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What was Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia created?
Definition
When Austria-Hungary was divided along ethnic lines. This was the Treaty of Trianon (Hungary) and Treaty of St Germain (Austria).
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Who did the Treaty of Versailles affect? And what did it do?
Definition
It affected Germany and told Germany that they must give money and factories to France. Germany also lost Alsace-Lorraine.
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What was the problem with Russian Government after the Duma took over and the Soviets controlled the police aspect?
Definition
The Government though they must continue the war, and the Soviets did not always listen to the Gov., and the morale of Russian Army is bad. The Mass population of Russia are also mostly peasants.
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Where did Lenin take over the Soviet Union?
Definition
At the congress of representatives meeting.
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What was scorched earth?
Definition
The Russian Government completely destroyed a section of Russia when the Germans were invading.
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What were two problem with the Russian army?
Definition
1) Getting items and 2) Getting Ammo
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What protest led Nicholas II to resign?
Definition
International Women's Day in 1917
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Who led the Bolsheviks?
Definition
Vladmir Lenin.
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All about the Treaty of Versailles?
Definition
GERMANY. Germany had to become a democracy, must give money and factories to France. Germany also loses Alsace-Lorraine. Germany is also blockaded.
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All about the Treaty of St. Germain / Treaty of Trianon?
Definition
AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY. Divided Austria-Hungary along ethnic lines.
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All about the Treaty of Sevres?
Definition
OTTOMAN EMPIRE. Syria and Lebanon go to France.
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Who is the prime minister of Italy?
Definition
Benito Mussolini.
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What group did Benito Mussolini create and what were they like?
Definition
Fascists, which are, anti-Democratic and Nationalistic.
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What are the five aspects of a Totalitarian Dictatorship?
Definition
Totalitarian Ideology, Mass Thought Control, Takeover of Professions, Leader Cult, & Economic Mobilization.
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Why do the communist forces win in Russia?
Definition
They were well-organized and they had a straight forward plan of action. They knew what the fuck they were doing.
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What plan did Lenin proclaim when when the communist forces win in Russia?
Definition
The New Economic Policy, which permitted small enterprise and small farms.
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What three people struggle for power when Lenin dies?
Definition
Josif Stalin: Total Badass
Lev Trotsky: Arrogant (Russia must move now)
Nikolai Bukharin: Philosophical (Russia must move slow)
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What is atomization?
Definition
Every man for himself and you can't trust anyone because the Gov. has ears everywhere.
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What happened in the Germany election process that made Paul Von Hindenburg declare Hitler Chancellor.
Definition
No party won the mass majority.
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What was Hitler's main goal after taking over power?
Definition
He wanted a nationalistic regime, purification, and economic mobilization.
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What country rules over India?
Definition
Britain
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In India, there was a religious war between which two groups?
Definition
Indian Congress Party: Mohandes Ghandi (Hinduism)
Muslim League: Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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What was the Amritsar Massacre?
Definition
This was when the British fired on a group of people in India, and inspired Ghandi that violence wouldn't work.
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What made the Young Turks movement?
Definition
Mustafa Kemal / Attaturk and he wanted westernization.
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What are some of the steps that Attaturk took to encourage Westernization in Turkey?
Definition
Clothes, separating church and state, changing last named & using latin letters. He also moved the capital of Turkey from Istanbul to the city of Ankara.
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What was the Balfour Declaration?
Definition
The zionistic movement in which the British promised the Jews that they were get them homeland in Palestine.
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What was the Nazi Foreign Policy?
Definition
Treaty Revision (Talks about German's not being treated fairly)
Pan-Germanism (Austria, Czech and Republic are included in places Hitler wants to unite)
Empire (Conquest of Eastern Europe and Russia)
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What does Italy do when Hitler begins to gear up for WWII?
Definition
Italy invades Ethiopia.
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Who was in the Winter War and who won it?
