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The G-8
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France, Germany, Italy, USA, England, Japan added Canada and then Russia later
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Maastricht Agreement
Definition
Created the EU and the Euro
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European Union
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Collection of European Countries
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Euro
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Currency. Not used in Britain
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Ethnic Cleansing
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Trying to exterminate a race
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Kosovo
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Albanians attacking people
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Bosnia
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Serbs attacking people
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Tiananmen Square
Definition
protest against Red China. China cracked down and killed people and ended the prottest
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Boris Yeltsin
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first popular elected president of russia
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Chechnya
Definition
russian (white) muslim country
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Vladimir Putin
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second popularly elected president of russia, current prime minister
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WHO
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World Health Organizaiton--UN International Public Health Agency
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WTO
Definition
Liberalize International Trade
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Digital Divide
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s the gap between people with effective access to digital and information technology and those with very limited or no access at all.
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Radical Islam
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movement that terrorists are
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September 11, 2001
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terrorist attacks etc.
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Angela Merkel
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Current Chancellor of Germany, First Female Leader
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Nelson Mandela
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erved as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, the first South African president to be elected in a fully representative democratic election. Anti Apartheid Activist; jailed 27 yearsW
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Jan 1, 1992
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USSR Dissolved
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December 25, 1991
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Gorbachev steps down
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Chernobyl
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Worst Nuclear accident in History; downfall of USSR exampleF
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Francois Mitterand
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First Socialist President of the Fifth Republic of France He is to date the only member of the Socialist Party to be elected as the President of France.
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Helmut Kohl
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He was Chancellor of Germany from 1982 to 1998--west, and then united germany. Oversaw end of COld War. Main architect of united germany and EU
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Glasnost and Perestroika
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Political and Economic reforms in USSR that effectively ended the USSR
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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Last Leader of USSR, instituted reforms that ended USSR and COld war
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Green Movement
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Red Brigades
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Terrorist Organization in Italy. Communist. Assisinated Aldo Moro
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OPEC Oil Crisis
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1973, response to US resupplying Isreal during Yom Kippur war.
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Ronald Reagan
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40th President.
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Pope John Paul II
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First non italian pope. Polish. Symbol of Freedom from USSR
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Solidarity
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Shipyard UNion in Poland, Anti-USSR
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Ho Chi Minh
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Vietnamese Communist, War
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Decolonization
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France
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Leonid Brezhnev
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leader of USSR for 20 years...took over from Kruschev gave to Gorbachev, economic stagnation, MAD, Doctrine of invading Eastern European countries if they try to become western
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Berlin Wall
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wall between east and west germany
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Walter Ulbricht
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eastablished east germany
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Prague Spring
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liberalization in Czechoslovakia during the era of its domination by the Soviet Union after World War II. It began on 5 January 1968, when reformist Slovak Alexander Dubček came to power, and continued until 21 August when the Soviet Union and members of its Warsaw Pact allies invaded the country to halt the reforms.
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Warsaw pact
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Soviet response to Nato: Albania, Bulgaria, Czechslovakia, Hungary, Poland, East Germany, Romania, USSR
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Nato
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Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
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Green Movement
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Cuba Missile Crisis
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Soviets put intercontinental ballistic platforms all over cuba. JFK put it public. Closest ever come to nuclear war//MAD
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Nikita Khrushchev
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replaces stalin, cuban missle crisis, U2 crisis
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Margaret Thatcher
Definition
first female prime minister of england, ended socialist programs, privatized industry, conservative
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Suez Canal
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Nassar of Egypt sides with the Russians and takes over the Suez CanalTo retaliate against him taking over the Suez Canal, France, Great Britain and Isreal bomb the canal and bomb Cairo .Yassar Arafat plays role.
