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| 362832201 | Mandate System | (The league of nations would help supervise these areas, which were to be prepared for eventual independence) this situation disappointed the arabs who had expected freedom in exchange for their military assistance against the ottomans and jewish nationalists | 0 | |
| 362832202 | Balfour Declaration | Britain's guarantee to create a jewish homeland in palestine -put off to avoid further antagonizing the arabs in the Middle east | 1 | |
| 362834165 | Armenian Genocide | During war first genocide took place in the ottomans Empire, the turks began WWI by waging a disastrous campaign against the Russians in the caucas, they blamed the Armenians (mostly christian) for defeat by conspiring against them. In 3yrs 1-2 million Armenians were killed "forgotten Genocide" | 2 | |
| 362880537 | Map of Europe | instead of Empires a lot of countries and nations were created | 3 | |
| 362880540 | Post WWI reactions-Africa | WWI increased nationalist feelings about self determination (Africans fought with French) | 4 | |
| 362914015 | Fascism | a system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator (1919-1945) Nationalistic-revitalize purity of nation, praise violence + charismatic leader, condemned individualism, liberalism, feminism, democracy + communism, determined to overthrow existing regime, mass appeal to disillusioned people post WWI | 5 | |
| 362914016 | Fascist Italy | Tension between factory workers + middle class, Disillusioned didn't gain deserved territory + unemployed veterans, Benito Mussolini established private army called Black shirts, Mussolini promised major social reforms-consolidate power of self central Fascist state,opponents imprisioned democracy, suspended labor unions and political parties disbanded | 6 | |
| 362945486 | cold war | The internal arena of the cold war was Europe, where soviet insistence on security and control in Eastern Europe clashed with American and British Desired for oped and democratic societies with ties to the capitalist world economy. Rival military alliances (NATO and the warsaw pact) | 7 | |
| 362947728 | Explain how traditional Marxist ideology differs from that experience in Russia and China | Marxist theory-communism referred to a final stage of historical development when social equality and collective living would be most fully developed, wholly without private property | 8 | |
| 362962609 | Pan Slavism | nationalistic movement in southeastern Europe, Russia trying to weaken | 9 | |
| 362962610 | Self determination | being determined and having a motive for it (creating a country because of nationalism) | 10 | |
| 362962611 | League of nations | (Woodrow Wilson) an international body whose sole purpose was to maintain world peace and which would sort out international disputes as and when they occurred | 11 | |
| 362964007 | Speculation | financial action that does not promise safety of capital investment along with the return on the principal sum | 12 | |
| 362964008 | Buying on margin | an individual could purchase a share of a company's stock and then use the promise of that share's future earnings to buy more shares. Unfortunately, many people abused the system to invest huge sums of imaginary money that existed only on paper. | 13 | |
| 362964009 | FDR New Deal | the domestic policies of Franklin D. Roosevelt for economic and social reform | 14 | |
| 362964010 | Appeasement | to bring to a state of peace or quiet (They appeased the dictator by accepting his demands in an effort to avoid war) | 15 | |
| 362965151 | Lebensraum | territory believed especially by Nazis to be necessary for national existence or economic self-sufficiency | 16 | |
| 362965152 | NATO | NATO was officially established on April 4, 1949 with the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty. The Western European powers relied on the massive nuclear arsenal of the United States to deter a Soviet ground invasion. Eventually NATO technology rendered the power of Soviet Union's ground forces irrelevant. After the fall of communism the need for a military alliances diminished and NATO was transformed from a military force to a political force. | 17 | |
| 362965153 | Warsaw pact | -Established 6 years after NATO, the Warsaw Pact was formed as communist military alliance to maintain power over Eastern Europe. The Soviet Union gained both control over its neighboring European nations and indicated to other nations that it was a major military and political force. Although the ground forces of possessed by the Warsaw Pact were far superior to those of NATO, their technology soon fell far behind. After many democratic revolutions within the Warsaw Pact it was labeled "nonexistent" in 1991. | 18 | |
| 362965154 | Truman doctrine | It offered support to all countries that declined communism, attempting to contain it, and ultimately end it. The Truman Doctrine also consisted of Marshall Aid, which was money that was offered to all European countries for rebuilding. The Soviets declined the "capitalist" money! | 19 | |
