehru | Indian statesman. He succeeded Mohandas K. Gandhi as leader of the Indian National Congress. He negotiated the end of British colonial rule in India and became India's first prime minister (1947-1964). | 1 | |
| 367192923 | Haile Selassie | Emperor of Ethiopia (r. 1930-1974) and symbol of African independence. He fought the Italian invasion of his country in 1935 and regained his throne during World War II, when British forces expelled the Italians. He ruled Ethiopia as an autocrat. | 2 | |
| 367192924 | Emiliano Zapata | Revolutionary and leader of peasants in the Mexican Revolution. He mobilized landless peasants in south-central Mexico in an attempt to seize and divide the lands of the wealthy landowners. Though successful for a time, he was ultimately defeated and assassinated. | 3 | |
| 367192925 | Lazaro Cardenas | President of Mexico (1934-1940). He brought major changes to Mexican life by distributing millions of acres of land to the peasants, bringing representatives of workers and farmers into the inner circles of politics, and nationalizing the oil industry | 4 | |
| 367192926 | Juan Peron | President of Argentina (1946-1955, 1973-1974). As a military officer, he championed the rights of labor. Aided by his wife Eva, he was elected president in 1946. He built up Argentinean industry, became very popular among the urban poor. | 5 | |
| 367192927 | Iron Curtain | Winston Churchill's term for the Cold War division between the Soviet-dominated East and the U.S.-dominated West. | 6 | |
| 367192928 | Cold War | The ideological struggle between communism (Soviet Union) and capitalism (United States) for world influence. The Soviet Union and the United States came to the brink of actual war during the Cuban missile crisis but never attacked one another. | 7 | |
| 367192929 | Warsaw Pact | The 1955 treaty binding the Soviet Union and countries of eastern Europe in an alliance against the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. | 8 | |
| 367192930 | Marshall Plan | U.S. program to support the reconstruction of western Europe after World War II. | 9 | |
| 367192931 | Truman Doctrine | Foreign policy initiated by U.S. president Harry Truman in 1947; offered military aid to help Turkey and Greece resist Soviet pressure. | 10 | |
| 367192932 | Helsinki Accords | Political and human rights agreement signed in Helsinki, Finland, by the Soviet Union and western European countries. | 11 | |
| 367192933 | Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries | Organization formed in 1960 by oil-producing states to promote their collective interest in generating revenue from oil. | 12 | |
| 367192934 | Proxy Wars | During the Cold War, local or regional wars in which the superpowers armed, trained, and financed the combatants. | 13 | |
| 367192935 | Dirty Wa | War waged by the Argentine military (1976-1982) against leftist groups. Characterized by the use of illegal imprisonment, torture, and executions by the military. | 14 | |
| 367192936 | Saddam Husain | President of Iraq from 1979 until overthrown by an American-led invasion in 2003. Waged war on Iran from 1980 to 1988. His invasion of Kuwait in 1990 was repulsed in the Persian Gulf War in 1991. | 15 | |
| 367192937 | Keiretsu | Alliances of corporations and banks that dominate the Japanese economy. | 16 | |
| 367192938 | Deng Xiaoping | Communist Party leader who forced Chinese economic reforms after the death of Mao Zedong. | 17 | |
| 367192939 | Tiananmen Square | Site in Beijing where Chinese students and workers gathered to demand greater political openness in 1989. The demonstration was crushed by Chinese military with great loss of life. | 18 | |
| 367192940 | Perestroika | Policy of "restructuring" was an attempt to address long suppressed economic problems by moving away from central state planning toward a more open economic system | 19 | |
| 367192941 | Solidarity | Polish trade union created in 1980 to protest working conditions and political repression. It began the nationalist opposition to communist rule that led in 1989 to the fall of communism in eastern Europe. | 20 | |
| 367192942 | Globalization | The economic political and cultural integration and interaction of all parts of the world brought about be increasing trade, travel, and technology. | 21 | |
| 367192943 | Weapons of Mass Destruction | Nuclear, chemical, and biological devices that are capable of injuring and killing large numbers of people. | 22 | |
| 367192944 | Terrorism | Political belief that extreme and seemingly random violence will destabilize a government and permit the terrorists to gain political advantage. Though an old technique, terrorism gained prominence in the late 20th Century. | 23 | |
| 367192945 | Global Pop Culture | Popular cultural practices and institutions that have been adopted internationally, such as music, the Internet, television, food, and fashion. | 24 | |
| 367192946 | Global Elite Culture | At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the attitudes and outlook of well-educated, prosperous, Western-oriented people around the world, largely expressed in European languages, especially English. | 25 |
