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64354037Sun Yat-senThis man was a radical Chinese reformer who sought to overthrow the government0
64354038Porfirio Diaza dictator who dominated Mexico, permitted foriegn companies to develop natural resources and had allowed landowners to buy much of the countries land from poor peasants1
64354039Francisco VillaMexican revolutionary leader (1877-1923)2
64354040Emiliano Zapatasouthern Mexico, led a peasant revolt, understood the misery of peasant villagers, followers call Zapatistas3
64354041Bolshevikemotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries4
65098481Lusitaniaancient region and Roman province of the Iberian peninsula5
65098482zimmerman telegraphtelegram which showed United States that Germany had no regard for the rights of neutral powers, a telegram from Germany to Mexico telling them to invade the U.S. promising land and recources. Britian intercepted it.6
6509848314 pointsWoodrow Wilson's peace plan to end WWI. It calls for free trade; an end to secret pacts between nations; freedom of the seas; arms reduction; and the creation of a world organization - called the League of Nations7
65111564league of nationsan international organization formed in 1920 to promote cooperation and peace among nations8
65111565Treaty of versailleforced germany to take blame for war and forced it to limit military and return land to france and russia9
65111566Mohandas Ghandi1869-1948. Major spiritual and political leader of India and the Indian Peace Movement. Known as "Father of The Nation" in India for his defiance of British government and success in civil rights movement. Lead famous Dandi Salt March in opposition of British Salt Tax.10
65111567Nicholas IIthe last czar of Russia who was forced to abdicate in 1917 by the Russian Revolution11
65111568Joseph StalinRussian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition (1879-1953)12
65111569collectivizationthe organization of a nation or economy on the basis of collectivism13
65111570Franklin Delano Rooseveltthe 32nd president of the United States. He was president from 1933 until his death in 1945 during both the Great Depression and World War II. He is the only president to have been elected 4 times, a feat no longer permissible due to the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution.14
65111571Fascisma political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government (as opposed to democracy or liberalism)15
65111572Benito mussoliniItalian fascist dictator (1883-1945)16
65111573Adolf HitlerThis dictator was the leader of the Nazi Party. He believed that strong leadership was required to save Germanic society, which was at risk due to Jewish, socialist, democratic, and liberal forces.17
65111574Nazirelating to or consistent with or typical of the ideology and practice of Nazism or the Nazis18
65111575Weimar Republicthe German republic founded at Weimar in 191919
65111576totalitarinismform of govt in which power resides ina leader who rules according to self interest and w/o regard for individual rights and liberties20
65111577Francisco FrancoSpanish general whose armies took control of Spain in 1939 and who ruled as a dictator until his death (1892-1975)21
65111578Winston ChurchillBritish statesman and leader during World War II22
65111579TitoYugoslav statesman who led the resistance to German occupation during World War II and established a communist state after the war (1892-1980)23
65111580Holocaustthe organized killing of European Jews and others by the Nazis during WWII24
65111581Nuremberg TrialsTrials of the Nazi leaders, showed that people are responsible for their actions, even in wartime25
65111582Berlin BlockadeThe blockade was a Soviet attempt to starve out the allies in Berlin in order to gain supremacy. The blockade was a high point in the Cold War, and it led to the Berlin Airlift.26
65111583NATOan international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security27
65111584Warsaw Pacttreaty signed in 1945 that formed an alliance of the Eastern European countries behind the Iron Curtain; USSR, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania28
65111585McCarthyismThe term associated with Senator Joseph McCarthy who led the search for communists in America during the early 1950s through his leadership in the House Un-American Activities Committee.29
65111586Nikita Khrushchevruled the USSR from 1958-1964; lessened government control of soviet citizens; seeked peaceful coexistence with the West instead of confrontation30
65111587GulagSystem of Siberian prison camps and penal colonies set up during Stalin's dictatorship31
65111588Solidaritycomplete unity in a group or organization32
65111589Fidel CastroCuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba (born in 1927)33

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