World History Study Guide

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Benito juarez

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A liberal reformer of zaptec

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Zaibatsu

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Powerful banking and industrial families

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Caudillos

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Local strongman

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Mongut

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The king of Siam Total war

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Total war

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A channeling of a nations entire resources into the war effort

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Neutrality

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A policy of supporting neither side in a war

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T.E. Lawrence

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Lawrence of Arabia

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Militarism

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Glorification of the military

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Zeppelins

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Large gas-filled balloons used to bomb the English coast.

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Dardanelles

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A vital strait connecting the black sea and the Mediterranean

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Propaganda

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The spreading of ideas to promote a cause or damage a promoting cause.

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Reparations:

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Payments for war damage

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Proletariat

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The growing class of factory and railroad workers

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Fourteen Pointsnegritude movement

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A list of terms for resolving future wars.

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negritude movement

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A movement where writers expressed their pride in African roots and protested colonial rule

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Ahimsa

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Non violence and reference for all life.

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Balfour Declaration:

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The declaration included the idea of setting a national home for Jewish people in palestine.

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Venustiano Carranza

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One of the main leaders f the Mexican Revolution

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Apartheid

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policy of rigid segregation that became the law.

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Good neighbor policy

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A policy that stated to pledge to lessons interference in the affairs of latin American Nations.

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Mao Zedong

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A Chinese communist revolutionary who became the founding father of the people’s republic of china.

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Comintern

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Short for Communist international: An international communist organization founded by lenin

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Kulaks:

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Wealthy farmers

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Kellogg-Briand Pact

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An agreement stating that all nations that signed promised to renounce war as an instrument of national policy.

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Gestapo

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The secrete police of nazi

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Kristallnach

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crystal night

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Black Shirts:

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Party militants that rejected the democratic process in favor of violent action.

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Surrealism

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A movement that attempted to portray the workings of the unconscious mind.

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Gulag

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A system of brutal labor camps where many died.

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Neutrality Acts

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One law that forbade the sale of arms to any nation at war.

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Yalta

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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

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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

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A nationalist and communist who had fought in the Japanese war.

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Cuban Missile Crisis

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: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

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Nations stronger than other powerful nations

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Fidel Castro

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Organized an armed rebellion against the corrupt dictator who ruled Cuba.

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Detente

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Relaxation of tensions in the 1970's

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Nikita Khrushchev

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The soviet leader after Stalins death

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Non alignment

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Diplomatic independence from both cold war superpowers

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Coup'detat

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The forceable overthrow of a government.

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Jomo Kenyatta

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Led independence movements in their countries

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Autocratic

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A government that has unified power

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Theocracy

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A government ruled by religious leaders

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Anwar Sadat

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The first Arab leader to make peace with Israel

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Kibbutz

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A collective farm

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Indira Ghandi

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Nehru's daughter who was elected prime minister after he died.

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Corazon Aquino

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Corazon Aquino was elected after Begino Aquino died

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Nelson Mandela

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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

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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

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Won the nobel peace prize for his nonviolent opposition to apartheid

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Intifadas

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uprisings