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History & Current Affairs Glossary
Key terms and definitions for history & current affairs. Every concept links to a full explanation — a reference for students, delegates, and researchers.
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- 306 terms
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4 entriesA
16 entriesB
22 entries- Bandung Conference
- Bandung Principles
- Battle of Britain
- Battle of Midway
- Battle of Stalingrad
- Bay of Pigs Invasion
- Berlin Airlift
- Berlin Blockade
- Berlin Conference of 1884
- Berlin Crisis of 1961
- Berlin Wall
- Biafran War
- Blitz
- Blitzkrieg
- Boer Wars
- Bolshevik Revolution
- Bosnian War
- Boxer Rebellion
- Bretton Woods Conference
- Brexit
- Bronze Age
- Byzantine Empire
C
25 entries- Camp David Accords
- Camp David Summit (2000)
- Carnation Revolution
- Carolingian Renaissance
- Carthaginian Empire
- Chinese Civil War
- Chinese Revolution
- Cold War
- Color Revolutions
- Colour Revolutions
- Columbian Exchange
- Committee of Public Safety
- Congo Crisis
- Congress System
- Containment Policy
- Copenhagen Climate Summit
- Council of Trent
- Counter-Reformation
- Counterfactual History
- COVID-19 Economic Shock
- Crimean War
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- Cuban Missile Crisis Resolution
- Cuban Revolution
- Cultural Revolution (China)
D
12 entriesE
8 entriesF
10 entriesG
12 entriesH
14 entriesI
15 entriesJ
1 entryK
8 entriesL
6 entriesM
18 entries- Maastricht Treaty
- Madrid Conference (1991)
- Maginot Line
- Majapahit Empire
- Mali Empire
- Manhattan Project
- Marshall Plan
- Marshall Plan Aid
- Mau Mau Uprising
- Maximilien Robespierre
- May Fourth Movement
- Meiji Restoration
- Mexican Revolution
- Mexican-American War
- Ming Dynasty
- Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
- Mozambican Civil War
- Mughal Empire
N
15 entriesO
13 entriesP
21 entries- Pan-Africanism
- Pan-Arabism
- Paris Climate Agreement
- Paris Commune
- Partition of India
- Partition of Palestine
- Pax Americana
- Pax Britannica
- Pax Mongolica
- Pax Romana
- Pax Sinica
- Peace of Augsburg
- Pearl Harbor Attack
- Peloponnesian War
- Perestroika
- Periodization
- Prague Spring
- Protestant Reformation
- Proxy Wars
- Ptolemaic Kingdom
- Punic Wars
Q
1 entryR
14 entriesS
30 entries- SALT I Treaty
- SALT II Treaty
- SALT Treaties
- San Francisco Conference
- Sasanian Empire
- Schlieffen Plan
- Schuman Declaration
- Scientific Revolution
- Scramble for Africa
- Second Industrial Revolution
- Seleucid Empire
- Sengoku Period
- Sepoy Mutiny
- Silk Road
- Silla Dynasty
- Single European Act
- Six-Day War
- Solidarity Movement
- Songhai Empire
- South China Sea Arbitration
- South China Sea Dispute
- Spanish Civil War
- Spanish-American War
- Spring of Nations
- Srivijaya Empire
- Sudan Conflict
- Sudan Darfur Conflict
- Suez Canal Nationalization
- Suez Crisis
- Sykes-Picot Agreement
T
19 entries- Taiping Rebellion
- Taiwan Strait Crisis
- Tang Dynasty
- Thermidorian Reaction
- Thirty Years' War
- Tiananmen Square Protests
- Tokugawa Shogunate
- Tokyo Trials
- Trans-Saharan Trade
- Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
- Treaty of Paris (1951)
- Treaty of Rome (1957)
- Treaty of Tordesillas
- Treaty of Trianon
- Treaty of Versailles
- Treaty of Westphalia
- Triangular Trade
- Triple Alliance
- Truman Doctrine
