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Political party founded by Mao and other revolutionaries
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the Chinese Communist party
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Leader of the Chinese Communists
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Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung)
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Class of people whom Mao sought as his party's base of support
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peasants
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Chaotic condition of China from 1916 through the 1940s
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civil war
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"Father of Modern China" was was (briefly) the first president of the Chinese republic
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Sun Yixian (Sun Yat-sen)
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Nationalist leader in China after Sun Yixian's death
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Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek)
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Nation that sent advisors to help China
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the U.S.S.R. (Soviet Union)
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Nations that ignored the Nationalists' requests for help
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the western democracies
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The 6,000 mile trip of the communists to northwest China
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the Long March
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Supporters of China's left wing, ejected from the Nationalist party
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socialists and communists (or peasants and workers)
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Class of people who supported the nationalists
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the middle class
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Nickname of Mao's fighting forces
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the Red Army
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Nation that invaded and took over eastern China in 1937
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Japan
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New base of the Chinese Communists after their year-long trek
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northern China
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Political party that tried to establish a Chinese republic
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the Nationalist party, or the Kuomintang (Guomindang)
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China's last dynasty, overthrown in 1912
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the Qing dynasty
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Reform movement sparked by student protests in 1919
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the May Fourth Movement
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China's industrial northern province, invaded by Japan in 1931
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Manchuria
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Soviet leader whom Mao and his fellow communists admired
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Lenin
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Capital city of both the Nationalists and the occupying Japan
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Nanjing
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Japanese head of state who wielded no real power
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the emperor
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In th 1920s, Japan agreed to limit the size of this part of its military forces.
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the navy
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Element of Japanese society that controlled the government by the 1930s
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the military
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Need for these fueled Japan's desire to expand
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raw materials, or markets for its products
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Growth of this fueled Japan's desire to expand.
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the population
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Neighboring country that Japan invaded in the 1930s
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China
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Important source of Japanese wealth, disrupted by the Great Depression
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trade
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Man who reigned on Japan's throne from 1926 to 1989
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Hirohito
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Increased characteristic of Japanese government during the 1920s
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democratic
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Term for extreme nationalists
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ultranationalists
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Northern Chinese province that Japan seized in 1931
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Manchuria
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Kellogg-Briand Pact--Japan pledged to renounce this "as an instrument of national policy."
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war
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Japan put pressure on this neighbor with the Twenty-One Demands in 1915
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China
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Zaibatsu, people who strongly influenced politics in the 1920s
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powerful business leaders
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Name of the Japanese Parliament
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the Diet
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Values vigorously promoted by the military-dominated government
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traditional values
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Japan's name for its puppet state in Manchuria
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Manchukuo
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Int'l body that Japan withdrew from in 1933 b/c of condemnation of Japanese aggression
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the League of Nations
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Indian nationalist leader
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Mohandas Gandhi
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Indians' name for Ghandhi, meaning "saintly one" or "Great Soul"
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Mahatma
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Imperialist country that ruled India as its colony
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Great Britain
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The way to respond to British shootings and beatings, according to Gandhi
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with nonviolence
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Hindu social system that Gandhi opposed
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the caste system
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Britain promised more self-government if Indians fought in this war.
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World War I
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British-made item that Indians boycotted widely
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cloth
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Peaceful protest led by Gandhi to defy the British laws about salt
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the Salt March
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Deliberate and public refusal to obey an unjust law
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civil disobedience
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Gandhi's profession, which he practiced in South Africa
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law
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Non-Hindu Indian independence group
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the Muslim League
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Gandhi's policy of peaceful resistance through refusing to cooperate with the government
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nonviolent noncooperation
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India's leading political party
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the Indian National Congress (or Congress party)
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Indian province where the Amritsa massacre took place in 1919
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Punjab
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Reforms allowed by the Government of India Act of 1935
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local self-government and/or limited democratic elections
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Leader of the Muslim League beginning in the 1930s
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Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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New goal of the Muslim League under Jinnah
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a separate independent state
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Social injustice that Gandhi worked against in South Africa
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racial discrimination
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Garment adopted by Gandhi in place of western clothing
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the dhoti (or a simple and traditional white garment)
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Middle Eastern land promised to both Jews and Arabs by Great Britain
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Palestine
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Surname adopted by Turkish leader, meaning "Father of the Turks"
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Araturk
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New name of Persia as of 1935
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Iran
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System of racial segregation and discrimination set up in South Africa
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apartheid
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Two rival peoples in Palestine
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Arabs and Jews
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Revolutionary leader who was the first president of Turkey
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Mustafa Kemal
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People the Arabs fought in return for British support of an Arab state
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the Turks
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Policy of modernization followed in Turkey and Iran by Araturk and Reza Shah
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westernization
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North African nation that gained independence in 1922 but was still controlled by Britain
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Egypt
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Nationalist movement built on the shared heritage of Arabs
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Pan-Arabism
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Movement that focused on the unity of all Africans
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Pan-Africanism
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New Islamic nation founded by Abd al-Aziz Ibn Saud
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Saudi Arabia
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Territories in the Middle East governed by European nations, set up at the end of WWI
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mandates
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Empire that the Turkish Revolution ended
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the Ottoman Empire
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Oil-rich kingdom that gained independence in 1930
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Iraq
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British statement that "viewed with favor" a Jewish "national home"
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the Balfour Declaration
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Army officer who overthrew Iran's shah and set up his own Pahlavi dynasty
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Reza Khan (Reza Shah Pahlavi)
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West African movement that promoted pride in African roots
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negritude
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Jamaican native who promoted the message "Africa for Africans"
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Marcus Garvey
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U.S. president who dealt with the Great Depression
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Young U.S. women who embraced shocking new freedoms of dress and behavior
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flappers
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Nickname for the boom years in the 1920s in the United States
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the Roaring Twenties
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Movement of people that the United States limited after World War I
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immigration
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Popular, hard-riding rebel from northern Mexico
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Pancho Villa
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Business-oriented political party that dominated U.S. national government during the 1920s
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the Republican Party
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The years during which manufacture or sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the U.S.
