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Nikolai Berdiaev
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Russian Orthodox thinker. Stated that "man's historical experience has been one of steady failure, and there are no grounds for supposing it will be ever anything else."
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Jose Ortega y Gasset 
Definition
Wrote Revolt of the Masses. Spanish philosopher who warned readers about the masses who were destined to destroy the highest achievements of Western society. 
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Albert Einstein
Definition
Came up with theory of Relativity, showing that there is no single spatial and chronological framework in the universe. According to this theory, it no longer made sense to speak of space and time as absolutes, because the measurement of thsoe two categories always varies with the motion of the observer. 
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Werner Heisenberg
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Published a paper "About the Quantum-THeorestical Reinterpretatin of Kinetic and Mechanical Relationships," which established the "uncertainty principle."
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uncertainty principle
Definition
scientists cannot observe the behavior of electron objectively, because the act of observation interferes with them. 
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Sigmund Freud
Definition
focused on psychological rather than physiological explanation of mental disorder. identified a conflict between conscious and unconscious mental processes that lay at the root of neurotic behavior. Strong belief in dreams. Identified sexual drives and fantasies as the most important source of repression. 
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Oedipus Complex
Definition
Freud said that male children develop an erotic attachment to their mother and hostility toward their father. 
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Les Fauves
Definition
Wild Beats as the called themselves. Expressionists, Cubists, Abstractionists, Dadaists, or Surrealists. 
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Edgar Degas
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French impressionist who studied 19th century Japanese prints, and he experimented with visual angles and asymmetrical compositions.
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Paul Gauguin
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Postimpressionist painter, in a revolt agsint rational society fled to central America and Tahiti. Inspired by the "primitive" art he found there, claiming that it held a sesne of wonder that "civilized" people no longer possessed. 
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Bauhaus
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An institution that brought together architects, designers, and painters from several countires. Located first in Weimar and tehn Dessau, Germany, it was a community of innovators bent on creating a building style and interior designs that were uniquely suited to the urban and industrial landscape of the 20th century. 
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Walter Gropius
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First director of the Bauhaus. Theory of design became the guiding principle first of the Bauhaus and subsequently of contemporary architecture. Believed that design was functional, based on a marriage between engineering and art. Form must follow function. 
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Ludwig Mies von der Rohe
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Second director of Bauhaus. experimented with steel frames around which he stretched non-load-bearing walls of glass. His designs became the basis for the ubiquitous glass-box skyscrapers taht first adorned cities such as Chicago and New York and later dominated the skylines of major cities
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Le Corbusier
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World-famous Swiss-French architect. He proved the broad appeal of new architecture. Laid out the new capital city of Punjab, and other Indian cities at the request of Indian prime minister. 
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Smoot-Hawley Tariff
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Raised duties on must manufactured products to prohibitive levels
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Cecil Rhodes
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Moved to South Africa for tuberculosis. Became rich off of diamonds and gold. Proponent of British imperialism
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Otto von Bismarck
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Worked to persuade both industrialists and workers that overseas expansions would benefit them all. German chancellor. 
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Mission Civilisatrice
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means civiizing mission in French. Word for justification of imperialism into Africa and Asia.
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"white man's burden"
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term coind by Kipling meaning that it was the duty of European and Euro-American peoples to bring order and enlightenment to distant lands. 
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Nemesis
Definition
British gunboat that brought the Opium War to a conclusion in 1842
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Maxim gun
Definition
Came in 1880s. Light and powerful weapon that fired 11 bullets per second. 
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Battle of Omdurman
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Killed thousands of Sudanese in 5 hours. Opened the door for British colonial role in Sudan. 
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English East India Company
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Obtained permission from Mughai emperors of India to build fortified posts on the coastlines. Enjoyed a monopoly on English trade with Asia. 
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Sati
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The practice of widows burning themselves on their husbands' funeral pyres. Banned by British
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"The Great Game"
Definition
military officers and imperialist adventures engaged in a risk of influence and intelligence with British and Russians in India
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Thomas Stamford Raffles
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Established the port of Singapore, which became the busiest center of trade in the Strait of Melaka in 1824.
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French Indochina
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Consisted of modern Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos between 1859 and 1893
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Dr. David Livingstone
