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Unit 6 - Global Change Flashcards

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This is the belief that all nations should have their own states and those states should represent their interests

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self-determination

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An alliance organized by the United States to develop and protect its allies.

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NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

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The belief that each nation should determine its own destiny.

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Self-determination

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Genocide committed by the Ottoman Empire from 1915 to 1923.

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Armenian genocide

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Pretty much defines itself. Wars in trenches.

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Trench warfare

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Leader of Nazi Germany

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Adolf Hitler

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The historical belief that a Jewish state should be established in the area of what is now Israel.

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Zionism

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Leader of fascist Italy

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Benito Mussolini

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Form of government marked by military and police coercion.

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Fascism

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Form of government marked by government involvement and surveillance of most aspects of life.

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Totalitarianism

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The revolution that deposed the last tsar of Russia.

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Russian Revolution

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The first leader of the Soviet Union.

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Vladimir Lenin

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The leader of the Soviet Union during WWII. Noted for implementing totalitarianism and causing famine.

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Josef Stalin

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Organization of the countryside into communes.

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Collectivization

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The appropriation of private property in a nation-state.

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Nationalization

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First leader of Communist China. Noted for the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution

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Mao Zedong

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A failed attempt at collectivizing and industrializing the Chinese countryside

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Great Leap Forward

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A rebellion against not-communist-enough intellectuals and members of the Communist Party, instigated by Mao.

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Cultural Revolution

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A period of economic losses across the Americas and Europe.

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Great Depression

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Plans for the centrally administered economies of China and the Soviet Union.

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Five Year Plan

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Name given to the strategy of extremely rapid tank and mechanized infantry movements in Germany’s invasion of France in WWII.

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Blitzkrieg

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Name given to the Nazi campaign of genocide.

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Holocaust

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Organization founded after WWII to facilitate international cooperation.

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United Nations

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Former territory of the Ottoman Empire.

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Palestine

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State founded in 1948 following a civil war in Palestine.

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Israel

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Series of proxy wars and military build-up between the US and USSR.

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Cold War

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A strategy taken by the USA to prevent the Soviet Union from acquiring allies. Aimed at preventing states from leaning socialist through military, economic, and cultural means.

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Containment

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A wall built by the socialist government of East Germany to stop their citizens from defecting to West Germany.

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Berlin Wall

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The leader of socialist Cuba.

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Fidel Castro

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An international incident following the United States’ discovery of a Soviet attempt to build a missile base in Cuba. Ended with the Soviet Union removing the missiles in exchange for concessions.

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Cuban Missile Crisis

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A Catholic ideology promoting the independence of oppressed peoples.

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Liberation theology

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An organization aimed at promoting pan-Islamic unity and creating Islamic states.

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Muslim Brotherhood

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A technological revolution that vastly increased world food production with genetically modified crops and chemical fertilizers.

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Green Revolution

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A war fought between China and North Korea on one side and a UN peacekeeping force and South Korea on the other.

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Korean War

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The leader of China from 1977 to 1997. Known for improving relations with the United States and Europe as well as implementing limited capitalist reforms.

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Deng Xiaoping

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The last leader of the Soviet Union. Known for relaxing censorship and police powers.

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Mikhail Gorbachev

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Gorbachev’s policy of “openness,” in which censorship was reduced and many government documents were made public.

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Glasnost

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Gorbachev’s policy of “restructuring” or implementing free market reforms

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Perestroika

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Genocide committed by the Hutu ethnic group against the Tutsi ethnic group in Rwanda.

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Rwandan genocide

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War between the United States, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia on one side and Iraq on the other.

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Gulf War

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