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| 4275682629 | Marshal Plan | A U.S. plan to support the reconstruction and recovery of Europe after World War II; stop the spread of communism | 0 | |
| 4275686799 | Facism | A political movement: extreme nationalism, one-party rule, denial of individual rights | 1 | |
| 4275709667 | Guomindang | China's nationalist political party Founded by Sun Yat-sen in 1912 Based on democratic principles | 2 | |
| 4275726170 | League of Nations | International organization founded after WWI Promoted peace and cooperation amongst member nations | 3 | |
| 4275733890 | Brinkmanship | 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 | 4 | |
| 4275775918 | Treaty of Versailles | 1919 peace treaty between Germany and the Allied nations; ended World War I; Germany took blame for the war; had to pay war reparations; territorial losses and no military for Germany | 5 | |
| 4275740547 | Containment | Cold War policy of the U.S. - prevent the spread of communism | 6 | |
| 4275753978 | World Trade Organization (WTO) | An international organization begun in 1955 to promote and organize world trade | 7 | |
| 4275758968 | Five Year Plans | Introduced by Stalin in 1928 to increase industrial production in the Soviet Union Succeeded in making the Soviet Union a major industrial power in the 1930's | 8 | |
| 4275771275 | Appeasement | The policy of Great Britain and France of making concessions to Hitler in the 1930's The idea was to avoid war | 9 | |
| 4275746986 | World Bank | Agency of the United Nations Offers loans to countries to promote trade and economic development | 10 | |
| 4275797648 | New Deal | President Roosevelt's plan of programs to bring the U.S. out of the Great Depression; increased government involvement in society | 11 | |
| 4275802466 | Cold War | a tense diplomatic relationship between the U.S. and the Soviet Union after World War II | 12 | |
| 4275805943 | Apartheid | South African policy of separating races | 13 | |
| 4275808555 | United Nations | The international organization founded in 1945 to establish peace and cooperation between nations | 14 | |
| 4275813139 | Holocaust | The Nazi program during World War II that killed 6 million Jews and other groups of undesirables | 15 | |
| 4275819109 | Reparations | Payment of war debts by the losing side | 16 | |
| 4275823052 | Cuban Missile Crisis | 1962: Soviets constructed nuclear missile sites Cuba; tense discussions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union; Khrushchev and Kennedy; Khrushchev eventually backed down & missiles were removed | 17 | |
| 4275839935 | McDonaldization | The spread of American culture and values around the world | 18 | |
| 4275846029 | Genocide | The systematic killing of an entire ethnic group | 19 | |
| 4275858501 | Korean Conflict | War between Communist North Korea, aided by China, and Capitalist South Korea, aided by the U.S. | 20 | |
| 4291202904 | Mass consumerism | Trade in products designed to appeal to a global market | 21 | |
| 4291204549 | National Organization for Women | U.S. organization founded in 1969 to campaign for women's rights | 22 | |
| 4291206541 | North American Free Trade Organization | (NAFTA) Organization that prohibits tariffs and other trade barriers between Mexico, U.S. and Canada | 23 | |
| 4291207804 | Service industries | Jobs that provide a service rather than a manufactured or agricultural product | 24 | |
| 4291209394 | Afrikaners | South Africans who were descended from the Dutch who settled in South Africa in the 1600's | 25 | |
| 4291210860 | Great Leap Forward | China: disastrous economic policy introduced by Mao Zedong that proposed the implementation of small scale industrial projects on individual peasant communes | 26 | |
| 4291214316 | Treaty of Brest-Litovsk | 1918 treaty ending WWI between Russia and Germany | 27 | |
| 4291215946 | Helsinki accords | 1957: political and human rights agreement signed in Helsinki, Finland by Western European nations and the Soviet Union | 28 | |
| 4291218187 | Yalta Conference | Soviet Union, Great Britain & the U.S. - 1945; Soviet Union agrees to enter war against Japan in exchange for influence in Eastern European states | 29 |
