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Miller Analogies Test general facts and vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| consonance | recurrence or repetition of consonants, esp. at the end of stressed syllables w/out similar vowels. Ex: stroke of luck |
| paradox | assertion seemingly opposed to common sense but that may have some truth in it |
| portmanteau | word created by blending 2 words to form new word related to both. EX: breakfast + lunch = brunch |
| tautology | repetition of an idea in a different word, phrase, or sentence. EX: "Cease and desist" |
| alology | study of algae |
| anthropology | study of human beings |
| apiology | study of bees |
| axiology | study of values and value judgments (e.g., ethics) |
| cetology | study of whales |
| cytology | study of cells |
| deontology | study of ethics |
| enology | study of wine and wine making |
| entomology | study of insects |
| epistemology | study of the nature, grounds, and limits of knowledge |
| eschatology | study of the end of the world |
| ethology | study of animal behavior in the wild |
| etiology | study of the causes of phenomena |
| etymology | study of the origins of words |
| geology | study of the earth and its history |
| gerontology | study of aging and problems with the aged |
| graphology | study of handwriting |
| hagiology | study of saints and revered persons |
| herpetology | study of reptiles and amphibians |
| hippology | study of horses |
| histology | study of living tissue |
| horology | study of measurement of time |
| ichthyology | study of fishes |
| kinesiology | study of the principles of human movement |
| limnology | study of fresh waters |
| mammalogy | study of mammals |
| meteorology | study of climate and weather |
| morphology | study of the structure and forms of plants and animals |
| mycology | study of fungi |
| myrmecology | study of ants |
| nephology | study of clouds |
| numismatology | study of coins |
| oncology | study of tumors |
| ontology | study of nature of existence |
| ophiology | study of snakes |
| opthalmology | study of structure, function, and diseases of the eye |
| ornithology | study of birds |
| otology | study of ears |
| paleontology | study of fossils |
| pathology | study of diseases |
| pedology | study of children |
| petrology | study of rocks |
| philology | study of language, speech, linguistics, and literature |
| physiology | study of functions and activities of living organisms |
| pyrology | study of fire |
| seismology | study of earthquakes |
| speleology | study of caves |
| teleology | study of final causes or purpose in nature |
| teratology | study of malformations or serious deviations from the norm in organisms; monsters and monstrosities |
| thanatology | study of death and dying |
| virology | study of viruses |
| vulcanology | study of volcanoes |
| zoology | study of animals |
| a posteriori | based on inductive reasoning |
| a priori | based on deductive reasoning |
| ad hoc | for a specific purpose |
| alter ego | a second self |
| amicus curiae | friend of the court |
| beau geste | noble gesture |
| bete noire | someone or something particularly disliked; literally "black beast" |
| bon mot | witty remark or comment; literally "good word" |
| bona fide | in good faith; genuine |
| carpe diem | seize the day |
| carte blanche | unrestricted power; "blank document" |
| causus beli | pretext for war |
| caveat emptor | let the buyer beware |
| corpus delecti | body of crime; substantial fact necessary to prove the commission of a crime |
| de facto | actual |
| de jure | by right; technically true |
| deus ex machina | contrived device to resolve a situation "god from a machine" |
| dies irae | day of wrath; Judgment Day |
| dolce vita | the sweet life; a life of indulgence |
| ecce homo | behold the man |
| ex cathedra | by virtue of one's office |
| ex parte | from a partisan point of view |
| ex post facto | after the fact; retroactively |
| fait accomplis | a done deed; an accomplished fact |
| hoi polloi | the common people |
| idee fixe | obsession; "fixed idea" |
| in camera | in private; secretly |
| in extremis | near death |
| ipso facto | by the fact itself; an inevitable result |