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Scottish minister, who traveled through much of central and southern Africa in the mid-19th century in search of suitable locations for mission posts.
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Henry Morton Stanley
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Undertook a well-publicized expedition to find Livingstone and report on his activities.
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Richard Burton and John Speke
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Ventured into east Africa seeking the source of the Nile River
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Dutch East India Company
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Set up Cape Town(1652) as a supply chain for ships en route to Asia.
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Boers
Definition
Dutch farmers in Africa
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Afrikaners
Definition
renamed Boers, believed God had predestined them to claim the people and resources of the Cape. 
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The Great Trek
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Following oppression by British, Afrikaners moved east
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Berlin West Africa Conference
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Delegates of 12 European states as well as the US and the Ottom empire - not a single African was present - devised the ground rules for the colonization of Africa
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Liberia
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One of 2 countries that remained free. Consisted of freed slaves that was effectively a dependency of the US.
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Fredrick D. Lugard
Definition
Driving force behind the doctrine of indirect rule. Wrote The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa, in which he stressed the moral and financial advantages of exercising control over subject populations through indigenous institutions. Keen on using "tribal authorities" and "customary laws" as the foundation for colonial rule. 
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Captain James Cook
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Traveled to Pacific. 1770 anchored in Botany Bay(near Sydney), and reported that the region would be suitable for settlement.
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terra nullius
Definition
"land belonging to no one." British considered Australia terra nullius since Aboriginals were a nomadic people. 
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Treaty of Waitangi
Definition
British encouraged Maori leaders to sign this in 1840 by miscommunicating with them. The Treaty signalled the coming of official British colonial control, New Zealand believed it placed them just under British protection. 
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New Zealand Wars
Definition
Military confrontations between Maori groups and British troops and settlers in mid to late 19th century
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Maori King Movement
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Began in 1856, as a means of forwarding Maori unity and sovereignty in New Zealand
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Copra
Definition
Dried coconut, produced vegetable oil for manufacturing of soap, candles and lubricants
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Guano
Definition
bird droppings that made excellent fertilizer
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Monroe Doctrine
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Warned European states against imperialist designs in Western hemisphere
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Queen Lili'uokalani
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Last monarch of Hawaii
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Spanish-Cuban-American War
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War broke out as anticolonial tensions mounted in Cuba and Puerto Rico - the last remnants of Spain's American empire - where US business interests had made large investments. 
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Maine
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US battleship that exploded and sank in Havana in 1898 and US claimed sabotage and declared war on Spain. Easily defeated Spain
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Emilio Aguinaldo
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known to his followers as the George Washington of his country - led a Filipino rebellion against intruders
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Roosevelt Corollary
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The US right to intervene in the domestic affairs of nations within the hemisphere if they demonstrated an inability to maintain the security deemed necessary to protect US investments. 
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Maji Maji Rebellion
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A rebellion led by a priest to expel German colonial authorities from east Africa. Maji maji was magic water believed to protect from German weapons. 
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Count Joseph Arthur de Gobineau
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Theorist who took race as the most important index of human potential. Wrote Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races, where he divided humanity into 4 main racial groups. 1) African - unintelligent and lazy. 2) Asian - smart but docile. 3) natives of Americas - dull and arrogant. 4) Europeans - intelligent, noble and morally superior
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Herbert Spencer
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English philosopher who relied heavily on theories of evolution to explain differences between strong and weak: successful individuals and races had competed better in the natural world and consequently evolved to higher states than did other, less fit peoples. 
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Ram Mohan Roy
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Prominent Bengali intellectual sometimes called the "father of modern India." Argued for the construction of society based on both modern European science and the Indian tradition of devotional Indiusm sought to end sati and increase women's rights, but considered himself Hindu reformer.
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Indian National Congress
Definition
A forum for educated Indians to communicate their views on public affairs to colonial officals. 
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Gertrude Stein
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Coined the phrase "lost generation"
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Oswald Spengler
Definition
Lamented decline of Western society. Wrote Decline of the West, he proposed that all societies through a life cycle of growth and decay comparable to the biological cylce of living organisms. He concluded that European society had entered the final stage of its existence. 
