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Benito juarez |
A liberal reformer of zaptec |
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Zaibatsu |
Powerful banking and industrial families |
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Caudillos |
Local strongman |
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Mongut |
The king of Siam Total war |
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Total war |
A channeling of a nations entire resources into the war effort |
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Neutrality |
A policy of supporting neither side in a war |
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T.E. Lawrence |
Lawrence of Arabia |
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Militarism |
Glorification of the military |
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Zeppelins |
Large gas-filled balloons used to bomb the English coast. |
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Dardanelles |
A vital strait connecting the black sea and the Mediterranean |
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Propaganda |
The spreading of ideas to promote a cause or damage a promoting cause. |
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Reparations: |
Payments for war damage |
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Proletariat |
The growing class of factory and railroad workers |
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Fourteen Pointsnegritude movement |
A list of terms for resolving future wars. |
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negritude movement |
A movement where writers expressed their pride in African roots and protested colonial rule |
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Ahimsa |
Non violence and reference for all life. |
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Balfour Declaration: |
The declaration included the idea of setting a national home for Jewish people in palestine. |
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Venustiano Carranza |
One of the main leaders f the Mexican Revolution |
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Apartheid |
policy of rigid segregation that became the law. |
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Good neighbor policy |
A policy that stated to pledge to lessons interference in the affairs of latin American Nations. |
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Mao Zedong |
A Chinese communist revolutionary who became the founding father of the people’s republic of china. |
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Comintern |
Short for Communist international: An international communist organization founded by lenin |
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Kulaks: |
Wealthy farmers |
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Kellogg-Briand Pact |
An agreement stating that all nations that signed promised to renounce war as an instrument of national policy. |
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Gestapo |
The secrete police of nazi |
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Kristallnach |
crystal night |
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Black Shirts: |
Party militants that rejected the democratic process in favor of violent action. |
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Surrealism |
A movement that attempted to portray the workings of the unconscious mind. |
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Gulag |
A system of brutal labor camps where many died. |
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Neutrality Acts |
One law that forbade the sale of arms to any nation at war. |
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Yalta |
three leaders agreed that the soviet union would enter the war against Japan within three months of Germany’s surrender. |
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Domino theory |
The view that a communist victory in South Vietnam would cause non communist governments across Southeast Asia to fall to communism. |
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Ho Chi Minh |
A nationalist and communist who had fought in the Japanese war. |
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Cuban Missile Crisis |
:a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. |
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Superpowers |
Nations stronger than other powerful nations |
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Fidel Castro |
Organized an armed rebellion against the corrupt dictator who ruled Cuba. |
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Detente |
Relaxation of tensions in the 1970's |
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Nikita Khrushchev |
The soviet leader after Stalins death |
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Non alignment |
Diplomatic independence from both cold war superpowers |
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Coup'detat |
The forceable overthrow of a government. |
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Jomo Kenyatta |
Led independence movements in their countries |
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Autocratic |
A government that has unified power |
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Theocracy |
A government ruled by religious leaders |
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Anwar Sadat |
The first Arab leader to make peace with Israel |
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Kibbutz |
A collective farm |
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Indira Ghandi |
Nehru's daughter who was elected prime minister after he died. |
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Corazon Aquino |
Corazon Aquino was elected after Begino Aquino died |
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Nelson Mandela |
a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader, and philanthropist, who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. |
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Hejab |
Wearing traditional Muslim head scarves and loose-fitting ankle-thigh garments meant to conceal |
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Militia |
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Desmond Tutu |
Won the nobel peace prize for his nonviolent opposition to apartheid |
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Intifadas |
uprisings |