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6768290469Allied PowersBritain France Russia0
6768291775ansclussGerman annexation of Austria prior to WW21
6768291776appeasementPolicy of Great Britain and France of making concessions to Hitler in the 1930s2
6768292344British CommonwealthA political community consisting of the UK, its dependencies and former colonies of Great Britain aka Commonwealth of Nations3
6768292345Central PowersGermany Austria, Bulgaria Ottoman Empire and others4
6768292346Dumarussian parliament5
6768292347fascisma political movement that is characterized by extreme nationalism, one party rule and the denial of individual rights6
6768292348mandatea type of colony in which the government is overseen by another nation7
6768293463Pan-Slavic movementA Russian attempt to unite all Slavic nations into a commonwealth relationship under the influence of Russia8
6768293464Potsdam ConferenceA 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 occupation9
6768294872Tehran Conferenc1943 meeting of leaders of Allied Powers, agreed to open France as second front in WW210
6768294873Treaty of Brest-LitovskThe 1918 treaty ending world war 1 between Germany and the USSR11
6768295713Yalta Conference1945 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 organization12
6768299731Afrikanersethnic group descended from predominantly Dutch settlers first arriving in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries13
6768299732Alliance for Progressa program of economic aid for Latin America in exchange for a pledge to establish democratic institutions (Kennedy, USA)14
6768300502ayatollaha traditional Muslim religious ruler15
6768300503brinkmanshipthe cold war policy of the USSR and the USS of threatening to go to war at the sign of aggression16
6768301729collectivizationthe combination of several small farms into large government-controlled farm17
6768301730containmentcold war policy of the USA to prevent communism18
6768302507Five Year PlansPlans for industrial production first introduced by USSR in 1928 by Stalin, made USSr an industrial power19
6768302508Geneva Conference1954 divided Vietnam at the 17th parallel20
6768302509glasnost1985 policy of Mikhail Gorhachev that allowed openness of expression of ideas in the USSR21
6768302510Government of India Actincreased suffrage and turned provincial governments to India leaders22
6768303618Great Leap Forwarddisastrous economic poly by Mao Zedon that proposed implementation of small scale industrial projects on individual peasant communes23
6768303619GuomindangChina'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 authoritarian24
6768303620kulaksRussian peasants who became wealthy under Lenin's New Economic Policy25
6768304982May Fourth Movement1919 protest in China against the Treaty of Versailles and foreign influence26
6768304983Marshall PlanAmerica's plan to rebuild Europe (Germany)27
6768304995New Economic PolicyLenin's policy that allowed some private ownership and limited foreign investment to revitalize the USSR economy28
6768310835nonalignmentpolicy of some developing nations to refrain from aligning themselves with US or USSR during cold war29
6768310836Al-Quedaa terrorist group based in Afghanistan in the late 20th and 21st centuries30
6768310837cartelsunions of independent business in order to regulate production, prices and the marketing of goods31
6768311937International Monetary Fundan international organization founded in 1944 to promote market economies and free trade32
6768315672World Bankan agency of the United Nations that offers loans to countries to promote trade and economic development33
6768316620eurostandard currency for EU countries34
6768316621European Economic Communitypredecessor to EU35
6768317452European Unionorganization designed to reduce trade barriers and promote economic unity in Europe, to replace European Community36
6768317453import substitution industrializationan economic system that attempts to strengthen a country's industrial power by restricting foreign imports37
6768318409NAFTANorth America Free Trade Agreement38
6768319349OPECOrganization of Petroleum Exporting COuntries39
6768320346WTOWorld Trade Organization40
6768326854Helsinki Accords1975 political and human rights agreement signed by Helsinki, Finland and by Western European countries and USSR41
6768326855service industriesoccupations that provided a service rather than a manufactured or agricultural product42
6768328565Green Revolutiona program of improved irrigation methods and the introduction of high yield seeds and fertilizers and pesticides to improve agricultural production43
6768328566guest workersworkers from North Africa and Asia who migrated to Europe during the late 20th century in search of employment, some settled permanently44

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