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Arnold J. Toynbee
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Wrote A Study of History, which sought to discover how societies develop through time
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Karl Barth
Definition
Christian theologian. Published Epistle to the Romans. Attacked liberal Christian theology that embraced the idea of progress, that is, the tendency of European thinkers to believe in limitless improvement as the realization of God's purpose.
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Charles Richet
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French Nobel Prize-winning physician, who insisted that removing women from the workforce would solve the problem of male unmployment and incrase that nation's dangerously low birthrate
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John Steinbeck
Definition
US writer who captured the official heartlessness and the rising political angery inspired by the depression in The Grapes of Wrath. 
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Planned scarcity
Definition
the US government's policy to destroy surplus crops to raise prices while citizens starved during Great Depression
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John Maynard Keynes
Definition
The most influential economist of the 20th century, who offered a solution to the crisis. His seminal work, The General THeory of Employment, Interest, and Money, was his answer to the central problem of the depression - he believed that the fundamental cause of the depression was not excessive supply, but inadequate demand. He encouraged the government to increase the money supply and stimulate the economy. This would lower interest rates and encoruage investment. 
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The New Deal
Definition
a proposal under Roosevelt, that was a program fo sweeping economic and social reforms. Said that the gov't was justified in intervening to protect the social and econmic welfare of the people, represented a major shift ini US gov't policy and started a trend toward social reform legislation that continued long after thedepression. 
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Red Terror
Definition
Lenin's way of dealing with the opposition during the civil war. It was a military campaign in which suspected anticommunists known as Whites were arrested, tried, and executed. 200,000 were killed, along with the tsar and his family. 
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New Economic Policy(NEP)
Definition
Lenin instated this to handle pressures from the unrest of the people. It temporarily restored the market economy and some private enterprise in Russia. Gov't returned only small-scale industries(those with less than 20 workers). Also allowed peasants to sell their surpluses at free market prices. 
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Politburo
Definition
the central governing body of the Communist Party in Russia. Were in favor of keeping socialism only within the country.
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First Five Year Plan
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Replaced Lenin's NEP, plan was to transform the Societ Union from a predominantly agricultural country to a leading industrial power. (in particular steel and machinery)
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Kulaks
Definition
Welathy peasants who had risen to prosperity during the NEP but accounted for only 3 to 5% of the peasantry in Soviet Union
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Blackshirts
Definition
Fascist armed squads who used violence against socialists in Italy
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Pact of Steel
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Enacted by Italy and Germany and illustrated the strong links between the Italian and German variants of fascism
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Nuremburg Laws
Definition
German Law that deprived German Jewis of their citizenship and prohibited marriage and sexual intercourse between Jews and Germans
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Kristallnacht
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The Night of the broken glass. Where the Nazis arranged for the destruction of thousands of Jewish stores, the burning of most synagogues, and the murder of more than 100 Jews throughout Germany and Austria.
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Tripartite Pact
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Pact between Germany, Italy and Japan that was a 20 year military and economic pact in September 1940. 
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Anschluss
Definition
the forced union between Germany and Austria that occurred in March 1938. 
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Russian-German Treaty of Nonagression
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in August 1939. Terms of pact were that the 2 nations agreed not to attack each other, and promised neutrality in the event that either of them went to war with a third party. Also secretly decided to divide up Poland amongst each other. 
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Luftwaffe
Definition
German's air force
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Tojo Hideki
Definition
prime minister of Japan who set in motion plans for war against Great Britain and the US and allowed for Pearl Harbor
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Majic
Definition
a code breaking operation, which enabled a cryptographer monitoring Japanese radio frequencies to discover their plan to attack Midway
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Kamikaze
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Introduced at Okinawa. These were Japanese pilots who voluntered to fly planes with just enough fuel to reach an Allied ship and dive-bomb into it. There were 1900 missions
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Wannsee Conference
Definition
where 15 leading Nazi bureaucrats gathered to discuss and coordinate the implementation of the final solution in 1942. Agrred to evaluate all Jews to camps in eastern Poland, where they would be worked to death or exterminated. 
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Zyklon B
Definition
THe gassing agent, that was used to exterminate Jews. 
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WAVES
Definition
Women appointed for Volunteer Emergency Service in the navy
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comfort houses/consolation centers
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where over 200,000 women between the ages of 14 and 20 were forced to work as prostitutes for the military. They were presented as gifts from the emperor, and they came from Japanese colonies, mostly from Korea and China.  
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Yalta Conference
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Where Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt came together where they attempted to discuss how to deal with the liberated countries of eastern Europe. 
