HRW World History Text book
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| 170509105 | influenza pandemic | 1919- more than 20 million deaths , spread rapidly among soldiers after WWI | |
| 170509106 | Black Tuesday | October 29, 1929; the day the stock market crashed. Lead to the Panic of 1929 , sudden sell-off of stocks | |
| 170509107 | Great Depression | collapse of stock market, prices and wages fell, business slowed, unemployment rose, poverty occured, | |
| 170509108 | Maginot Line | a fortification built before World War II to protect France's eastern border , (to protect invasion from Germany) | |
| 170509109 | gulag | ... | |
| 170509110 | mussolini | Italian dictator , organized Facist Party | |
| 170509111 | Hitler | German Dictator, created Nazi Party , leader of Beer Hall Putsch | |
| 170509112 | Stalin | was a Communist, wanted command economy, created 5 yr plan | |
| 170509113 | Trotsky | created Red Army, defended Bolsheviek Revolution | |
| 170509114 | Ghandi | opposed violence, encouraged passive resistance | |
| 170509115 | Empress Dowager Tz'u-his | anti - foreigner movements, Boxer Rebellion- destroyed churches, railways, mines, etc | |
| 170509116 | Chiang Kai-shek | military commander, took over leadership of nationalists | |
| 170509117 | Mao Zedong | believed peasants provided best basis for communist revolution in china | |
| 170509118 | Batista | decided to overthrow reformers, | |
| 170509119 | Zionism | Nationalist movement to build a homeland for the Jews in Palestine. | |
| 170509120 | Kellogg-Briand Pact | Agreement made between the United States and France in 1928 that made war "illegal." | |
| 170509121 | Axis | Alliance including Germany, Italy, and Japan. | |
| 170509122 | Allies | Alliance that included Great Britain, France, Russia (later, the Soviet Union), the United States, and other countries during World Wars I and II. | |
| 170509123 | League Of Nations | World organization formed after World War I to maintain peace. | |
| 170509124 | Poland | ... | |
| 170509125 | Austria | ... | |
| 170509126 | Sudetenland | ... | |
| 170509127 | Blitzkrieg | German for "lightning war"; fast forceful style of fighting used by Germany during World War II. | |
| 170509128 | Holocaust | Systematic elimination of European Jews and others by the Nazis. | |
| 170509129 | Auchswitz | Nazi death camp in which people were systematically murdered. | |
| 170509130 | Operation Overlord (D Day) | Code name for the Allied invasion of northwest France. | |
| 170509131 | franco | led Falangist rebels in Spanish Civil War, | |
| 170509132 | Churchill | spoke out against appeasment, prime minister of britain, | |
| 170509133 | DeGaulle | write a new french constitution, president of fifth republic, was a nationalist, and a military leader, lots of military advancements, | |
| 170509134 | Rommel | commanded German troops, across mediterranean to take control of Libya in early 1931 | |
| 170509135 | Tojo | leader of Japanese government, japan bomber pearl Harbor | |
| 170509136 | Himmler | head of SS, military branch of Nazi Party, headed Final Solution, (Jewish genocide) | |
| 170509137 | Anne Frank | teenager who kept a diary of her experience's during the Holocaust, | |
| 170509138 | Krushchev | Stalins successor, economic reforms which made more consumer goods available to the people, attempted to improve relations with Western powers | |
| 170509139 | United Nation | Organization of nations to keep peace through collective security arrangements. | |
| 170509140 | Nuremberg trials | Nuremberg trials; postwar trials of Nazi leaders charged with crimes against peace and humanity. | |
| 170509141 | Cold War | Suspicion and hostility between the communist and Western democratic nations, waged primarily by political and economic means rather than with weapons. | |
| 170509142 | Containment | Policy aimed at restricting the spread of communism. | |
| 170509143 | Berlin Airlift | System of dropping food and supplies by air into West Berlin by the United States and Britain. | |
| 170509144 | Berlin Wall | Wall constructed to separate East and West Berlin, to prevent East Germans from escaping to West Berlin. | |
| 170509145 | Cuban Missile Crisis | Situation during the Cold War in which the Soviet Union built nuclear missile sites in Cuba. |
