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| 6849225512 | Mohandas Gandhi | -South Asia -Leader of the Indian independence movement and advocate of non-violent resistance. Became leader of the Indian National Congress in 1920. He was assassinated for attempting to stop Hindu- Muslim riots | 0 | |
| 6849229932 | Indian National Congress | -South Asia -A movement and political party founded in 1855 to demand greater Indian participation in government. Its membership was middle class and was led by Gandhi. Appealed to the poor and organized mass protests | 1 | |
| 6849233090 | Salt March | -South Asia -Gandhi led a march over 240 miles to protest the British monopoly on salt in India | 2 | |
| 6849234951 | Civil Disobedience | -South Asia -Launched by Gandhi, with the salt march to the sea to oppose British taxes, this movement became the most significant organized challenge to British authority since the non- cooperation movement of 1920-1922 | 3 | |
| 6849238987 | India/ Pakistan Partition | -South Asia -After India's independence from Britain in 1947, India divided into Hindu dominated by normally secular India and Muslim Pakistan | 4 | |
| 6849241546 | Pan- Arabanism | -Southwest Asia (Middle East) -A nationalist movement built on the shared heritage of Arabs who lived in the lands from the Arabian Peninsula from North Africa | 5 | |
| 6849243652 | Zionism | -Southwest Asia (Middle East) -A movement for Jews to return to the promised land | 6 | |
| 6849246927 | Israeli-Palestinian Conflict/ Partition | -Southwest Asia (Middle East) -A conflict between the Israelis and the Arabs in the Middle East. The United Nations established Israel, a nation under control of Jews in Palestine in the late 1940s, in territory inhabited by Palistinian Arabs | 7 | |
| 6849251134 | Iranian Revolution of 1979 | -Southwest Asia (Middle East) -A revolution led by Ayatollah Khomeini in which the people transformed Iran from a pro-western nation into a fundamentalist Islamic nation. It becomes a religious theocracy | 8 | |
| 6849255727 | Ayatollah Khomeini | -Southwest Asia (Middle East) -Leader of Iranian Revolution- group of students supporting seize of the US Embassy in 1979- begins stage of anti-US sentiment, fundamentalist theocracy | 9 | |
| 6849257906 | Fundamentalist Movements | -Southwest Asia (Middle East) -Occurring within all major world regions, fundamentalism is a self- proclaimed return to the "fundamentals" of religion and is marked by a militant piety and exclusivism | 10 | |
| 6849261749 | Al- Qaeda | -Southwest Asia (Middle East) -International organization of fundamentalist Islamic militants, headed by Osama Bin Laden | 11 | |
| 6849275239 | Communism | -Europe: WWI, WWII, and Cold War Terms -A form of government in which wealth is equally distributed among the people, government steps in when necessary | 12 | |
| 6849277102 | Anti- Nuclear Movement | -Europe: WWI, WWII, and Cold War Terms -A reaction/movement spurred in reaction to the nuclear arms race, fought over the ideals of nuclear weapons | 13 | |
| 6849279619 | NATO | -Europe: WWI, WWII, and Cold War Terms -Collective self defense against soviet threat in North Atlantic, expanded the role of the US in European Affairs | 14 | |
| 6849282473 | Warsaw Pact | -Europe: WWI, WWII, and Cold War Terms -Response to NATO, members include the USSR and its satellite nations | 15 | |
| 6849286182 | Cold War | -Europe: WWI, WWII, and Cold War Terms -Conflict over government systems, no real fighting occurred between the two superpowers of US and the USSR | 16 | |
| 6849287235 | Holocaust | -Europe: WWI, WWII, and Cold War Terms -Nazis' program during WWII to kill people they considered undesirable, some 6 million Jews perished along with millions of Poles, Gypsies, Communists, Socialists, and others | 17 | |
| 6849291066 | Nuremburg Trials | -Europe: WWI, WWII, and Cold War Terms -The trials where leaders of Germany were tried as war criminals | 18 | |
| 6849291911 | League of Nations | -Europe: WWI, WWII, and Cold War Terms -International organization founded in 1919 to promote world peace and cooperation but greatly was weakened by the US's refusal to join | 19 | |
