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| 346240668 | Kellogg-Briand Pact | A multinational treaty sponsored by American and French diplomats that outlawed war; an example of the optimism that existed during part of the 1920s | 0 | |
| 346240669 | The Roaring Twenties | Great social and economic changes were the hallmark of this decade | 1 | |
| 346240670 | Cubist Movement | Artistic style rendering familiar objects in geometric shapes; headed by Pablo Picasso, who was influenced by African art | 2 | |
| 346240671 | Fascism | Nationalist political form that featured an authoritarian leader, aggressive foreign policy, and government-guided economics; started in Italy | 3 | |
| 346240672 | Benito Mussolini | Founder and dictator of the Fascist Party in Italy | 4 | |
| 346240673 | Settler Societies | Australia, Canada, and New Zealand; forged separate "autonomous communities" within the British empire, called the British Commonwealth of Nations | 5 | |
| 346240674 | Porfirio Díaz | Mexico's long-serving dictator who resisted political reforms; his policies triggered the Mexican Revolution | 6 | |
| 346240675 | Pancho Villa | Mexican revolutionary who led guerrilla fighting in the North; pursued unsuccessfully by the U.S. government in 1913 | 7 | |
| 346240676 | Emiliano Zapata | Mexican revolutionary who led guerrilla fighting in the South; motto was "Tierra y Libertad"; demanded land reform | 8 | |
| 346240677 | Soldaderas | Women who were guerrilla fighters in the Mexican Revolution | 9 | |
| 346240678 | Victoriano Huerta | Sought to impose a Díaz-type dictatorship; forced from power by Villa and Zapata | 10 | |
| 346240679 | Alvaro Obregon | Emerged as Mexico's leader at the end of the revolution; wrote a new constitution that promised land reforms | 11 | |
| 346240680 | Diego Rivera | World-renowned artist who depicted glorified versions of Mexico's Indian heritage and potential Marxist future in murals | 12 | |
| 346240681 | Cristeros | Conservative peasant movement in the 1920s in Mexico; backed by the Catholic church and many politicians; resisted the secularization of the culture and government | 13 | |
| 346240682 | Party of the Institutionalized Revolution (PRI) | This Mexican political party dominated politics from the 1930s to the end of the century | 14 | |
| 346240683 | Alexander Kerensky | Leader of the provisional government in Russia after the fall of the tsar; kept Russia in World War I and resisted major reforms; overthrown by Bolsheviks at the end of 1917 | 15 | |
| 346240684 | Bolsheviks | Violent, radical wing of the Social Democrats in Russia, led by Vladimir Lenin; took power from provisional government; later renamed "Communists." | 16 | |
| 346240685 | Russian Civil War (1918-1921) | Millions died in the struggle between the Reds (pro-Communist forces) and Whites (an amalgam of non-Communists); the Reds won, largely because of the organizational skills of Leon Trotsky | 17 | |
| 346240686 | Leon Trotsky | Lenin deputy who organized the Red Army during the civil war and later lost a power struggle to Stalin | 18 | |
| 346240687 | New Economic Policy | Lenin's temporary measure that allowed some capitalism within a Communist framework; food production increased under this program; ended by Stalin | 19 | |
| 346240688 | Union of Soviet Socialist Republics | Name of the Moscow-based multiethnic Communist regime from 1923 to 1991 | 20 | |
| 346240689 | Supreme Soviet | Parliament under the U.S.S.R. that had many of the trappings but few of the powers of its Western counterparts | 21 | |
| 346240690 | Joseph Stalin | Assistant to Lenin who beat out Trotsky for undisputed control of the U.S.S.R. after Lenin's death; installed the nationalistic "socialism in one country" program, collectivization, and widespread purges | 22 | |
| 346240691 | Sun Yat-sen | Western-educated leader of the Revolutionary Alliance, the Guomindang, and at times, China, in the 1910s and 1920s; struggled with warlords for control of the nation | 23 | |
| 346240692 | May Fourth Movement | Popular 1919 uprising in China against Japanese interference and for Western-style government that featured intellectuals and students as its leaders; sank under the weight of problems facing China in the early 20th century | 24 | |
| 346240693 | Li Dazhao | Headed Marxist study circle at University of Beijing; saw peasants as harbingers of Communist revolution in China; influenced Mao Zedong | 25 | |
