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| 352092149 | Internationalism | the doctrine that nations should cooperate because their common interests are more important than their differences | 0 | |
| 352092150 | Balfour Declaration | British document that promised land in Palestine as homeland for Jews in exchange for Jews help in WWI | 1 | |
| 352092151 | Treaty of Brest-Litovsk | treaty in which Russia lost substantial territory to the Germans. This ended Russian participation in the war. | 2 | |
| 352092152 | Treaty of Versailles | the treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans | 3 | |
| 352092153 | Munich Conference | 1938 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. | 4 | |
| 352092154 | appeasement | practice of giving in to aggression in order to avoid war | 5 | |
| 352092155 | National Socialist Party | (Nazi Party) was a far-right, racist political party in Germany between 1920 and 1945. | 6 | |
| 352092156 | Vichy | French collaborationist government established in 1940 in southern France following defeat of French armies by the Germans. | 7 | |
| 352092157 | Adolf Hitler | German Nazi dictator during World War II (1889-1945) | 8 | |
| 352092158 | Benito Mussolini | Italian fascist dictator (1883-1945) | 9 | |
| 352092159 | Winston Churchill | British statesman and leader during World War II | 10 | |
| 352092160 | Joseph Stalin | Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition (1879-1953) | 11 | |
| 352092161 | Franklin Roosevelt | President of the US during Great Depression and World War II | 12 | |
| 352092162 | cold war | A conflict that was between the US and the Soviet Union. The nations never directly confronted eachother on the battlefield but deadly threats went on for years. | 13 | |
| 352092163 | Iron Curtain | Winston Churchill's term for the Cold War division between the Soviet-dominated East and the U.S.-dominated West. | 14 | |
| 352092164 | Berlin Wall | a wall separating East and West Berlin built by East Germany in 1961 to keep citizens from escaping to the West | 15 | |
| 352092165 | Marshall Plan | a United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952) | 16 | |
| 352092166 | Five-Year Plans | Plans that Joseph Stalin introduced to industrialize the Soviet Union rapidly, beginning in 1928. They set goals for the output of steel, electricity, machinery, and most other products and were enforced by the police powers of the state. | 17 | |
| 352092167 | NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization; an alliance made to defend one another if they were attacked by any other country; US, England, France, Canada, Western European countries | 18 | |
| 352092168 | Warsaw Pact | An alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations. This was in response to the NATO | 19 | |
| 352092169 | Kellogg-Briand Pact | Agreement signed in 1928 in which nations agreed not to pose the threat of war against one another | 20 | |
| 352092170 | Welfare State | a government that undertakes responsibility for the welfare of its citizens through programs in public health and public housing and pensions and unemployment compensation etc. | 21 | |
| 352092171 | New Deal | the historic period (1933-1940) in the U.S. during which President Franklin Roosevelt's economic policies were implemented | 22 | |
| 352092172 | European Union | an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members | 23 | |
| 352092173 | Fascism | a political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government (as opposed to democracy or liberalism) | 24 | |
| 352092174 | totalitarian state | country where a single party controls the government and every aspect of the lives of the people | 25 | |
| 352092175 | soviet | an elected governmental council in a Communist country (especially one that is a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) | 26 | |
| 352092176 | Red Army | the regular army of the former Soviet Union | 27 | |
| 352092177 | Union of Soviet Socialist Republics | Federal system of socialist republics established in 1923 in various ethnic regions of Russia; firmly controlled by Communist party; diminished nationalities protest under Bolsheviks; dissolved in 1991 | 28 | |
| 352092178 | collectivization | system in which private farms were eliminated, instead, the government owned all the land while the peasants worked on it. | 29 | |
| 352092179 | Leon Trotsky | Russian revolutionary and Communist theorist who helped Lenin and built up the army | 30 | |
| 352092180 | Nikita Khrushchev | Russian premier after Stalin. Led de-Stalinization of Russia. A reformer who argued for major innovations. | 31 | |
| 352092181 | Mikhail Gorbachev | Head of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991. His liberalization effort improved relations with the West, but he lost power after his reforms led to the collapse of Communist governments in eastern Europe. | 32 | |
| 352092182 | Ronald Reagan | president, 1981-1989, who led a conservative movement against détente with the Soviet Union and the growth of the federal government; some people credit him with America's victory in the Cold War while others fault his insensitive social agenda and irresponsible fiscal policies. | 33 | |