PLO Hardened in their attempt to throw Israel out of Palestine
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Days of May
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Charles De Gaulle
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WW2 General becomes President Quits because of France's Constitution doesn't give him enough power War against Algeria (colony) France changes constitution to bring him back into power Comes back into power, he ends Algerian as colony
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Willy Brandt
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German Chancellor, Ostpolitik, a policy aimed at improving relations with East Germany, Poland, and the Soviet Union.WOn Peace Prize, controversial
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Konrad Adenauer
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First Chancellor of West Germany
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Marshall Plan
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plan rebuilding and creating a stronger economic foundation for the countries of Western Europe--West Germany arose
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Welfare State
Definition
the state assumes primary responsibility for the welfare of its citizens. ought to be comprehensive. all aspects of welfare are considered and universally applied to citizens as a "right". creation of a "social safety net" of minimum standards of varying forms of welfare.
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Jacques Maritain
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French Philosopher, brought back beliefs of St. Thomas Aquinas, closed Vatican II
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George Orwell
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Author, War of the Worlds, 1984
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Gulags
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soviet labor camps, harsh
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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writer who made the world aware of gulags
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Jean Paul Sartre
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He was one of the leading figures in 20th century French philosophy, existentialism, and Marxism, and his work continues to influence fields such as Marxist philosophy, sociology and literary studies.
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Existenialism
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generally held that the focus of philosophical thought should be to deal with the conditions of existence of the individual person and their emotions, actions, responsibilities, and thoughts..no GOD
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Iron Curtain
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ymbolized the ideological fighting and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. On either side of the Iron Curtain, states developed their own international economic and military alliances: Demolition began in hungary
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Truman Doctrine
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Stopping Communism Financial and military aide Turkey and Greece
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Cold War
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a "war" of tension where a shot wasn't fired. End of WW2-1991. Between USA and USSR
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War Crimes Trials
Nuremburg and Tokyo
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were a series of military tribunals, held by the main victorious Allied forces of World War II, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of the defeated Nazi Germany and Japanese.
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Holocaust
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extermination of jews. 1933-1945 6 million jews kileld, 5 million others
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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bombs dropped
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Manhattan Project
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The plan for the H Bomb to be developed
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Kamikaze
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Death planes japanese suicide bombers
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Island Hopping
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as a military strategy employed by the Allies in the Pacific War against Japan and the Axis powers during World War II. The idea was to bypass heavily fortified Japanese positions and instead concentrate the limited Allied resources on strategically important islands that were not well defended but capable of supporting the drive to the main islands of Japan.
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Gen. Douglas McArthur
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Leader of Army in Japan. Rebuilt Japan with his plan
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Yalta and Potsdam Conferences
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wartime meeting of FDR, Churchill and Stalin,for the purpose of discussing Europe's postwar reorganization. Mainly, it was intended to discuss the re-establishment of the nations of war-torn Europe.
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Battle of the Bulge
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he objectives for the offensive were not realized. In the wake of the defeat, many experienced German units were left severely depleted of men and equipment as survivors retreated to the defenses of the Siegfried Line. With over 800,000 men committed and over 19,000 Americans killed, the Battle of the Bulge was the single largest and bloodiest battle that American forces fought in World War II.
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Dwight Eisenhower
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Supreme Allied Commander
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DDAY
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he landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy, 6/6/44 largest amphibious invasion of all time, with over 175,000 troops landing on 6 June 1944. 195,700 over 5,000 ships were involved
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Battle of Midway
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Campaign of Island Hopping Turning point was Battle of Midway Sank Japanese Aircraft Carriers
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Battle of Stalingrad
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Stalin sent every USSR soldier to Stalingrad ordered not to retreat one inch under penalty of death Hitler destroyed the city Battle went on for 7 months.Summer>Fall>Russian WinterRussians won
The day germans lost the war
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FDR
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President of USA
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Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
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a concept by the government and military of the Empire of Japan. create a self-sufficient "block of Asian nations led by the Japanese and free of Western powers"
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Yamamoto
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responsible for Pearl Harbor was Naval Marshal General and the commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II, a graduate of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy and a student of the U.S. Naval War College and of Harvard University (1919–1921).