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Potsdam Conference
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Took place in a Berlin suburb in 1945 and was the last wartime summit conference of the Allies. Focus was the immediate Allied control of Germany, the occupation of Austria and the demaraction of the boundaries of Poland. 
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Iron Curtain
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The area that divided Europe into the Soviet Union territory and the capitalist nations of western Europe. 
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Truman Doctrine
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Drew the battle lines of the Cold War. 
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Marshall Plan
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a proposal to rebuild Euroepan economies through cooperation and capitalism, foretsalling communist or Soviet influence in the devastated nations of Europe. 
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Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
Definition
Set up in 1949, it offered increased trade within the Soviet Union and eastern Europe as an alternative to the Marshall Plan
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United Nations
Definition
a supranational organization dedicated to keeping world peace. Finalized in 1944 with the presence of China, Great Britain the Societ Union, and the US. Dedicated to maintaining international peace and security and promoting friendly relations among the world's nations. 
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Gavrilo Princip
Definition
Killed Archduke 
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June 28, 1914
Definition
The day that the Archduke was assassinateded
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Black Hand
Definition
Group centered in Serbia, the organization was the unification of all south Slavs, or Yugoslavs, to from a greater Serbia
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Central Powers
Definition
4 countries - Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire
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Syngman Rhee
Definition
the president of South Korea, a conservative anticommunist
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Pyongyang
Definition
the capital of North Korea
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Kim Il Sung
Definition
leader of North Korea, a revolutionary communist. 
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38th parallel
Definition
separation between North and South Korea
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"domino theory"
Definition
coined by Eisenhower. Americans believed that if one fell to communism, the rest would follow, which was why they were so determined to stop communism. 
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Fidel Castro Ruz
Definition
revolutionary who overthrew the autocrat of Cuba. Ceased operations with US and started working with Soviet Union. 
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Cuba Nuclear Flashpoint
Definition
began with Fidel Castro working with Soviet Union, which caused US to order retaliation against Cuba and severed ties with Cuba. Soviets arrived in Cuba with military and economic aid. 
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Bay of Pigs
Definition
Kennedy gave go-ahead to invasion of Cuba and overthrow Castro. arrived at the Bay of Pigs. Within 3 days, Castro's military captured or killed entire invasion force. Diminished US prestige, and fueled Castro's resolve towards communism
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Operation Mongoose
Definition
formed by CIA, a campaign aimed at destabilizing CUba and assissinating Castro. 
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The Cuban Missile Crisis
Definition
Kennedy and Kruschchev came to an understanding and understood the seriousness of the risk of a superpower nuclear showdown on Cuba. They withdrew missiles, and US did not invade Cuba
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Senator Joseph McCarthy
Definition
became infamous in early 1950s for his unsuccessful quest to expose communists in the US government
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Simone de Beauvoir
Definition
Wrote the Second Sex in 1949, a french writer, who denounced the second class status of women
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Betty Friedan
Definition
wrote the Feminine Mystique, and laid bare the severe unhappiness of women who presumale enjoyed the best life the US could offer. 
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Marcus Gravey
Definition
advocated that US blacks seek repatriation in Africa. 
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Kwame Nkrumah
Definition
led Ghana to independence from colonial rule, familiarized himself with the works of Garvey while studying in the US
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Brown v. Board of Education
Definition
illegalized segregations in schools in 1954
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Yuri Gagarin
Definition
first man to orbit the earth. Soviet
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July 20, 1969
Definition
America landed on the moon with Apollo 11
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Boris Pasternak
Definition
Soviet novelist who wrote Dr. Zhivago. Unable to receive his Nobel Prize for literature in 1958
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President Charles de Gaulle
Definition
French leader, who dreamed of a Europe that could act as a third in the world affairs. 
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Marshall Tito
Definition
real name was Josip Broz, ruled the federation of Yugoslavia with an iron hand from 1945 until his death in 1980. Resisted Soviet control
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Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
Definition
political prisoner, who wrote One day in the life ivan denisovich, a shor and moving description of life in a Siberian forced labor. 
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Imre Nagy
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communist who gained power in Hungary and visiibility as a nationalist leader who announced Hungary's neutrality and withdrawal fromthe Warsaw pact
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Janos Kadar
Definition
Soviet authorities installed him as a dependable communist leader who adhered strictly to a pro-Soviet line of foreign policy in Hungary
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Alexander Dubcek
Definition
communist party leader in Czechoslovakia, who launched a "democratic socialist revolution." 
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Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev
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successor to Krushchev
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Doctrine of Limited Soverignty

