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| 9378457556 | blitzkrieg | "Lighting war", typed of fast-moving warfare used by German forces against Poland n 1939 | 0 | |
| 9378457557 | European Economic Community | aka EEC. Aka The Common Market. Established in 1957 to reduce trade barriers in Western Europe | 1 | |
| 9378457558 | European Union | A family of democratic countries committed to working together for peace and prosperity in Europe. | 2 | |
| 9378457559 | fascism | an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization. | 3 | |
| 9378457560 | flappers | Young women in the 1920s who challenged social traditions with their dress and behavior | 4 | |
| 9378457561 | Fourteen Points | President Woodrow Wilson's plan for organizing post-World War I Europe and for avoiding future wars | 5 | |
| 9378457562 | Franco-Prussian War | German war with France that ended with the defeat of France and unification of Germany into a single state under Prussian rule. | 6 | |
| 9378457563 | Franz Ferdinand, Archduke | Heir to the Austrian throne whose assassination by a Serbian nationalist on June 28, 1914, was the spark that ignited World War 1. | 7 | |
| 9378457564 | Great Depression | the economic crisis in the US beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s | 8 | |
| 9378457565 | Great War | Name originally given to the First World War | 9 | |
| 9378457566 | Hitler, Adolf | Austrian-born chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and dictator of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945 | 10 | |
| 9378457567 | Holocaust | the mass murder of 6 million Jews by Germany's Nazi regime during World War II | 11 | |
| 9378457568 | Kristallnacht | "Night of Broken Glass," when Nazis attacked Jews throughout Germany | 12 | |
| 9378457569 | League of Nations | an international organization formed in 1920 to promote cooperation and peace among nations | 13 | |
| 9378457570 | Manchukuo | Japanese puppet state (1932-1945) formed in Manchuria and eastern Inner Mongolia | 14 | |
| 9378457571 | Marshall Plan | A U.S. program of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after World War II | 15 | |
| 9378457572 | Mussolini, Benito | head of the Italian Fascist party; began creating an Italian empire by taking over land in Africa | 16 | |
| 9378472221 | Nanjing, Rape of | The Japanese army's systematic killing, mutilation, and rape of the Chinese civilian population of Nanjing in 1983. | 17 | |
| 9378472222 | NATO | The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a military and political alliance founded in 1949 that committed the United States to the defense of Europe in the event of Soviet aggression. | 18 | |
| 9378472223 | Nazi Germany | Germany as ruled by Hitler and the Nazi Party from 1933-1945, a fascist state dedicated to extreme nationalism, territorial expansion, and the purification of the German state. | 19 | |
| 9378472224 | Nazi Party | National Socialist German Workers' Party led by Hitler in 1921 slowly started to gain power. | 20 | |
| 9378472225 | New Deal | Franklin Roosevelt's economic reform program designed to solve the problems of the Great Depression | 21 | |
| 9378472226 | Nuremberg Laws | 1935 laws defining the status of Jews and withdrawing citizenship from persons of non-German blood. | 22 | |
| 9378472227 | Revolutionary Right (Japan) | Movement in Japanese political life marked by extreme nationalism and foreign expansion | 23 | |
| 9378472228 | total war | A conflict in which the participating countries devote all their resources to the war effort | 24 | |
| 9378472229 | Treaty of Versailles | Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment. | 25 | |
| 9378472230 | Triple Alliance | An alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy in the years before WWI. | 26 | |
| 9378472231 | Triple Entente | A military alliance between Great Britain, France, and Russia in the years preceding World War I. | 27 | |
| 9378472232 | United Nations | an organization of independent states formed in 1945 to promote international peace and security | 28 | |
| 9378472233 | Weimar Republic | German republic founded after the WWI and the downfall of the German Empire's monarchy. | 29 | |
| 9378472234 | Wilson, Woodrow | President of the United States from 1912 to 1921 who was especially noted for his idealistic approach to the end of World War 1, which included advocacy of his Fourteen Points. | 30 | |
| 9378472235 | World War I | The "Great War" in essence a European civil war with global implications that was marked by massive casualties. 1914-1918 | 31 | |
| 9378472236 | World War II in Asia | Set to end Japanese imperial expansion, Japan fights against mainly the Chinese and Americans. | 32 | |
| 9378472237 | World War II in Europe | A struggle essentially to halt German imperial expansion in Europe, fought by a coalition of allies that included Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States. | 33 | |
| 9378472238 | zaibatsu | in the Japanese economy, a large financial and industrial corporation | 34 |