| 6849296235 | Treaty of Versailles | -Europe: WWI, WWII, and Cold War Terms -The treaty imposed on Germany by France, Great Britain, the US, and other allied powers of WWI, it demanded that Germany dismantle its military and give up some lands to Poland, it was resented by many Germans | 20 | |
| 6849298883 | Trench Warfare | -Europe: WWI, WWII, and Cold War Terms -Fighting with trenches, mines, and barbed wire, horrible living conditions, great slaughter, no gains, stalemate, used in WWI | 21 | |
| 6849301023 | Total War | -Europe: WWI, WWII, and Cold War Terms -A state in which all of a country's resources go towards the war effort, usually follows large propaganda efforts | 22 | |
| 6849303540 | Propaganda | -Europe: WWI, WWII, and Cold War Terms -Government sponsored media coverage of the war designed to disseminate one sided versions of an argument, promotes only what the government wants the people to see | 23 | |
| 6849306360 | Totalitarianism | -Europe: WWI, WWII, and Cold War Terms -The practice of a government and or a leader who aims to control the political, economic, social, intellectual, and cultural lives of its citizens in a way that fulfills a particular goal | 24 | |
| 6849308640 | Stalin | -Europe: WWI, WWII, and Cold War Terms -Leader of Russia after Lenin's death, ruled strictly using fear as a motive, came up with the Five Year Plan | 25 | |
| 6849310414 | Great Purge | -Europe: WWI, WWII, and Cold War Terms -Stalin's purification of Russia, he killed all who opposed him or seemly opposed him, sent many to the gulag | 26 | |
| 6849314924 | Five Year Plans | -Europe: WWI, WWII, and Cold War Terms -Stalin's plans to rapidly industrialize Russia through the production of steel, electricity, and machinery | 27 | |
| 6849318430 | Russian Revolution of 1917 | -Europe: WWI, WWII, and Cold War Terms -Massive upheaval that overthrew the Romanov dynasty in Russia and ended with the seizure of power by the Bolsheviks under the leadership of Lenin, created the USSR | 28 | |
| 6849320726 | Bolsheviks | -Europe: WWI, WWII, and Cold War Terms -Russian revolutionary party led by Vladimir Lenin and later renamed the Communist Party | 29 | |
| 6849322946 | Hitler | -Europe: WWI, WWII, and Cold War Terms -A radical German nationalist during WWI, led the National Socialist German Workers Party, the Nazis, in the 1920s and was dictator of Germany in 1932 | 30 | |
| 6849325001 | Dascism | -Europe: WWI, WWII, and Cold War Terms -Political philosophy that became predominant in Italy and then Germany during the 1920s and 1930s; attacked weakness of Democracy and Corruption of Capitalism | 31 | |
| 6849331886 | Appeasement | -Europe: WWI, WWII, and Cold War Terms -Satisfying the demands of dissatisfied powers in an effort to maintain peace and stability | 32 | |
| 6851903257 | Ho Chi Minh | -East Asia -A nationalist who appealed to nationalist feelings to oppose the United States troops and to unite the country under a single communist government | 33 | |
| 6851911459 | Nanjing Massacre | -East Asia -Brutal warfare against civilians and repressive occupation where Japanese forces used methods of warfare that led to mass death and suffering | 34 | |
| 6851921247 | "The Way" | -East Asia -Many traditions or religious philosophies in East Asia focus on this aka Tao | 35 | |
| 6851926767 | Chiang Kai-Shek | -East Asia -Nationalist who was fighting against the communist forces | 36 | |
| 6851930266 | Mao Zedong | -East Asia -Communist leader, collectivized farms and led to a food surplus in China | 37 | |
| 6851935958 | Great Leap Forward | -East Asia -Economic policy of Mao Zedong introduced in 1958; proposed small-scale industrialization projects integrated into peasant communities led to economic disaster and ended in 1960 | 38 | |
| 6851946583 | Mao's Cultural Revolution | -East Asia -A massive campaign led by Mao Zedong in the mid 1960s to combat the capitalist tendencies that he believed reached into even the highest ranks of the communist party; this campaign threw China into chaos | 39 | |