Definition
justification for invasion of Czechoslavakia. Reserved the right to invade any socialist country that was deemed to be threatened by internal or external elements "hostile to socialism"
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detente
Definition
agreement between Soviet Union and US, meant a reduction in hostility, in an attempt to cool the costly arms race and slow their competition in developing countries. 
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National Liberal Front
Definition
the South Vietnameses communst party. 
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People's Democratic Party of Aghanistan(PDPA)
Definition
a radical group that took power in Afghanistan under Soviets approval
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Taliban
Definition
an organization claiming to be an army of religious students, began a campagn to unify the Afghan lands in 1994. Captured the capital in 1996 and proclaimed the Islamic state of Afghanistan
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Solidarity
Definition
Popular in Poland, it was a combined trade union and nationalist movement
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Lech Walesa
Definition
Solidarity leader, who became president of Poland
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velvet revolution
Definition
a revolution in Czechoslovakia that swept communists out of office and restored democracy by 1990. 
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Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Definition
leader of the Muslim League, who felt no qualms a out frankly expression Muslim concerns and desires for a separate Muslim state in India
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Jawaharlal Nehru
Definition
agreed with Ghandi in one India
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Ho Chi Minh
Definition
leader of communist party in Vietnam
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Balfour Declaration
Definition
giving the Jews a homeland signed by the British to get to Palestine
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Gamal Abdel Nassar
Definition
leader of Egyptian party, who committed himself to opposing Israel and taking command of the Arab world. 
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Front de Liberation Nationale
Definition