| memento mori | reminder that you must die |
| mot juste | the appropriate word |
| nolo contendere | no contest |
| nota bene | note well |
| prima facie | on the face of it |
| pro forma | done as a matter of form; perfunctory |
| quo vadis | where are you going |
| rara avis | rare bird; unusual specimen |
| sangfroid | self-possession or equanimity, esp. under strain; "cold blood" |
| sic transit gloria mundi | thus passes away the glory of the world |
| sine qua non | something indispensable;"without which not" |
| sui generis | one of a kind |
| tout le monde | all the world; everyone of importance |
| vox populi | voice of the people |
| weltanschauung | comprehensive apprehension of the world; "world view" |
| weltschmerz | sorrow over the evils of the world; "world pain" |
| single: alga | plural: algae |
| single: bacillus | plural: bacilli |
| single: basis | plural: bases |
| single: cherub | plural: cherubim |
| single: corpus | plural: corpora |
| single: corps | plural: corps |
| single: die | plural: dice |
| single: fauna | plural: faunae |
| single: flora | plural: florae |
| single: genus | plural: general |
| single: magus | plural: magi |
| single: passerby | plural: passersby |
| single: seraph | plural: seraphim |
| single: species | plural: species |
| allegory | written piece in which the ideas or morals are represented by individual characters or things |
| allusion | reference w/in artistic work to another artistic work |
| ballad | story-poem, often sung aloud |
| Beat movement | group of American poets and artists who expressed alienation in 1950s; underground movement (Ginsberg, Kerouac) |
| Ginsberg | Beat poet |
| Kerouac | Beat poet |
| blank verse | Non-rhyming verse consisting of 10-syllable lines |
| canto | subdivision of an epic poem |
| Classicism | Artistic or literary movement based on Ancients Greeks or Romans |
| climax | point in story where action reaches its zenith |
| couplet | two rhyming lines of poetry in succession, most often of a similar or like meter |
| denouement | conclusion or resolution following the climax of a story |
| elegy | poem of remembrance |
| Existentialism | French philosophical idea that the individual lives in an indifferent world and must take responsibility for his or her own choices (Satre, Camus) |
| Satre | Existentialist |
| Camus | Existentialist |
| fable | allegorical story often using animals as characters (Aesop) |
| genre | category of work within arts or letters, usually a distinctive style |
| haiku | Japanese poem- 5--7--5 |
| irony | literary style in which a situation shown with the intent of representing its opposite |
| Lost Generation | expat writers and artists in Paris in the 1920s centered on Gertrude Stein (Hemingway, Fitzgerald) |
| Gertrude Stein | Lost Generation |
| Hemingway | Lost Generation |
| Fitzgerald | Lost Generation |
| Modernism | high intellectual movement whose goal was the examination of pure art (Pound, Stein, Woolf) |
| Pound | Modernism |
| Stein | Modernism |
| Woolf | Modernism, stream of consciousness |
| motif | recurring element or theme in an artistic work |
| ode | lyric poem of rigidly structured stanzas |
| pathos | evoking pity in a literary work |
| Realism | Style in which society and events are depicted as they appear in real life |
| Restoration | 1660-1688--Charles II in England (Dryden) |
| Dryden | Restoration |
| Romantic movement | Predominantly English in 19th cent; passion should supersede logic and whose main opposition was Classicism (Keats, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron) |
| Keats | Romantic |
| Wordsworth | Romantic |
| Coleridge | Romantic |
| Byron | Romantic |
| Satire | use of irony, sarcasm and wit to show the absurdity of humanity (Swift's "A Modest Proposal") |
| Swift | Satire; "A Modest Proposal" |
| sonnet | verse of 14 lines (Shakespeare, Petrarch) |
| stanza | one division within a poem, usually of commonly metered verse |
| stream of consciousness | literary device in which a character's thoughts emerge on the page as they occur (Joyce, Woolf) |
| Joyce | stream of consciousness |
| Transcendentalism | American movement in which insight and experience take precedence over logic and reason; held the belief all things coexist in nature (Thoreau, Emerson) |