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Prohibition
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U.S. president who said that prosperity was "just around the corner"
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Herbert Hoover
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Mexican artist famed for his bold, bright murals inspired by folk art
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Diego Rivera
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Latin American nations that benefitted from oil reserves
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Mexico and Venezuela
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Indian from southern Mexico who led a peasant revolt
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Emiliano Zapata
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Caribbean island nation occupied by U.S. Marines for years
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Haiti or the Dominican Republic
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U.S. fright stirred up by fear of communists and radicals in 1919-20
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the Red Scare
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Country in which Augusto Cesar Sandino led a guerrilla movement against U.S. troops
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Nicaragua
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Political party that dominated Mexican politics from 1929 through the 1990s
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the PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party)
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Term for female soldiers in the Mexican Revolution
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soldaderas
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FDR's new policy toward Latin America
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the Good Neighbor Policy
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"Giant" nickname given the United States by distrustful Latin American nations
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"Colossus of the North"
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Institution that took more control of economics after the war
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the government
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Condition of many countries because of wartime borrowing
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heavily indebted
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Source of government revenue, very high in many postwar countries
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taxes
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Drastic business collapse of the 1930s
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the Great Depression
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Many of these financial institutions failed in the 1930s.
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banks
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Condition of 30 million workers in 1932
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unemployed
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Condition caused by demobilizing (disbanding) the armed forces
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unemployment
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Common postwar condition of rising prices
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inflation
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Widespread walls that blocked free trade among nations
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tariffs
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Investment arena that collapsed in October 1929
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the stock market
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The program of relief and reform in the United States
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the New Deal
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Law that gave U.S. workers unemployment and old-age benefits for the first time
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the Social Security Act
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Group that pressured governments to help with workers' problems
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organized labor
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Work stoppage by laborers in many areas of the economy
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a general strike
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U.S. farm prices fell because of this.
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overproduction
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The International Monetary Conference of 1933 tried to promote this among nations.
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financial cooperation
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Government programs that provided employment for workers
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public works
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Global activity that dropped by 65 percent in the 1930s
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world trade
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Policy of improving a nation's economy without regard for other countries
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economic nationalism
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Practice of buying stock with only a small cash down payment
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buying on margin
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Average life span of a French government cabinet
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less than a year
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British workers who inspired a general strike
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coal miners
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British working-class party that gained power in 1924
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the Labour Party
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Irish force that fought British troops
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the Irish Republican Army
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Portion of Ireland that stayed part of the United Kingdom
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Northern Ireland
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Line of defenses built along the French-German frontier
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the Maginot Line
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German coal and iron valley that French troops attempted to occupy
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the Ruhr Valley
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British prime minister elected with working-class support
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Ramsay MacDonald
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The Irish nationalist uprising of 1916, named for a holiday
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the Easter Rising
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The independent southern portion of Ireland
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the Irish Free State (Eire)
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Main characteristic of Eastern European economies
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agriculture
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Union of Germany, desired by many Austrians
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Anschluss
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Form of Hungarian government under Admiral Horthy
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a military dictatorship
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Form of government in Poland after the constitutional democracy failed
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a military dictatorship
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Owners of most land in Eastern Europe
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wealthy aristocrats
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Because France had so many political parties, it had this type of government.
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coalition governments
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European nations' agreement to settle future disputes peacefully
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the Locarno Pact
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French coalition government of socialists and communists
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the Popular Front
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French socialist premier
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Leon Blum
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Hungarian communist who seized power in 1919
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Bela Kun
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One of the Eastern European nations that maintained democratic government
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Finland, the Baltic States, or Czechoslovakia
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Paris treaty that condemned war as a way of settling disputes
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the Kellogg-Briand Pact
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Italy had few industries because it lacked these.
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raw materials
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Italy's dictator
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Benito Mussolini
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Germany's dictator
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Adolf Hitler
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Ethnic group Hitler especially despised
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the Jews
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Hitler's book, the "Bible" of the Nazi Movement
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Mein Kampf ("My Struggle")
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Hitler's secret police force
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the Gestapo
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Name of Hitler's regime, meaning "Third Empire"
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the Third Reich
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Hitler's title, meaning "the leader"
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der Fuhrer
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Mussolini's title, meaning "the leader"
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Il Duce
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Mussolini's political philosophy
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fascism
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Bavarian capital briefly taken over by communists
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Munich
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Germany's lower legislative house; site of a fire in 1933
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the Reichstag
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Italy didn't have enough food because of these two conditions.
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poor land and a large population
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General term for government system that controlled almost every part of people's lives
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totalitarianism
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Fascism promoted this feeling towards one's country.
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extreme nationalism
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Government in which the leader used armed forces and police to crush opposition
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a police state
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The Italian and German fascist parties were violently opposed to this.
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communism
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The National Socialist German Workers' Party
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the Nazi Party
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Basic principle of fascism
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government control over everything
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Classes fascism appealed to
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the middle and upper classes
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Mussolini's fascist supporters
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the Black Shirts
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The German federal republic
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the Weimar Republic
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The Nazis' private army
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the Storm Troopers (or Brown Shirts)
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