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| The first "world war" between Britain and France as a result of colonization disputes. Ended with the treaty of Paris. |
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| An early type of popular litterature printed in modern Europe. Really the first form of media that was capable of gripping people into reading it. |
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| An offensive in Turkey during WWII. Mostly Australian Soldier. Allies needed control of the black sea in order to flank axis powers. |
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| TThe biggest factory created by Stalin. Used slave labor from the gulaags to construct it. Brings the country into industrial age. |
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| Practice of Widows throwing themselves into a fire after the death of their husband. Was banned after Britain colonized India. Used by Britain in order to show that they were bringing progress to their colonies. |
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| Lenin's first secret police force that was created during the revolution in order to supress counter-revolutionaries. |
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| A french nobleman sent over to America to hekp in the revolutionary war. He organized and led troops. |
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| Groups were upset that domain names came out of California so they came togerther to disscus action. Example of pooled soveriegnty. |
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| Last major battle on the western front. WWI culto f the offensive (rush into battle).Belgium. |
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| War of joint powers Syrai and Egypt against Isreal. Begins on Yom Kappur (Jewish Holiday). Almost causes War between US and USSR. |
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| Seven major oil companies that control the oil market. |
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| Chinese democratic party that went to war against Mao Zedong. They lost. |
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| The nation that inevitabley housed the KMT after their defeat. |
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| The main agressors in the Rwandan Genocide. Come from Belgian colonists. Belgium educated the Tutsis (Hutus' revials) in order to put them into power. |
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| The night of broken galss. Begins the Holocaust. German Jews are coralled. Synagogues are burned or vandalized. |
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| Japanese colony set up in Manchuria. Their biggest colony. |
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| Mustafa Canel. Military leader of Ottoman Empire. Recinds to the heartland after the collapse of the empire. Establishes equal rights and the nation of Turkey. |
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| Statues in Easter Island. Caused deforestization and eventual downfall of nation. |
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| Eurasia. Small period of time where it got abnormally cold. |
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| Small communities that exemplified pure socialism rather than the Marxist breed. Everyone together rather than for a government. |
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| One of the founders of ecology. Started the National Parks movement. |
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| A man heavily influenced by the thinkers of the enlightenment. Strongly opposed corrupt. Lived during the reign of terror which ended shortly after his execution. |
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| Led the rebellion against the French in Haiti. After he helped to create a constitution for the nation. |
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| The idea that God is behind every action and event and that humans are powerless against him. |
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| The leader of an indigenous uprising in 1780 against the Spanish in Peru. Failed but later became a mythical icon. |
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| Sugar act. Reduced the amount of tax on sugar but increased the efforts to impose the tax on people. Made Americans angry and helped lead to the revolution. |
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| Used ideas from the Enlightenment as well as his pamphlets during the revolutionary war in order to bring more patriots into the war. Later elected to the French national convention. |
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| Known as a liberator of Latin-Spanish colonies, he traveled and helped to bring countries to independence from Spain. He later governed over Gran Columbia as president. |
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| A result of not having hard currency, an uprising near Massachusetts that involved revolutionary war veterans. |
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| Slavery Abolition Act (1833) |
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| A declaration of the British government that made slavery illegal in the nation and all of its territories. |
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| A Frenchman who studied democracy. Considered a founder of political science. |
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| The practice of controlling the establishment, growth, composition, health, and quality of forests to meet diverse needs and values |
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| A school of thought that calls for various checks that would control a population. |
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| The laborers who had very little but their ability to work. |
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| A pioneer in the study of radioactivity. Died due to radiation exposure. |
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| The study of mankind, both past and present. |
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| One if the most influential art movements of the 20th century. |
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| Sepoy's were Indian soldiers in the British army. This mutiny began a struggle for India's struggle for independence. |
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| Aimed to enhance and further the cause of Oriental research by meeting with presidents and others in power. |
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| An English geographer, explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, Egyptologist, fencer and diplomat. He was known for his travels and explorations within Asia, Africa and the Americas, as well as his extraordinary knowledge of languages and cultures. |
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| The nomadic people of the Ottoman Empire that owned the land outside of the cities. |
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| Formalized the scramble for Africa by imperial powers. |
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| Statements made by Woodrow Wilson on WWI. In them he details that the war is being fought for reasons of morality, and called for post war peace in Europe. |
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| Empty tombs made to honor the dead without actually encompassing said dead. |
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| German submarines in WWI. |
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| The last Tsar of Russia. Watched as the country became unstable and collapsed. |
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| Political leader and activist before the Russian Revolution. Prime minister until the Bolshevik revolution when he was exiled. |
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| A city on the edge of Poland where two rivers meet. The cite of a treaty that ended the war between Russia and the central powers. |
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| The majority. A political party in Russia led by Vladimir Lenin. |
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| An international communist organization initiated in Moscow during March 1919 |
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| A highly centralized state. |
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| Strong backer of Stalin who backed his ride to power. Leader of the communist party in China. Eventually took control and led China into the Cultural revolution. |
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| Leader of the KMT after the death of Sun Yatsung. Led the purge of Chinese communists in the surrounding areas. |
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| The ruler of China told rural farmers to open steel forges in their back yards in an effort to industrialize. Led to mass famine and death and produced bad steel. |
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| A state of being exempt from local law. For example, embassies, UN officials. |
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| Trade of opium trade between China and Great Britain. |
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| Sun Zhongshan (Sun Yat-sen) |
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| The retreat of communist troops from the forces of the KMT. |
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| Police state in which all actions and freedoms are determined by the government. |
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| The Führer's power over all. Absolute power. |
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| Japan document stating that they were a world power and overturned an earlier law. |
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| Germany, Japan, and Italy in WWII. |
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| Pact signed by both men that guaranteed that neither would ally themselves with the other's enemies. |
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| A set of goals that the allied powers wanted to accomplish by the end of WWII. |
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| Code name for Germany's invasion of Russia. |
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| The collective extermination of able-bodied Armenian men by the Ottoman government. |
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| A conference initiated by Roosevelt that talked about what to do with the mass of Jewish refugees from Germany and Europe. |
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| Communist revolutionary who led the Khmer Rouge. |
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| First oil company to extract petroleum from Iran. |
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| A plan to give Europe aid to rebuild after WWII. The idea was to stop the spread of communism by endorsing the rebuilding of democratic nations. |
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| Took power in Egypt after the overthrow of the Monarchy. Remained neutral during the cold war and nationalized the Suez Canal Company. |
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| Largely concieved by India's prime minister, this movement was for countries that did not wish to be involved in the Cold War. They remained neutral. |
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| The general strategy to ease the tension of the cold war. |
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| A period in the mid 20th century that brought new innovation in agriculture that improved yield by a lot. |
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| The council of the UN devoted to securing world peace. |
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| Led the primary groups for communism in Vietnam. |
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| Established rules for commercial and financial rules among the world's industrial states. |
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| High ranking title given to Islamic clerics. |
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| A term used to describe people who struggle on the path of Allah. Used closely with Jihad (struggle). |
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| International Monetary Fund |
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| Organization originating from a Bretton Woods conference after WWII in an attempt to rebuild the international payment system. |
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