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Pearl Harbor
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12/7/1941 Overall, nine ships of the U.S. fleet were sunk and 21 ships were severely damaged. Three of the 21 would be irreparable. The overall death toll reached 2,350, including 68 civilians, and 1,178 injured. Of the military personnel lost at Pearl Harbor, 1,177 were from the Arizona
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Lend-Lease Act
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as the name of the program under which the United States of America supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, France and other Allied nations with vast amounts of war material between 1941 and 1945 in return for, in the case of Britain, military bases in Newfoundland, Bermuda, and the British West Indies
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Erwin Rommel, Desert Fox
Definition
lead German and Italian forces in the North African. Most skilled desert warfare commander. chivalrous and humane, ignored orders to kill jews, commandos and civilians. lead conspiracy against Hitler. Was allowed to commit suicide than get hanged for treason because of his military superiorirty
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Battle of Britain
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All Air Battle RAF beat Hitler Required Hitler to scrap plans and look east
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Vichy, France
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Part of france invaded by germany
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Winston Churchill
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leader of englan
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Charles De Gaulle
Definition
leader of france
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Dunkirk
Definition
place where british were defeated, and allowed back across the channell
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Blitzkrieg Warfare
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bombs, lightening warfare
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Allied Powers
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USA, USSR, England, France, China
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Axis Powers
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Italy, Germany, Japan
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Invasion of Poland
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Septembe 1, 1939
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Naz-Soviet (non agression) Pact
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t was a non-aggression pact between the two countries and pledged neutrality by either party if the other were attacked by a third party. It remained in effect until 22 June 1941 when Germany implemented Operation Barbarossa, invading the Soviet Union. Stalin hurt by hitler's betrayl
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Anschluss
Definition
e facto annexation of Austria into Greater Germany by the Nazi regime.
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Ethiopia
Definition
taly into World War II, British Empire forces, together with patriot Ethiopian fighters, liberated Ethiopia in the course of the East African Campaign in 1941. This was followed by British recognition of full sovereignty, (i.e. without any special British privileges), with the signing of the Anglo-Ethiopian Agreement in December 1944.
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Leon Blum
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socialist jew who led france during depression
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Lebensraum
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belief in Germany in the early 20th century that Germany needed new land to expand in, especially toward the east
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Kristallnacht
Definition
night of broken glass
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The gestapo
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nazi secret police
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josph goebbels
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He was the chief architect of the Kristallnacht attack on the German Jews, which historians consider to be the commencement of the Nazi violence culminating in the Holocaus
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Schtzstaffel SS
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crimes against humanity, holocaust army
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Heinrich Himmler
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overseer of the holocaust
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Collectivization
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collective farming, ussr did this
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The rape of nanking
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six-week period following the Japanese capture of Nanking. hundreds of thousands of civilians were murdered and 20,000–80,000 women were raped
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japanese invasion of manchuria
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beginning on September 19, 1931, immediately followed the Mukden Incident. The Japanese occupation of Manchuria lasted until the end of World War II.
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roosevelts new deal
Definition
Put people to work set up government assistance for sick, elderly and unemployed Brought Government Assistance Took America off Gold Standard
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guernica
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spanish civil war
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francisco franco
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dictator of spain, anti-communist, nationalist
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spanish civil war
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supported by nazi germany
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mein kampf
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hitlers book, my struggle
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nazi party
Definition
Facist party of Germany
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Hitler
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leader
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Stock Market Crash
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October 29, 1929
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The Great Depression
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duh
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Bauhaus
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german architectural movement
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Surrealism
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Surrealist works feature the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions and non sequitur; Dali
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Virgina Woolf
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nurse in WW1, writer
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Jose Ortega Y Gassett
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as a Spanish liberal philosopher and essayist working at the beginning of the 20th century while Spain oscillated between monarchy, republicanism and dictatorship.
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Benedetto Croce
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was an Italian critic, idealist philosopher, and occasionally also a politician. He wrote on numerous topics, including philosophy, history, methodology of history writing and aesthetics, and was a prominent liberal, although he opposed laissez-faire free trade.
