Ap world history chapters 20 and 21 vocab Flashcards

13768358041	League of Nations	an international organization formed in 1920 to promote cooperation and peace among nations	0
13768358042	Black Thursday	October 24, 1929; stock market crashes and almost 13 million shares are sold that day alone	1
13768358043	Marshall Plan	A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952)	2
13768358044	North Atlantic Treaty Organization	An international organization that has joined together for military purposes	3
13768358045	December 7, 1941	Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor	4
13768358046	Treaty of Versailles	Treaty particularly known for its harsh reparations towards the Germans after World War I.	5
13768358047	New Deal	The name of President Roosevelt's program for getting the United States out of the depression	6
13768358048	European Economic Community	An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.	7
13768358049	September 1, 1939	Date WWII began with German invasion of Poland	8
13768358050	Bolsheviks	A group of revolutionary Russian Marxists who took control of Russia's government in November 1917	9
13768358051	Vladimir Lenin	Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR (1870-1924).	10
13768358052	Chiang Kai-shek	Nationalist Chinese leader	11
13768358053	October 1917 Revolution	Russian Revolution, Overthrow of the provisional government	12
13768358054	Alexander Kerensky	An agrarian socialist who became prime minister. He refused to confiscate land holdings and felt that continuation of war was most important.	13
13768358055	China 1911	The collapse of China's imperial order	14
13768358056	Joseph Stalin	Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition	15
13768358057	China 1949	Mainland falls to Mao's communists	16
13768358058	Cold War	A conflict that was between the US and the Soviet Union. The nations never directly confronted each other on the battlefield but deadly threats went on for years.	17
13768358059	Proxy War	A war instigated by a major power that does not itself participate	18
13768358060	Glasnost	a policy of the Soviet government allowing freer discussion of social problems	19
13768358061	Perestroika	An economic policy adopted in the former Soviet Union, a policy initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev that involved restructuring of the social and economic status of the communist party	20
13768358062	Sun Yat-sen	this man was a radical Chinese reformer who sought to overthrow the government	21
13768358063	Five Year Plans	plans outlined by Joseph Stalin in 1928 for the development of the Soviet Union's economy	22
13768358064	Collectivization	a system in which private farms are eliminated and peasants work land owned by the government	23
13768358065	Kulaks	Rich peasants in the Russian Empire who owned larger farms and used hired labour. They were their own class.	24
13768358066	Gulag	Russian prison camp for political prisoners	25
13768358067	Long March	1934 retreat by Mao Zedong and his communist followers from the Guomindang	26
13768358068	Cultural Revolution (China)	Campaign in China ordered by Mao Zedong to purge the Communist Party of his opponents and instill revolutionary values in the younger generation.	27
13768358069	Great Leap Forward	Started by Mao Zedong, combined collective farms into People's Communes, failed because there was no incentive to work harder, ended after 2 years.	28
13768358070	Tiananmen Square	Symbolic heart of Chinese politics; site in Beijing of protests and a massacre in 1989.	29
13768358071	Mikhail Gorbachev	Soviet statesman whose foreign policy brought an end to the Cold War and whose domestic policy introduced major reforms	30