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| 351673362 | Alexander Kerensky | Leader of the provisional government in Russia after the fall of the tsar; kept Russia in World War I and resisted major reforms; overthrown by Bolsheviks at the end of 1917. | 0 | |
| 351673363 | Anschluss | Hitler's union with Austria. | 1 | |
| 351673364 | Appeasement | Britain and France's policy of compromise with Hitler and Mussolini. | 2 | |
| 351673365 | Axis Powers | Germany, Italy, Spain, & Friends | 3 | |
| 351673366 | Battle of Midway | Turning point of the Pacific theater in World War II. Japanese advances halted after this battle. | 4 | |
| 351673367 | Battle of Stalingrad | Battle were German advances in Russia were stopped, Germans underestimated the Russian winter | 5 | |
| 351673368 | Battle of the Bulge | Last German offensive on the Western Front in World War II. Its failure hastened German defeat. | 6 | |
| 351673369 | Benito Mussolini | Founder and dictator of the Fascist Party in Italy. | 7 | |
| 351673370 | Berlin Wall | Barrier built by the U.S.S.R. in 1961 in East Germany to keep that nation's subjects from fleeing to liberty in West Berlin. | 8 | |
| 351673371 | Blitzkrieg | Fast-moving "lightning war" used by Germany to invade its neighbors in World War II. | 9 | |
| 351673372 | Bolsheviks | Literally "majority" party, but actually a political group backed by a minority of the population; the most radical branch of the Russian Marxist movement; led by Lenin. | 10 | |
| 351673373 | Chiang Kai-Shek | Successor to Sun as leader of the Nationalists; fierce opponent of the Communists, yet he formed an alliance with them to fight Japan. | 11 | |
| 351673374 | Collectivization | Soviet policy of eliminating private ownership of farmland and creating large state-run farms. | 12 | |
| 351673375 | Comintern | International office of communism under U.S.S.R. dominance established to encourage the formation of Communist parties in Europe and the world. | 13 | |
| 351673376 | Cristeros | Conservative peasant movement in the 1920s in Mexico; backed by the Catholic church and many politicians; resisted the secularization of the culture and government. | 14 | |
| 351673377 | Eastern Bloc | Soviet allies in eastern Europe, including Bulgaria, Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Hungary. | 15 | |
| 351673378 | Emiliano Zapata | Mexican revolutionary who led guerrilla fighting in the South; motto was "Tierra y Libertad"; demanded land reform. | 16 | |
| 351673379 | European Union | Final name of the Common Market; an economic and, later, political movement in Europe that supported free markets to compete with the U.S. | 17 | |
| 351673380 | Fascism | Nationalist political form that featured an authoritarian leader, aggressive foreign policy, and government-guided economics | 18 | |
| 351673381 | Final Solution | Nazi Germany's policy that led to the death of about 6 million Jews in what came to be known as the Holocaust. | 19 | |
| 351673382 | Five Year Plans | a series of nation-wide centralized economic plans developed by a state planning committee | 20 | |
| 351717283 | Franklin Roosevelt | American president during the Great Depression, instituted the New Deal | 21 | |
| 351717284 | Gestapo | Hitler's secret police that imprisoned and killed his real and imagined opposition. | 22 | |
| 351717285 | Guomindang | Chinese Nationalist Party | 23 | |
| 351717286 | Harry Truman | U.S. president after Franklin Roosevelt in the early years of the cold war. His foreign policy was to contain Communism through diplomacy and military strength. | 24 | |
| 351717287 | Iron Curtain | Term coined by British P.M. Churchill to describe the political division of Europe between free (western Europe) and repressed (eastern Europe) during the cold war. | 25 | |
| 351717288 | Joseph Stalin | Gained undisputed control of the U.S.S.R. after Lenin's death; installed the nationalistic "socialism in one country" program, collectivization, and widespread purges. | 26 | |
| 351717289 | Juan Peron | Argentina's leader who, like Vargas, nationalized key industries and led through a combination of charisma and intimidation. | 27 | |
| 351717290 | Kulaks | The relatively wealthy peasants in the Soviet Union who were starved and murdered by the millions under Stalin's direction. | 28 | |
| 351717291 | Leon Trotsky | Lenin deputy who organized the Red Army during the civil war | 29 | |
