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Chapter 37,38,39,40 IDs from Traditions and Encounters, 4th Edition.

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62226428Axis PowersGermany, Italy, and Japan0
62226429Rape of NanjingJapanese attack on Chinese capital from 1937-1938 when Japanese aggressors slaughtered 100,000 civilians and raped thousands of women in order to gain control of China1
62226430AppeasementSatisfying the demands of dissatisfied powers in an effort to maintain peace and stability.2
62226431Warsaw Pacttreaty signed in 1945 that formed an alliance of the Eastern European countries behind the Iron Curtain; USSR, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania3
62226432The BlitzSustained bombing of Britain by Nazi Germany between 1940 and 19414
62226433Stalingrada city in the European part of Russia on the Volga5
62226434Truman DoctrinePresident Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology6
62226435Allied PowersGreat Britain, France, Russia7
62226436Anschlussunion of Austria and Germany8
62226437Blitzkrieg"Lighting war", typed of fast-moving warfare used by German forces against Poland in 19399
62226438Lebensraumspace sought for occupation by a nation whose population is expanding10
62226439D-Dayplanned June 5th June 6 1944 Germans occupied Normandy France Germans though it would occur at Calais and goal was to liberate Paris11
62226440Potsdam ConferenceThe final wartime meeting of the leaders of the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union was held at Potsdamn, outside Berlin, in July, 1945. Truman, Churchill, and Stalin discussed the future of Europe but their failure to reach meaningful agreements soon led to the onset of the Cold War.12
62226441Marshall Plana United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952)13
62226442Greater Asian Co-Prosperity Spheresafsfds14
62226443Manchuriaa region in northeastern China15
62226444United Nationsan organization of independent states formed in 1945 to promote international peace and security16
62226445Munich conference1938 conference at which European leaders attempted to appease Hitler by turning over the Sudetenland to him in exchange for promise that Germany would not expand Germany's territory any further.17
62226446U-boatsGerman Submarine18
62226447Operation Barbarossacodename for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II.19
62226448Yalta ConferenceFDR, Churchill and Stalin met at Yalta. Russia agreed to declare war on Japan after the surrender of Germany and in return FDR and Churchill promised the USSR concession in Manchuria and the territories that it had lost in the Russo-Japanese War20
62226449NATOan international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security21
62226450Tripartite PactSigned between the Axis powers in 1940 (Italy, Germany and Japan) where they pledged to help the others in the event of an attack by the US22
62226451Nonaggression Pact1939-Secret agreement between German leader Hitler and Soviet Leader Stalin not to attack one another and to divide Poland23
62226452Luftwaffethe German air force24
62226453Lend-Lease Programfadsfsdf25
62226454The Final SolutionThe Nazi cover-up name for the plan to annihilate all of the Jews26
62226455UNan organization of independent states formed in 1945 to promote international peace and security27
62226456IMFa United Nations agency to promote trade by increasing the exchange stability of the major currencies28
62226457GATTdsfsfasdf29
62226458Warsaw Pacttreaty signed in 1945 that formed an alliance of the Eastern European countries behind the Iron Curtain; USSR, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania30
62226459FLNNational Liberation Front31
62226460OPECan organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the production and sale of petroleum32
62226461OEEC1948 Organization of Europe Economic Cooperation33
62226462Salt AgreementsStrategic Arms Limitations Treaties; worked to reduce arms during the Cold War34
62226463MADdasffsafdsfsdfa35
62226464Nikita KhrushchevSoviet statesman and premier who denounced stalin (1894-1971)36
62226465Hegemonythe domination of one state over its allies37
62226466"Brezhnez Doctrine"this declared the Soviet Union's right to interfere with the domestic policies of other communist parties38
62226467De-Stalinizationsocial process of neutralizing the influence of Joseph Stalin by revising his policies and removing monuments dedicated to him and renaming places named in his honor39
62226468Jewaharlal Nehrusdfdafadsfsdafdsfasfdsfad40
62226469Geneva Agreementsdeclaration which supported the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Indochina giving it independence from France.41
62226470Abdel NasserFirst President of Egypt, advocated Arab nationalism42
62226471Jomo KenyattaLeader of colonial opposition in Kenya43
62226472Juan Peron1895-1974, Argentine military and political leader: president 1946-55, 1973-74.44
62226473Iron Curtainan impenetrable barrier to communication or information especially as imposed by rigid censorship and secrecy45
62226474Korean Wara war between North and South Korea46
62226475Richard NixonVice President under Eisenhower and 37th President of the United States47
62226476Martin Luther King JrAfrican American civil rights leader48
62226477Charles de Gualledirected free french forces from london during WWII49
62226478Alexander DubcekThe leader of Czechoslavakia who wanted to create "communism with a face"50
62226479Bandung Conferenceas a meeting of Asian and African states, most of which were newly independent51
62226480Balfour Declarationstatement issued by Britain's foreign secretary Arthur Balfour in 1917 favoring the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.52
62226481Negritudean ideological position that holds Black culture to be independent and valid on its own terms53
62226482Great Leap ForwardStarted by Mao Zedong, combined collective farms into People's Communes, failed because there was no incentive to work harder, ended after 2 years54
62226483Jacoboadsfsdfafs55
62226484Civil Rights MovementThe movement in the 1950s and 1960s, by minorities and concerned whites, to end racial segregation.56
62226485Berlin BlockadeThe blockade was a Soviet attempt to starve out the allies in Berlin in order to gain supremacy. The blockade was a high point in the Cold War, and it led to the Berlin Airlift.57