| 362966515 | Marshall plan | The Marshall Plan was a U.S.-sponsored program implemented following the second world war to aid European countries that had been destroyed as a result of the war. | 20 | |
| 362966516 | Tehran(wwII conference) | Stalin,FDR, and Winston churchill meet up in Iran where they planned to discuss D-day war strategy and defeating japan Yalta-agreed to meet to discuss war strategy and issues that would affect the postwar world. Dubbed the "Big Three," | 21 | |
| 362966517 | Yalta(WWI conference) | -agreed to meet to discuss war strategy and issues that would affect the postwar world. Dubbed the "Big Three," | 22 | |
| 362968528 | Potsdam (WWI conference) | Big Three" leaders met at Potsdam, Germany, near Berlin. Discussed post-war arrangements in Europe, frequently without agreement. Future moves in the war against Japan were also covered. | 23 | |
| 362968529 | Russian Revolution | The Russian Revolution of 1905, which was a series of riots and anti-government violence against Tsar Nicholas II | 24 | |
| 362968530 | Guomindang/Nationalist party | Chinese National People's Party formed in 1912 after the overthrow of the Manchu Empire, and led by Sun Zhong Shan. The Guomindang was an amalgamation of small political groups, including Sun's Hsin Chung Hui ('New China Party'), founded in 1894. | 25 | |
| 362968531 | Chinese revolution | Series of great political upheavals in China between 1911 and 1949 which eventually led to Communist Party rule and the establishment of the People's Republic of China. | 26 | |
| 362968532 | Great purges/Terror | Great Purge of 1937-38 encompassed the entire Soviet Union and all categories of people. Its goal was to sweep away all of Stalin's real and imaginary enemies and to infuse all levels of Soviet society | 27 | |
| 362969109 | Lenin | Lenin established the first communist government when he overthrew the provisional government | 28 | |
| 362969110 | Vanguard of the revolution | is a political party at the forefront of a mass action, movement, or revolution. The idea of a vanguard party has its origins in the Communist manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. The concept is most well known for being put into practice by the Bolshevik party in Russia. | 29 | |
| 362969965 | Bolsheviks | A member of a Marxist-Leninist party or a supporter of one; a Communist. | 30 | |
| 362969966 | USSR | Union of Soviet Socialist Republics | 31 | |
| 362969967 | Joseph Stalin | obtained power of the communist USSR after the death of Vladmir Lenin | 32 | |
| 362970588 | Stalinism | the political, economic, and social principles and policies associated with stalin especially : the theory and practice of communism developed by Stalin from Marxism-Leninism and marked especially by rigid authoritarianism, widespread use of terror, and often emphasis on Russian nationalism | 33 | |
| 362970589 | Five year plan | were a series of nation-wide centralized economic plans in the soviet union. The plans were developed by a state planning committee based on the Theory of productive forces that was part of the general guidelines of the communist party for economic development. | 34 | |
| 362973714 | Collectivization | The goal of this policy was to consolidate individual land and labour into huge, more modern, Collective farms (in Russian these large, collective farms were called: колхо́з, better known as Kolkhoz, plural (kolkhozy). | 35 | |
| 362973715 | Mikhail Gorbachev | -is a former Soviet statesman, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991, and as the last head of state of the Soviet Union, having served from 1988 until its dissolution in 1991. He was the only general secretary in the history of the Soviet Union to have been born during the Communist rule. | 36 | |
| 362973716 | Perestroika | the policy of economic and governmental reform instituted by Mikhail Gorbachev in the Soviet Union during the mid-1980s | 37 | |
| 362973717 | Glasnost | a Soviet policy permitting open discussion of political and social issues and freer dissemination of news and information | 38 | |
| 362973718 | Democratization | -founder of the People's Republic of China. Mao was one of the most prominent Communist theoreticians and his ideas on revolutionary struggle and guerrilla warfare have been extremely influential, especially among Third World revolutionaries. | 39 | |
| 362975092 | Maoism | The communist doctrines of Mao Zedong as formerly practiced in China, having as a central idea permanent revolution and stressing the importance of the peasantry, of small-scale industry, and of agricultural collectivization | 40 | |
| 362975093 | Long March | a military retreat undertaken by the Red army of communist party of China | 41 | |
| 362976439 | Chiang Kai Shek | (1887-1975), Chinese statesman and general; president of China 1928-31 and 1943-49 and of Taiwan 1950-75. He tried to unite China by military means in the 1930s but was defeated by the Communists. Forced to abandon mainland China in 1949, he set up a separate Nationalist Chinese State in Taiwan | 42 | |