| Thoreau | Transcendentalism |
| Emerson | Transcendentalism |
| Victorian Age | 19th cent England; apex of British Industrial Revolution and Empire (Dickens, Hardy) |
| Hardy | Victorian Age |
| Aeschylus (525-456 BC) | ancient Greek dramatist esp. tragedies; "Prometheus Bound" |
| Aesop (620-560 BC) | Ancient Greek fabulist |
| Aligheri, Dante 1265-1321 | Early Renaissance Italian writing; father of modern lit; "Divine Comedy" |
| Anderson, Sherwood 1876-1941 | American short-story; "Winesburg, Ohio" collection |
| Balzac, Honore de 1799-1850 | "La Comedie Humaine" series |
| Beckett, Samuel 1906-1989 | Irish-born French novelist and playwright; Existentialist; "Waiting for Godot" |
| Bellow, Saul 1915-2005 | Nobel Prize for lit; American; "Herzog" and "Humboldt's Gift" |
| Blake, William 1757-1827 | British artist, poet, and engraver; "Songs of Innocence and Experience" |
| Bronte, Charlotte 1816-1855 | pen name Currer Bell; "Jayne Eyre" and "Shirley" |
| Bronte, Emily 1818-1848 | pen name Ellis Bell; "Wuthering Heights"; Romantic novels |
| Bunyan, John 1628-1688 | English preacher and writer of allegorical stories; "Pilgrim's Progress" |
| Byron, Lord George 1788-1824 | Romantic poet; Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
| Camus, Albert 1913-1960 | French writer; Existentialist; "The Stranger" and "The Plague" |
| Carroll, Lewis 1832-1898 | aka Charles Dodgson; Alice in Wonderland |
| Cervantes, Miguel de 1547-1616 | Don Quixote; first modern novel |
| Chaucer, Geoffrey 1340-1400 | Canterbury Tales |
| Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich 1860-1904 | Russian playwright and short-story writer; "The Seagull" and "The Cherry Orchard" |
| Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 1772-1834 | Romantic; "Rime of the Ancient Mariner"; wrote "Lyrical Ballads" with Wordsworth |
| Colette, Sidonie-Gabrielle 1873-1954 | French author; Claudine novels; "The Innocent Wife" |
| Conrad, Joseph 1857-1924 | Polish-born British writer; "Heart of Darkness" and "Under Western Eyes" |
| Crane, Stephen 1871-1900 | "Red Badge of Courage" |
| Dickens, Charles 1812-1870 | Victorian (contemporary of Thomas Hardy); "Tale of Two Cities" and "Great Expectations" and "A Christmas Carol" |
| Dickinson, Emily 1830-1886 | American; 19th cent emotional poems; never published in her lifetime |
| Donne, John 1572-1631 | English writer and religious scholar; essayist; metaphysical poems: "The Flea" and "Death Be Not Proud" |
| Dostoevsky, Fyodor 1821-1881 | Russian novelist; "Crime and Punishment" and "The Idiot" |
| Dreiser, Theodore 1871-1945 | American novelist; naturalist; "Sister Carrie" and "An American Tragedy" |
| Eliot, George 1819-1880 | aka MaryAnn Evans; "Middlemarch" and "Adam Bede" |
| Eliot, T. S. 1888-1965 | American-born British Modernist poet; obscure, referential poems: "The Waste Land" and "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo 1803-1882 | American Transcendentalist; mentor to Thoreau; "Nature" |
| Euripedes 480-406 BC | Greek dramatist |
| Faulkner, William 1897-1962 | American Southern novelist;"The Sound and the Fury" and "Absolom! Absolom!" and "As I Lay Dying" |
| Fitzgerald, F. Scott 1896-1940 | Jazz Age; "The Great Gatsby" |
| Flaubert, Gustave 1821-1880 | "Madame Bovary" |
| Frost, Robert 1874-1963 | American poet; Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening "Mending Wall" |
| Ginsberg, Allen 1926-1997 | Beat poet; collection "Howl" |
| Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 1749-1832 | "Faust" |
| Hammett, Dashiell 1894-1961 | American noir or detection writer; "Maltese Falcon" and "The Thin Man" |
| Hardy, Thomas 1840-1928 | Victorian; "Far From the Madding Crowd" and "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" |
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel 1804-1864 | American; "The Scarlet Letter" |
| Hemingway, Ernerst 1899-1961 | journalist, novelist "The Sun Also Rises" and "A Farewell to Arms" |
| Hesse, Hermann 1877-1962 | Swiss-born German writer; duality of life; "Siddhartha" and "Steppenwolf" |
| Homer 850 BC | Ancient Greek; Iliad and Odyssey |
| Hughes, Langston 1902-1967 | 20th c. black poet; shaped Harlem Renaissance; "Weary Blues" and "Selected Poems" |
