9760556606 | Allies (Triple Entente) | included Britain, France, Italy, Russia, and the United States, Belgium | 0 | |
9760556607 | Central Powers (Triple Alliance) | Austria-Hungary, Germany, Ottoman Empire | 1 | |
9760556608 | Influenza Epidemic | a huge flu that went around towards the end of the war due to soldiers coming home | 2 | |
9760556609 | League of Nations | An organization of nations formed after World War I to promote cooperation and peace but U.S never joined. | 3 | |
9760556610 | Paris Peace Conference | The peace conference that decided the terms of WWI peace and Treaty of Versailles. Germany had to pay for the war, take full credit, and lose military. | 4 | |
9760556611 | Russian Revolution | Vladimir Lenin led this to establish a communist state in Russia inspired from communist manifesto. Leaded Bolshevik party. Paid him to return to Russia. | 5 | |
9760556612 | Tzar Nicholas II | Emperor of Russia- last and before Lenin came. | 6 | |
9760556613 | Rasputin | Siberian peasant monk who was religious advisor in the court of Nicholas II and couldn't kill him. | 7 | |
9760556614 | Russia 1917 | Revolution began and men and women went on strike, tzar stepped down. | 8 | |
9760556615 | Mensheviks | The smaller and more moderate faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party before World War I. Middle class supposed Tzar | 9 | |
9760556616 | Bolsheviks | A party of revolutionary Marxists, led by Vladimir Lenin, who seized power in Russia in 1917. | 10 | |
9760556617 | Gulags | harsh Soviet labor camps often located in Siberia | 11 | |
9760556618 | Weimar Republic | the republic that was established in Germany in 1919 and ended in 1933 | 12 | |
9760556619 | Gandhi | political and spiritual leader during India's struggle with Great Britain for home rule | 13 | |
9760556620 | Partition of India | India was separated into 2 countries Pakistan for Muslims and India for Hindus | 14 | |
9760556621 | Technological advances in WW1 | Poison gas, machine guns, tanks, submarines, airplanes. | 15 | |
9760556622 | Total War | the channeling of a nation's entire resources into a war effort | 16 | |
9760556623 | Armenian Genocide | The massacre of Armenians conducted by Turkey during WWI | 17 | |
9760556624 | Democracy struggle in Africa | Western style doesn't work, creating national unity is difficult when leaders are dictators. Western countries didn't want to election African government | 18 | |
9760556625 | After WW1 | U.S and Russia emerge as world superpowers, rest of world falls into global depression. | 19 | |
9760556626 | Fascism | A totalitarian form of government where one person rules. (Italy- Benito Mussolini) and (Spain- Francisco Franco) Violet strikes, unrest in rural areas, unemployment. | 20 | |
9760556627 | Guernica | Nazi Germany casual bombing of the Spanish down during the Spanish civil war. Franco and Hitler were friends. Hitler hated communists, anarchist, and socialist, so Hitler bombs with Franco's permission. Franco= led spanish civil war, nationalist | 21 | |
9760556628 | Causes of WWII | Aggression by Germany, Italy, Japan, Nationalism, Failed Treaty of Versailles, Appeasment | 22 | |
9760556629 | Hitler brought Germany out of the Depression | through rearmament and public works. | 23 | |
9760556630 | Potsdam Conference | The first meeting of the Big Three; before war ended. U.S and Soviet's in bad terms. | 24 | |
9760556631 | Berlin Airlift | The Allies response to the Soviets blockade of West Berlin | 25 | |
9760556632 | NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) | A 1949 military alliance initiated by the US, Canada, and 10 Western European nations | 26 | |
9760556633 | Warsaw Pact | A military alliance, formed in 1955, of the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellite nations. | 27 | |
9760556634 | Stalin's 5 Year Plan | Bring the Soviet's back up to western powers, farms became state run and quotas set in factories. Forgot agriculture and people starved. | 28 | |
9760556635 | Kulaks | The well off peasants who were starved or shipped to the gulags- wealthy farm owners | 29 | |