| 362978575 | Cultural Revolution | A political upheaval in China 1966-76 intended to bring about a return to revolutionary Maoist beliefs. Largely carried forward by the Red Guard, it resulted in attacks on intellectuals, a large-scale purge in party posts, and the appearance of a personality cult around Mao Zedong. It led to considerable economic dislocation and was gradually brought to a halt by premier Zhou Enlai | 43 | |
| 362978576 | Deng Xiaoping | Chinese communist statesman; vice-premier 1973-76 and 1977-80; vice-chairman of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party 1977-80. Discredited during the Cultural Revolution, he was reinstated in 1977 and became the leader of China | 44 | |
| 362978577 | Socialist Market economy | An economic theory in China in which state ownership of the means of production was retained by the government but the control of wages, prices, and employment was to be relaxed to allow a private sector to develop. | 45 | |
| 362978578 | Tiananmen square | (Beijing China) was made four times larger in the 1950s as communist leader Mao Zedong wanted the square to be the largest in the world. Unfortunately, this took out many residences in the process. | 46 | |
| 362980262 | cold war conflict in Korea | -Post World War II, both United States and USSR did not want any military aggression to occur as they were tired of any more fights. Thus the two powers began to compete each other through the conflicts of foreign countries, in order to spread their own power more globaly; examples are Vietnamese War and Cuban Missile Crisis. Likely, the influence of Cold War tension on the Korean conflict cannot be ignored. | 47 | |
| 362980263 | cold war conflict in Vietnam | In the Vietnam War — which lasted from the mid-1950s until 1975 — the United States and the southern-based Republic of Vietnam (RVN) opposed the southern-based revolutionary movement known as the Viet Cong and its sponsor, the Communist Democratic Republic of Vietnam (the DRV, or North Vietnam). The war was the second of two major conflicts that spread throughout Indochina, with Vietnam as its focal point (see Vietnam). The First Indochina War was a struggle between Vietnamese nationalists and the French colonial regime aided by the United States. In the second war, the United States replaced France as the major contender against northern-based Communists and southern insurgents. Communist victory in 1975 had profound ramifications for the United States; it was not only a setback to the containment of communism in Asia but a shock to American self-confidence. | 48 | |
| 362980264 | cold war conflict in Afghanistan | -was a nine-year proxy war during the Cold war involving the Soviet Union, supporting the Marxist-Leninist government of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan[15] against the Afghan Mujahideen guerrilla movement and foreign "Arab-Afghan" volunteers. | 49 | |
| 362981496 | Mexican Revolution | In 1810 in a peasant insurrection driven by hunger for land and by high food prices and led successively by two priests, Miguel Hidalgo and Jose Morelos (villa/ Zapata- fought for land reform for peasants) | 50 | |
| 362981497 | Indian national Congress | -The Indian National Congress is the self-proclaimed largest and oldest democratic organization in the world. Since its inception in 1885, it has been responsible for many of the drastic changes in Indian politics. So much so that leaders like Mahatma Gandhi who rose out of it succeeded in not only seeing changes in their country but in the entire world. | 51 | |
| 362981498 | Gandhi | showed his sympathy for the poor by wearing simple peasant garb which helped transform the independence movement from just the elite group to mass support, he sparked nationalistic feelings among his followers by advocating a return to Indian self sufficiency and the shedding of British control | 52 | |
| 362981499 | Nehru | first prime minister of free India | 53 | |
| 362984462 | Passive Resistance/Civil Disobedience | refusal to obey a law or follow a policy believed to be unjust. Practitioners of civil disobediance basing their actions on moral right and usually employ the nonviolent technique of passive resistance in order to bring wider attention to the injustice. | 54 | |
| 362984463 | Soul Force | when someone peacefully refuses to do things that are repugnant to my conscience | 55 | |
| 362984464 | Salt march | Mahatma Gandhi proposed a non-violent march protesting the British Salt Tax, continuing Gandhi's pleas for civil disobedience. | 56 | |
| 362988431 | Muhammad Jinnah | was a twentieth-century lawyer, politician and statesman who is known as being the founder of Pakistan. | 57 | |
| 362988432 | Muslim league | founded in 1906 which, under Muhammad Ali Jinnah, led the demand for the partition of India resulting in the creation of Pakistan | 58 | |
| 362988433 | Apartheid | A policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race. | 59 | |
| 362988434 | African national congress | The ANC is a national liberation movement. It was formed in 1912 to unite the African people and spearhead the struggle for fundamental political,social and economic change. For ten decades the ANC has led the struggle against racism and oppression, organising mass resistance, mobilising the international community and taking up the armed struggle against apartheid. | 60 | |
