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| 151136319 | Apartheid | A policy of strict racial segregation imposed in South Africa to premit the continued dominace of whites politically and economically. | 0 | |
| 151136320 | Afrikaner National Party | Black political organization within South Africa; pressed for end to policy of Aparthier; sought open democracy leading to black majority rule; unitl 1990's declared illegal in South Africa | 1 | |
| 151136321 | Secret Army Organization | Organization of French settlers in Algeria; led guerrilla war following independence during the 1960s; assaults directed against Arabs, Berbers, and French who advocated independence. | 2 | |
| 151136322 | National Liberation Front (FLN) | Radical nationalist movement in Algeria; launched sustained guerilla war against France in the 1950s; success led to independence of Algeria in 1958 | 3 | |
| 151136323 | Land Freedom Army | Radical organization for independence in Kenya; frustrated by failure of nonviolent means, initiated campaign of terror in 1952; referred to by British as the Mau Mau. | 4 | |
| 151136324 | Kenya African Movement | Leading Nationalist party in Kenya; adopted non-violent approach to ending British control in the 1950's | 5 | |
| 151136325 | Jomo Kenyatta | Leader of the nonviolent nationalist party in Kenya; organized the Kenya Africa Union (KAU); failed to win concessions because of resistance of white settlers; came to power only after suppression of the Land Freedom Army, or Mau Mau. (p 823) | 6 | |
| 151136326 | Convention Peoples Party | Political party established by Kwame Nkrumah in opposition to British control of colonial legislature in Gold Coast. | 7 | |
| 151136327 | Total War | Warfare of the 20th century; vast resources and emotional commitments of belligerent nations were marshaled to support military effort; resulted from impact of industrialization on the military effort reflecting technological innovation and organizational capacity. | 8 | |
| 151136328 | Potsdam Confrence | Meeting among leaders of the United States, Britian, and the Soviet Union just before the end of World War 2 in 1945; Allies agreed upon Soviet domination in Eastern Europe; Germany and Austria to be divided among victorious Allies | 9 | |
| 151136329 | Yalta Confrence | Feeting among leaders of the United States, Britian, and the Soviet Union in 1945; agreed to Soviet entry into the Pacific War in return for possessions in Manchuria organization of the United Nations; disputed the division of political organization in the Eastern European States to be reesatblished after the war | 10 | |
| 151136330 | Tehran Conference | Meeting among leaders of the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union in 1943; agreed to the opening of a new front in France. | 11 | |
| 151136331 | United Nations | International Organization formed in the aftermath of World War 2; included all of the victorious allies; it's primary mission was to provide a froum for negotiating disputes | 12 | |
| 151136332 | Midway Island | WWII pacific battle, decisive U.S. victory over powerful Japanese carrier force | 13 | |
| 151136333 | Battle of the Coral Sea | World War II Pacific battle; United States and Japanese forces fought to a standoff | 14 | |
| 151136334 | Pearl Harbor | American naval base in Hawaii; attack by Japanese on this facility in December 1941 crippled American fleet in the Pacific and caused entry of United States into World War II. | 15 | |
| 151136335 | Battle of the Bulge | Hitler's last-ditch effort to repel tge ivading Allied armies in the winter of 1944-1945 | 16 | |
| 151300545 | Holocaust | Term for Hitler's genocide of European Jews during World War 2; resulted in deaths of 6 million Jews | 17 | |
| 151300546 | Battle of Britian | The 1940 Nazi aire offensive including saturation bombing if London and other British cities, countered by Britian's innovative air tactics and radar tracking of German assualt aircraft | 18 | |
| 151300547 | Vichy | French collaborationist government established in 1940 in southern France following defeat of French armies by the Germans. | 19 | |
| 151300548 | Winston Churchill | (1874-1965) British prime minister during World War 2; responsible for British resistance to German air assualt | 20 | |
| 151300549 | National Socialist (Nazi) | Also know as the Nazi party; led by Adolf Hitler in Germany; picked up political support during the economic chaos of the Great Depression; advocated authortition state under a sindle leader, agressive foreign policy to reserve humiliation of the Treaty of Versailles; took power in Germany in1953 | 21 |