62226486Cuban Missile Crisisthe 1962 confrontation bewteen US and the Soviet Union over Soviet missiles in Cuba58
62226487Betty Freidanwrote Feminine Mystique on women's rights movement; degree in psychology; found NOW59
62226488Somoza Familycontrolled nicaragua for many years60
62226489Prague Springdsfdsafdasfdsf61
62226490Detentethe easing of tensions or strained relations (especially between nations)62
62226491Dominion statusTerm describing the self governing lands under the British Empire.63
62226492Nonalignmentpeople (or countries) who are not aligned with other people (or countries) in a pact or treaty64
62226493Kwame Nkrumahfounder of Ghana's independence movement and Ghana's first priesident65
62226494Cultural Revolutiona radical reform in China initiated by Mao Zedong in 1965 and carried out largely by the Red Guard66
62226495SandinistaCommunist government of Nicaragua that fought the Contra67
62226496Berlin Walla wall separating East and West Berlin built by East Germany in 1961 to keep citizens from escaping to the West68
62226497Domino Theorythe political theory that if one nation comes under Communist control then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control69
62226498Simone de BeauvoirFrench feminist and existentialist and novelist (1908-1986)70
62226499Bob MarleyJamaican singer who popularized reggae (1945-1981)71
62226500Mau Zadongsdfdf72
62226501Marshal TitoYugoslav statesman who led the resistance to German occupation during World War II and established a communist state after the war (1892-1980)73
62226502Ho Chi MinhVietnamese communist statesman who fought the Japanese in World War II and the French until 1954 and South vietnam until 1975 (1890-1969)74
62226503Suez Crisisegypt took over British/French owned Suez Canal, possibly preventing oil trade, after UN / world pressure, Egypt withdrew75
62226504Mau Mau revoltRevolt led by African against British rule. Atleast 11,000 died76
62226505Lazaro CardenasPresident of Mexico, redistribution of land,comminal farms77
62226506Arbenz Guzmanfadsfdsfaf78
62226507Ronald Reganthe president of the US at the end of the cold war who encouraged Americans to mistrust communists79
62226508Solidaritya union of interests or purposes or sympathies among members of a group80
62226509Lech Walesadsfasfadf81
62226510Perestroikaan economic policy adopted in the former Soviet Union82
62226511Tiananmen SquareChinese citizens want political reform and stood their ground at Tiananmen Square.83
62226512Islamismthe monotheistic religion of Muslims founded in Arabia in the 7th century and based on the teachings of Muhammad as laid down in the Koran84
62226513Apartheida social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic and legal discrimination against non-whites85
62226514Mikhail GorbachevSoviet statesman whose foreign policy brought an end to the Cold War and whose domestic policy introduced major reforms (born in 1931)86
62226515Glasnosta policy of the Soviet government allowing freer discussion of social problems87
62226516Indira Gandhidaughter of Nehru who served as prime minister of India from 1966 to 1977 (1917-1984)88
62226517Jihada holy struggle or striving by a Muslim for a moral or spiritual or political goal89
62226518Nelson MandelaSouth African statesman who was released from prison to become the nation's first democratically elected president in 1994 (born in 1918)90
62226519Boris Yelstinoutlawed Communism in Russia91
62226520Green Revolutionthe introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity92
62226521Iranian RevolutionMullahs (religious leaders) overthrow the US backed Shah and establish a theocracy (religious government) that hated the US93
62226522Little TigersMassive postwar economic expansion, slowed in 1990s: Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan imitate Japanes strategies94
62226523Velvet RevolutionMass protests in Czechoslovakia, led by playwright Vaclev Havel, that culminated in the fall of communism in that country in November 1989.95
62226524Deng XiaopingChinese communist statesman (1904-1997)96
62226525Anwar SadatEgyptian statesman who (as president of Egypt) negotiated a peace treaty with Menachem Begin (then prime minister of Israel) (1918-1981)97
62226526Saddam HusseinIraqi leader who waged war against Iran98
62226527European Unionan international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members99
62226528Globalizationgrowth to a global or worldwide scale100
62226529NAFTANorth American Free Trade Agreement101
62226530Biodiversitythe diversity of plant and animal life in a particular habitat (or in the world as a whole)102
62226531September 11, 2001terrorist attacks on the united states that killed thousands of people103
62226532Global CorporationCorporation with substantial operations on bothe the production and sales sides in more than one country.104
62226533ASEANAssociation of Southeast Asian Nations105
62226534Rachel CarsonUnited States biologist remembered for her opposition to the use of pesticides that were hazardous to wildlife (1907-1964)106
62226535Silent Springnovel by Rachel Carson that started the environmental movement107
62226536Barriosneighborhoods of people from Mexico108
62226537Terrorismthe calculated use of violence (or threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature109
62226538GATTGeneral Agreement on Tariffs and Trade110
62226539WTOWorld Trade Organization111
62226540IMFa United Nations agency to promote trade by increasing the exchange stability of the major currencies112
62226541OPECOrganization of Petroleum Exporting Countries113
62226542NGOsnon-governmental organizations; groups not affiliated with any government,114
62226543AIDsa serious (often fatal) disease of the immune system transmitted through blood products especially by sexual contact or contaminated needles115
62226544Free Tradeinternational trade free of government interference116
62226545European Unioninternational organization comprised of Western European countries to promote free trade among members117
62226546WHOWorld Health Organization. Caused the swine flu scare that caused benavides to give out her phone number to all the then juniors who have given it to me. ;)118
62226547Greenpeavedkjasf;jd;ksf119

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