| 346240694 | Mao Zedong | Leader of Chinese Communist Party and eventual dictator of that country | 26 | |
| 346240695 | Guomindang | Nationalist party in China; it was the Communist Party's greatest rival, yet the Guomindang and Communists forged an alliance against Japanese aggression; the ruling party in mainland China until 1949, it failed to implement most of the domestic programs it proposed | 27 | |
| 346240696 | Whampoa Military Academy | Established in China with Soviet help; it gave the Nationalists a military dimension previously missing; first leader was Chiang Kai-shek | 28 | |
| 346240697 | Chiang Kai-shek | Successor to Sun as leader of the Nationalists; fierce opponent of the Communists, yet he formed an alliance with them to fight Japan | 29 | |
| 346240698 | Long March | To escape the Nationalists, 90,000 Mao supporters traveled thousands of miles in 1934 to remote regions; solidified Mao's leadership and created much of his myth | 30 | |
| 346240699 | Mexican Revolution | Fought over a period of almost 10 years from 1910; resulted in ouster of Porfirio Díaz from power; opposition forces led by Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata | 31 | |
| 346240700 | Mexican Constitution of 1917 | Promised land reform, limited foreign ownership of key resources, guaranteed the rights of workers, and placed restrictions on clerical education; marked formal end of Mexican Revolution | 32 | |
| 346240701 | Red Army | Military organization constructed under leadership of Leon Trotsky, Bolshevik follower of Lenin; made use of people of humble background | 33 | |
| 346240702 | Comintern | International office of communism under U.S.S.R. dominance established to encourage the formation of Communist parties in Europe and the world | 34 | |
| 346240703 | Lázaro Cárdenas | President of Mexico from 1934 to 1940; responsible for redistribution of land, primarily to create ejidos, or communal farms; also began program of primary and rural education | 35 | |
| 346240704 | Great Depression | Worldwide economic collapse that began in late 1929 and continued until the outset of World War II | 36 | |
| 346240705 | Socialism in one country | Stalin's program to build a self-sufficient Communist state based on industrial production | 37 | |
| 346240706 | Popular Front | Liberal, socialist, and Communist parties in France that forged a short-lived alliance in the 1930s | 38 | |
| 346240707 | New Deal | The United States' answer to the Great Depression, consisting of government assistance to people affected by the crisis and of government reform of economic institutions | 39 | |
| 346240708 | Nazi | Hitler's National Socialist German Workers' Party; under the guise of political unity, the Nazis forged a totalitarian state | 40 | |
| 346240709 | Gestapo | Hitler's secret police | 41 | |
| 346240710 | Anschluss | Hitler's union with Austria | 42 | |
| 346240711 | Appeasement | Britain and France's policy of compromise with Hitler and Mussolini | 43 | |
| 346240712 | Spanish Civil War | Fascists led by General Franco fought supporters of the existing republic in the 1930s; Germany and Italy aided the victorious Franco | 44 | |
| 346240713 | Import Substitution Industrialization | Cut off from supplies it had imported before the Great Depression, Latin America began to produce for itself through the rapid expansion of industrialization | 45 | |
| 346240714 | Getulio Vargas | President of Brazil who imposed a pro-Western Fascist-like authoritarian regime | 46 | |
| 346240715 | Juan Peron | Argentina's leader who, like Vargas, nationalized key industries and led through a combination of charisma and intimidation | 47 | |
| 346240716 | Kulaks | The relatively wealthy peasants in the Soviet Union who were starved and murdered by the millions under Stalin's direction | 48 | |
| 346240717 | Collectivization | Soviet policy of eliminating private ownership of farmland and creating large state-run farms | 49 | |
| 346240718 | Five-Year Plan | State planning of industrial production in the Soviet Union | 50 | |
| 346240719 | Socialist Realism | School of art in the U.S.S.R. that emphasized heroic idealizations of workers, soldiers, and peasants | 51 | |
| 346240720 | Politburo | "Political Bureau" in the U.S.S.R. that was titularly the executive committee but in reality was, especially under Stalin, a rubber-stamp organization | 52 |