9760556636 | Collectivization- Stalin | Putting smaller farms together into one large farm so as to increase productivity | 30 | |
9760556637 | Mauzadang | Paris peace conference failed to meet with China | 31 | |
9760556638 | May Fourth Movement | A 1919 protest in China against the Treaty of Versailles and foreign influence. | 32 | |
9760556639 | Chiang Kai-shek | Leader of the Nationalist forces in China | 33 | |
9760556640 | Great Leap Forward | • Mao Zedong's attempt to build Chinese industry and agriculture | 34 | |
9760556641 | Cultural Revolution | Violent attempt at social change in China launched by Mao Zedong | 35 | |
9760556642 | Judaism | Sacred text is the Tanaka or Hebrew Bible Torah= a part of the Tanaka, first of the five books Ex= crusades, holocaust | 36 | |
9760556643 | Jewish persecution | Persecution of Jews was made worse as people blamed Jews for the plague, crusades, ww1 | 37 | |
9760556644 | Zionism | A policy for establishing and developing a national homeland for Jews in Palestine. | 38 | |
9760556645 | Turkey and Persia | Ottoman Empire lost a lot of land after ww1, mostly giving all to Greece. Rebellion began. | 39 | |
9760556646 | Ataturk | name taken by Mustafa Kemal, the founder of modern Turkey, meaning "Father of the Turks" and wanted to westernize turkey. Encourages industry, railroads | 40 | |
9760556648 | Reza Khan- Persia | shah who modernized Persia | 41 | |
9760556649 | Pan Arabism/Pan Africanism | movement in which Arabs sought to unite all Arabs into one state | 42 | |
9760556650 | Cold War | the power struggle between the Soviet Union and the United States after World War II | 43 | |
9760556651 | Marshall Plan | A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe. Remove trade barriers, modernize industry, rebuild after war. Stop communism from spreading | 44 | |
9760556652 | Cambodia | Granted independence from France after ww2 | 45 | |
9760556653 | Khmer Rouge | a communist organization formed in Cambodia in 1970 slaughter and famine followed. | 46 | |
9760556654 | Pol Pot | Leader of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, who terrorized the people of Cambodia throughout the 1970's | 47 | |
9760556655 | Latin America | Dependence on industry, high debt, dictatorship, debates over land reform, wealth issues. | 48 | |
9773056692 | China After | Mao dies, more moderate leaders took over China. Deng Xiaoping took over and more into economics. Farmers don't own land. Experienced economic boom. | 49 | |
9773086752 | Four Modernization in China | Agriculture, Industrialization, education, and militarism | 50 | |
9773159708 | Tienanmen Square | Thousands of students protested in Beijing calling for democracy. Military sent and many killed and injured. | 51 | |
9773251672 | One Child Policy | 52 | ||
9773340792 | Africa | Socialism vs Capitalism Gravitated towards socialism Dictators Droughts, Epidemic, | 53 | |
9773396977 | Apartheid Divides in South Africa | Racial segregation, kept whites in control, Nelson Mandela. | 54 | |
9773428694 | Green Revolution | Grow more food with less land. 2nd agriculture revolution. Methods, machinery, pesticides, seeds. | 55 | |
9789556280 | Lenin | 1917- exiled. Germany sent him in to start Russian revolution. Leader of bolsheviks and his brother was executed. | 56 | |
9789556281 | Red and Whites | Reds= communist and Lenin supporters Whites= Tzar | 57 | |
9789556282 | Cheka | The secret police under Lenin and his Communist Party | 58 | |
9789556283 | disease | Pandemic= widespread Epidemic= one area | 59 | |
9789556284 | Hitler | Rebuilds Germany through military | 60 | |
9789556285 | Causes of world war 2 | Fear of another war, aggression of axis powers= Germany, Italy, Ottoman Empire | 61 | |
9789556286 | Palestinian vs Israel | Same land and Jews and Muslims fight over it for holy land, at first Jews were welcomed and later weren't | 62 | |
9789556287 | India | Gandhi, salt March, Hindus vs Muslims | 63 | |
9789556288 | Cambodia | Pol Pot imposes communist values | 64 |
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