the command that led the Algerian war of liberation, that gained independence from France in 1962. 

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Frantz Fanon
Definition
The Algerian revolutionary and proponent of national liberation for colonial peoples through violent revolution. Participated in Algeria's battle to free itself for African nationalism. 
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Negritude
Definition
meaning Blackness, it was a movement inspired by US and Carribbean, they were African intellectuals who wanted to revive African traditions and culture. They were poets and writers who expressed a widely shared pride in Africa. They wanted to also break away from France.
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Kikuyu
Definition
rebels in Kenya that were the largest ethnic group. They led a violent campaiin against Europeans
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Jomo Kenyatta
Definition
Kenyan nationalistic leader, who was jailed by British, but later reemerged
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The Great Leap Forward/Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
Definition
far-reaching policies taht hampered the political and economic ddevelopment that Mao so urgently sought. Seen as a way to overtake industrial nation. It failed
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The Cultural Revolution in China
Definition
ended up destroying the educational system in China and cost China years of stable development. 
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Deng Xiaoping
Definition
came to power in 1981 after Mao. Facilitated relations between China and the US. He engineered CHina's entry into the international financial and trading system. He opened nation up to capitalist values. 
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Beijing's Tiananmen Square
Definition
A democracy demonstration that ended in bloody violence
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Indira Ghandi
Definition
She was Nehru's daughter who became leader of the Congress party in India, and then served as prime minister of India from 1966 to 1977. She called for the forced sterilization of Indians. Allowed for voting privileges, but was then voted out. Tried to keep India one. Was assassinated in 1984 by Sikhs
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Sikh
Definition
group in India who wanted greater autonomy in Punjab region. Represented 2% of India's population
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Golden Temple in Amristar
Definition
Temple where Sikhs were hiding, and Indira Gandhi ordered an attack. She was eventually killed because of this. 
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Rajiv Ghandhi
Definition
Indira Ghandi's son, who took over for her. He offered reconciliation for Sikhs, but was assassinated in 1991. 
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Anwar Sadat
Definition
Replaced Nassar as Egypt's president. He signed a peace treaty with Israel, and backed out of friendship with Soviet Union. He was assassinated in 1981. 
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Palestinian Liberation Organization(PLO)
Definition
worked to isolate Egypt, served as a gov't in exile for Palestinians displaced by Israel
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Yasser Arafat
Definition
Leader of PLO, who promoted Palestinian rights. Signed a peace treaty that advanced the notion of limited Palestinian self-rule in Israeli-occupied territories. 
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Yitzhak Rabin
Definition
Israeli prime minister, who signed peace treaty with Arafat. Later assassinated for this by Jewish extremist. 
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Hezbollah
Definition
A Lebanese Shia resistance group benefiting from support from Iran and fighting against any Israeli occupation of Lebanese territory, instigated a conflict that saw Hezbollah rockets launched against Israel and more. UN mandated cease-fire in August 2006
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jihad
Definition
the right and duty to defend Islam and the Islamic community from unjust attack - to rationalize and legitimize terrorism and revolution 
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Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Definition
CIA helped bring him to power in 1953 in Iran
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Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
Definition
leader of the revolution in Iran. It was an Islamist movement, and was strongly anti-US
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Iran-Iraq war
Definition
killed 1 million soldiers. Hussein launched an attack on Iran, and ended in 1988
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President Lazaro Cardenas
Definition
President in Mexico, who had substantially invoked and applied the reforms guaranted to the Mexicans by the Constitution of 1917. 
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Petroleos Mexicanas(PEMEX)
Definition
a national oil company in control of MExico's petroleum products
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Juan Peron
Definition
president of Argentina. He wa a nationalistic militarist, but was very popular. Promoted a nationalistic populism, calling for industrialization and support of the working class. Wife was Eva Peron
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Jacobo Arbenz Guzman
Definition
Democratic president in Guatemala in 1951. Attempted to assert a Guatemalan economy, but US didn't like it
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Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas
Definition
noncommunist Guatemalan. Puppet of the US, who attacked and weakened the Arbenz gov't. He was assassinated, which led to a civil war until 1990
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Anastacio Somoza Garcia
Definition
President of Nicaragua, who was an anticommunist US ally. Controlled Nicaragua for more than 40 years. They were corrupt and brutal
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Augusto Cesar Sandino
Definition
Honored in Nicaragua. He led a guerrilla movement aimed at ending US einterference in Nicaragua, but was killed by Garcia
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Frente Sandinista de Liberacion Nacional
Definition
Founded after Sandino's death. Garnered support over the decades for their guerrilla operations aimed at overthrowing the Somozas, but did not take power until 1979. 
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Oscar Arias Sanchez
Definition
President of Costa Rica who became especially influential in promoting a negoiated end to Contra War in Nicaragua
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Contras
Definition
CIA trained counterrevolutionary group dedicated to overthrowing the Sandinistas and engaging over time in such activities as the bombing of oil facilities and the mining of harbors in Nicaragua
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liberation theology
Definition
a mixture of Catholocisim and Marxism meant to combat the misery and repression of the masses through revolutionary salvation embraced by priests in Latin America
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Raul Prebisch
Definition
Argentinian economist, who blamed US for not allowing to make their economy. 
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self determination
Definition

