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9760556606Allies (Triple Entente)included Britain, France, Italy, Russia, and the United States, Belgium0
9760556607Central Powers (Triple Alliance)Austria-Hungary, Germany, Ottoman Empire1
9760556608Influenza Epidemica huge flu that went around towards the end of the war due to soldiers coming home2
9760556609League of NationsAn organization of nations formed after World War I to promote cooperation and peace but U.S never joined.3
9760556610Paris Peace ConferenceThe 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
9760556611Russian RevolutionVladimir Lenin led this to establish a communist state in Russia inspired from communist manifesto. Leaded Bolshevik party. Paid him to return to Russia.5
9760556612Tzar Nicholas IIEmperor of Russia- last and before Lenin came.6
9760556613RasputinSiberian peasant monk who was religious advisor in the court of Nicholas II and couldn't kill him.7
9760556614Russia 1917Revolution began and men and women went on strike, tzar stepped down.8
9760556615MensheviksThe smaller and more moderate faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party before World War I. Middle class supposed Tzar9
9760556616BolsheviksA party of revolutionary Marxists, led by Vladimir Lenin, who seized power in Russia in 1917.10
9760556617Gulagsharsh Soviet labor camps often located in Siberia11
9760556618Weimar Republicthe republic that was established in Germany in 1919 and ended in 193312
9760556619Gandhipolitical and spiritual leader during India's struggle with Great Britain for home rule13
9760556620Partition of IndiaIndia was separated into 2 countries Pakistan for Muslims and India for Hindus14
9760556621Technological advances in WW1Poison gas, machine guns, tanks, submarines, airplanes.15
9760556622Total Warthe channeling of a nation's entire resources into a war effort16
9760556623Armenian GenocideThe massacre of Armenians conducted by Turkey during WWI17
9760556624Democracy struggle in AfricaWestern style doesn't work, creating national unity is difficult when leaders are dictators. Western countries didn't want to election African government18
9760556625After WW1U.S and Russia emerge as world superpowers, rest of world falls into global depression.19
9760556626FascismA totalitarian form of government where one person rules. (Italy- Benito Mussolini) and (Spain- Francisco Franco) Violet strikes, unrest in rural areas, unemployment.20
9760556627GuernicaNazi 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, nationalist21
9760556628Causes of WWIIAggression by Germany, Italy, Japan, Nationalism, Failed Treaty of Versailles, Appeasment22
9760556629Hitler brought Germany out of the Depressionthrough rearmament and public works.23
9760556630Potsdam ConferenceThe first meeting of the Big Three; before war ended. U.S and Soviet's in bad terms.24
9760556631Berlin AirliftThe Allies response to the Soviets blockade of West Berlin25
9760556632NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)A 1949 military alliance initiated by the US, Canada, and 10 Western European nations26
9760556633Warsaw PactA military alliance, formed in 1955, of the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellite nations.27
9760556634Stalin's 5 Year PlanBring the Soviet's back up to western powers, farms became state run and quotas set in factories. Forgot agriculture and people starved.28
9760556635KulaksThe well off peasants who were starved or shipped to the gulags- wealthy farm owners29
9760556636Collectivization- StalinPutting smaller farms together into one large farm so as to increase productivity30
9760556637MauzadangParis peace conference failed to meet with China31
9760556638May Fourth MovementA 1919 protest in China against the Treaty of Versailles and foreign influence.32
9760556639Chiang Kai-shekLeader of the Nationalist forces in China33
9760556640Great Leap Forward• Mao Zedong's attempt to build Chinese industry and agriculture34
9760556641Cultural RevolutionViolent attempt at social change in China launched by Mao Zedong35
9760556642JudaismSacred text is the Tanaka or Hebrew Bible Torah= a part of the Tanaka, first of the five books Ex= crusades, holocaust36
9760556643Jewish persecutionPersecution of Jews was made worse as people blamed Jews for the plague, crusades, ww137
9760556644ZionismA policy for establishing and developing a national homeland for Jews in Palestine.38
9760556645Turkey and PersiaOttoman Empire lost a lot of land after ww1, mostly giving all to Greece. Rebellion began.39
9760556646Ataturkname taken by Mustafa Kemal, the founder of modern Turkey, meaning "Father of the Turks" and wanted to westernize turkey. Encourages industry, railroads40
9760556648Reza Khan- Persiashah who modernized Persia41
9760556649Pan Arabism/Pan Africanismmovement in which Arabs sought to unite all Arabs into one state42
9760556650Cold Warthe power struggle between the Soviet Union and the United States after World War II43
9760556651Marshall PlanA United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe. Remove trade barriers, modernize industry, rebuild after war. Stop communism from spreading44
9760556652CambodiaGranted independence from France after ww245
9760556653Khmer Rougea communist organization formed in Cambodia in 1970 slaughter and famine followed.46
9760556654Pol PotLeader of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, who terrorized the people of Cambodia throughout the 1970's47
9760556655Latin AmericaDependence on industry, high debt, dictatorship, debates over land reform, wealth issues.48
9773056692China AfterMao dies, more moderate leaders took over China. Deng Xiaoping took over and more into economics. Farmers don't own land. Experienced economic boom.49
9773086752Four Modernization in ChinaAgriculture, Industrialization, education, and militarism50
9773159708Tienanmen SquareThousands of students protested in Beijing calling for democracy. Military sent and many killed and injured.51
9773251672One Child Policy52
9773340792AfricaSocialism vs Capitalism Gravitated towards socialism Dictators Droughts, Epidemic,53
9773396977Apartheid Divides in South AfricaRacial segregation, kept whites in control, Nelson Mandela.54
9773428694Green RevolutionGrow more food with less land. 2nd agriculture revolution. Methods, machinery, pesticides, seeds.55
9789556280Lenin1917- exiled. Germany sent him in to start Russian revolution. Leader of bolsheviks and his brother was executed.56
9789556281Red and WhitesReds= communist and Lenin supporters Whites= Tzar57
9789556282ChekaThe secret police under Lenin and his Communist Party58
9789556283diseasePandemic= widespread Epidemic= one area59
9789556284HitlerRebuilds Germany through military60
9789556285Causes of world war 2Fear of another war, aggression of axis powers= Germany, Italy, Ottoman Empire61
9789556286Palestinian vs IsraelSame land and Jews and Muslims fight over it for holy land, at first Jews were welcomed and later weren't62
9789556287IndiaGandhi, salt March, Hindus vs Muslims63
9789556288CambodiaPol Pot imposes communist values64

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