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Chapter 28
Crisis of Imperial order vocab.
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History
10th Grade
04/08/2007

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Western Front
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Area of trenches, stretching from the North Sea to Switzerland. Where the Germans fought the British, French, and Americans
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Faisal
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Leader of Arab Revolt. Named King of Iraq by the Brits
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Theodore Herzl
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Founder of Zionism. Austrian Journalist
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Balfour Declaration
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British Foreign Secretary's proposal that Jews should have a homeland in Palestine
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Bolsheviks
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Radical Marxist party in Russia.
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V. Lenin
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Leader of Bolsheviks and the October revolution
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Woodrow Wilson
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US pres. during WWI.
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League of Nations
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International organization formed after WWI to promote lasting peace. Didn't work w/o US
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Treaty of Versailles
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Treaty imposed on Germans @ conclusion of WWI
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Sun Yat-sen
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Chinese nationalist. Founder and leader of Guomindang
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Chiang Kai-shek
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Chinese military and political leader. Head of Guomindang after Sun Yat-sen
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Mandate system
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allocation of german colonies and ottoman lands after WWI
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Margaret Sanger
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American nurse and author; pioneer in the movement for family planning; organized conferences and established birth control clinics
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Max Planck
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Quantum Theory
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Einstein
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Theory of Relativity
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