| 351717292 | Long March | To escape the Nationalists, 90,000 Mao supporters traveled thousands of miles in 1934 to remote regions; solidified Mao's leadership and created much of his myth. | 30 | |
| 351717293 | Manchuria | Resource rich area of northeastern China | 31 | |
| 351717294 | Marshall Plan | U.S. aid to western Europe after World War II helped it recover and concurrently staved off Communist inroads made in the interim. | 32 | |
| 351717295 | May Fourth Movement | Popular 1919 uprising in China against Japanese interference and for Western-style government that featured intellectuals and students as its leaders; sank under the weight of problems facing China in the early 20th century. | 33 | |
| 351717296 | Mexican Revolution | Fought over a period of almost 10 years from 1910; resulted in ouster of Porfirio Díaz from power; opposition forces led by Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata. | 34 | |
| 351717297 | NAZI | Under the guise of political unity, they forged a totalitarian state. | 35 | |
| 351717298 | NATO | U.S.-led alliance including western Europe, Canada, and Turkey against Soviet aggression there. | 36 | |
| 351717299 | Neville Chamberlain | Britsh Prime Minister who pursued a policy of appeasement against Hitler | 37 | |
| 351717300 | New Deal | The United States' answer to the Great Depression, consisting of government assistance to people affected by the crisis and of government reform of economic institutions | 38 | |
| 351717301 | Nikita Khrushchev | Leader of U.S.S.R. after Stalin's death. Criticized his predecessor's abuses, signaling a bit of a thaw in the cold war. After backing down in the Cuban Missile Crisis, he was removed from power and exiled within the U.S.S.R. | 39 | |
| 351717302 | Pancho Villa | Mexican revolutionary who led guerrilla fighting in the North; pursued unsuccessfully by the U.S. government in 1913. | 40 | |
| 351717303 | Porfirio Diaz | Mexico's long-serving dictator who resisted political reforms; his policies triggered the Mexican Revolution. | 41 | |
| 351717304 | Potsdam Conference | Final Allied war conference in which the Soviet Union pledged to enter the war against Japan. | 42 | |
| 351717305 | Red Army | Military organization constructed under leadership of Leon Trotsky, Bolshevik follower of Lenin; made use of people of humble background. | 43 | |
| 351717306 | Russian Civil War | Millions died in the struggle between the Reds (pro-Communist forces) and Whites (an amalgam of non-Communists); the Reds won | 44 | |
| 351717307 | Solidarity | Trade union movement in Poland that developed into a political pressure group that supported reforms from the Communist leadership. | 45 | |
| 351717308 | Spanish Civil War | Fascists led by General Franco fought supporters of the existing republic in the 1930s; Germany and Italy aided the victorious Franco. | 46 | |
| 351717309 | Sun Yat-sen | Western-educated leader of the Revolutionary Alliance, the Guomindang, and at times, China, in the 1910s and 1920s; struggled with warlords for control of the nation. | 47 | |
| 351717310 | Tehran Conference | Allied war conference where later Cold War tensions first appeared. | 48 | |
| 351717311 | Total War | Concept in warfare in which all the industrial and civilian might of a nation is linked to strategy and tactics on the battlefield. | 49 | |
| 351717312 | United Nations | Successor to the League of Nations, this U.S.-backed international organization had more success in all ways than its predecessor. | 50 | |
| 351717313 | Victoriano Huerta | Sought to impose a Díaz-type dictatorship; forced from power by Villa and Zapata. | 51 | |
| 351717314 | Warsaw Pact | Soviet response to NATO. | 52 | |
| 351717315 | Welfare State | State-run "cradle to grave" care that developed in western Europe and spread in varying forms to the U.S., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. | 53 | |
| 351717316 | Whampoa Military Academy | Established in China with Soviet help; it gave the Nationalists a military dimension previously missing; first leader was Chiang Kai-shek. | 54 | |
| 351717317 | Winston Churchill | Inspirational leader of Britain in World War II, coined the phrase "Iron Curtain" | 55 | |
| 351717318 | Yalta Conference | Most significant of the Allied war conferences; divided post-Nazi Europe and set the stage for Soviet-U.S. tensions for the next 45 years | 56 |
