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Germany, Italy, and Austria Hungary made in 1882 Italy and Austria Hungary made a treaty with Bismark because they were afriad that france would invade them, this would prevent The french from attacking them. |
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Like a treaty, but not as formal. A non binding agreement Between Britant and France, led to close military and diplomatic ties between the two
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| Domination by one country, of political, ecinomic, or cultural life of another country of reigon |
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A powerful form of nationalism which held that all slavic people shared a common nationality. Russia was the largest Slavic country and felt it it's duty to defend all slavs. In 1914 Russia stood ready to support Serbia a pround young nation that dreamed of created a slavic state |
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| Arch-Duke of Austria-Hungary, he and his wife were shot because they visited the Capital of Bosnia, Sarajevo. At the time of his visit, Bosnia was under the controll of Austria Hungary, which was also the home to many serbs and other slavs. News of the royal visit angered Serbian nationalists, they viewed the Austrians and forgein oppressors |
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Developed by General Alfred Von Schlieffen, it was designed to aviod a two front war (france in the west, Russia in the east) First they wanted to attack France because the Russian army would be slow to mobilize. In order to do this they would have to go through Neutral Belgium. Since Germany invaded neutral Belgium, Britain declared war on Germany |
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| The name that Germany gave the trenches that was on the front line of battle on the coast od Belgium and Swiss boarder |
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| On the eastern side of Germany (Russia) |
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| A terrible battle between Russia and Germany, where Russia tried to push back German forces, and ultimatly the Russians were forced back into a retreat |
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| Many of Italy's troops deserted in this retreat at Caporetto |
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| The first ever German made Submarines |
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| A telegram intercepted by Britian, that was from Germany to Mexico saying that Germany would help restore lost territory (new Mexico, Arizona) from the united states, back to mexico. if germany could have Mexican support against the US |
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| A list of terms for resolving WWI and other future wars to come. Was outlined by President Woodrow Wilson in january 1918 |
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| A treaty signed by Lennin that promised to pull Russian troops out of the war, the treaty ended Russian participation in WWI. (The Russian Withdrawl had immedate impact on the war, with Russia out of the Picture, Germany could focus more on the Western war Front) |
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| Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin, they were heads of tha Allied powers, against the central Powers in 1942 they met and agreed to try and finish the war in Europe before finishing the one in asia |
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| The right of people to choose own form of government |
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| More then 40 nations join it to discuss how to prevent war, and would also sign a treaty that said they would take common action against any country that attacked them. |
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| Lenin's elite revolutionary party, represented a small percentage of socialists although the name actually means "majority" together the Bolsheviks and Lenin promised the people Peace, Land and Bread |
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A leader of the Bolsheviks, he was exiled From Russia a Russian Revolutionary that was in charge of Russia |
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| A marxist revolutoinary who helped Lenin in the fight for furthering the Revolution. after Lenins Death he was a strong Contender for power, but was beat out by stalin. he fled the country and was murdered by one of Stalins people. Trotsky wanted to attack Capitalism and wanted a world wide revolution against it |
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| The communist that took over the Soviet Union after Lenins death, he wanted to concentrate on building socialism at home. |
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| NEP (National Economic Policy) |
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| Because of the war the economy had collapsed, so Lenin adopted this policy which allowed some capitilistic adventures, this state kept controll over banks forign trade, and large industries some small businesses were allowed to open for personal profit. It caused the economy to recover, but it was only temporary. |
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| Statement issued by Britian in 1917 supporting the establishment of a homeland for the Jews in Palistine. |
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| Mexican Constitution in 1917 |
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| A revolution fighting for 6-7 years |
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| United Indians along the class lines boycotted british goods and took a stand against british oppresison |
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| he lead the poeple's republic of China, he defeated Chaing Kai-shek, in the chinese civil war and transformed his country into a mojor powerhouse through his polocies |
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| Epic march in which groups of chinese forces retreated from guomingdang forces by marching over 6,000 miles |
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| since the Late 1800's powerful banking and industrial families in Japan |
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| A historical province in north eastern China, rich in natural resources |
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| A centuralized, authoritarian government system that is not communist whose polocies glorify the state over the individual and are destructive to basic human rights |
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| Large farms run by peasents as a group. |
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| Laws approved by the Nazi Party in 1935, depriving Jews of German citizenship,and taking away some of their rights. |
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| Government in which a one party dictatorship controlls every aspect of it's citizens lives. |
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Command Economy Stalin this was aimed at building heavy industry, improving transportation, and ncreasing farm output. he wanted to bring all economic activity under government controll |
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| In which government officails make all basic economic decisions (opposite fo Capitalism) |
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| MAking a nationalities culture more ethnically Russian |
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| Policy of giving into an agressor in oder to keep the peace |
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| the struggle started in 1931, the King left spain, and a republic was set up |
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Led a revolt in 1936 that led a to a bloody civil war, he won the civil war and set up a facist dictatorship. It was nationalists agains royalists of the new republic and other countries stepped in to help both sides. The attack on Guernica was a brutal German Air raid, they dropped bombs and then killed anyone who wasnt killed by the bombs (it was a test to see what their new planes oculd do) |
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| In 1938 British and French again chose the path of peace. they told hitler he could have the Sudeten land without a fight, but he could not expand his boarders any further |
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| A union between Austria an Germany, it violated the treaty of Verasilles |
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| A reigion of western Czechoslovakia. Hitler wanted it because it was a democracy, and he claimed that three million germans lived there |
