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World History Final
World History 2 Final (Audeo)
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History
10th Grade
05/22/2012

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Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act
Definition
Heavy tax on imported goods
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Allied Powers
Definition
Alliance between the British Empire, The Soviet Union, and The United States
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Communist
Definition
A member of the Communist political party
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D-Day
Definition
Invasion Western Europe by Allied forces during WWII
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Mao Zedong
Definition
Chinese Communist Leader 1893-1976
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Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Definition
Indian Statesman, founder of Pakistan
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Five Year Plans
Definition
Soviet Unions 5 year goals for economic and industrial production
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Jiang Jieshi
Definition
President of China, allied against Japanese with communists but was later banished to Taiwan by another communist party
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Manchuria
Definition
Historic region in China
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Quit India Campaign
Definition
Gandhi's peaceful civil disobedience campaign to make the British leave India
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Isolationism
Definition
desire to avoid involvement in the affairs of other nations
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Ethiopia
Definition
Republic in Africa
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Korean War
Definition
War between North (communist) and South (non-communist) Korea for control over the government.
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European Union
Definition
Agreement formed to stabilize and unify European economies
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Axis Powers
Definition
Alliance between Germany, Italy, and Japan
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Il Duce
Definition
Head of fascist Italy
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Domino Theory
Definition
The belief that if one country in Asia turned communist the rest would follow suit quickly
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Cultural Revolution
Definition
The reversion to the idealistic peasants of China with emphasis on physical labor
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Manchukuo
Definition
Japanese controlled Manchuria
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Douglas MacArthur
Definition
Commander of US armies in the Pacific in WWII and UN forces in the Korean War
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Mikhail Gorbachev
Definition
Soviet Union president
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Nanjing Massacre
Definition
The Japanese slaughter of Chinese civilians in the city on Nanjing
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Definition
32nd president of the United States
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Stalingrad
Definition
Soviet Russian city
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Partition
Definition
division of India into separate Muslim and Hindu countries
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Che Guevara
Definition
Cuban revolutionist and leader from Argentina
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Vietcong
Definition
a Communist army/guerrilla force in South Vietnam that fought its government
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Bangladesh
Definition
Former East Pakistan
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Totalitarianism
Definition
Government that controls all aspects of life
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Ngo Dinh Diem
Definition
President of south Vietnam
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Consumerism
Definition
movement to protect consumers from useless/inferior/dangerous products unfair pricing
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Globalization
Definition
extending to all other parts of the globe
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Civil Disobedience
Definition
refusal to obey certain laws until demands are met
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Ho Chi Minh
Definition
North Vietnam leader
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Jean Bertrand Aristide
Definition
Haitian priest and leader
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Tienanmen Square Massacre
Definition
The government ordered massacre of Chinese student protesters in Tienanmen square June 1989
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Nationalism
Definition
loyalty to ones own nation
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John Maynard Keynes
Definition
English economist and writer
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Cloning
Definition
process of creating identical organisms from a cell of the original organism
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Fascism
Definition
forcible oppression by a totalitarianism leader
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