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  1. 7. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British empire in Asia and Africa.
  2. 8. Military conflict in which the contenders are willing to make any sacrifice in lives and other resources to obtain a complete victory.
  3. 10. Was a war that happened between North and South Korea from 1950 to 1953.
  4. 12. Was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921.
  5. 13. Was a Chinese communist revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC), which he ruled as the chairman of the Chinese Communist Party from the establishment of the PRC in 1949 until his death in 1976.
  6. 14. operation.
  7. 15. Was an inspirational statesman, writer, orator and leader who led Britain to victory in the Second World War. He served as Conservative Prime Minister twice.
  8. 18. A political leader whose communist Khmer Rouge government led Cambodia from 1975 to 1979.
  9. 19. Political group that led the movement calling for a separate Muslim nation to be created at the time.
  10. 22. The economic crisis and period of low business activity in the U.S. and other countries, roughly beginning with the stock-market crash in October, 1929, and continuing through most of the 1930s.
  11. 29. A warship that serves as a seagoing airbase, equipped with a full-length flight deck and facilities for carrying, arming, deploying, and recovering aircraft.
  12. 30. The first day of any large
  13. 31. an organization of countries that have agreed to provide military support to each other.
  14. 33. A terrorist group formed in Peru in the late 1960s as a splinter group from the communist party of Peru.
  15. 34. An international movement originally for the establishment of a Jewish national or religious community in Palestine and later for the support of modern Israel.
  16. 35. Was an international diplomatic group developed after World War I as a way to solve disputes between countries before they erupted into open warfare.
  17. 36. Was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, which began following World War II.
  18. 37. The systematic killing of Jews by Nazis.
  19. 40. A system in which goods are owned in common and are available to all as needed.
  20. 43. The prolonged bombing of S England by the German Luftwaffe and the successful resistance by the RAF Fighter Command, which put an end to the German plan of invading Britain.
  21. 45. Was one of the largest dairy development efforts in India in 1970, led by the Indian government.
  22. 46. an economic system characterized by private ownership or corporate ownership of capital goods.
  23. 47. He campaigned ceaselessly for African solidarity and for the liberation of southern Africa from white settler rule.
  24. 49. The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) is a secessionist movement in Nigeria, associated with Igbo nationalism.
  25. 50. the great increase in production of food grains due to the introduction of high-yielding varieties.
  26. 51. Was a Spanish general who led the Nationalist forces in overthrowing the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War and thereafter ruled over Spain from 1939 to 1975 as a dictator, assuming the title Caudillo.
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  1. 1. a radical Sunni Muslim organization dedicated to teh elimination of a Western presence in Arab countries and military opposed to Western foregin policy.
  2. 2. Chilean general who ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990.
  3. 3. The legislative and administrative program of President F. D. Roosevelt designed to promote economic recovery and social reform during the 1930s.
  4. 4. Was a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico if the United States entered World War I against Germany.
  5. 5. A Soviet policy permitting open discussion of political and social issues and freer dissemination of news and information.
  6. 6. The secret alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy.
  7. 9. Was one of the mightiest and longest-lasting dynasties in world history.
  8. 11. A state that possesses military or economic might, or both, and general influence vastly superior to that of other states.
  9. 16. The campaign undertaken by the Chinese communists between 1958 and early 1960 to organize its vast population, especially in large-scale rural communes, to meet China's industrial and agricultural problems.
  10. 17. He served as Prime Minister of North Vietnam from 1945 to 1955 and President from 1945 until his death in 1969.
  11. 20. Any plan for national economic or industrial development specifying goals to be reached within a period of five years, esp. those undertaken by China and formerly by the Soviet Union.
  12. 21. An international governing body was formed in 1945 to increase political and economic cooperation among its member countries.
  13. 23. The fascist alliance between mainly Germany, Italy, Japan, and a few other countries, during World War II, against the Allies.
  14. 24. Was an Indian politician and a central figure of the Indian National Congress. She was the 3rd prime minister of India and was also the first and, to date, only female prime minister of India.
  15. 25. an international organization
  16. 26. Was an Italian political leader who became the fascist dictator of Italy from 1925 to 1945.
  17. 27. The modern-day nation of Sudan.
  18. 28. Was signed by Germany and the Allied Nations on June 28, 1919, formally ending World War One.
  19. 32. Was a Cold War policy that suggested a communist government in one nation would quickly lead to communist takeovers in neighboring states.
  20. 38. Was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Germany from 1933 until his death in 1945.
  21. 39. A belief that military power is essential for national strength.
  22. 41. Was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesman and leader in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.
  23. 42. Was a South Afriacan anti-apartheid revolutinary and political leader who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.
  24. 44. established that the UNited States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.
  25. 48. A surprise attack often with devastating effect.