| 6851956109 | Tiananmen Square Protests | -East Asia -People peacefully assembled to push for greater democracy in China; when the demonstrators refused to disperse the government sent in troops and tanks | 40 | |
| 6851978400 | Containment | -North America/United States -A policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power or ideology or to force it to negotiate peacefully | 41 | |
| 6851984943 | Truman Doctrine | -North America/United States -President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology | 42 | |
| 6851990631 | Marshall Plan | -North America/United States -A plan that the US came up with to revive war torn economics of Europe, this plan offered $13 billion in aid to Western and Southern Europe | 43 | |
| 6851998838 | Wilson's 14 Points | -North America/United States -A statement made by Wilson about the war aims of the Allies | 44 | |
| 6852001205 | Self- Determination | -North America/United States -An ideology with the ideal that people with the same language, ethnic background, and political ideals should have the right to form sovereign states, fighting for independence from European nations | 45 | |
| 6852010317 | Isolationism | -North America/United States -A policy of non-participation in international political and economic relations | 46 | |
| 6852014061 | Great Depression | -North America/United States -Worldwide economic depression that began in 1929 with the New York stock market crash and continued in many areas until the outbreak of WWII | 47 | |
| 6852017925 | Martin Luther King Jr. | -North America/United States -US Baptist minister and civil rights leader, a noted orator, he opposed discrimination against blacks by organizing nonviolent resistance and peaceful mass demonstrations, was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee | 48 | |
| 6852026135 | New Deal | -North America/United States -President FDR's precursor of the modern welfare states; programs to combat economic depression enacted a number of social insurance measures and used government spending to stimulate the economy; increased power of the state and the state's intervention in the US social and economic life | 49 | |
| 6852036041 | Reaganomics | -North America/United States -Belief that a combination of monetarism, lower federal spending, and supply-sided economics will stimulate the economy | 50 | |
| 6852058662 | Rwandan Genocide | -Africa -100 days left 800,000 Tutsi dead and more than 2 million Hutu refugees were sent or fled to Zaire where many died from disease, percentage-wise was the most devastating genocide in recent history | 51 | |
| 6852067698 | Nelson Mandela | -Africa -Became leader of the African national congress, an organization determined to end the apartheid government | 52 | |
| 6852073422 | Apartheid/ Anti-apartheid movements | -Africa -A policy of strict racial segregation imposed in South Africa to permit the continued dominance of Whites politically and economically | 53 | |
| 6852079782 | Decolonization | -Africa -Process in which many African states won their independence from Western colonial rule, in most cases by negotiated settlement with gradual political reforms and a program of investment rather than through military confrontation | 54 | |
| 6852096377 | Environmentalism | -The World Today/Miscellaneous -20th century movement to preserve the natural world in the face of spiraling human ability to alter the world environment | 55 | |
| 6852103865 | Globalization | -The World Today/Miscellaneous -Commonly used to refer to the massive growth of international economic transactions from around 1950 to the present, increased interconnections | 56 | |
| 6852107276 | Global Warming | -The World Today/Miscellaneous -A worldwide scientific consensus that the increased burning of fossil fuels and the loss of trees have begun to warm the earth's atmosphere artificially | 57 | |
| 6852112369 | Green Revolution | -The World Today/Miscellaneous -Program of improved irrigation methods and the introduction to high yield seeds and fertilizers and pesticides to improve agricultural production; was especially successful in Asia but was also used in Latin America | 58 |