| 352092183 | Margaret Thatcher | prime minister of Britain; strong relationship with Reagan; supported NATO, allowed US to store missiles in England; one of the first Western leaders to act warmly toward reformer Gorbachev | 34 | |
| 352092184 | glasnost | a policy of the Soviet government allowing freer discussion of social problems | 35 | |
| 352092185 | Perestroika | a policy initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev that involved restructuring of the social and economic status quo in communist Russia towards a market based economy and society | 36 | |
| 352092186 | Tojo Hideki | Japanese army officer who initiated the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and who assumed dictatorial control of Japan during World War II | 37 | |
| 352092187 | Hiroshima | City in Japan, the first to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, on August 6, 1945. The bombing hastened the end of World War II. | 38 | |
| 352092188 | Nagasaki | Japanese city in which the second atomic bomb was dropped (August 9, 1945). | 39 | |
| 352092189 | Korean War | a war between North and South Korea | 40 | |
| 352092190 | Republic of Korea | Southern half of Korea sponsored by United States following World War II; headed by nationalist Syngman Rhee; developed parliamentary institutions but maintained authoritarian government; defended by UN forces during Korean War; underwent industrialization and economic emergence after 1950s | 41 | |
| 352092191 | Democratic People's Republic of Korea | Northern half of Korea dominated by USSR; long headed by Kim Il-Sung; attacked south in 1950 and initiated Korean War; retained independence as a Communist state after the war. | 42 | |
| 352092192 | Kim Il-Sung | Communist leader of North Korea; his attack on South Korea in 1950 started the Korean War. He remained in power until 1994. | 43 | |
| 352092193 | Hyundai | Example of huge industrial groups that wield great power in modern Korea; virtually governed Korea's southeastern coast; vertical economic organization with ships, supertankers, factories, schools, and housing units. | 44 | |
| 352092194 | Taiwan | an island in southeastern Asia 100 miles off the coast of mainland China in the South China Sea | 45 | |
| 352092195 | third world | underdeveloped and developing countries of Asia and Africa and Latin America collectively | 46 | |
| 352092196 | Francisco Madero | early leader in the Mexican Revolution; in 1911 became president of Mexico; wanted land ownership and free, honest elections | 47 | |
| 352092197 | Emiliano Zapata | Mexican revolutionary who led a revolt for agrarian reforms (1879-1919) | 48 | |
| 352092198 | Diego Rivera | One of Mexico's most celebrated 20th centry artists. He painted a series of historical murals in the National Palace in Mexico City. | 49 | |
| 352092199 | NAFTA | North American Free Trade Agreement; allows open trade with US, Mexico, and Canada | 50 | |
| 352092200 | Party of Institutionalized Revolution | PRI; dominant political party in Mexico; developed during the 1920s and 1930s; incorporated labor, peasant, military, and middle-class sectors; controlled other political organizations in Mexico | 51 | |
| 352092201 | Juan Peron | President of Argentina (1946-1955, 1973-1974). As a military officer, he championed the rights of labor. Aided by his wife Eva Duarte Peron, he was elected president in 1946. He built up Argentinean industry, became very popular among the urban poor | 52 | |
| 352092202 | Eva Duarte | Also known as Evita Perón; first wife of Juan Perón; became public spokesperson for Perón among the poor until her death in 1952 | 53 | |
| 352092203 | Salvador Allende | Socialist politician elected president of Chile in 1970 and overthrown by the military in 1973. He died during the military attack. | 54 | |
| 352092204 | Banana Republics | governments and economies that benefitted from the United Fruit Company, so some people began calling the Central American nations this | 55 | |
| 352092205 | United Fruit Companies | company in which many U.S. citizens hold stocks in, controlled half the land in Guatemala and provided many jobs...when the government of Guatemala wanted to take the land, the U.S. intervened and over threw the government | 56 | |
| 352092206 | Fulgencio Batista | He was a pro-American dictator of Cuba before Castro. His overthrow led to Castro and communists taking over Cuba, who was now friendly to the Soviets. | 57 | |
| 352092207 | Fidel Castro | Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba (born in 1927) | 58 | |
| 352092208 | Pancho Villa | Mexican revolutionary leader (1877-1923) Did many good things, but killed a lot of people. Wanted to take money from the rich and give it to the poor. | 59 | |
| 352092209 | Ernesto Guevara | an Argentine revolutionary leader who was Fidel Castro's chief lieutenant in the Cuban revolution | 60 | |
| 352092210 | Sandinistas | Members of a leftist coalition that overthrew the Nicaraguan dictatorship of Anastasia Somoza in 1979 and attempted to install a socialist economy. The United States financed armed opposition by the Contras. They lost national elections in 1990 | 61 | |
| 352092211 | Shining Path | a terrorist group formed in Peru in the late 1960s as a splinter group from the communist party of Peru | 62 |
