The Newest Stage of World History: 1914-Present
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| 4671288626 | Western Front | war line between Belgium and Switzerland during World War I; featured trench warfare and massive casualties among combatants | 0 | |
| 4671288627 | Eastern Front | war zone from the Baltic to the Balkans where Germans, Austro-Hungarians, Russians, and Balkan nations fought | 1 | |
| 4671288628 | Archduke Franz Ferdinand | Austro-Hungarian heir to the throne assassinated at Sarajevo in 1914; precipitated World War I | 2 | |
| 4671288629 | Nicholas II | Russian tsar (r. 1894-1917); executed in 1918 | 3 | |
| 4671288630 | Gallipoli | World War I battle, 1915; unsuccessful attempt in defense of the Dardenelles | 4 | |
| 4671288631 | Italian Front | war line between Italy and Austria-Hungary; also produced trench warfare | 5 | |
| 4671288632 | Armenian genocide | launched by Young Turk leaders in 1915; claimed up to one million lives | 6 | |
| 4671288633 | Submarine warfare | a major part of the German naval effort against the Allies during World War I; when employed against the US it precipitated American participation in the war | 7 | |
| 4671288634 | Armistice | November 11, 1918 agreement by Germans to suspend hostilities | 8 | |
| 4671288635 | Georges Clemenceau | French premier desiring harsher peace terms for Germans | 9 | |
| 4671288636 | David Lloyd George | British prime minister; attempted to mediate at peace conference between Clemenceau and Wilson | 10 | |
| 4671288637 | Woodrow Wilson | American president who called for self-determination and the League of Nations | 11 | |
| 4671288638 | Treaty of Versailles | ended World War I; punished Germany with loss of territory and payment of reparations; did not satisfy any of the signatories | 12 | |
| 4671288639 | League of Nations | international organization of nations created after World War I; designed to preserve world peace; the US never joined | 13 | |
| 4671288640 | Indian National Congress | political party that grew from regional associations of Western-educated Indians in 1885; dominated by elites; was the principal party throughout the colonial period and after independence | 14 | |
| 4671288641 | Morley-Minto Reforms | 1909; provided Indians with expanded opportunities to elect and serve on local and national legislative councils | 15 | |
| 4671288642 | Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms | 1919; increased national powers of Indian legislators and place provincial administrations under ministries controlled by Indian-elected legislatures | 16 | |
| 4671288643 | Rowlatt Act | 1919; placed severe restrictions on Indian civil rights; undercut impact of the Montagu-Chelmsford reforms | 17 | |
| 4671288644 | M. K. Gandhi | Western-educated Indian lawyer and nationalist politician with many attributes of an Indian holy man; stressed nonviolent tactics and headed the movement for Indian independence | 18 | |
| 4671288645 | Satyagraha | "truth force"; Gandhi's policy of nonviolent opposition to British rule | 19 | |
| 4671288646 | Mustafa Kemal, Ataturk | president of Turkey (1923-1938); responsible for westernization of Turkey | 20 | |
| 4671288647 | Effendi | prosperous business and professional urban Egyptian families; generally favored independence | 21 | |
| 4671288648 | Dinshawi incident | 1906 fracas between British soldiers and Egyptian villagers that resulted in an accidental death; Egyptian protest led to harsh repression that stimulated nationalist sentiment | 22 | |
| 4671288649 | Mandates | governments entrusted to victorious European World War I nations over the colonies of the defeated powers | 23 | |
| 4671288650 | Balfour Declaration | 1917; British promise of support for the establishment of Jewish settlement in Palestine | 24 | |
| 4671288651 | Zionism | European Jewish movement of the 1860s and 1870s that argued that Jews return to their Holy Land; eventually identified with settlement in Palestine | 25 | |
| 4671288652 | Theodor Hertzl | Austrian Zionist; formed World Zionist Organization in 1897; was unsympathetic to Arabs and promoted Jewish immigration into Palestine to form a Jewish state | 26 | |
| 4671288653 | Alfred Dreyfus | French Jew, falsely accused of treason in 1894; acquitted 1906; his false conviction fueled Zionism | 27 | |
| 4671288654 | Wafd Party | Egyptian nationalist party founded after World War I; led by Sa'd Zaghlul; participated in the negotiations that led to limited Egyptian independence in 1922 | 28 | |
