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| the Nazi Party's plan to murder the entire Jewish population of Europe and the Soviet Union |
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| an area where minority groups live |
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| detention sites created for military or political purposes to confine, terrorize, and, in some cases, kill civilians |
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| the killing of millions of Jews and others by the Nazis during World War II |
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| Nazi government passes a variety of restrictive laws targeting german jews |
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| Thwousands of ______ are deported or flee germany. |
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| ___________ jews are killed in the Holocaust |
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| ________ defated at Battle of the bulge. |
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| June 6, 1944; the first day of the Allied invasion of Normandy in World War II |
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| (1945) May 8, 1945; a term used by the Allies, it stands for "victory in Europe" during World War II |
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| (1945) World War II battle between Japanese forces and invading U.S. troops |
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| (1945) World War II victory for the Allied troops that resulted in the deaths of almost all of the 100,000 Japanese defenders; the battle claimed 12,000 American lives |
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| (1884–1972) Thirty-third president of the United States; he became president upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He led the United States through the end of World War II and the beginning of the Cold War. |
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| (1901-1989) Emperor of Japan from 1926 to 1989; he led Japan during World War II and was forced into unconditional surrender following the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. |
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| (1945) August 15, 1945; a term used by the Allies, it stands for "victory over Japan" during World War II |
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| (February, 1945) a meeting between Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin to reach an agreement on what to do with Germany after World War II |
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| international organization formed in 1945 to maintain world peace and encourage cooperation among nations |
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| (1945) a meeting of Allied leaders in the German city of Potsdam to address issues about the post-World War II Europe |
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| giving in to aggressive demands in order to avoid war |
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| (1874–1965) British prime minister; he opposed the policy of appeasement and led Great Britain through World War II. |
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| the alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan in World War II |
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| an agreement between nations to not attack one another |
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| a German word meaning "lightning war"; a fast, forceful style of fighting used by Germans in World War II |
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| the alliance of Britain, France, and Russia in World War II; joined by the United States after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941 |
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| (1940) three month air battle between Germany and Great Britain fought over Great Britain during World War II; Britain's victory forestalled a German invasion |
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| (1884–1948) Japanese nationalist and general; he took control of Japan during World War II. He was later tried and executed for war crimes. |
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| staying out of the affairs and wars of other nations; the position initially held by the United States at the beginning of World War II |
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| (1891–1944) German general during World War II; he commanded the Afrika Korps and was nicknamed the Desert Fox for his leadership. |
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| (1942) World War II battle in which the Britain won a decisive victory over Germany in Egypt, securing the Suez Canal |
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| (1890–1969) Thirty-fourth president of the United States; he led the Allied invasion of North Africa and the D-Day invasion of France and commanded the Allied forces in Europe during World War II. |
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| (1941–1942) Nazi army's unsuccessful attempt to capture the city of Leningrad in the Soviet Union during World War II; as many as 1 million civilians perished during the siege |
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| (1942) World War II battle between invading German forces and Soviet defenders for control of Stalingrad, a city on the Volga River; each side sustained hundreds of thousands of casualties; Germany's defeat marked turning point in the war |
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| (1880–1964) American general, he commanded U.S. troops in the Southwest Pacific during World War II and administered Japan after the war ended. He later commanded UN forces at the beginning of the Korean War until he was removed by President Truman. |
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| (1942) a forced march of American and Filipino prisoners of war captured by the Japanese in the Philippines in World War II |
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| (1942) World War II naval battle fought in the Pacific; the Americans broke the Japanese code and knew the date and location of the attack, setting the stage for a major American victory |
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| (1942-1943) World War II battle in the Pacific; it represented the first Allied counter-attack against Japanese forces; Allied victory forced Japanese forces to abandon the island |
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| in World War II, Japanese pilots who loaded their aircraft with bombs and crashed them into enemy ships |
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| (1931) using an explosion on a Japanese-controlled Southern Manchurian railroad as an excuse, Japanese military forces conquered Manchuria and set up a puppet government |
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| Japanese puppet state (1932-1945) formed in Manchuria and eastern Inner Mongolia |
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| (1936) agreement signed between Germany and Japan in which they established their opposition to the Comintern, a Soviet-sponsored international organization aimed at spreading communism |
