Time: 1914-Present
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| 162110133 | Internationalization | the idea that peoples should unite across national boundaries, gained popularity during 19th century, led to establishment of organizations like the International Red Cross | 0 | |
| 162110134 | World Court | permanent arbitration court established at The Hague in 1899, failed to resolve problems of international conflict | 1 | |
| 162110135 | Western Front | war line between Belgium and Switzerland during WWI, featured trench warfare and massive casualties among combatants | 2 | |
| 162110136 | Italian Front | war line between Italy and Austria-Hungary, also trench warfare | 3 | |
| 162110137 | Eastern Front | war zone from the Baltic to the Balkans where Germans, Austro-Hungarians, Russians, and Balkan nations fought | 4 | |
| 162110138 | Submarine Warfare | a major part of the German naval effort against the allies during WWI, when used against the US helped with American participation in the war | 5 | |
| 162110139 | Balfour Declaration | 1917, British promise of support for establishment of Jewish settlement in Palestine | 6 | |
| 162110140 | Brest-Litovsk Treaty | 1918, Russia withdrew from WWI and lost territory to Germany in return for peace | 7 | |
| 162110141 | Treaty of Versailles | ended WWI, punished Germany with loss of territory and payment of reparations, didn't satisfy involved countries | 8 | |
| 162110142 | League of Nations | international organization of nations created after WWI, designed to preserve world peace, US didn't participate | 9 | |
| 162110143 | Socialism in one country | Stalins' concept of Russian communism based solely upon internal soviet development, isolation helped Soviet Union to avoid some consequences of the Great Depression | 10 | |
| 162110146 | Benito Mussolini | Italian leader who created a fascist government during 1920s, agressive foreign policy and nationalist glories | 11 | |
| 162110147 | Anschluss | union between Germany and Austria under Hitler in 1938 | 12 | |
| 162110149 | Appeasement | name given to the policy of British leader Neville Chamberlain because of his acceptance at the Munich Conference of German agression | 13 | |
| 162110150 | Tripartite Pact | 1940 alliance between Japan, Germany, Italy | 14 | |
| 162110152 | Blitzkrieg | German term meaning lightening warfare, rapid movement of troops and tanks | 15 | |
| 162110153 | Vichy | French government at Vichy in 1940 after defeat by Germany | 16 | |
| 162110154 | Winston Churchill | British prime minister during WWII, showed British determination to resist Germany | 17 | |
| 162110160 | Potsdam Conference | 1945, between US, Britain, Soviet Union, allies accepted Soviet control of E Europe, Germany and Austria divided between victors | 18 | |
| 162110162 | Eastern Block | E European countries of Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, E Germany dominated by the Soviet Union during the Cold War | 19 | |
| 162110164 | Marshall Plan | US program (1947) to help W European nations recover from WWII | 20 | |
| 162110168 | Vietnamese War | struggle beginning with the Vietnamese effort to expel the French, the US failing to intervene led to communist victory | 21 | |
| 162110169 | Nonalignment | newly independent former colonies who proclaimed neutrality during the Cold War | 22 | |
| 162110542 | Soviet | council of workers formed to seize government in Petrograd in 1917, basis for early political organization of Russian Revolution | 23 | |
| 162110544 | Lenin | Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR | 24 | |
| 162110545 | Russian Communist Party | Bolshevik wing of Social Democratic Party in 1917, power under Lenin after removal of Kerensky's liberal government | 25 | |
| 162110548 | Congress of Soviets | Lenin's parliamentary institution based on soviet and Bolshevik domination, replaced parliament by Social Revolutionary Party | 26 | |
| 162110550 | Red Army | military organization under Trotsky, made use of people of humble background | 27 | |
| 162110551 | New Economic Policy | initiated by Lenin in 1921, state set basic economic policies with individual initiative, allowed food production to recover | 28 | |
| 162110553 | Supreme Soviet | parliament of USSR, elected by universal suffrage, controlled by Communist party, served to ratify party decisions | 29 | |
| 162110554 | Comintern | international office of communism under USSR, encouraged formation of Communist parties in Europe, etc | 30 | |
| 162110555 | Joseph Stalin | successor to Lenin as head of USSR, strongly nationalist view of Communism, represented anti-western strain of Russian tradition, crushed opposition to his rule, economic policy, fostered agriculture collectivization, led USSR through WWII, furthered Cold War with W Europe/US | 31 | |
| 162110556 | Kulaks | agricultural enterprenuers who utilized the Stolypin and later NEP reforms to increase agricultural production and buy additional land | 32 | |
| 162110557 | Collectivization | creation of large, state-run farms rather than individual holdings, allowed more efficient control over peasants, part of Stalin's economic and political planning, often adopted in other Communist regimes | 33 | |
| 162110558 | Five-Year Plans | Stalin's plans to hasten industrialization of USSR, massive factories in metallurgy, mining, electric power, lead to massive state-planned industrialization at cost of availability of consumer products | 34 | |
| 162110562 | Berlin Wall | built in 1961 to halt the flow of immigration from E to W (which was in response to lack of consumer goods), close Soviet control of economy and politics, torn down at end of Cold War | 35 | |
| 162110565 | Solidarity | Polish labor movement formed in 1970s under Lech Walesa, challenged USSR dominated government of Poland | 36 | |
| 162110566 | Socialist realism | attempt in USSR to relate formal culture to the masses in order to avoid adoption of W European cultural forms, under Stalin, fundamental method of Soviet fiction, art, literary criticism | 37 | |
| 162110570 | Nikita Khrushchev | Stalin's sucessor as head of USSR, attacked Stalinism in 1956 for concentration of power, failure of Siberian development program and anti-Stalinists led to downfall, Sputnik in space | 38 | |
| 162110573 | Mikhail Gorbachev | USSR ruler after 1985, attacked Stalinism, urgued reduction and nuclear armament, policies of glasnost and perstroika | 39 | |
| 162110574 | Glasnost | policy of political liberation in Soviet Union in the late 1980's | 40 | |
| 162110575 | 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 | 41 |
