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Stack #4675807
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| may 4th movement | 1919 protest in china against the treaty of Versailles and foreign influence |
| Geneva confrence | 1954 conference that divided vietnam at the 17th parallel |
| cultural revolution | Chinese movement from 1966 to 1976 intended to establish an egalitarian society of peasants and workers |
| Spanish civil war | conflict between 1936 to 1939 that resulted in the instillation of fascist dictator Francisco Franco as ruler |
| iron curtain | metaphorical describe between the communist east and democratic western europe |
| welfare states | nation in which government plays an active role in providing services such as social security to its citizens |
| alliance fro progress | a program of economic aid for L.A in exchange for a pledge to establish democratic institutions |
| al-qaeda | terrorist group based in Afghanistan in 1900 and 2000s |
| marshall plan | a U.S plan to support the recovery and reconstruction of western Europe after ww2 |
| Berlin wall | a wall built in east German communist government to separate democratic western berlin |
| European union | organization designed to reduce trade barriers and promote economic unity in europe |
| guomindang | china's nationalist political party founded by sun yat sen in 1912 and based on democratic principles |
| containtment | cold war policy the US whose purpose was to prevent the spread of communism |
| central powers | in ww1 Germany, Austria Hungary, Bulgaria, the ottoman empire |
| allied powers | in ww1, the nations of GB France Russia us and others |
| league of natons | international organization founded after ww1 to promote peace and cooperation among nations |
| evangelical | pertaining to preaching the gospel or pertaining to theologically conservative christains |
| afrikaners | south africans who are descended from dutch who settled in south Africa in 1800s |
| Hubble space telescope | telescope able to peer into deep space |
| Persian gulf war | 1991 war between Iraq and US |
| deoxyribonucleic acid | the blueprint of heredity |
| no theater | classical Japanese drama with music and dance performed on a simple stage by elaborately dressed acotors |
| great leap foward | disastrous economic policy introduced by mao Zedong that proposed the implementation of small scale industrial projects on individual peasant communes |
| anschluss | German annexation of Austria prior to ww2 |
| reparations | payment of war debts for losing side |
| apartheid | south African policy of separation of races |
| genocide | systematic killing of a whole ethnic group |
| new deal | us president Roosevelt's program to relive the economic problems of the great depression |
| Korean conflict | war between communist North Korea and capitalist south korea |
| cuban missile crisis | 1962 the soviets constructed nuclear missiles in Cuba which brought days of tense confrontation between us and russia |
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