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May Fourth Movement
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a 1919 protest in China against the Treaty of Versailles and foreign influence.
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Tehran Conference
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a 1943 meeting of leaders of the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union; it agreed on the opening of a second front in France
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Potsdam Conference
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a 1945 meeting of the leaders of Great Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union in which it was agreed that the Soviet Union would be given control of eastern Europe and that Germany would be divided into zones of occupations.
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Geneva Conference
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a 1954 conference that divided Vietnam at the seventeenth parallel
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Helsinki Accords
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A 1975 political and human rights agreement signed in Helsinki, Finland, by western European countries and the Soviet Union
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Mass Consumerism
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Trade in products designed to appeal to a global market
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National Organization of Women
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U.S organization founded in 1969 to campaign for women's rights
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New Deal
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U.S president Roosevelt's program to relieve the economic problems of the Great Depression ; it increased government involvement in the society of the United States.
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Cartels
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Unions of independent businesses in order to regulate production, prices and the marketing of goods.
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Korean Conflict
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War between Communist North Korea, aided by China, and Capitalist South Korea, aided by the United states.
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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While in 1962, The soviets constructed nuclear missiles in Cuba which brought days of tense confrontation between Khrushchev and U.S President Kennedy. Khrushchev ultimately backed down and the missiles were removed.
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Cultural Revolution
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a Chinese movement from 1966 to 1976 intended to establish an egalitarian society of peasants and workers
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European economic communities
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A common market organized in 1958 which reduced tariffs among member nations and created a common tariff policy for other world nations.
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Spanish Civil War
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A conflict from 1936-1939 that resulted in the installation of fascist dictator Fransico Franco as ruler of Spain; Franco's forces were backed by Germany and Italy, whereas the soviet union supported the opposing republican forces.
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Kabuki Theater
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A form of Japanese theater developed in the seventeenth century that features colorful scenery and costumes and an exaggerated style of action
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Coalition
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a government based on temporary alliances of several political parties
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Yalta conference
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A meeting of the leaders of the Soviet Union, Great Britain, and The United States in 1945; the Soviet Union agreed to enter the war against Japan in exchange for influence in the Eastern European States. The Yalta conference also made plans for the establishment of a new international organization
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Iron Curtain
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a metaphorical description of the divide between the Communist East and Democratic Western Europe
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Welfare States
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a nation in which the government plays an active role in providing services such as social security to its citizens.
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British commonwealth
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A political community consisting of the United Kingdom, its dependencies and former colonies of Great Britain that are now sovereign nations; currently called the Commonwealth of Nations.
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Fascism
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A political movement that is characterized by extreme nationalism, one-party rule, and the denial of individual rightd/
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Alliance for progress
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A program of economic aid for Latin America in exchange for a pledge to establish democratic institutions; part of U.S president Kennedy's international program.
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Pan-Slavic
Movement
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A Russian attempt to unite all Slavic nations into a commonwealth relationship under the influence of Russia.
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Al-Qaeda
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a terrorist group based in Afghanistan in the late twentieth and early twenty first centuries
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Ayatollah
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a traditional Muslim religious ruler
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Russification
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A tsarists program that required non-Russians to speak only Russian and provided education only for those groups loyal to Russia.
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Mandate
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A type of colony in which the government is overseen by another nation, as in the Middle Eastern mandates placed under European control after World War I
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Marshall Plan
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A U.S plan to support the recovery and reconstructions of Western Europe after World War II
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International Space Stations
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a vehicle sponsored by sixteen nations that circles the earth while carrying out experiments.
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Berlin Wall
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A wall, built by the East German Communist government, to separate the Democratic Western Berlin
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World Bank
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An agency of the United Nations that offers loans to countries to promote trade and economic development
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Import substitution industrialization
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An economic system that attempts to strengthen a country's industrial power by restricting foreign imports.
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World Trade Organizations
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An international organization begun in 1955 to promote and organize world trade
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International Monetary Fund
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An international organization found in 1944 to promote market economies and free trade.