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Oswald Spengler
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The Decline of the West was his book, which puts forth a cyclical theory of the rise and decline of civilizations. refused to support nazi
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Franz Kafka
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Jewish writer--didnt write about jewish stuff
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Dawes Plan
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was an attempt following World War I for the Triple Entente to collect war reparations debt from Germany. When after five years the plan proved to be unsuccessful, the Young Plan was adopted in 1929 to replace it.
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Weimar Republic
Definition
government of Germany before ww1
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Aristide Briand
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as a multinational treaty that prohibited the use of war as "an instrument of national policy" except in matters of self-defense.[1] It was the result of a determined American effort to avoid involvement in the European alliance system.
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Gustav Stresemann
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as a German liberal politician and statesman who served as Chancellor and Foreign Minister during the Weimar Republic.
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Charles Lindbergh
Definition
first pilot to fly plane across atlantic
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New Econmic Policy
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was an economic policy proposed by Vladimir Lenin to prevent the Russian economy from collapsing. Allowing some private ventures, the NEP allowed small businesses or shops, for instance, to reopen for private profit while the state continued to control banks, foreign trade, and large industries
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Comintern
Definition
national communist party
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Leon Trotsky
Definition
assistant to lenin; marxist, beat by stalin
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Joseph Stalin
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heir to lenin in USSR, horrific leaer
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Henry Ford
Definition
popularized mass production
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Frederick W. Taylor
Definition
), widely known as F. W. Taylor, was an American mechanical engineer who sought to improve industrial efficiency. He is regarded as the father of scientific management and was one of the first management consultants
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Lateran Pact
Definition
created vatican city
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Giacomo Matteotti
Definition
4) was an Italian socialist politician. On 30 May 1924, he openly spoke in the Italian Parliament alleging the Fascists committed fraud in the recently held elections, and denounced the violence they used to gain votes. Eleven days later he was kidnapped and killed, allegedly by members or supporters of the National Fascist Party.
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Corporativism
Definition
ystem of economic, political, or social organization that views a community as a body based upon organic social solidarity and functional distinction and roles amongst individuals
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Benito Mussolini
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leader of italy, facist
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Fascism
Definition
ascists seek to organize a nation on corporatist perspectives, values, and systems such as the political system and the econom
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Maginot Line
Definition
a line of concrete fortifications, tank obstacles, artillery casemates, machine gun posts, and other defenses, which France constructed along its borders with Germany and Italy, in the light of experience from World War I, and in the run-up to World War II
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Mohandas Gandhi
Definition
leader of India's freedom
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Sun Yixien
Definition
westernize china
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Josephine Baker
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dancer and nurse in ww1 french american
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The Roaring Twenties
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period of prosperity before great depression and after ww1
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Influenza Pandemic
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Treaty of Versailles
Definition
ended ww2, hurt germany
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Stab in Back Myth
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jews responsible for germany's problems
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League of Nations
Definition
Outcome of WW1, USA didn't accept
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14 points
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Wilsons plans for peace. Wasn't accepted
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Georges Clemenceau
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Major Voice to Punshi Germany; French Prime Minster
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Lawrence of Arabia
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Lead the Arabs against the Ottoman Empire
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Vladimir Lenin
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Leader of Russia, reds vs. whites, reds won, made USSR Communist, bolshevik
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Grigori Rasputin
Definition
"monk" downfall of russia, alexandria advisor, healer for their kids
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Tsar Nicholas II
Definition
last emperor of Russia, defeated by bolsheviks, executed
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Easter Reblellion
Definition
was an insurrection staged in Ireland during Easter Week, 1916. The Rising was mounted by Irish republicans with the aims of ending British rule in Ireland and establishing the Irish Republic.
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Battle of the Marne
Definition
horrible battle
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Battle of the Somme
Definition
n 1.5 million casualties had been suffered by the forces involved. It is understood to have been one of the bloodiest military operations ever recorded.
