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Triple Alliance
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Pre-WWI. 1881 alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy
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Triple Entente
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Pre-WWI. 1907 alliance between France, Russia, and Great Britain
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Franz Ferdinand
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Archduke of Austria-Hungary. His assassination in Sarajevo prompted A-H (Central powers) to declare war on Serbia (Allies)
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Allied Powers
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WWI Alliance of Great Britain, France, Russia, and their partners, later including the US.
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Central Powers
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WWI Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire
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Lusitania
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A British Ship which was sunk by Germany. It prompted US entry into WWI because of innocents + US Citizens lost
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John J. Pershing
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Led the United States Army in WWI.
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Woodrow Wilson
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President (US) at the time of WWI.
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David Lloyd George
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Prime Minister of Britain at the time of WWI.
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Georges Clemenceau
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Prime Minister of France at the time of WWI.
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Franz Joseph
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Leader of WWI Austria-Hungary
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Wilhelm II
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German Emperor at the time of WWI
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Czar Nicholas II
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The leader of Russia at the time of WWI. He lost the Russo-Japanese War.
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Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
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A treaty between Russia and the Central Powers which marked Russia's exit from the war. Vladimir Lenin led the new gov't.
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Fourteen Points
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President Woodrow Wilson's plan for a just world based on the Allies' aims to end WWI
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Treaty of Versailles (1919)
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A treaty that marked the end of the WWI between Germany and the Allies. Big reparations for Germany.
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League of Nations
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Intergovernmental organization founded out of the end of WWI. Peace-keeping organisation.
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Mandate
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A blinding obligation issued from an intergovernmental organization to a country.
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Alexander Kerenskii
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Leader of provisional government in Russia before the October Revolution.
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Bolsheviks
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Radical Socialists that overthrew the provisional government in the October Revolutions
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Vladimir Lenin
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Leader of the Bolsheviks. His adaptation of Marxism would be known as communism.
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New Economic Policy
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A plan executed by Lenin to fix economic problems in Russia.
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Leon Trotskii
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One of the main contenders in the Power Struggle after Lenin died. Exiled and killed in Mexico after Stalin wins over him.
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Josef Stalin
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Police state rule. Had a politburo. Purged potential threats to rule.
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Russian Civil War
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Reds vs. Whites. The Communists decided to fight its' opponents, who was anyone who opposed them. They were the whites.
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Comimtern
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Founded to spread revolution throughout the world.
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Five Year Plans
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Stalin's successor to the New Economic Policy. Contain collective farming, varies in success.
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Thomas Mann
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Wrote about the alienation of the writer from society.
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James Joyce
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"Steam of consciousness."
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Pablo Picasso
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Cubism.
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Salvador Dali
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Dreamlike landscapes.
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T.S. Eliot
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Wrote about the pessimism of the post war years. Wrote "The Wasteland".
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Irving Berlin
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Musical Theater during post WWI.
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New Deal
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Roosevelt's answer to the Great Depression. It contained many social + economic programs.
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Economic Nationalism
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Policy that improves economic well-being by establishing protective tariffs and similar restrictions on the import and export of goods.
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Weimer Republic
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Basically said that Germany was a federal republic.
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Paul von Hindenburg
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President of the Weimer Republic (German Republic) who appointed Hitler as chancellor.
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Totalitarian Gov't
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A gov't in which the ruler is an absolute dictator.
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Benito Mussolini
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Leader of Facist Party. Headed Italy and took over by support of the people. Rome-Berlin Axis. Declares war on France and Great Britain on June 10.
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Luftwafte
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Hitler's Air Force
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Reichstag
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Lower part of German legislature
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Balfour Declaration
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Balfour's documents that says he would like a state for the Jews in Palestine.
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Mohandas Gandhi
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Leading Activist of Indian nationalism.
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Statute of Westminster
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Act of British Parliament that recognized Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa as independent
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Boxer Rebellion
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Antiforeigner groups "Boxers" that attacked various foreign establishments in China. Put down by US and allies.
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Sun Yatsen
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Led the Guomindang. Wanted to industrialize China.
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Chiang Kaishek
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Took over after Sun Yatsen dies. Models China after a Soviet model of government
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Mao Zedong
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Mao Zedong became leader of the Chinese Soviet Republic. Establishes People's Republic of China. Also introduces "The Great Leap Forward"
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Kelogg-Briand Pact
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Condemned war as illegal
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Lend Lease Act
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Allows the Great Britain to buy war materials from the US on credit.
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Gen Doug MacArthur
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Leader of the US Pacific Theater of Operations
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Operation Overlord
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Operation to invade the NW part of France in order to gain a second front in the war. Leads to D-Day
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Nuremburg Trials
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Trials where numerous Nazi Leaders were tried in court
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Nikita Kruschev
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Successor to Stalin. Reversed many of Stalin's policies.
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Berlin Airlift
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Soviet Blockade on East German Border to starve the West Germans. US and GB organized an airlift to West Germany.
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Marshall Plan
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US rebuilds various European nations
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Truman Doctrine
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Supports free peoples threatened with communism.
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Warsaw Pact
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Soviet Union's answer to NATO. basically established it's own formal, unified, alliance.
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Jawaharlal Nehru
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First PM of India. Chose nonalignment for India. Wanted India to modernize
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Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.
Definition
Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution in China
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