| 4671288655 | W.E.R. Du Bois and Marcus Garvey | African American leaders with major impact on rising African nationalism | 29 | |
| 4671288656 | Negritude | literary movement among African Americans and Africans; sought to combat unfavorable stereotypes of African culture and to celebrate African achievements; influenced early African nationalist movements | 30 | |
| 4671288657 | Kellogg-Briand Pact | 1928; a multnation treaty, sponsored by American and French leaders, that outlawed war | 31 | |
| 4671288658 | Cubist movement | headed by Pablo Picasso; rendered familiar objects as geometrical shapes | 32 | |
| 4671288659 | Fascism | political ideology that became predominant in Italy under Benito Mussolini during the 1920s; attacked the weakness of democracy and the corruption and class conflict of capitalism; promised vigorous foreign and military programs | 33 | |
| 4671288660 | Syndicalism | organization of industrial workers to control the means of production and distribution | 34 | |
| 4671288661 | Mexican Revolution | 1910-1920; civil war; challenged Porio Diaz in 1910 and initiated a revolution after losing fraudulent elections | 35 | |
| 4671288662 | Pancho Villa | Mexican revolutionary leader in northern Mexico after 1910 | 36 | |
| 4671288663 | Emilliano Zapata | Mexican revolutionary commander of a guerrilla movement centered at Morelos; demanded sweeping land reform | 37 | |
| 4671288664 | Mexican Constitution of 1917 | promised land and educational reform, limited foreign ownership, guaranteed rights for workers, and restricted clerical education and proprerty ownership; never fully implemented | 38 | |
| 4671288665 | Lazaro Cardenas | Mexican president (1934-1940); responsible for large land redistribution to create communal farms; also began program of primary and rural education | 39 | |
| 4671288666 | Corridos | popular ballads written to celebrate heroes of the Mexican Revolution | 40 | |
| 4671288667 | Cristeros | conservative peasant movement in Mexico during the 1920s; a reaction against secularism | 41 | |
| 4671288668 | Party of Institutionalized Revolution (PRI) | inclusive Mexican political party developing from the 1920s; rued for the rest of the 20th century | 42 | |
| 4671288669 | Soviet | council of workers; seized the government of St. Petersburg in 1917 to precipitate the Russian Revolution | 43 | |
| 4671288670 | Aleksander Kerensky | liberal revolutionary leader during the early stages of the Russian Revolution of 1917; attempted development of parliamentary rule, but supported continuance of the war against Germany | 44 | |
| 4671288671 | Russian Communist Party | Bolshevik wing of the Russian socialists; came to power under Lenin in the November 1917 revolution | 45 | |
| 4671288672 | Council of People's Commissars | government council composed of representatives from Russian soviets and headed by Lenin; came to power after November 1917 | 46 | |
| 4671288673 | Red Army | built up under the leadership of Leon Trotsky; its victories secured communist power after the early years of turmoil following the Russian Revolution | 47 | |
| 4671288674 | New Economic Policy (NEP) | initiated in 1921 by Lenin; combined the state establishing basic economic policies with individual initiative; allowed food production to recover | 48 | |
| 4671288675 | Supreme Soviet | communist-controlled parliament of the USSR | 49 | |
| 4671288676 | Comintern | Communist International; an organization under dominance of the USSR; designed to encourage the spread of communism to the rest of the world | 50 | |
| 4671288677 | Joseph Stalin | Lenin's successor as leader of the USSR; strong nationalist view of communism; crushed opposition to his predominance; ruled USSR until his death in 1953 | 51 | |
| 4671288678 | Collectivization | creation of large state-run farms replacing individual holdings; allowed mechanization of agriculture and more efficient control over peasants | 52 | |
| 4671288679 | Yuan Shikai | warlord in northern China after fall of the Qing dynasty; president of China in 1912; hoped to become emperor, but blocked in 1916 by Japanese intervention in China | 53 | |
| 4671288680 | Sun Yatsen | head of Revolutionary Alliance that led the 1911 revolt against the Qing; president of China in 1911, but yielded to Yuan Shikai in 1912; created the Guomindang in 1919 | 54 | |
| 4671288681 | May Fourth Movement | acceptance at Versailles of Japanese gains in China during World War I led to demonstrations and the beginning of a movement to create a liberal democracy | 55 | |
