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| 157640624 | Allied Powers | In World War I, the nations of Great Britain, France, Russia, the United States, and others that fought against the Central Powers; in World War II, the group of nations including Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States, that fought against the Axis Powers. | 0 | |
| 157640625 | Anschluss | The German annexation of Austria prior to World War II. | 1 | |
| 157640626 | Appeasement | Policy of Great Britain and France of making concessions to Hitler in the 1930s. | 2 | |
| 157640627 | British Commonwealth | A 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 | |
| 157640628 | Central Powers | In World War I, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire, and other nations who fought against the Allies. | 4 | |
| 157640629 | Fascism | A political movement that is characterized by extreme nationalism, one-party rule, and the denial of individual rights. | 5 | |
| 157640630 | Great Depression | The severe worldwide economic downturn that began in the late 1920s and continued throughout the late 1930s throughout many regions in the world. | 6 | |
| 157640631 | Holocaust | The Nazi program during World War II that killed 6 million European Jews and other groups considered undesirable. | 7 | |
| 157640632 | League of Nations | International organization founded after World War I to promote peace and cooperation among nations. | 8 | |
| 157640633 | Mandate | A type of colony in which the government is overseen by another nation, as in the Middle Eastern mandates placed under European control after World War I. | 9 | |
| 157640634 | Pan-Slavic Movement | A Russian attempt to unite all Slavic nations into a commonwealth relationship under the influence of Russia | 10 | |
| 157640635 | Potsdam Conference | A 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 occupation | 11 | |
| 157640636 | Reparations | The payment of war debts by the losing side | 12 | |
| 157640637 | Russification | A tsarist program that required non-Russians to speak only Russian and provided education only for those groups loyal to Russia | 13 | |
| 157640638 | Spanish Civil War | A conflict form 1936 to 1939 that resulted in the installation of fascist dictator Francisco Franco as ruler of Spain; Franco's forces were backed by Germany and Italy, whereas the Soviet Union supported the opposing republican forces | 14 | |
| 157640639 | Tehran Conference | A 1943 meeting of leaders of the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union; it agreed on the opening of a second front in France | 15 | |
| 157640640 | Treaty of Brest-Litovsk | The 1918 treaty ending World War I between Germany and the Russia | 16 | |
| 157640641 | United Nations | International organization formed in the aftermath of World War II; included all of the victorious Allies; its primary mission was to provide a forum for negotiating disputes | 17 | |
| 157640642 | Yalta Conference | A 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. The Yalta Conference also made plans for the establishment of a new international organization | 18 | |
| 157640643 | Afrikaners | South Africans who were descendants of the Dutch who settled in South Africa in the seventeenth century | 19 | |
| 157640644 | Alliance for Progress | A program of economic aid for Latin America in exchange for a pledge to establish democratic institutions; part of U.S. President Kennedy's international program | 20 | |
| 157640645 | Apartheid | The South African policy of separation of the races | 21 | |
| 157640646 | Ayatollah | A traditional Muslim religious ruler | 22 | |
| 157640647 | Berlin Wall | Barrier that surrounded West Berlin and prevented access to it from East Berlin and adjacent areas of East Germany during the period from 1961 to 1989. | 23 | |
| 157640648 | Brinkmanship | The 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 power | 24 | |
| 157640649 | Coalition | A government based on temporary alliances of several political parties | 25 | |
| 157640650 | Cold War | The tense diplomatic relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II | 26 | |
| 157640651 | Collectivization | The combination of several small farms into a large government-controlled farm | 27 | |
| 157640652 | Containment | Cold War policy of the United States whose purpose was to prevent the spread of communism | 28 | |
| 157640653 | Cuban Missile Crisis (October 1962) | US and Soviet Union confrontation over the installation of Soviet nuclear rockets in Cuba, perhaps the closest the world has yet come to nuclear war. | 29 | |
| 157640654 | Cultural Revolution | Chinese movement from 1966 to 1976 intended to establish an egalitarian society of peasants and workers | 30 | |
| 157640655 | Five Year Plans | Plans for industrial production first introduced to the Soviet Union in 1928 by Stalin; they succeeded in making the Soviet Union a major industrial power by the end of the 1930s | 31 | |
| 157640656 | Geneva Conference | A 1954 conference that divided Vietnam at the seventeenth parallel | 32 | |
| 157640657 | Genocide | The systematic killing of an entire ethnic group | 33 | |
| 157640658 | Glasnost | The 1985 policy of Mikhail Gorbachev that allowed openness of expression of ideas in the Soviet Union | 34 |
