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367007171Allied PowersIn World War 1, the nations of Great Britain, France, Russia, the US, and others that fought against the Central Powers. In World War 2, the group of nations including Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States, that fought against the Axis Powers.0
367007173AnschlussThe German annexation of Austria prior to WW21
367007175AppeasementPolicy of Great Britain and France of making concessions to Hitler in the 1930's2
367007177British CommonwealthA political community consisting of the United Kingdom, its dependencies and former colonies of Great Britain that are now sovereign nations; currently called the Commonwealth of Nations.3
367007179Central PowersIn World War 1, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire, and other nations who fought against the Allies.4
367007181FascismA political movement that is characterized by extreme nationalism, one-party rule, and the denial of individual rights.5
367007184Great DepressionThe severe worldwide economic downturn that began in the late 1920's and continued throughout the late 1930's throughout many regions in the world6
367007186HolocaustThe Nazi program during WW2 that killed 6 million European Jews and other groups considered undesirable.7
367007188League of NationsInternational organization founded after WW1 to promote peace and cooperation among nations.8
367007190MandateA type of colony in which the government is overseen by another nation, as in the Middle Eastern mandates placed under European control after WW19
367007192Pan-Slavic MovementA Russian attempt to unite all Slavic nations into a commonwealth relationship under the influence of Russia10
367007193Potsdam ConferenceA 1945 meeting of the leaders of Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union in which it was agreed that the Soviet Union would be given control of eastern Europe and that Germany would be divided into zones of occupation11
367007194ReparationsThe payment of war debts by the losing side12
367007195RussificationA tsarist program that required non-Russians to speak only Russian and provided education only for those groups loyal to Russia13
367007196Spanish Civil WarA conflict from 1936-1939 that resulted in the installation of fascist dictator Francisco Franco as ruler of Spain. His forces were backed by Germany and Italy, whereas the Soviet Union supported the opposing republican forces14
367007197Tehran ConferenceA 1943 meeting of the leaders of the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union. It agreed on the opening of a second front in France15
367007198Treaty of Brest-LitovskThe 1918 Treaty ending WW1 between Germany and Russia16
367007199United NationsInternational organization formed in the aftermath of WW2, included all of the victorious Allies; its primary mission was to provide a forum for negotiating disputes.17
367007200Yalta ConferenceA meeting of the leaders of the Soviet Union, Great Britain, and the United States in 1945. The Soviet Union agreed to enter the war against Japan in exchange for influence in the Eastern European states. It also made pans for the establishment of a new international organization.18
367007201AfrikanersSouth Africans who were descendants of the Dutch who settled in South Africa in the seventeenth century19
367007202Alliance for ProgressA program of economic aid for Latin America in exchange for a pledge to establish democratic institutions; Part of U.S. President Kennedy's international program20
367007203ApartheidThe South African policy of separation of the races21
367007204AyatollahA traditional Muslim religious ruler22
367007205Berlin WallBarrier that surrounded West Berlin and prevented access to it from East Berlin and adjacent areas of East Germany from 1961-198923
367007206BrinkmanshipThe Cold War policy of the Soviet Union and the United States of threatening to go to war at a sign of aggression on the part of either power24
367007207Cold WarThe tense diplomatic relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union after WW225
367007208CoalitionA government based on temporary alliances of several political parties.26
367007209CollectivizationThe combination of several small farms into a large government-controlled one27
367007210ContainmentCold War policy of the United States who's purpose was to prevent the spread of communism28
367007211Cuban Missile CrisisUS and Soviet Union confrontation over the instillation of Soviet nuclear rocks in Cuba, perhaps the closest the world has yet come to nuclear war. October of 1962.29
367007212Cultural RevolutionChinese movement from 1966-1976 intended to establish and egalitarian society of peasants and workers30
367007213Five year PlansPlans for industrial production first introduced in the Soviet Union in 1928 by Stalin; they succeeded in making the Soviet Union a major industrial power by the end of the 1930's31
367007214Geneva ConferenceA 1954 conference that divided Vietnam at the seventeenth parallel32
367007215GenocideThe systematic killing of an entire ethnic group33
367007216GlasnostThe 1985 policy of Mikhail Gorbachev that allowed openness of expression of ideas in the Soviet Union34

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