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European Union
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An organization designed to reduce trade barriers and promote economic unity in Europe; it was formed in 1993 to replace the European Community.
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North American Free Trade Organization
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An organization designed to reduce trade barriers and promote economic unity in Europe; it was formed in 1993 to replace the European Community.
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Guomindang
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China's nationalist political party founded by Sun Yat-sen in 1912 and based on democratic principles; in 1925, the party has taken over by Jiang Jieshi, who made into a more authoritarian party.
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Containment
Definition
Cold war policy of the United states whose purpose was to prevent the spread of communism
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Government of India Act
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In 1935, The British law passed in 1935 which increased suffrage and turned provincial governments over to Indian leaders
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Central powers
Definition
In World War I, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire, and other nations who fought with them against the Allies.
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Allied powers
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In World War I, the nations of Great Britain, France, Russia and The United States, and others that fought against the central powers; In World War II the group of nations including Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States, that fought against the Axis Powers.
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League of Nations
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International organization founded after WWI to promote peace and cooperation among nations
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Service Industries
Definition
Occupations that provided a service rather than a manufactured or agricultural product.
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Organizations of petroleum exporting countries
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Organization formed in 1960 by oil-producing countries to regulate oil supplies and prices (OPEC)
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Evangelical
Definition
Pertaining to preaching the Gospel (the good news) or pertaining to theologically conservative christians
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Five Year Plans
Definition
Plans for industrial production first introduced to the Soviet Union in 1928 by Stalin; they succeeded in making the Soviet Union a major industrial power by the end of the 1930s
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Appeasement
Definition
Policy of Great Britain and France of making concessions to Hitler in the 1930s
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Kulaks
Definition
Russian peasants who became wealthy under Lenin's New Economic Policy
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Afrikaners
Definition
South Africans who were descended from the Dutch who settled in South Africa in the seventeenth century
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Hubblespace telescope
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Telescope able to peer deep into space
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Treaty of Brest Litovsk
Definition
The 1918 treaty ending World War I between Germany and the Soviet Union
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Treaty of Versailles
Definition
The 1919 peace treaty between Germany and the Allied nations; it blamed the war on Germany and assessed heavy reparations and large territorial losses on the part of Germany
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Glasnost
Definition
The 1985 policy of Mikhail Gorbachev that allowed openness of expression of ideas in the Soviet Union
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Persian gulf war
Definition
The 1991 war between Iraq and U.S led coalition to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi invasion.
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Deoxyribonucleic acid
Definition
the blueprint of heredity
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No theatre
Definition
The classical Japanese drama with music and dances performed on a simple stage by elaborately dressed actors.
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Brinkman ship
Definition
The Cold War policy of the Soviet Union and the United states of threatening to go to war at a sign of aggression on the part of either power.
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Collectivization
Definition
The combination of several small farms into a large government controlled farm
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Great Leap Forward
Definition
The disastrous economic policy introduced by Mao Zedong that proposed the implementation of small-scale industrial projects on individual peasant communes.
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Sputnik
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The first man made satellite, launched by the Soviet Union
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Anschluss
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The German annexation of Austria prior to WW II
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United Nations
Definition
The international organization founded in 1945 to establish peace and cooperation among nations
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Holocaust
Definition
The Nazi program during World War II that killed six million Jews and other groups considered undesirable.
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Reparations
Definition
The payment of war debts by the losing side
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Great Depression
Definition
The severe worldwide economic downturn that began in the late 1920's and continued into the 1930's throughout many regions of the world.
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Apartheid
Definition
The South African policy of separation of the races.
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Mcdonaldization
Definition
The spread of American culture and values around the world.
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Euro
Definition
The standard currency introduced and adopted by the majority of members of the European Union in January 2002
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Genocide
Definition
The systematic killing of an entire ethnic group
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Cold War
Definition
The tense diplomatic relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union after WWII
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