6768290469 | Allied Powers | Britain France Russia | 0 | |
6768291775 | anscluss | German annexation of Austria prior to WW2 | 1 | |
6768291776 | appeasement | Policy of Great Britain and France of making concessions to Hitler in the 1930s | 2 | |
6768292344 | British Commonwealth | A political community consisting of the UK, its dependencies and former colonies of Great Britain aka Commonwealth of Nations | 3 | |
6768292345 | Central Powers | Germany Austria, Bulgaria Ottoman Empire and others | 4 | |
6768292346 | Duma | russian parliament | 5 | |
6768292347 | fascism | a political movement that is characterized by extreme nationalism, one party rule and the denial of individual rights | 6 | |
6768292348 | mandate | a type of colony in which the government is overseen by another nation | 7 | |
6768293463 | Pan-Slavic movement | A Russian attempt to unite all Slavic nations into a commonwealth relationship under the influence of Russia | 8 | |
6768293464 | Potsdam Conference | A 1945 meeting of the leaders of Great Britain, US and uSSR in which it was agreed that the USSR would have eastern Europe and Germany would be divided into zones of occupation | 9 | |
6768294872 | Tehran Conferenc | 1943 meeting of leaders of Allied Powers, agreed to open France as second front in WW2 | 10 | |
6768294873 | Treaty of Brest-Litovsk | The 1918 treaty ending world war 1 between Germany and the USSR | 11 | |
6768295713 | Yalta Conference | 1945 USSR, GB and USA: USSR enters the war against Japan in exchange for influence in the Eastern European states; also plans to establish a new international organization | 12 | |
6768299731 | Afrikaners | ethnic group descended from predominantly Dutch settlers first arriving in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries | 13 | |
6768299732 | Alliance for Progress | a program of economic aid for Latin America in exchange for a pledge to establish democratic institutions (Kennedy, USA) | 14 | |
6768300502 | ayatollah | a traditional Muslim religious ruler | 15 | |
6768300503 | brinkmanship | the cold war policy of the USSR and the USS of threatening to go to war at the sign of aggression | 16 | |
6768301729 | collectivization | the combination of several small farms into large government-controlled farm | 17 | |
6768301730 | containment | cold war policy of the USA to prevent communism | 18 | |
6768302507 | Five Year Plans | Plans for industrial production first introduced by USSR in 1928 by Stalin, made USSr an industrial power | 19 | |
6768302508 | Geneva Conference | 1954 divided Vietnam at the 17th parallel | 20 | |
6768302509 | glasnost | 1985 policy of Mikhail Gorhachev that allowed openness of expression of ideas in the USSR | 21 | |
6768302510 | Government of India Act | increased suffrage and turned provincial governments to India leaders | 22 | |
6768303618 | Great Leap Forward | disastrous economic poly by Mao Zedon that proposed implementation of small scale industrial projects on individual peasant communes | 23 | |
6768303619 | Guomindang | China's Nationalist political party founded by Sun Yat-sen in 1912 and based on democratic principles Taken over in 1925 by Jiang Jieshi who made it authoritarian | 24 | |
6768303620 | kulaks | Russian peasants who became wealthy under Lenin's New Economic Policy | 25 | |
6768304982 | May Fourth Movement | 1919 protest in China against the Treaty of Versailles and foreign influence | 26 | |
6768304983 | Marshall Plan | America's plan to rebuild Europe (Germany) | 27 | |
6768304995 | New Economic Policy | Lenin's policy that allowed some private ownership and limited foreign investment to revitalize the USSR economy | 28 | |
6768310835 | nonalignment | policy of some developing nations to refrain from aligning themselves with US or USSR during cold war | 29 | |
6768310836 | Al-Queda | a terrorist group based in Afghanistan in the late 20th and 21st centuries | 30 | |
6768310837 | cartels | unions of independent business in order to regulate production, prices and the marketing of goods | 31 | |
6768311937 | International Monetary Fund | an international organization founded in 1944 to promote market economies and free trade | 32 | |
6768315672 | World Bank | an agency of the United Nations that offers loans to countries to promote trade and economic development | 33 | |
6768316620 | euro | standard currency for EU countries | 34 | |
6768316621 | European Economic Community | predecessor to EU | 35 | |
6768317452 | European Union | organization designed to reduce trade barriers and promote economic unity in Europe, to replace European Community | 36 | |
6768317453 | import substitution industrialization | an economic system that attempts to strengthen a country's industrial power by restricting foreign imports | 37 | |
6768318409 | NAFTA | North America Free Trade Agreement | 38 | |
6768319349 | OPEC | Organization of Petroleum Exporting COuntries | 39 | |
6768320346 | WTO | World Trade Organization | 40 | |
6768326854 | Helsinki Accords | 1975 political and human rights agreement signed by Helsinki, Finland and by Western European countries and USSR | 41 | |
6768326855 | service industries | occupations that provided a service rather than a manufactured or agricultural product | 42 | |
6768328565 | Green Revolution | a program of improved irrigation methods and the introduction of high yield seeds and fertilizers and pesticides to improve agricultural production | 43 | |
6768328566 | guest workers | workers from North Africa and Asia who migrated to Europe during the late 20th century in search of employment, some settled permanently | 44 |
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