| Hugo, Victor 1802-1885 | Les Miserable |
| James, Henry 1843-1916 | Expat; "The Turn of the Screw" and "Daisy Miller" |
| Johnson, Samuel 1709-1784 | first modern dictionary 1755 |
| Joyce, James 1882-1941 | Irish; groundbreaking narratives; "Ulysses" and "Finnegan's Wake" |
| Kafka, Franz 1883-1924 | German existentialist; "The Metamorphosis" |
| Keats, John 1795-1821 | English Romantic poet; Ode to a Nightingale and Ode on a Grecian Urn |
| Kerouac, Jack 1922-1969 | Beat poet; voice of the counterculture; "On the Road" |
| Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth 1807-1882 | Romantic poet; "Songs of Hiawatha" |
| Marlowe, Christopher 1564-1593 | English playwright; "Tamburlaine the Great" and "Dr. Faustus" |
| Melville, Herman 1819-1891 | "Bartleby Scrivener" short story |
| Miller, Arthur 1915-2005 | Pulitzer Prize-winning plays: "Death of a Salesman" and "The Crucible" |
| Miller, Henry 1891-1980 | controversial work "Tropic of Cancer" |
| Milton, John 1608-1674 | outspoken essayist during Reformation; "Paradise Lost" and Paradise Regained" |
| Moliere, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin 1622-1673 | French playwright and actor; helped define modern theater; "Tartuffe" and "The Misanthrope" |
| Morrison, Toni 1931- | Nobel Prize 1993; "Beloved" and "Song of Solomon" |
| Nabokov, Vladamir 1899-1977 | Russian-American writer and essayist; "Lolita" and its effete protagonist Humbert Humbert |
| O'Neill, Eugene 1888-1953 | 20th c. argued to be greatest American dramatist; "Desire Under the Elms" and "The Hairy Ape" and "The Iceman Cometh" |
| Orwell, George 1903-1950 | English, 1984 and Animal Farm |
| Ovid 43 BC - 17 CE | Roman poet; "Metamorphoses"; inspiration for Renaissance and Baroque writers |
| Petrarch 1304-1374 | Renaissance Italian poet; great infl on 16th/17th cent. Brits |
| Plath, Sylvia 1932-1963 | Confessional school whose tempestuous life was subject of many of her poems; "Daddy" and "The Bell Jar"; suicide |
| Plutarch 46-120 | "Parallel Lives" |
| Pound, Ezra 1885-1972 | American poet and editor; Modernist movement |
| Proust, Marcel 1871-1922 | French novelist; complex novels and stories; "Remembrance of Things Past" |
| Rushdie, Salman 1947- | Brit; "Satanic Verses" |
| Sappho 620 BC | Greek; fragments of poems only |
| Scott, Sir Walter 1771-1832 | Scot; historical novels; "Ivanhoe" |
| Shaw, George Bernard 1856-1950 | Irish, Nobel Prize; "Pygmalion" "Saint Joan" |
| Shelley, Percy Bysshe 1792-1822 | wife Mary wrote Frankenstein; Romantic movement; vocal social critic; lyrical drama "Prometheus Unbound" |
| Sophocles 496-406 BC | Greek dramatist; Oedipus Rex |
| Spenser, Edmund 1552-1599 | epic poem "The Faerie Queen" |
| Stein, Gertrude 1874-1946 | expat; Lost Generation |
| Steinbeck, John 1902-1968 | Nobel Prize; The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden |
| Stevenson, Robert Louis 1850-1894 | Treasure Island; The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
| Swift, Jonathan 1667-1745 | Irish-born English; satirist; Gulliver's Travels; A Modest Proposal |
| Thoreau, Henry David 1817-1862 | Transcendentalist; "Walden" is classic text in Western thought |
| Tolstoy, Count Leo 1828-1910 | War and Peace; Anna Karenina |
| Updike, John 1932-2009 | Rabbit; Run; Bech at Bay |
| Virgil 70-19 BC | Roman poet; "Aeneid" |
| Voltaire 1694-1778 | helped shape Enlightenment; "Candide" |
| Walker, Alice 1944- | The Color Purple |
| Whitman, Walt 1819-1892 | "Leaves of Grass" among greatest American poetical works |
| Wilde, Oscar 1854-1900 | Irish; The Importance of Being Earnest; Salome |
| Williams, Tennessee 1914-1983 | Southern playwright; A Streetcar Named Desire; The Glass Menagerie |
| Woolf, Virginia 1882-1941 | Brit, stream of consciousness; "To the Lighthouse" and "Mrs. Dalloway" |
| Wordsworth, William 1770-1850 | Romantic; "Lyrical Ballads" |
| Yeats, William Butler 1865-1939 | Irish playwright and poet; The Winding Stair |
| Zola, Emile 1840-1902 | natural school; "J'Accuse" an article that decried the French gov'ts role in the Dreyfus Affair |
| Aphrodite | Venus--love |
| Apollo | Apollo--sun |
| Ares | Mars--war |
| Athena | Minerva--wisdom |