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| (1937) the murder of as many as 300,000 Chinese men, women, and children by Japanese troops |
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| (1883–1945) Italian Fascist leader; he ruled as Italy’s dictator for more than 20 years beginning in 1922. His alliance with Hitler brought Italy into World War II. |
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| a totalitarian system of government that focuses on the good of the state rather than on the good of the individual citizens |
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| form of government in which the person or party in charge has absolute control over all aspects of life |
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| (1879–1953) Totalitarian dictator of the Soviet Union; he led the Soviet Union through World War II and created a powerful Soviet sphere of influence in Eastern Europe after the war. |
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| a Soviet forced labor camp or prison, used especially for political dissidents |
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| (1889–1945) Totalitarian dictator of Germany; his invasion of European countries led to World War II. He espoused notions of racial superiority and was responsible for the mass murder of millions of Jews and others in the Holocaust. |
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| (1889–1945) Totalitarian dictator of Germany; his invasion of European countries led to World War II. He espoused notions of racial superiority and was responsible for the mass murder of millions of Jews and others in the Holocaust. |
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| National Socialist Party; fascist political party of Adolf Hitler governed on totalitarian lines and advocating German racial superiority |
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| hostility or prejudice towards Jews |
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| Nazi laws that eliminated citizenship and many civil and property rights for Jews |
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| (1938) "night of broken glass"; an event that occurred on the nights of November 9 and 10 in which Hitler's Nazis encouraged Germans to riot against Jews; nearly 100 Jews died |
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| .” In the Japanese military’s instruction manual, the words _____________, ____________, and ___________ were removed to encourage the idea that these were no longer possibilities. |
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| Surrender, Retreat, Defense |
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| Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity |
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| a group of nations whose combined resources would allow independence from Western control. |
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| a series of violent incidents in the summer of 1937 between Chinese troops and Japanese |
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| Stalin’s plan to strengthen Soviet communism was the modernization of the Soviet economy. |
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| he government makes major decisions about the production of goods. |
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| Great Purge/ Great Terror |
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| to get rid of people or things considered undesirable |
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| Germany formed a new republican government, government was extremely unpopular among Germans, who blamed it for the humiliating Versailles treaty and for the economic problems that overwhelmed Germany after the war. |
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| “My Struggle.” The book described Hitler’s major political ideas, including nationalism and the racial superiority of the German people, whom he called Aryans. |
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| (1887–1975) Chinese general and politician; he succeeded Sun Yixian as leader of the Nationalist Party in China and led attacks against Communists in China in the 1920s. |
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| (1893–1976) Leader of the Chinese Communists; he led a successful revolution and established a Communist government in China in 1949. |
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| 1934) the 6,000-mile journey made by Communist Chinese to escape Nationalist troop |
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| (1919) an event in which British troops fired on a large crowd of peaceful, unarmed Indian protestors, killing some 400 people; it led to a campaign of protest led by Gandhi |
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| (1869–1948) Leader of India’s struggle for independence from Great Britain; he organized the population for protest through the methods of nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience. |
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| an arrangement by which a purchaser borrows money from a bank or other lender and agrees to pay it back over time |
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| October 29, 1929, the day that the United States stock market crashed |
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| 1929–1930s) a severe worldwide depression that followed the collapse of the United States stock market; prices and wages fell, business activity slowed, and unemployment rose |
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| Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
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| (1882–1945) Thirty-second president of the United States; he was elected president four times. He led the United States during the major crises of the Great Depression and World War II. |
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| U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's plan of economic relief, recovery, and reforms for the country during the Great Depression |
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| 1883–1946) British economist; his revolutionary economic theory, which stated that governments could prevent economic downturns by deficit spending, provided the basis for some of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal policies. |
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| (1930) a U.S. law that set extremely high tariffs on imports in an effort to protect American farmers and manufacturers; the result was a worsening of the Great Depression |
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| Germany’s Chinese territories to Japan, which had captured this land during the war. To the Chinese, the Versailles treaty was a sign that the world still saw China as a weak nation. On May 4, 1919, thousands of angry students in Beijing demanded change. Strikes and protests swept the country in what came to be called the May Fourth Movement. |
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| Chinese Nationalists Troops |