the idea that peoples with the same ethnic origins, language and politcal ideals had the right to form sovereign states. 

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Pan-Slavism
Definition

Russia promoted this volatile situation, which a 19th century movement that stressed the ethnic and cultural kinship of the various Slav peoples of eastern and east central Europe and that sought to unite those peoples politically

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Dreadnoughts
Definition

super ships built by Britain to counteract Germany's new navy

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Balkan War
Definition

between 1912 and 1913, the states of the Balkan peninsula - including Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, Serbia, and Romania - fought two consecutive wars for possession of European territories held by the Ottoman empire. 

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Central Powers

Definition

consisted of Austria-Hungary, Germany and Italy 

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Triple Entente
Definition

agreements between France and Britain and Russia and it aimed to resolve colonial disputes

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Schlieffen plan
Definition

 

Germans plan of attack, which called for a swift knockout of France, followed by the defensive action against Russia

 

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Results of Global War
Definition

  • More women involved in labor force
  • Imperial ties drew millions of Asians, Africans, and residents of the British dominions into the war to serrve as soldiers and laborers
  • The war gained a global flavor through the entry of Japan, the US, and the Ottoman Empire

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July 23, 1914

Definition

Austrians issued ultimatum to Serbia. 

  • Serbia accepted some but not all, and Austria declared this unacceptable and declared war on July 28
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July 28, 1914
Definition
Austrians declared war on Serbia
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July 29
Definition

Russia aided Serbian allies and mobilized against Germany as well. Once Germany declared war on Russia for mobilizing, France began to mobilize. 

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August 3, 1914
Definition

 

Germany declared war on France and invaded Belgium. Britian sent ultimatum to Germany regarding Belgium's neutrality, and then Britain declared war on Germany. 

 

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Trench on western front ran...
Definition

from English channel to Switzerland. 

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"no-man's land"
Definition
space between the trenches
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Technology introduced during World War I
Definition

  • Poisonous gas by Germans in January 1915.
    • Mustard gas - rotted the body from within and without
  • Tanks and airplanes
    • Britain with tanks in 1915
    • Airplane in 1914 - by the end of the war showed dramatic improvements in speed, range, and altitude       

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Italy during World War I
Definition
left Central Powers, and joined Allies in 1915, as Austria-Hungary promised them land
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Eastern Front
Definition

Germany established a defensive line extending from the Baltic to the Ukraine

Counterattacks by Russia were unsuccessful, which led to undermining of tsar and fostered revolutionary ferment within Russian society 

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Japan during World War I
Definition
told Germany to get out of China, but they wouldn't, so joined Allies 
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Christian Armenians
Definition

viewed as defiance of Turkism. Branded as traitorous internal enemy. Massacred them and starved them out - Armenian genocide(1 million perished)

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most significant consequence of World War I
Definition
Europe's diminshed role in the world
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November 11, 1918
Definition
Germans delcared defeat
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Influenza Pandemic
Definition

killed 20 million people(hit young adults particularly). Not caused by Great War, but wartime traffic on land and sea probably contributed to the spread of the infection. No cure for the flu

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Paris Settlement
Definition

27 nations represented - left bitter legacy
France, Britain and US dominated the deliberations and the Allies did not permit reps from Central Powers to participate. Soviet Union not invited. British blockade remained in effect in Germany during this time.

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Strategically weak because too few participants had a stake in maintaining it and too many had an interest in revising it. 
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Wilson's 14 Points
Definition

Open agreements of peace

Absolute freedom of navigation on the seas in peace and war
Removal of all economic barriers
Establishment of an equality of trade conditions among all nations
Adequate guarantees for a reduction in national armaments
Adjustments of colonial disputes to give equal weight to the interests of the controlling government and colonial population
A call for "a general association of nations."

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Treaty of Versailles
Definition

denied the Germans a navy and an air force and limited the size of the Germany army to 100,000 troops. French and British agreed that the defeated Central Powers must pay for the cost of the war and required the payment of reparations either in money or in king. 

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Treaty of Sevres
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effectively dissolved the empire, calling for the surrender of Ottomon Balkan and Arab provinces and the occupation of eastern and southern Anatolia by foreign powers. 

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Mustafa Kemal/Ataturk

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(Father of the Turks): head of turkish nationalistic movement - organized a national army that drove out Greek, British, French and Italian occupation forces and abolished the sultanate and replaced it with the Republic of Turkey, with Ankara as its capital.
Distinction between church and state
Ruled as virtual dictator until his death in 1938

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Treaty of Lausanne(1923)

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Allied powers officially recognized the Republic of Turkey in a final peace agreement
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The League of Nations
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First permanent international security organization whose principal mission was to maintain world peace.
Included 41 nations. 
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2 flaws of League Nations
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No power to enforce its decsision
Relied on collective security as a tool for the preservation of global peace

US refused to join, Germany, Japan Soviet Union, Italy all left

Served as a model for its successor - United Nations

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collective security
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aggression against any one state was considered aggression against all other states

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Indian National Congress

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(1885) - enlisted the support of many prominent Hindus and Muslims, at first stressed collaboration with the British to bring self-rule to India, but after the Great War the congress pursued that goal in opposition to British. 