| Calliope | Greek muse of epic poetry and eloquence |
| Clio | muse of history |
| Dionysus | Bacchus--wine and pleasure |
| Erato | muse of love poetry |
| Euterpe | muse of the flute |
| Frigg (Frija) | love and marriage; wife of Odin; Friday |
| Griffin | lion and eagle |
| Hades | Pluto--underworld |
| Hera | Juno--marriage and maternity; Zeus |
| Heracles | Hercules |
| Hermes | Mercury; travelers, commerce, and profit |
| Melpomene | muse of tragedy |
| Odin | Wednesday |
| Perseus | Pegasus; Medusa |
| Polyhymnia | muse of mimic art |
| Poseidon | Neptune; sea |
| Terpsichore | muse of lyric poetry and dance |
| Thalia | muse of comedy |
| Theseus | minataur |
| Tiw (Tyr) | Norse; war; Tuesday |
| Urania | muse of astronomy |
| Zeus | Jupiter; supreme god |
| apostate | one who abandons his/her religious loyalty |
| Bhagavad Gita | sacred book of Hinduism |
| Buddhism | enlightenment; Siddhartha Gotama; life is suffering...meditate and escape Samsara (Wheel of Suffering) to Nirvana (enlightenment) |
| Confuscianism | codes and ethics system; understand role in society |
| John Calvin | strict Protestant faith; predestination |
| Shintoism | Japanese; polytheistic worship of nature and ancestors |
| Taoism | Pantheistic; China; principles that allow harmony with natural order; Lao-tzu founder |
| 1st Amendment | freedome of religion, press, speech, and assembly |
| 2d Amendment | Right to keep and bear arms |
| 3d Amendment | prohibits forced quarering of military during peacetime |
| 4th Amendment | Unreasonable searches and seizures; probably cause; warrants |
| 5th Amendment | Sets out rules for indictment by grand jury and eminent domain, protects the right to due process, and prohibits self-incrimination and double jeopardy |
| 6th Amendment | Right to fair, speedy public trial by jury; right to face accuser, obtain counsel, and obtain witnesses |
| 7th Amendment | Trial by jury in certain civil cases |
| 8th Amendment | Prohibits excessive fines or bail; cruel and unusual punishment |
| 9th Amendment | Protects rights not enumeratied in the Constitution |
| 10th Amendment | Limits power of the federal government to those delegated to it by the Constitution |
| 11th Amendment | States immune from suits from out-of-state citizens and foreigners |
| 12th Amendment | Revises presidential election procedures |
| 13th Amendment | Abolishes slavery and involuntary servitude (unless punishment for a crime) |
| 14th Amendment | Defines citizenship; contains due process clause, equal protection clause, privileges and immunities clause (and other post-CW issues) |
| 15th Amendment | Prohibits the denial of the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude (unless you are female) |
| 16th Amendment | Allows federal gov't to collect income tax |
| 17th Amendment | Direct election of senators by popular vote |
| 18th Amendment | Prohibition |
| 19th Amendment | Women allowed to vote |
| 20th Amendment | Changes the date on which the terms of the President and Vice President (January 20) and Senators and Representatives (January 3) end and begin |
| 21st Amendment | Repel of 18th |
| 22d Amendment | Term limit for president |
| 23d Amendment | gives DC electors in the Electoral College |
| 24th Amendment | prohibits poll tax |
| 25th Amendment | Addresses succession to the Presidency and establishes procedures both for filling a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, as well as responding to Presidential disabilities |
| 26th Amendment | lowers voting age to 18 |
| 27th Amendment | Delays laws affecting Congressional salary from taking effect until after the next election of representatives (1992) |
| Balfour Declaration | Great Britain's 1917 proclaimation supporting the establishment of a separate homeland for Jews in Palestine |
| Cultural revolution | 1966-76 campaign in China to revitalize Communist party and consolidate Mao's leadership |
| Fourteen Points | Post-WW I peace plan proposed by Wilson; self-determination and association of nations |
| Geneva Conf | 1954--divided Vietnam at the 17th parallel |
| glasnost | 1985 Soviet policy of "openness"; Mikhail Gorbechev |
| totalitarianism | one-part political system with the goal of supporting the welfare of the state above all else |
