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38 Cards in this Set
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Appeasement
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trying to prevent war
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apartheid
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a social policy or racial segregation
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Bolsheviks
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Suportted the communism
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Bourgeoisie
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middle class: the social class between the lower and upper classes
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Chiang Kai-shek
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Chinese military and political figure; in the Chinese civil war
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Collaborator
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someone who assists in a plot
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Colonialism
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exploitation by a stronger country of weaker one
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collectivized farm
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agricultural production
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Conscription
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compulsory military service
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Constitution
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a set up of government
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Coup
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a sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force
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Cultural diffusion
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movement of ideas, from one region to another
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Cultural Revolution
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a radical reform in China initiated by Mao Zedong
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Deforestation
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cutting down of rainforest
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Epidemic
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many people are infected at the same time
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Five-year Plan
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A plan for the USSR
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Genocide
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systematic killing of a racial or cultural group
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Glasnost
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a policy of the Soviet government
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Great Leap Forward
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archeology and sociology
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Indigenous
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autochthonal: originating where it is found
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laissez faire
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individualism
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Lenin
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Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution
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Mao Zedong
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Chinese communist leader
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Nationalism
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love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it
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natural rights.
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able to choose for you'r self
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Pan-Africanism
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sociopolitical world view
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Perestroika
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an economic policy adopted in the former Soviet Union
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Rationalism
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the doctrine that knowledge is acquired by reason without resort to experience
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Red Guard
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a radical political movement by Chinese youths who espoused Maoist principles
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Reparations
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(given or received) for an insult or injury
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Self-determination
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government of a political unit by its own people
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separation of power
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French Enlightenment political philosopher Baron de Montesquieu
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social contract
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society; individual surrenders
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social darwinism
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theory that competition among all individuals
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Stalin
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Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party
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Territorial integrity
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is the principle under international law
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Totalitarianism
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dictatorship
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Zionism
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a policy for establishing and developing a national homeland for Jews
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