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New Weaposn of War
Definition
Tanks, Planes, Submarines (U2 boats), Chemical Warfare
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Propaganda
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total war
Definition
rationing of food, and needed items. Government propoganda
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british blockade
Definition
as a naval blockade conducted during World War I by the British Royal Navy from 1914 onwards, in an effort to restrict the maritime supply of raw materials and foodstuffs to Germany and its allies, and is considered one of the key elements in the eventual victory of the Allied Powers
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erich luddendorff
Definition
ran germans in ww1
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paul von hindenburg
Definition
German Leader
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battle of verdun
Definition
Verdun was the longest battle and one of the most devastating in the First World War and more generally in human history. , lots of artillery
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trench warfare
Definition
How WW1 was fought, 300 miles, fought from fixed position
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central powers
Definition
onsisted of the German Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Bulgaria.
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Gavrilo Princip
Definition
Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife starting WW1
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Franz Ferdinand
Definition
Heir-apparent to Austrian Emprie assassinated
Started WW1
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Russo Japanese War
Definition
Japan sneak attacks Russian Navy and Destroys it
First time in Modern History that an Asian Nation defreated European Nation
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Bolsheviks
Definition
The Bolsheviks came to power in Russia during the October Revolution phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917, and founded the Soviet Union.
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Triple Entente
Definition
France, Great Britian, Russia (Allies in WW1)
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Triple Allaince
Definition
secret pact between Austria, Serbia, Hungary
made Europe mad and suspicious
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Weltopolitik
Definition
The Bolsheviks came to power in Russia during the October Revolution phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917, and founded the Soviet Union.
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Wilhelm II
Definition
as the last German Emperor and King of Prussia, ruling both the German Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia from 15 June 1888 to 9 November 1918. Among the Allies during World War I, he was known either as The Kaiser or Kaiser Bill
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Emmeline Pankhurst
Definition
Womens Suffragist, Englad gave people the right to vote
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David Lloyd George
Definition
) was a British statesman who was the first Welsh Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and the only Prime Minister to have spoken English as a second language, Welsh having been his first
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Edward Munsch
Definition
The Scream, painter,
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Paul gauguin
Definition
post impressionist painter; was once a successful banker, went nuts, flew to tahiti, abandoned everything; began to hate civilization--painted what we are, where did we come from, where are we going
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Suffragists
Definition
Emmeline Pankhurst
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Definition
Founder of Nihilism
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Communism
Definition
All good, no room for capitalism, strict control of markets and life
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Fredrich Engels
Definition
associate of karl marx
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Karl Marx
Definition
father of communism
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Nihilism
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Nothing. There is nothing, only the here and now, God is dead; among the people will rise a Ubermensh--super man who the masses will follow--Thus Spake Zarathastrua
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Avant Garde
Definition
The adjective form is used in English, to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics.
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Sigmund Freud
Definition
Free association, telling people about their unconcious mind, oedipus complex, infantile sexuality
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Dreyfus Affair
Definition
jewish officer accussed of treason because he was jewish. untrue
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Theodore Herzl
Definition
Zionist Movement Leader,
Send the Jews back to their homeland...this lead to the modern day Isreal
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AntiSemitism
Definition
hatred to Jewish people, based in the Diaspora, jews as "Christ Killers"
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Syndicalism
Definition
is a type of economic system proposed as a replacement for capitalism and state socialism which uses federations of collectivized trade unions.
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anarchism
Definition
overthrow of government, assassinated world leaders, goverment is illegitimate,
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jean jaures
Definition
French brand socialism, pacifist, he was assassinated
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jules guesde
Definition
Revolutionary, Marxist Socialist
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second international
Definition
as an organization of socialist and labour parties formed in Paris
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socialism
Definition
no private property, all produce and share together
government runs
does not object to some capitalism
no class wafare
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fabian society
Definition
socialist society that developed in London.
Evolved into Labour Party.
"Civilized socialism"
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new imperialism
Definition
colonization
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test
Definition
test
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test
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