| Treaty of Versailles | ended WWI |
| Yalta | meeting of FDR, Churchill, and Stalin; partitioned Europe at end of WW2 |
| Nation, Carry | temperance movement |
| Smith, Adam | Wealth of Nations (1776); free market (laissez faire) capitalism |
| Stanton, Elizabeth Cady | American leader of the women's rights movement |
| apostate | one who abandons his/her religious loyalty |
| Bhagavad Gita | sacred book of Hinduism |
| Buddhism | enlightenment; Siddhartha Gotama; life is suffering...meditate and escape Samsara (Wheel of Suffering) to Nirvana (enlightenment) |
| Confuscianism | codes and ethics system; understand role in society |
| John Calvin | strict Protestant faith; predestination |
| Shintoism | Japanese; polytheistic worship of nature and ancestors |
| Taoism | Pantheistic; China; principles that allow harmony with natural order; Lao-tzu founder |
| 1st Amendment | freedome of religion, press, speech, and assembly |
| 2d Amendment | Right to keep and bear arms |
| 3d Amendment | prohibits forced quarering of military during peacetime |
| 4th Amendment | Unreasonable searches and seizures; probably cause; warrants |
| 5th Amendment | Sets out rules for indictment by grand jury and eminent domain, protects the right to due process, and prohibits self-incrimination and double jeopardy |
| 6th Amendment | Right to fair, speedy public trial by jury; right to face accuser, obtain counsel, and obtain witnesses |
| 7th Amendment | Trial by jury in certain civil cases |
| 8th Amendment | Prohibits excessive fines or bail; cruel and unusual punishment |
| 9th Amendment | Protects rights not enumeratied in the Constitution |
| 10th Amendment | Limits power of the federal government to those delegated to it by the Constitution |
| 11th Amendment | States immune from suits from out-of-state citizens and foreigners |
| 12th Amendment | Revises presidential election procedures |
| 13th Amendment | Abolishes slavery and involuntary servitude (unless punishment for a crime) |
| 14th Amendment | Defines citizenship; contains due process clause, equal protection clause, privileges and immunities clause (and other post-CW issues) |
| 15th Amendment | Prohibits the denial of the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude (unless you are female) |
| 16th Amendment | Allows federal gov't to collect income tax |
| 17th Amendment | Direct election of senators by popular vote |
| 18th Amendment | Prohibition |
| 19th Amendment | Women allowed to vote |
| 20th Amendment | Changes the date on which the terms of the President and Vice President (January 20) and Senators and Representatives (January 3) end and begin |
| 21st Amendment | Repel of 18th |
| 22d Amendment | Term limit for president |
| 23d Amendment | gives DC electors in the Electoral College |
| 24th Amendment | prohibits poll tax |
| 25th Amendment | Addresses succession to the Presidency and establishes procedures both for filling a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, as well as responding to Presidential disabilities |
| 26th Amendment | lowers voting age to 18 |
| 27th Amendment | Delays laws affecting Congressional salary from taking effect until after the next election of representatives (1992) |
| Balfour Declaration | Great Britain's 1917 proclaimation supporting the establishment of a separate homeland for Jews in Palestine |
| Cultural revolution | 1966-76 campaign in China to revitalize Communist party and consolidate Mao's leadership |
| Fourteen Points | Post-WW I peace plan proposed by Wilson; self-determination and association of nations |
| Geneva Conf | 1954--divided Vietnam at the 17th parallel |
| glasnost | 1985 Soviet policy of "openness"; Mikhail Gorbechev |
| totalitarianism | one-part political system with the goal of supporting the welfare of the state above all else |
| Treaty of Versailles | ended WWI |
| Yalta | meeting of FDR, Churchill, and Stalin; partitioned Europe at end of WW2 |
| Nation, Carry | temperance movement |
| Smith, Adam | Wealth of Nations (1776); free market (laissez faire) capitalism |
| Stanton, Elizabeth Cady | American leader of the women's rights movement |
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