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Period- 3
329.League of Nations: was an inter-governmental organization founded as a result of
the Treaty of Versailles in 1919–1920. At its greatest extent from 28 September
1934 to 23 February 1935, it had 58 members.
330.Mandate: a binding obligation issued from an inter-governmental organization
like the United Nations to a country which is bound to follow the instructions of
the organization.
331.Treaty of Brest-Litovsk: was a peace treaty signed on March 3, 1918, at BrestLitovsk (now Brest, Belarus) between the Russian SFSR and the Central Powers,
marking Russia's exit from World War I.
332.The Cold War: was the continuing state of conflict, tension and competition that
existed primarily between the United States and the Soviet Union and those
countries' respective allies from the mid-1940s to the early 1990s.
333. Truman Doctrine: is a set of principles of U.S. foreign policy declared by
President Harry S. Truman in a 1947 address to Congress to request $400 million
in aid to Greece and Turkey, as well as authorization to send American economic
and military advisers to the two countries.
334.Guomingdang: The Long March saved Mao Zedong and the Communist Party
from the attacks by the Guomingdang. The Long March came about when the
Chinese Communists had to flee a concerted Guomingdang attacked that had
been ordered by Chiang Kai-shek.
335.Appeasement: is "the policy of settling international quarrels by admitting and
satisfying grievances through rational negotiation and compromise, thereby
avoiding the resort to an armed conflict which would be expensive, bloody, and
possibly dangerous
336.Fascism: is a radical, authoritarian nationalist ideology that aims to create a
single-party state with a government led by a dictator who seeks national unity
and development by requiring individuals to subordinate self-interest to the
collective interest of the nation or race
337.Great Depression: was a worldwide economic downturn starting in most places
in 1929 and ending at different times in the 1930s or early 1940s for different
countries
338. Potsdam Conference:The leaders of the victorious countries met once more at
Potsdam in July, 1945.Rooseveltwho had died in April, 1945, had been replaced by
the Vice-President, Harry S. Truman.
339.Spanish Civil War: was a major conflict in Spain that started after an attempted
coup d'état by a group of Spanish Army generals
340. United Nations (UN): is an international organization whose stated aims are to
facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic
development, social progress, human rights and achieving world peace.
341. Yalta Conference: sometimes called the Crimea Conference and codenamed the
Argonaut Conference, was the wartime meeting from 4 February 1945 to 11
February 1945 among the heads of government of the United States, the United
Kingdom, and the Soviet Union
342.Hiroshima: During World War II, the Second Army and Chugoku Regional
Army were headquartered in Hiroshima, and the Army Marine Headquarters was
located at Ujina port.
343.Cultural Revolution: in the People’s Republic of China was a period of
widespread social and political upheaval that led to nation-wide chaos and
economic disarray, which would engulf much of Chinese society between 1966
and 1976.
344.Al-Qaeda: is an international Sunni Islamist extremist movement founded
sometime between August 1988 and late 1989/early 1990.
345.International Monetary Fund (IMF): is an international organization that oversees
the global financial system by following the macroeconomic policies of its member
countries, in particular those with an impact on exchange rates and the balance of
payments. It is an organization formed to stabilize international exchange rates and
facilitate development