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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Berlin Airlift | When America sent food and other supplies to West Berlin. Continued for almost a whole year. |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | Head of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991. His liberalization effort improved relations with the West, but he lost power after his reforms led to the collapse of Communist governments in eastern Europe. Brought an end to the Cold War. |
| Marshall Plan | Introduced by Secretary of State George G. Marshall in 1947, he proposed massive and systematic American economic aid to Europe to revitalize the European economies after WWII and help prevent the spread of Communism. |
| United Nations | International organization founded after World War II to promote world peace and cooperation. It replaced the League of Nations. |
| Chiang Kai-Shek | General and leader of Nationalist China after 1925. Although he succeeded Sun Yat-sen as head of the Guomindang, he became a military dictator whose major goal was to crush the communist movement led by Mao Zedong. (p. 788) |
| Douglas MacArthur | (1880-1964), U.S. general. Commander of U.S. (later Allied) forces in the southwestern Pacific during World War II, he accepted Japan's surrender in 1945 and administered the ensuing Allied occupation. He was in charge of UN forces in Korea 1950-51, before being forced to relinquish command by President Truman. |
| Armenian Genocide | the Turkish government organized the department of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire and over a million were murdered or starved - one of the first genocides of the 20th centuries |
| Ethnic Cleansing of Rwanda | ... |
| Ethnic Cleansing in Kosovo | Serbia took control of Kosovo and got rid of Albanian majority |
| Opened Japan | Opening of trade with Japan |
| Woman's Suffrage | movement to get people (regardless of sex) the right to vote |
| James Watt | A Scottish engineer who created the steam engine that worked faster and more efficiently than earlier engines, this man continued improving the engine, inventing a new type of governor to control steam pressure and attaching a flywheel. |
| Charles Dickens | English writer whose novels depicted and criticized social injustice (1812-1870) |
| Charles Darwin | English natural scientist who formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection (1809-1882) |
| Realpolitik | politics based on practical rather than moral or ideological considerations. Used by Otto Von Bismarck to achieve Prussian dominance in Germany |
| Delacroix | This French painter was important to French Romantic art. He often used his painting to convey a political message, and he is best known for his painting depicting the socialist revolution of 1830: Liberty Leading the People. (French Revolution) |
| Catherine the Great | This was the empress of Russia who continued Peter's goal to Westernizing Russia, created a new law code, and greatly expanded Russia, and ultimately made Russia the most powerful nation at the time. |
| Warsaw Pact | Treaty signed in 1945 that formed an alliance of the Eastern European countries behind the Iron Curtain; USSR, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania. Response to NATO. |
| Illiteracy | an inability to read and write |
| Truman Doctrine | President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology |
| Apartheid | a social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic and legal discrimination against non-whites. It was the former official policy in South Africa. |
| Ho Chi Minh | 1950s and 60s; communist leader of North Vietnam; used geurilla warfare to fight anti-comunist, American-funded attacks under the Truman Doctrine; brilliant strategy drew out war and made it unwinnable |
| Passive Resistance | nonviolent action or opposition to authority, often in accord with religious or moral beliefs. |
| Mao Zedong | This man became the leader of the Chinese Communist Party and remained its leader until his death. He declared the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949 and supported the Chinese peasantry throughout his life. |
| Kristalnacht | A German word for broken glass; an event that occurred on the nights on November 9 and 10 in which Hitler's Nazis encouraged Germans to riot against Jews, and nearly 100 Jews died. This was the beginning of Jewish persecution. |
| Final Solution | Name given to the German goal of killing all European Jews. |
| Great Purge | The widespread arrests and executions of over a million people by Josef Stalin between 1936 and 1938. Stalin was attempting to eliminate all opposition to his rule of the Soviet Union. |
| Ethnic Cleansing in Cambodia | ... |
| Stock Market Crash | Another leading component to the start of the Great Depression. The stock became very popular in the 1920's, then in 1929 in took a steep downturn and many lost their money and fell into debt. |
| Lenin | Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR |
| Boer War | Lasting from 1899 to 1902, Dutch colonists and the British competed for control of territory in South Africa. |
| Toussaint L'Ouverture | was an important leader of the Haïtian Revolution and the first leader of a free Haiti. In a long struggle again the institution of slavery, he led the blacks to victory over the whites and free coloreds and secured native control over the colony in 1797, calling himself a dictator. |
| Communist Manifesto | This is the 1848 book written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels which urges an uprising by workers to seize control of the factors of production from the upper and middle classes. |
| The Wealth of Nations | written by Adam Smith, promoted laissez-faire, free-market economy, and supply-and-demand economics |
| Edward Jenner | English physician who pioneered smallpox vaccination |
| Conservatism | This was the political idea in which the people regarded tradition as the basic source of human institutions and the proper state and society remained those before the French Revolution which rested on a judicious blend on monarchy, bureaucracy, aristocracy, and respectful commoners.It is a political or theological orientation advocating the preservation of the best in society and opposing radical changes |
| English Bill of Rights | King William and Queen Mary accepted this document in 1689. It guaranteed certain rights to English citizens and declared that elections for Parliament would happen frequently. By accepting this document, they supported a limited monarchy, a system in which they shared their power with Parliament and the people. |
| Edict of Nantes | 1598, decree promulgated at Nantes by King Henry IV to restore internal peace in France, which had been torn by the Wars of Religion; the edict defined the rights of the French Protestants (Huguenots). |
| Cardinal Richelieu | This was the man who influenced the power of King Louis XIII the most and tried to make France an absolute monarchy |
| Kashmir | an area in southwestern Asia whose sovereignty is disputed between Pakistan and India |
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