64354037 | Sun Yat-sen | This man was a radical Chinese reformer who sought to overthrow the government | 0 | |
64354038 | Porfirio Diaz | a dictator who dominated Mexico, permitted foriegn companies to develop natural resources and had allowed landowners to buy much of the countries land from poor peasants | 1 | |
64354039 | Francisco Villa | Mexican revolutionary leader (1877-1923) | 2 | |
64354040 | Emiliano Zapata | southern Mexico, led a peasant revolt, understood the misery of peasant villagers, followers call Zapatistas | 3 | |
64354041 | Bolshevik | emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries | 4 | |
65098481 | Lusitania | ancient region and Roman province of the Iberian peninsula | 5 | |
65098482 | zimmerman telegraph | telegram 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 | |
65098483 | 14 points | Woodrow 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 Nations | 7 | |
65111564 | league of nations | an international organization formed in 1920 to promote cooperation and peace among nations | 8 | |
65111565 | Treaty of versaille | forced germany to take blame for war and forced it to limit military and return land to france and russia | 9 | |
65111566 | Mohandas Ghandi | 1869-1948. 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 | |
65111567 | Nicholas II | the last czar of Russia who was forced to abdicate in 1917 by the Russian Revolution | 11 | |
65111568 | Joseph Stalin | Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition (1879-1953) | 12 | |
65111569 | collectivization | the organization of a nation or economy on the basis of collectivism | 13 | |
65111570 | Franklin Delano Roosevelt | the 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 | |
65111571 | Fascism | a political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government (as opposed to democracy or liberalism) | 15 | |
65111572 | Benito mussolini | Italian fascist dictator (1883-1945) | 16 | |
65111573 | Adolf Hitler | This 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 | |
65111574 | Nazi | relating to or consistent with or typical of the ideology and practice of Nazism or the Nazis | 18 | |
65111575 | Weimar Republic | the German republic founded at Weimar in 1919 | 19 | |
65111576 | totalitarinism | form of govt in which power resides ina leader who rules according to self interest and w/o regard for individual rights and liberties | 20 | |
65111577 | Francisco Franco | Spanish general whose armies took control of Spain in 1939 and who ruled as a dictator until his death (1892-1975) | 21 | |
65111578 | Winston Churchill | British statesman and leader during World War II | 22 | |
65111579 | Tito | Yugoslav statesman who led the resistance to German occupation during World War II and established a communist state after the war (1892-1980) | 23 | |
65111580 | Holocaust | the organized killing of European Jews and others by the Nazis during WWII | 24 | |
65111581 | Nuremberg Trials | Trials of the Nazi leaders, showed that people are responsible for their actions, even in wartime | 25 | |
65111582 | Berlin Blockade | The 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 | |
65111583 | NATO | an international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security | 27 | |
65111584 | Warsaw Pact | treaty 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 Romania | 28 | |
65111585 | McCarthyism | The 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 | |
65111586 | Nikita Khrushchev | ruled the USSR from 1958-1964; lessened government control of soviet citizens; seeked peaceful coexistence with the West instead of confrontation | 30 | |
65111587 | Gulag | System of Siberian prison camps and penal colonies set up during Stalin's dictatorship | 31 | |
65111588 | Solidarity | complete unity in a group or organization | 32 | |
65111589 | Fidel Castro | Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba (born in 1927) | 33 |
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