| 4671288682 | Guomindang (National Party) | founded by Sun Yatsen in 1919; main support from urban businesspeople and merchants; dominated by Chiang Kai-shek after 1925 | 56 | |
| 4671288683 | Chiang Kai-shek | leader of the Guomindang from 1925; contested with the communists for control of China until defeated in 1949 | 57 | |
| 4671288684 | Mao Zedong | communist leader who advocated the role of the peasantry in revolution; led the Communists to victory and ruled China from 1949 to 1976 | 58 | |
| 4671288685 | Long March | Communist retreat under Guomindang pressure in 1934; shifted center of communist power to Shanxi province | 59 | |
| 4671288686 | Totalitarian State | a 20th century form of government that exercised direct control over all aspects of its subjects; existed in Germany, Italy, the Soviet Union, and other Communist states | 60 | |
| 4671288687 | Spanish Civil War | civil war between republican and autocratic supporters; with support from Germany and Italy,the autocratic regime of Francisco Franco triumphed | 61 | |
| 4671288688 | Import substitution economies | Latin American and other nations' effort to produce what had formerly been imported | 62 | |
| 4671288689 | Corporatism | conservative political movement emphasizing the organic nature of society, with the state as mediator between different groups | 63 | |
| 4671288690 | Tojo Hideki | Japanese general who dominated internal politics from the mid-1930s; gave the military dominance over civilian cabinets | 64 | |
| 4671288691 | Spanish Civil War | civil war between republican and autocratic supporters; with support from Germany and Italy, the autocratic regime of Francisco Franco triumphed | 65 | |
| 4671288692 | National Socialist (Nazi) Party | founded by Adolf Hitler in the period of the Great Depression in Germany | 66 | |
| 4671288693 | Blitzkrieg | German term meaning lightening warfare; involved rapid movement of troops and tanks | 67 | |
| 4671288694 | Vichy | collaborationist French government established in Vichy in 1940 following defeat by Germany | 68 | |
| 4671288695 | Winston Churchill | British prime minister during World War II; exemplified British determination to resist Germany | 69 | |
| 4671288696 | Holocaust | Germany's attempted extermination of European Jews and others; 12 million, including 6 million Jews, died | 70 | |
| 4671288697 | United Nations | global organization, founded by the Allies following World War II | 71 | |
| 4671288698 | Tehran Conference | 1944; meeting between the leaders of Britain, the US, and the Soviet Union; decided to open a new front against Germany in France; gave the Russians a free hand in eastern Europe | 72 | |
| 4671288699 | Yalta Conference | 1945; agreed upon Soviet entry into the war against Japan, organization of the United Nations; left eastern Europe to the Soviet Union | 73 | |
| 4671288700 | Potsdam Conference | 1945; meeting between the leaders of the US, Britain, and the Soviet Union; allies accepted Soviet control of eastern Europe; Germany and Austria were divided among the victors | 74 | |
| 4671288701 | Atlantic Charter | 1941; pact between the US and Britain; gave Britain a strong ally; in return the document contained a clause recognizing the right of all people to select their own government | 75 | |
| 4671288702 | Quit India movement | mass civil disobedience campaign against British rule of India in 1942 | 76 | |
| 4671288703 | Muslim League | Indian organization that emerged at the end of World War II; backed Britain in the war | 77 | |
| 4671288704 | Muhammad Ali Jinnah | Muslim Indian nationalist; leader of the Muslim League; worked for a separate Muslim state; first president of Pakistan | 78 | |
| 4671288705 | Land Freedom Army | African revolutionary movement for reform of Kenyan colonial system; began a conflict in 1952; called the Mau Mau by the British | 79 | |
| 4671288706 | National Liberation Front (FLN) | Algerian nationalist movement that launched a guerrilla war during the 1950s; gained independence for Algeria in 1962 | 80 | |
| 4671288707 | Afrikaner National Party | became the majority in the all-white South African legislature in 1948; worked to form the rigid system of racial segregation called apartheid | 81 | |
| 4671288708 | Cold War | struggle from 1945 to 1989 between the communist and democratic worlds; ended with the collapse of Russia | 82 | |