Definition
Winter War was between Soviet Union and Finland. The Soviet Union gets destroyed.
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Who does Hitler invade after the Winter War and why?
Definition
He wants to colonize in Russia and the Soviet Army looks really weak now.
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Why is Russia missing?
Definition
Russia is not invited because of Lenin and communist threat.
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Why is the Paris Peace Conference different from the Napoleonic War Treaties?
Definition
In the Napoleonic War Treaties all of the countries were on the same page but in the Paris Peace Conference USA and the French disagree.
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In the Paris Peace Conference who was in charge of USA, British, Italy, and France?
Definition
USA: Woodrow Wilson
British: David Lloyd George
French: Georges Clemenceau
Italy: Vittorio Orlando
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What was the Emergence of Modern Turkey about?
Definition
Ataturk wants to westernize Turkey in order in desire for economic prosperity and nationalism.
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What was Liquidation of the Kulaks?
Definition
Stalin is going to terrorize the Kulaks (who are slightly more successful). When they have a famine Stalin closes off the areas of famine to make it worse.
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About the Cult of Stalin?
Definition
Comparing Stalin to a God. Media Takeover and religious figures jailed or shot.
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Who wrote and what are the Fascist Doctrines?
Definition
Mussolini and talks about Democracy because it talks about free thinking. It all comes back to him wanting mass thought control.
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What stopped the mass takeover by the Axis Powers?
Definition
They had bitten off more then they could chew and couldn't control all of the new territories.
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There is an aircraft carrier battle after Pearl Harbor between Japan and America, who wins?
Definition
American wins the air battle.
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Why does Japan surrender out of the war?
Definition
'Dey got 'dey shit blown out wit atomic bombs, yo. LITERALLY.
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Why wasn't there a huge resistance effort on the home front's involved in this war?
Definition
They were just trying to survive, and there were huge consequences.
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Did cities suffer huge devastation? True or False?
Definition
True
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Who were the big three at Yalta and what happened there?
Definition
Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill. They decided to replace League of Nations with the United Nations.
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What happened at the meeting of Potsdam?
Definition
They decided that the Nuremburg trials were needed. And to eliminate occupation zones. The deal was also made that the Soviets would supply the German populace with food.
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What created the Iron Curtain and the Cold War?
Definition
Stalin closes corridors but realizes he can't win that way, and creates a German puppet state with a communist regime.
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About NATO?
Definition
Made in 1950 and opposes the Soviet Union and brings together winners and losers.
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What was the Warsaw pact made in response to?
Definition
NATO, and arrangements at Yalta and Potsdam were made permanent.
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Did the Soviets protect Poland? If not what did they allow to happen?
Definition
No, they did not protect them and they fixed the election so a communist would be elected leader.
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What happened to the communists and the civil war against nationalists in the later 1950's in China?
Definition
The communists win.
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What sparked the Korean War?
Definition
The soviets encouraged communists to invade Southern Korea and it doesn't work.
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What is the Marshall Plan and when did it happen?
Definition
Marshall Plan happened when Western Europe was in ruins and it loaned money to European countries in order to help them out. Americans hoped this would encourage democracy.
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What is the European Economic Community?
Definition
A group of countries joined together with resources such as coal and steel.
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What three countries are denied into European Economic Community? Why?
Definition
1) Spain (Facists had won Civil War)
2)Portugal (One of the last empires in Europe)
3) Greece ( A large communist influence)
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Who takes over after Stalin dies in 1953?
Definition
Nikita Khrushchev who presents himself as a man who is going to steer the Soviet Union away from the harsh ways of Stalin.
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What were the two fundamentals in Khrushchev's approach?
Definition
1) Denounce Stalin and 2) Redraw the contract between the Government and the people.
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What were some of Khrushchev's actions when he was in office?
Definition
He tried making peace with the west and he also tried unsuccessfully planting in uninhabitable soil. He also signed a treaty to end above ground nuclear testing.
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