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| llowed the British to deal harshly with the growing opposition in India |
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| nonviolence toward living things |
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| refusal to obey unjust laws. |
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| a series of meetings began in 1919. Organized by people of African heritage living around the world, these conferences led to a series of demands for African independence. |
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| borrowed money from stockbrokers in order to buy stocks, |
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| Marxists whose goal was to seize state power and establish a dictatorship of the proletariat; Soviet Communist |
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| (1872–1916) A self-proclaimed Russian holy man and prominent figure at the court of Czar Nicholas II. He was viewed as corrupt, and support for czarist Russia deteriorated because of him. |
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| the political and economic philosophy of the Bolsheviks, expounded by Vladimir Lenin, which looked to an uprising of the proletariat that would abolish private property and enforce social equality |
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| (1879–1940) Russian Communist revolutionary; he negotiated the peace between Russia and the Central Powers to end Russian involvement in World War I. |
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| Lenin's plan, started in 1921, to allow limited capitalism, especially among farmers, in order to restore the Soviet economy |
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| The March revolution that forced Nicholas to step down |
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| or temporary, government. |
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| armed Bolshevik factory workers, attacked the provisional government |
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| Twenty-eighth president of the United States; he proposed the League of Nations after World War I as a part of his Fourteen Points |
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| submarines used by Germans in World Wars I and II |
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| a telegram sent to a German official in Mexico prior to U.S. entrance into World War I; proposed an alliance between Germany and Mexico |
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| an agreement to cease fighting, usually in a war |
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| President Woodrow Wilson's plan for organizing post–World War I Europe and for avoiding future wars |
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| (1919) treaty ending World War I; required Germany to pay huge war reparations and established the League of Nations |
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| an international body of nations formed after World War I to prevent future wars |
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| territories once part of the Ottoman Empire that the League of Nations gave to other European powers to rule after World War I |
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| (1917) a statement issued by the British foreign secretary in favor of establishing a Jewish homeland in Palestine |
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| an alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy in the late 1800s |
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| an alliance between France, Russia, and Great Britain in the late 1800s |
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| an alliance between France, Russia, and Great Britain in the late 1800s |
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| (1863–1914) Heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary whose assassination by a Serb nationalist started World War I. |
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| (1894–1918) Serbian nationalist; he assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary, which started World War I |
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| in a war, not aiding either side |
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| the alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire during World War I |
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| the alliance formed between Britain, France, and Russia during World War I |
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| during World War I, the deadlocked region in northern France where German and Allied armies faced off |
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| killed Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand |
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| Factors for the start of WW1 |
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| Militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism |
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| desire to protect oversea colonies |
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| The quest to build empires in the late 1800s and early 1900 |
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| called for German troops to quickly defeat France in the west and then head east to fight Russia. |
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| Beginning in August 1914, German troops fought French and British forces in a series of clashes |
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| German forces crushed the Russian invasion. |
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| German forces dug a series of trenches, or deep ditches, along the Aisne (AYN) River and awaited the Allied attack |
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| a form of combat in which soldiers dug trenches, or deep ditches, to seek protection from enemy fire and to defend their positions |
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| a war that requires the use of all a society's resources |
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| information such as posters and pamphlets created by governments in order to influence public opinion |
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| (1916) the longest battle of World War I; it ended in stalemate, with both sides suffering hundreds of thousands of casualties |
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| (1915) failed attempt by the Allies in World War I to take control of the Dardanelles |
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| the killing of an entire people |
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| jump out of their trench and sprint across the area between opposing trenches |
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| British launched their own attack, intended partly to pull German troops away from Verdun, in June 1916. |
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| part of the water route between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean. |
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| The massacre of 600,000 Armenia people. |
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