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Great Wall Gupta Empire Wudi Hellenistic Period Laozi Legalism Mauryan Dynasty Hinduism Twelve Tables Pax Romana Peloonnesian War Pericles Phoenecians Plato Qin Dynasty Punic Wars Reincarnation Roman Empire/Republic Scholar-gentry Siddhartha Gautama Socrates Tyrants (Greek) Upanishads Vedic Mahabharata Bodhisattva Dharma Karma Four Noble Truths Bible Jesus of Nazareth Catal Huyuk St. Paul Shiva Universal Religions Yin-yang Domestication Bantu Migrations POST CLASSICAL PERIOD

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Abu Bakr Animism Bedouins Caliph Five Pillars Harem Hijrah Jihad Ka ba Muhammad Mawali Sharia Sunni Shi ite Ulama Umma Ummayad Caliphate Vizier Islam Byzantine Empire Justinian Canon Law Carolingian Empire Charlemagne Chan/Zen Toltecs Guilds Ghettos Hagia Sophia Hanseatic League Holy Roman Empire Hundred Years War Feudal Monarchy Aristocracy Scholasticism Serfs Vassals Usury Vernacular Ayllus

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Aztecs Chinampas Maya Mita Quechua Tenochitlan Topiltzin Tawantinsuyu Bakufu Black Death Heian Period Fujiwara Khanates Koryo Dynasty Ming Dynasty Sui Dynasty Song Dynasty Tang Dynasty Alexander Nevskii Samurai Mongols Temujin Shogun Shinto Delhi Sultanate Timur Griots Ibn Battuta Mali Songhay Suryfiata Abbasid Caliphate MODERN PERIOD

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Suez Canal Tropical Dependencies White Dominions Settler Colonies Positivism Russo-Japanese War

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Mexican Revolution Armenian Genocide Sergei Witte POST MODERN PERIOD

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Battle of Britain o Air Battle Between the United Kingdom and Nazi Germany in WWII (Summer-fall 1940) o Part of German Blitzkrieg Strategy o German invasion failed because of high British morale, radar, aerial superiority Battle of the Bulge o Final German offensive of WWII, last ditch attempt to defeat allies (16 December 194425 January 1945) o Germany tried to cut off allied supply lines o Attack petered out, allies pushed forward on Berlin Battle of Midway o Most important naval battle of Pacific Campaign of WWII (June 4-7 1942) o Decisive U.S. victory over Japan, turning point in Pacific Campaign, all Japanese carriers sunk Treaty of Brest-Litovsk o Peace Treaty marking Russia s exit from WWI o Gave Germany Russian territory, industry, and humiliated Russia, but got them out of war Central Powers o Also Known As Triple Alliance/Axis Powers (WWI, WWII) Chiang Kai-shek o Leader of Guomindang s Whampoa Military Academy o Became leader of Nationalist party after Sun Yat-sen, had rivalry with Mao Zedong and communists Winston Churchill o Prime Minister of United Kingdom during WWII o Helped England through the Battle of Britain Collective Security o Coalition-building strategy where groups of nations agree not to attack each other and to defend each other against an attack from one of the others, it an attack is made o an attack against one is an attack against all o NATO, Warsaw Pact, and to some degree the UN are examples Conscription o Forced military service; i.e. a draft D-Day Invasion o Known as Operation Overlord, start of European invasion during WWII by Allies through Normandy, France

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Eastern Front (WWI and WWII) o Theatres of WWI and WWII that took place along Russia/Soviet Union, Balkans, and Scandinavia Fascism o Authoritarian, nationalist, radical, totalitarian form of government o Believe in strong leadership, collective identity, state of revolution, militarism, anticommunist, democratic, liberal, individualist, and parliamentary Five Year Plan o Plans initiated by Stalin and Communist party to spur on Heavy Industry in Soviet Union o Led to decreased consumer goods production in favor of metallurgy and mining Great Purge o Series of campaigns of political persecution done by Joseph Stalin from 1936-1938 o Goal to purge out dissenters from communist party and consolidate Stalin s power Fourteen Points o Speech given by Woodrow Wilson to assure WWI was being fought for postwar peace in Europoe Genocide o The deliberate and systematic destruction of an ethnic, racial, religious or national group o Armenian genocide and Holocaust are examples Great Depression o Severe worldwide economic depression in the 1930s o High unemployment, falling crop prices, stock market crash, mining and logging suffered Deng Xiaoping o Leader of Chinese Communist Party after Mao Zedong o Did economic reforms to try and correct the Great Leap Forward Guomindang o Nationalist Party of China, led by Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek o Defeated by Communist party, fled to Taiwan to establish Republic of China Adolf Hitler o Leader of Nazi Germany during WWII Holocaust o Genocide of Jews, Handicaps, Homosexuals, Jehovah s Witnesses, and those who opposed the Nazi Party o Resulted in the death of at least 6 million Jews and perhaps millions more Home Front o Term used to describe to civilian side of a nation at war supplying the military o Military effort to build weapons and supplies; total war idea Island Hopping o Strategy used by U.S. To conquer Japanese Empire o Would lead to U.S. victory in Pacific Theater of WWII

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Mustafa Kemal o First president of Turkey, founder o Led the Turkish nationalist movement and led reforms to establish a new state after Ottoman Empire Alexander Keresnsky o Dtente Keynesian Economics League of Nations Mandate System Mao Zedong Mein Kampf Munich Conference Benito Mussolini Nazi Party New Deal NEP Pearl Harbor Reparations Axis Powers Allied Powers (WWII and WWII) Self-determination Josef Stalin Triple Entente Triple Alliance Leon Trotsky The Whites Treaty of Versailles War Guilt Western Front (WWII) Appeasement Policy Aryans Weimar Republic African National Congress Negritude Pan-Africanism Salvador Allende Apartheid Fulgencio Batista Lazaro Cardenas Fidel Castro

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Satyagratha Mohandas Ghandi Containment Cuban Missile Crisis Decolonization W.E.B. Dubois Charles De Gaulle Great Leap Forward Ernesto Che Gueverra Ho Chi Minh Iron Curtain Cold World Domino Theory Muhammad Jinnah Non-Alignment Jomo Kenyatta Kwame Nkrumah Nelson Mandela Marshall Plan NATO Warsaw Pact Jawaharlal Nehru PLO Party of the Institutionalized Revolution (PRI) Juan Peron Potsdam Conference Augusto Pinoch United Nations Space Race Tehran Conference Truman Doctrine Banana Republic Atlantic Charter Partition of India Third World Second World Getulio Vargas Yalta Conference Zionism Al-Qaeda

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European Union Perestroika Globalization Green Revolution Feminism Human Rights Movement Liberation Theology NGOs Multinational Corporations Tiananmen Square, 1989 WMDs Mikhail Gorbachev Boris Yeltsin Hugo Chavez WTO Islamic Fundamentalism OPEC