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Muslim League(1906)

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added a new current into the movement for national liberation in India.(encouraged by British)

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Bhagavad Gita

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sacred writings of Hinduism

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Harijans

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 children of God(Ghand's name for Untouchables)

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Ahimsa
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Ghandi adopted this moral philosophy of tolerance and nonviolence. 

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Satyagraha

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developed this technique of passive resistance(means truth and firmness)

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NonCooperation Movement  and Civil Disobedience Movement

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led by Indian National Congress under Ghandi

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India Act
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gave India the institutions of a self-governing state. Allowed for the establishment of autonomous legislative bodies in the provinces of British India, the creation of a bicameral(two-chambered) national legislature, and the formation of an executive arm under the control of the British government. 

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Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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 an eloquent and brilliant lawyer who headed the muslim league, warned that a unified India represented nothing less than a threat to the Muslim faith and its Indian community. 

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Dr. Sun Yatsen

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 a leading opponent of the old regime, proclaimed a Chinese republic in 1912 and briefly assumed the office of president.

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May Fourth Movement

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all classes of Chinese protested against foreign, especially Japanese, interference

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CCP(Chinese Communist Party)

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organized in Shanghai in 1921. 

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Mao Zedong
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founding member. Former teacher and librarian who viewed a Marxist-inspired social revolution as the cure for China's problems. Emerged as leader during Long March.

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Maoism

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combination of Marxist-Leninism, it was an ideology grounded in the conviction that peasats rather than urban proletarians were the fuondation for a successful revolution. 

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Long March

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85000 troops burst through military blockade and began 10,000 km march. After travling across terrain and fighting hunger, disease, and Guomindang forces, the marchers arrived in a remote area of Shaanxi province in norhtwestern China in October 1935 and established headquarters at Yan'an. The march inspired many to join CCP. 

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 Kellogg-Briand Pact

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 Japan renounced war as an instrument of national policy. 

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The Mukden Incident

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 Japan bombed a few feet of rail on the Japanese built South Manchurisa Railway north of Muken. They accused the Chinese of attacking their railroad. It became the pretext for war between Japan and China. 

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Lij Iyasu

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uncrowned, pro-Muslim boy emperor of Ethiopia aligned his nation with Turkey until he was overthrown by pro-Christian nobles in 1916. 

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Sufi brotherhood

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based in Libya, responded to a Turkish call for holy war and invaded western Egypt. 

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Congo-Ocean railway

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from Brazzaville to the port at Point-Noir, French rounded up some 10,000 workers annually. Within a few years, between 15,000 and 20,000 African laborers had perished from starvation, disease, and maltreatment

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Jomo Kenyatta

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 spent 15 years in Europe. Articulate nationalist, led Kenya to independence from the British'

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Forms of Nationalism in Africa
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Some nationalists looked to the pre-colonial past for inspiration - found identities based on ethnicity, religion and languages.

Typically US blacks and Afro-Caribbean intellectual who thought of themselves as members of a single race and who promoted the unification of all people of African descent into a single African state(W.E.B. DuBois and Marcus Garvey). Called on blacks to go "back to Africa"
Some looked for African identity in geography. 

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Jose Carlos Mariategui

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self-educating young Marxist intellectual,he felt particular concern for the poor and the Indians, who constituted 50% of Peruvian pop. Suffered exile to Europe. Came back dedicated Marxist and in 1928 established the Socialist Party of Peru

 

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Haya de la Torre

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began as a student protester, staunch anti-imperialism and a plan for capitalist development that had peasants and workers cooperating with the middle class. 

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Popular American Revolutionary Alliance(

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advocated indigenous rights and anti-imperaialism among other causes. Offered a radical but non-communist alternative to Peruvians

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Diego Rivera

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artist who blended political messages in his murals. Believed art should be displayed to working class.  Shaped politicized art of Mexico for decades. Artistically transcribed history of Mexico at National Palace and Ministry of Education in Mexico City. Activist in Mexican Communist Party. Painted a mural of Lenin that caused outrage and was destroyed. Made visible the impact of US imperialism on Latin American societies, and by doing so he helped spread political activism in the Americas in his paintings of US. 

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