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Cultural Revolution |
A Chinese Movement from 1966 to 1976 intended to establish an egalitarian society of peasants and workers |
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European Economic Community (EEC) |
Common Market organized in 1958 which reduced tariffs among member nations and created a commentary with policy for other world Nations |
Europeans helping each other economically |
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Yalta Conference |
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 and made plans for the establishment of a new international organization |
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Iron Curtain |
A metaphorical description of the Divide between the Communist and Democratic Western Europe |
Think division |
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Fascism |
A political movement that is characterized by extreme nationalism one-party Rule and the denial of individual rights |
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Pan Slavic movement |
A Russian attempt to unite all Slavic Nations into a commonwealth relationship with under the influence of Russia |
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Al-Qaeda |
A terrorist group based in Afghanistan in the late 20th and early 21st centuries |
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Russification |
A tsarist program that required non-russians to speak only Russian and provided education only for those groups loyal to |
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Mandate |
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 1 |
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Marshall Plan |
R Us plan to support the recovery and reconstruction of Western Europe after World War 2 |
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The Berlin Wall |
A wall built by East German communist government to separate the Democratic Western Berlin |
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World Bank |
An agency of the United Nations that offers loans to countries to promote trade and economic development |
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Containment |
Cold War policy of the United States whose purpose was to prevent the spread of Communism |
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Central powers |
In World War 1 Germany Austria Hungary Bulgaria the Ottoman Empire and other nations who fought with them against the allies |
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Allied powers |
In World War 1 the nations of Great Britain France Russia the United States and other stuff out against the Central Powers and in World War II the group of Nations including Great Britain France the Soviet Union the United States that fought against Axis powers |
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League of Nations |
International organization founded after World War 1 to promote peace and cooperation among nations |
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Service Industries |
Occupations that provided a service rather than a manufactured or Agricultural Product |
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Five year plans |
Plans for industrial production first introduced to the Soviet Union in 1928 by Stalin. They succeeded in making the Soviet Union an industrial Power by the end of the 1930s |
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Appeasement |
Policy of Great Britain and France of making concessions to Hitler in the 1930s |
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Glasnost |
The 1985 policy of Mikhail Gorbachev that allowed openness of expression of ideas and the Soviet Union |
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Persian Gulf War |
The 1991 war between Iraq and the us-led coalition to liberate Kuwait from an Iraqi invasion |
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DNA |
The blueprint of heredity |
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Brinkmanship |
The Cold War policy of the Soviet Union and the United States of threatening to go to war as a sign of aggression on the part of either power |
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Collectivization |
The combination of several small farms into a large government-controlled farm |
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Great Leap Forward |
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 |
The first man-made satellite launched by the Soviet Union |
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The United Nations |
The international organization founded in 1945 to establish peace and cooperation among nations |
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Holocaust |
The Nazi program during World War II that killed 6 million Jews and other groups considered undesirable |
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Reparations |
The payment of War debts by the losing side |
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Great Depression |
The severe worldwide economic downturn that began in the late 1920s and continued into the 30s throughout many regions of the world |
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Mcdonaldization |
The spread of American culture and values around the world |
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Genocide |
The systematic killing of an entire ethnic group |
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The Cold War |
The tense relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War |
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Mass consumerism |
Trade in products designed to appeal to a global market |
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New Deal |
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 |
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Cartels |
Unions of independent businesses in order to regulate production prices and the marketing of goods |
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Korean conflict |
War between communist North Korea aided by China and capital of South Korea aided by the United States |
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Cuban Missile Crisis |
Winter 1962 the Soviets constructed nuclear missiles in Cuba which brought days of tense confrontation between Khrushchev and the US President Kennedy. Khrushchev ultimately back down and the missiles were removed |
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