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was the commiting of genocide of all european jews Hitley thought they were racially inferior Hitler Killed over 6 millions jews and other "unworthy" people |
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Which set goals for the war it was a plan of what to do during the war, and what to do afterwards (going against communism, promoting the choice of the people ect) |
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| A channeling of a nations entire efforts and resources into a war effort |
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| The meeting between Roosevelt, Churchill, and Staling in february 1945 where the three leaders made agreements regarding the end of WWII |
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| The allies vs. japanese, it was five days in may 1942, it was the first time in naval history that the navy ships never saw eachother, and the attacks were carried out by plane (Allies Won) |
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| The allies agreed that the Axis leaders shoudl be tried for their "crimes against himanity" |
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| International organization established after WWII with the goal of maintaining peace, with coopoeration of every country in the world |
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| NATO- (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) |
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| a military alliance between several North atlantic states to safeguard them from the presumed threat of the soviet union's communist block, other countries later joined this union |
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Winston Churchill It was the line that divided western euopean countries between the eastern european countries |
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| Between the Soviet Union and the US, a race to build Nuclear Weapontry |
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| The belief that is communism spread to southern Vietnam, it would cause all non communist governments in south east asia to fall to communism |
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1959 brought Fidel Castro to power and led to Cuban Missile Crisis Crustrev-(Russian Leader) |
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| in 1987 the Soviet Union sent Nuclear weapons to Cuba. Kennedy responded with a Naval block that prevented any further Soviet shipments |
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| Massive aid package offered by the US to help european countries rebuild themselves after WWII |
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| Let communism stay where it is, but don tlet it spread, so they sent aid to greece and turkey to help them withstand the communist retreat |
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| Missile that could shoot down other missiles, the reason they are a big threat is because they encourage other countries to attack |
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| A chinese communist program from 1945-1960 to boost farm and industry output, that failed miserably |
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| Proletarian Cultural Revolution |
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| A chinese communist program in the late 1960's to purge China of any non-revolutionary tendencies that caused economic and social damage |
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| Struggles to have its independence from china, speaks chinese,Koa Ming Tanf (KMT) fled there |
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| A relaxation of coldwar tensions in the 1970's |
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means reconstructing in russian A soviet policy of free market reforms introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev in the late 1980's |
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means openness in Russian a soviet policy of greater freedom and expression introduced By Mikhail Gorbachev in the late 1980's |
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The soviet union got their own "veitnem" but theirs was in Afghanistan A middle eastern country that is home to plent muslim extremist and terriorest groups. as well as good people. |
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| We did not want korea to fall to communism |
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Playing the china card was a sort of protection of the united states making an effort to have closer ties with China |
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| A country witha market economy, but with increased Government support for its peoples social and economic needs |
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| A defense program against nuclear attacks which critics said would go agains the anti-ballistic treaty |
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| Political and diplomatic independence both col war powers |
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| An uprising movement in the Philippines |
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A govenrment ruled by religious leaders this is what iran became after the revolutions it is bad because they dont accept other religions |
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| led india as its first Prime Minister in 1974-1964 |
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| In india, had its indepence and there was tension between the muslims and the hindus ( the muslim league wanted pakistan, Jinnah elad this group) |
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| the bengali poeples of east pakistan wanted independence because the pakistani government was neglagent to them, so they decared theri indepencdence in 1971 |
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| the first president of indonesia |
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| The military dictator of Indonesia, later took power fom Sukarno |
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| reigon of southeast nigera that launched a faild bid for independence from Nigera 1966, launching a bloody civil war |
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| An arab nationalist and first president of egypt |
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| made up of several ethnic groups |
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| it was a multiethnic communist nation, but after the fall of communism, all of the different ethnicities fought over power (causing it to break up) |
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| serbian president and Extreme nationalist that oppressed albanians in the southern province of Kosovo, where 90% of the popultion was Albanian |
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| A set of ridged rules that seperated whites from non whites in the country of south Africa |
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| A black township where a peacefull demonstration against the Aparthied was being held, 69 people were killed by the police. the protest was lead by the African National Congress (ANC). the government the outlawed the ANC |
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| The site of genocide of non arab muslims by arab muslims |
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| in 1990 Iraw invited Kuwait to controll its vast oil feilds and gain great acess to the persian gulf, to hte united states, this was a threat to their oil resource, so geroge bush sr foarmed a coalition of middle eastern nations to drive Irawq out of kuwait. the US was sucessful |
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| Palestiniens wanted their right to settle back in Israel in 1948 because thta land wa staken out of palestine |
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| in 1967 Isreali forced took contorll of Golan heights in syria, east jerusalam, the west bank of jordan, the gaza strip, and the Sinai penninsula from egypt. in 1973 these nations attacked israel on the holiest day of the year Yom Kippur |
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| Palistininan Liberation Organization it lead to the palistinian struggle against Israel and its leader Yasir Arafat |
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| 1993 the israeli prim minister Yasir Arafat and Yitshak Rabin, signed an agreement that outlined a plan to give plaistinians west banck in gaza limited self rule under a plistinean authority, the PLO recognizes the isrealis right to exist and palistine promised to stop terrorism against Israel |
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| A republic witin Russia where rebels have fought for independence against Russia |
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