| 4671288709 | Eastern bloc | the eastern European countries of Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, and Eastern Germany dominated by the Soviet Union during the cold war | 83 | |
| 4671288710 | Iron Curtain | term coined by Winston Churchill to describe the division between the Western and communist nations | 84 | |
| 4671288711 | Marshall Plan | 1947 United States program to rebuild Europe and defeat domestic communist movements | 85 | |
| 4671288712 | North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) | formed in 1949 under US leadership to group Canada and western Europe against the Soviets | 86 | |
| 4671288713 | Warsaw Pact | the Soviet response to NATO; made up of Soviets and their European satellites | 87 | |
| 4671288714 | Welfare state | Great Depression-inspired system that increased government spending to provide social insurance and stimulate the economy | 88 | |
| 4671288715 | Technocrat | a new type of bureaucrat trained in the sciences or economics and devoted to the power of national planning; rose to importance in governments after World War II | 89 | |
| 4671288716 | Green movement | rise during the 1970s in Europe of groups hostile to uncontrolled economic growth | 90 | |
| 4671288717 | Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan | conservative leaders of the 1970s and 1980s; worked to cut welfare and to promote free enterprise; Cold Warriors | 91 | |
| 4671288718 | European Union | began by six nations as the European Economic Community (Commons Market); by the 21st century incorporated most of western European states and was expanding eastward | 92 | |
| 4671288719 | New feminism | a wave of agitation for women's rights dating from about 1949; emphasized equality between sexes | 93 | |
| 4671288720 | Solidarity | Polish labor movement beginning in the 1970s, taking control of the country from the Soviet Union | 94 | |
| 4671288721 | Socialist realism | Soviet effort to replace Western literature and arts with works glorifying state-approved achievements by the masses | 95 | |
| 4671288722 | Third World | term for nations not among the capitalist industrial nations of the first world or the industrialized communist nations of the second world | 96 | |
| 4671288723 | North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) | agreement between the US, Mexico, and Canada that lowered trade barriers | 97 | |
| 4671288724 | Liberation theology | combination of Roman Catholic and socialist principles aiming to improve the lives of the poor | 98 | |
| 4671288725 | Banana republics | conservative, often dictatorial, Latin American governments friendly to the US; exported tropical products | 99 | |
| 4671288726 | Good Neighbor Policy | introduced by US president Franklin Roosevelt in 1933 to deal fairly, without intervention, with Latin American states | 100 | |
| 4671288727 | Alliance for Progress | 1961 US programs for economic development of Latin America | 101 | |
| 4671288728 | Indira Gandhi | Prime Minister of India (1966-1977, 1980-1984); daughter of former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru; dominated Indian politics for several decades | 102 | |
| 4671288729 | Primary products | food or industrial crops with a high demand in industrialized economies; their prices tend to fluctuate widely | 103 | |
| 4671288730 | Neocolonialism | continued dominance of new nations by their former rulers | 104 | |
| 4671288731 | Gamal Abdul Nasser | member of the Free Officers Movement who seized power in Egypt in a 1952 military coup; became leader of Egypt; formed a state-directed reforming regime; ousted Britain from the Suez Canal in 1956; most reforms were unsuccessful | 105 | |
| 4671288732 | Anwar Sadat | successor of Nasser as Egypt's ruler; dismantled Nasser's costly and failed programs; signed peace treaty with Israel in 1973; assassinated by a Muslim fundamentalist | 106 | |
| 4671288733 | Ayatollah Khomeini | religious leader of Iran following the 1979 revolution; worked for fundamentalist Islamic religious reform and elimination of Western influences | 107 | |
| 4671288734 | Apartheid | Afrikaner policy of racial segregation in South Africa designed to create full economic, social, and political exploitation of African majority | 108 | |
| 4671288735 | Homelands | areas in South Africa for residence of "tribal" African peoples; overpopulated and poverty-stricken; source of cheap labor for whites | 109 | |
