4265346024 | Great War | name originally given to the First World War (1914-1918). | 0 | |
4265346025 | Guamindang | nationalist party founded by Sun Yat-sen | 1 | |
4265346026 | home front | the civilian population (and their activities) of a country at war | 2 | |
4265346027 | island-hopping | stragety of Allies in World War 2 of capturing some Japanese-held islands and going around others | 3 | |
4265346028 | Alexander Kerensky | an agrarian socialist who became prime minister. He refused to confiscate land holdings and felt that continuation of war was most important. | 4 | |
4265346029 | John Maynard Keynes | English economist who advocated the use of government monetary and fiscal policy to maintain full employment without inflation (1883-1946) | 5 | |
4265346030 | mandate system | a half-way system between outright imperial domination and independence, it was used to split Germany's empire after WW I. | 6 | |
4265346031 | margin | buying a stock by paying only a fraction of the stock price and borrowing the rest | 7 | |
4265346032 | Mein Kampf | Book written by Hitler while he was exiled, My Struggle. | 8 | |
4265346033 | Munich Conference | 1938; Chamberlain, France and other countries (not the USSR); they agreed that Sudentenland should be ceded to Germany; Chamberlain secured peace with Germany. | 9 | |
4265346034 | Benito Mussolini | Italian fascist dictator (1883-1945) | 10 | |
4265346035 | New Deal | the economic policy of F. D. Roosevelt | 11 | |
4265346036 | New Economic Policy | Lenin's economy reform that re-established economic freedom in an attempt to build agriculture and industry` | 12 | |
4265346037 | Pan-Slavism | a movement to create a nation state of Slavic people | 13 | |
4265346038 | Pearl Harbor | United States military base on Hawaii that was bombed by Japan, bringing the United States into World War II. Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941. | 14 | |
4265346039 | primary producing economies | economies that mainly export raw materials | 15 | |
4265346040 | protectionism | the policy of imposing duties or quotas on imports in order to protect home industries from overseas competition | 16 | |
4265346041 | Rome-Berlin Axis | the alliance between Italy and Germany (Mussolini and Hitler) | 17 | |
4265346042 | self-determination | the ability of a government to determine their own course of their own free will | 18 | |
4265346043 | socialism in one country | policy adopted by Stalin in the autumn of 1924, in which the notion of a worldwide socialist revolution was abandoned in favor of making the Soviet Union a successful socialist state. | 19 | |
4265346044 | soviet | council of workers and soldiers set up by Russian revolutionaries in 1917 | 20 | |
4265346045 | total war | the channeling of a nation's entire resources into a war effort | 21 | |
4265346046 | Tripartite Pact | 1940 alliance between Japan, Germany, and Italy. | 22 | |
4265346047 | Triple Entente | an alliance between Great Britain, France and Russia in the years before WWI. | 23 | |
4265346048 | Weimar Republic | German republic founded after the WWI and the downfall of the German Empire's monarchy. | 24 | |
4265346049 | Western Front | in WWI, the region of Northern France where the forces of the Allies and the Central Powers battled each other. | 25 | |
4265346050 | African National Congress | an organization dedicated to obtaining equal voting and civil rights for the black inhabitants of South Africa. | 26 | |
4265346051 | All-African People's Conference | meetings of Africans from across the continent | 27 | |
4265346052 | Salvador Allende | Socialist politician elected president of Chile in 1970 and overthrown by the military in 1973. He died during the military attack. | 28 | |
4265346053 | Fulgencio Batista | pro-American dictator of Cuba before Castro. His overthrow led to Castro and communists taking over Cuba, who was now friendly to the Soviets. | 29 | |
4265346054 | Lazaro Cardenas | President of Mexico (1934-1940). He brought major changes to Mexican life by distributing millions of acres of land to the peasants, bringing representatives of workers and farmers into the inner circles of politics, and nationalizing the oil industry | 30 | |
4265346055 | civil disobedience | a group's refusal to obey a law because they believe the law is immoral (as in protest against discrimination) | 31 | |
4265346056 | corporatism | an arrangement in which government officials interact with people and groups outside the government before they set policy. | 32 | |
4265346057 | Charles De Gaulle | French general and statesman who became very popular during World War II as the leader of the Free French forces in exile (1890-1970) | 33 | |
4265346058 | Blaise Diagne | Senegalese political leader. He was the first African elected to the French National Assembly. | 34 | |
4265346059 | W.E.B DuBois | 1st black to earn Ph.D. from Harvard, encouraged blacks to resist systems of segregation and discrimination, helped create NAACP in 1910 | 35 | |
4265346060 | General Assembly | the supreme deliberative assembly of the United Nations | 36 | |
4265346061 | Che Guevara | (1928-1967) Argentinean revolutionary leader; he was an aide to Fidel Castro during the Cuban revolution. | 37 | |
4265346062 | Samuel Huntington | argued that our most important and dangerous future conflicts will be based on clashes of civilizations, not on socio-economic or even ideological differences | 38 | |
4265346063 | import substitution industrialization | an economic system that attempts to strengthen a country's industrial power by restricting foreign imports. | 39 | |
4265346064 | Iranian Cultural Revolution | (Iran) revolution after 1979 aimed at purifying the country from secular values and behaviors | 40 | |
4265346065 | Islamic fundamentalism | believers within Islam who offer a critique of secular states and seek to change states and individual behaviors to conform to a strict reading of Islamic texts | 41 | |
4265346066 | Muhammad Ali Jinnah | Indian statesman who was the founder of Pakistan as a Muslim state (1876-1948) | 42 | |
4265346067 | Jomo Kenyatta | a nationalist leader who fought to end oppressive laws against Africans; later became the first Prime Minister of Kenya | 43 | |
4265346068 | Ruhollah Khomeini | Iranian religious leader who denounced the government | 44 | |
4265346069 | League of Arab States | regional organization designed to strengthen and unite countries with Arab majorities | 45 | |
4265346070 | "limited war" | a small scale war without nuclear weapons that involves just one area of the world | 46 | |
4265346071 | Nelson Mandela | South African statesman who was released from prison to become the nation's first democratically elected president in 1994 (born in 1918) | 47 | |
4265346072 | Gamel Abdel Nasser | president of Egypt when Israel teamed up with Britain and France to invade the Sinai peninsula; looked good to the Arabs because he stood up to the imperialists | 48 | |
4265346073 | Jawaharlal Nehru | Indian statesman. He succeeded Mohandas K. Gandhi as leader of the Indian National Congress. He negotiated the end of British colonial rule in India and became India's first prime minister (1947-1964). | 49 |
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