Environment
An era of advances in agriculture that applied scientific methods to increase crop yields worldwide.
The Green Revolution
This peace treaty, known as a "peace built on quicksand" is a direct cause of the second World War.
Treaty of Versailles
FDR's plan to aid in the recovery of the US from the Great Depression.
The New Deal
This event was an attempt to root out all western influence in Communist China.
The Cultural Revolution
This group in Russia promoted Marxist ideas about a society in which the workers shared all means of production and were compensated equally for their work.
Bolsheviks
This type of weapon was used to intimidate Japan into surrender at the end of World War II.
Nuclear weapon
This ideology is an extreme form of nationalism promoted by twentieth-century leaders such as Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.
Fascism
A financial aid package offered to European countries recovering from World War II. They had the added effect of helping to stem the tide of communism on the continent.
Marshall Plan
In response to the 1979 Russian invasion of Afghanistan, the US boycotted these, to be held in Moscow the following summer.
Olympic Games
These were laws of racial segregation in South Africa that were overturned in 1994.
Apartheid
Gamal Abdul Nasser endorsed a controversial plan to dam this river in order to bring steady electrical supply to his people.
Nile River
This opposition group fought the Communist Party unsuccessfully for the leadership of China.
Guomindang (Kuomintang)
Economic plan devised by Mao Zedong that would increase output in farms by decreasing the amount of technology peasant farmers had access to. It had the disastrous effect of famine.
Great Leap Forward
In English, this was the "night of broken glass" and was a state-sponsored act of terrorism against Jews in Germany in 1938.
Kristallnacht
These were restrictions placed on German Jews beginning in 1935 in order to encourage them to emigrate from Germany.
Nuremberg Laws
Her groundbreaking work 'Silent Spring' ushered in an era of environmental activism in the late 1960s.
Rachel Carson
Independence leader of Ghana who became increasingly dictatorial in his later career and was forced out of power in the late 1960s.
Kwame Nkrumah
He led a nonviolent protest by marching to the sea to harvest salt in protest of the British ban on colonial manufacture of products (like salt).
Mohandas Gandhi
Often seen as a precursor to the Jewish Holocaust of World War II, the genocide of this minority group during World War I is still not publicly acknowledged by the Turkish government.
Armenians
In 1963, she published 'The Feminine Mystique' which criticized American society because she argued that educated women could not be fulfilled by being only a wife and mother.
Betty Friedan
This epidemic disease exacerbated the loss of over ten million people in World War I when it claimed another 20 million people worldwide.
Spanish Influenza (Influenza Pandemic)
He led a revolution to overthrow the shah of Iran and bring its people into a religious state run by Shia leaders.
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
Four Asian nations that are part of a modern wave of industrialization include Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, and South Korea, collectively referred to as these.
Asian Tigers
His abstract mural 'Guernica' was created as a protest of the fascist government in Spain that allowed the German Luftwaffe to carry out bombing campaigns against the Basque people in the northern Spanish town of the same name.
Pablo Picasso
A term that categorizes the participants of World War I who experienced a lost sense of security and hopefulness due to the atrocities they witnessed in the trenches of the Western Front.
Lost Generation.