| 4671288736 | African National Congress (ANC) | South African political organization founded to defend African interests; became the ruling political party after the 1994 elections | 110 | |
| 4671288737 | Nelson Mandela | ANC leader imprisoned by Afrikaner regime; released in 1990 and elected president of South Africa in 1994 | 111 | |
| 4671288738 | F.W. de Klerk | South African president (1989-1994); led Afrikaner push for reforms ending apartheid; Nelson Mandela was freed in his presidency | 112 | |
| 4671288739 | Douglas MacArthur | American commander during the war against Japan; headed American occupation government of Japan after the war; commanded United Nations forces during the Korean War | 113 | |
| 4671288740 | Liberal Democratic Party | moderate political party that monopolized Japanese governments from 1955 into the 1990s | 114 | |
| 4671288741 | Republic of Korea | southern half of Korea occupied by the US after World War II; developed parliamentary institutions under authoritarian rulers; underwent major industrial and economic growth after the 1950s | 115 | |
| 4671288742 | Democratic People's Republic of Korea | northern half of Korea dominated by USSR after World War II; formed a communist dictatorship under Kim Il-Song; attacked South Korea to begin the Korean War | 116 | |
| 4671288743 | Mass Line | economic policy of Mao Zedong inaugurated in 1955; led to formation of agricultural cooperatives that then became farming collectives in 1956; peasants lost land gained a few years earlier | 117 | |
| 4671288744 | Great Leap Forward | economic policy of Mao Zedong introduced in 1958; proposed small-scale industrialization projects integrated into peasant communities; led to economic disaster and ended in 1960 | 118 | |
| 4671288745 | People's Liberation Army | military, and dominant, arm of the communist structure in China | 119 | |
| 4671288746 | Cultural Revolution | initiated by Mao Zedong in 1965 to restore his dominance oveer the pragmatists; disgraced and even killed bureaucrats and intellectuals; called off in 1968 | 120 | |
| 4671288747 | Jiang Qing | wife of Mao Zedong; one of the Gang of Four; opposed pragmatists and supported the Cultural Revolution; arrested and imprisoned for life in 1976 | 121 | |
| 4671288748 | Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, and Liu Shaoqui | pragmatists who opposed the Great Leap Forward; wanted to restore state direction ad market incentives at the local level | 122 | |
| 4671288749 | Red Guard | student brigades active during the Cultural Revolution in supporting Mao Zedong's policies | 123 | |
| 4671288750 | Gang of Four | Jiang Qing and her allies who opposed the pragmatists after the death of Mao Zedong | 124 | |
| 4671288751 | Tayson Rebellion | peasant revolution in southern Vietnam during the 1770s; toppled the Nguyen and the Trinh dynasties | 125 | |
| 4671288752 | Nguyen Anh (Gia Long) | with French support, unified Vietnam under the Nguyen dynasty in 1802 with the capital at Hue | 126 | |
| 4671288753 | Vietnamese Nationalist Party (VNQDD) | middle-class revolutionary organization during the 1920s; committed to the violent overthrow of French colonialism; crushed by the French | 127 | |
| 4671288754 | Communist Party of Vietnam | the primary nationalist party after the defeat of the VNQDD in 1929; led from 1920s by Ho Chi Minh | 128 | |
| 4671288755 | Ho Chi Minh | shifted to a revolution based on the peasantry in the 1930s; presided over the defeat of France in 1954 and the unsuccessful US intervention in Vietnam | 129 | |
| 4671288756 | Viet Minh | Communist Vietnamese movement; fought the Japanese during World War II and the French afterwards | 130 | |
| 4671288757 | Viet Cong | the communist guerrilla movement in southern Vietnam during the Vietnamese War | 131 | |
| 4671288758 | Mikhail Gorbachev | leader of the USSR (1985-1991); inaugurated major reforms that led to the disintegration of the communist regime | 132 | |
| 4671288759 | Glasnost | term meaning openness; Gorbachev policy opening the opportunity to criticize the government | 133 | |
| 4671288760 | Perestroika | term meaning economic restructuring; Gorbachev policy for the economic rebuilding of the USSR by allowing more private ownership and decentralized economic control | 134 | |
| 4671288761 | Globalization | the increasing interconnectedness of all parts of the world; opposed by many environmental and social justice groups | 135 | |
| 4671288762 | Multinational corporations | business organizations with connections across political borders | 136 |