| 362988435 | Nelson Mandela | served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, and was the first South African president to be elected in a fully representative democratic election. | 61 | |
| 362988436 | Kwame Nkrumah | was the leader of Ghana and its predecessor state, the Gold Coast, from 1952 to 1966. Overseeing the nation's independence from British colonial rule in 1957, Nkrumah was the first President of Ghana and the first Prime Minister of Ghana | 62 | |
| 362988437 | Pan Africanism | is a movement that seeks to unify African people or people living in Africa, into a "one African community".[1] Differing types of Pan-Africanism seek different levels of economic, racial, social, or political unity. | 63 | |
| 362988438 | Pan Arabism | is an ideology espousing the unification - or, sometimes, close cooperation and solidarity against perceived enemies of the Arabs - of the countries of the Arab world, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Arabian Sea. | 64 | |
| 362988439 | Supranational Organizations | An organization that exists in multiple countries. While, theoretically, supranational could refer to multinational corporations, the term most often describes an international government or quasi-government organization. Examples include the United Nations and the International Monetary Fund. Supranational organizations often have a direct role in regulation. For example, an international treaty may set up certain standards for international trade. However, enforcement of these provisions is left to individual, sovereign governments. ex) general electric | 65 | |
| 362990849 | integration | intermixing of people or groups previously segregated | 66 | |
| 362990852 | Kyoto Accords | is an international treaty whereby countries agree to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases they emit if their neighbors do likewise | 67 | |
| 362990854 | Neo-Liberalism | is a contemporary political movement advocating economic liberalizations, free trade and open markets. | 68 | |
| 362997390 | Transnational corporations | those corporations which operate in more than one country or nation at a time -- have become some of the most powerful economic and political entities in the world today. | 69 | |
| 362997391 | Global north and south | -e north-south divide is a socio-economic and political division that exists between the wealthy developed countries, known collectively as "the north", and the poorer developing countries (least developed countries), or "the south." | 70 | |
| 362997392 | MDC's v. LDC's | Neocolonialism refers to the economic control that MDCs are sometimes believed to have over LDCs. Through organizations such as the IMF, the MDCs are able to dictate precisely what LDCs economic policies are, or are able to use their economic subsidies to put LDCs industries out of business. | 71 | |
| 362997393 | Modernization Model | a theory used to explain the process of modernization within societies. The theory looks at the internal factors of a country while assuming that, with assistance, "traditional" countries can be brought to development in the same manner more developed countries have. | 72 | |
| 362997394 | Demographic transition | is the transition from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates as a country develops from a pre-industrial to an industrialized economic system. | 73 | |
| 362997395 | Green Revolution | refers to a series of research, development, and technology transfer initiatives, occurring between the 1940s and the late 1970s, that increased agriculture production around the world, beginning most markedly in the late 1960s. | 74 | |
| 362997396 | Fundamentalism | is the demand for a strict adherence to specific theological doctrines usually understood as a reaction against Modernist theology, combined with a vigorous attack on outside threats to their religious culture.[1] The term "fundamentalism" was originally coined by its supporters to describe a specific package of theological beliefs that developed into a movement within the Protestant community of the United States in the early part of the 20th century | 75 | |
| 362997397 | Globalization v Fragmentation | Globalization was the spreading of ideas worldwide while fragmentation was countries/ people being split up | 76 | |
| 362997398 | modernism vs postmodernism | - post any of a number of trends or movements in the arts and literature developing in the 1970s in reaction to or rejection of the dogma, principles, or practices of established modernism, especially a movement in architecture and the decorative arts running counter to the practice and influence of the International Style and encouraging the use of elements from historical vernacular styles and often playful illusion, decoration, and complexity. | 77 | |
| 362997399 | Modernism | modern artistic or literary philosophy and practice; especially : a self-conscious break with the past and a search for new forms of expression | 78 |
