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| WWI june 1914 a serbian nationlist assassinated archduke Franz Ferdinade this caused ww1. |
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| Russian Revolution- war broke back of the russian government it caused the sovit union. |
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Treaty of Versailles - end of WWI
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| stock market crash- black tuesday caused by inflations |
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Japanese invasion of Manchuria
this invasion lasted to the end of ww2 |
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Italian invasion of Ethiopia
war resulted in the military ocpuation of ethopia. |
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German blitzkrieg in Poland
an invasion of poland with the nazi |
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Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WWII
the japanese bombed |
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end of WWII
from 1936 to 1945 ww2 happend treaty of versille |
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independence & partition of India
before britian was controling india and finally ended and seperated |
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Chinese Communist Revolution
a war between kmt and cpc |
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Korean War
a miliatary conflict between krean republic and the united nations |
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| Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu |
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| de-Stalinization/nationalization of Suez Canal |
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Cuban Revolution
a armed revolt led by fulgiado batista |
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Cuban missile crisis
a conflict between us soviet and cuba where soviet put missle s in the hand of cuba |
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| 6-day war/Chinese Cultural Revolution |
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Yom Kippur war
fought between the isreales and arabs suprise attackets on yom kippur the holiest day for jewish |
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Iranian Revolution
was the overthrowing of the iran monarch |
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Tiananmen Square/fall of Berlin Wall
east and west germany was always sepreated but during this year they tore down the wall |
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fall of USSR/1st Gulf war
the soviet union had a stall of economie which caused the dissolve of the union |
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genocide in Rwanda/1st all race elections in S.
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genocies between hites and tituses |
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9/11 Attacks
al-queda hijacked airplains and hit the twin towers and one to the pentagon |
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| an Archduke of Austria-Este, Austro-Hungarian and Royal Prince of Hungary and of Bohemia, and from 1889 until his death, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne |
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| a Bosnian Serb, associated with the movement Mlada Bosna |
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| a Russian politician. He served as the second Prime Minister of the Russian Provisional Government until Lenin was elected by the All-Russian Congress of Soviets following the October Revolution. |
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| a Russian revolutionary and communist politician who led the October Revolution of 1917. As leader of the Bolsheviks, he headed the Soviet state during its initial years |
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| Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist. He was one of the leaders of the Russian October Revolution, second only to Vladimir Lenin |
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| a Turkish army officer, revolutionary statesman, writer, and founder of the Republic of Turkey as well as its first President. |
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| the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953. In the years following Lenin's death in 1924, he rose to become the leader of the Soviet Union. |
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| The Soviet Union was a Commonwealth of 15 autonomous republics on paper, with Russian SFSR as the largest and dominant republic |
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| Fascists seek to organize a nation on corporatist perspectives; values; and systems such as the political system and the economy. |
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| were Fascist paramilitary groups in Italy during the period immediately following World War I and until the end of World War II. |
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| Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
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| the 32nd President of the United States and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war. |
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| an Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and is credited with being one of the key figures in the creation of Fascism. He became the 40th Prime Minister of Italy in 1922 and began using the title Il Duce by 1925 |
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| the name given by historians to the parliamentary republic established in 1919 in Germany to replace the imperial form of government, named after Weimar, the city where the constitutional assembly took place. |
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| a political party in Germany between 1919 and 1945. It was known as the German Workers' Party (DAP) prior to a change of name in 1920. |
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| an austrian born german who was head of the nazis. survivor of ww1 caused ww2 |
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| the general name for areas of Germany along the river Rhine between Bingen and the Dutch border. |
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| a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940. Chamberlain is best known for his appeasement foreign policy, and in particular for his signing of the Munich Agreement in 1938, conceding the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany. |
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| a military general, and head of state of Spain from October 1936 |
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| a British politician known chiefly for his leadership of the United Kingdom during World War II. |
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| . The Americans had deciphered Japan's code earlier and knew about a planned attack before it actually occurred. However, due to difficulty in deciphering intercepted messages, the Americans failed to discover Japan's target location before the attack occurred. |
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| he 33rd President of the United States (1945–1953). As President Franklin D. Roosevelt's third vice-president and the 34th Vice President of the United States, he succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945, when President Roosevelt died less than three months after beginning his fourth term. |
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| After six months of intense strategic fire-bombing of 67 Japanese cities the Japanese government ignored an ultimatum given by the Potsdam Declaration. By executive order of President Harry S. Truman the U.S. dropped the nuclear weapon "Little Boy" on the city of Hiroshima on Monday, August 6, 1945, |
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| a political and military leader of 20th century China. He was an influential member of the Kuomintang (KMT) and Sun Yat-sen's close ally. He became the commandant of Kuomintang's Whampoa Military Academy and took Sun's place in the party when the latter died in 1925. |
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| a Chinese revolutionary, political theorist and communist leader. |
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| a sovereign state in East Asia comprising the islands of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu, and other minor islands, which are located off the east coast of mainland China. |
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| People’s Republic of China |
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| a country in East Asia. It is the most populaur state in the world with over 1.3 billion people. China is ruled by the Communist Party of China under a single-party system |
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| a Chinese politician, statesman, theorist, and diplomat. |
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| a Vietnamese Communist revolutionary and statesman who was prime minister and president |
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| the first President of South Vietnam |
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| a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution, which broke out in 1910, and which was initially directed against the president Porfirio Díaz. |
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| one of the most prominent Mexican Revolutionary generals. As commander of the División del Norte |
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| a Mexican War volunteer and French intervention hero, an accomplished general and the President of Mexico continuously from 1876 to 1911, with the exception of a brief term in 1876 when he left Juan N. Méndez as interim president, and a four-year term served by his political ally Manuel González from 1880 to 1884 |
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| drawn into politics and the military during the Mexican Revolution after Victoriano Huerta overthrew President Francisco Madero. He backed Plutarco Elías Calles, and after Calles became president, Cárdenas became governor of Michoacán in 1928. He became known for his progressive program of building roads and schools, promoting education, land reform and social security. |
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| an Argentine general and politician, elected three times as President of Argentina, after serving in several government positions, including the Secretary of Labor and the Vice Presidency. He was overthrown in a military coup in 1955. |
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| a Chilean army general who was brought to power as president by a coup d' etat. Among his titles, he was the Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean army from 1973 to 1998, president of the Government Junta of Chile from 1973 to 1974 and President of the Republic from 1974 until he reinstalled a democratic system in 1990. |
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| a communist Cuban politician, one of the primary leaders of the Cuban Revolution, the Prime Minister of Cuba from February 1959 to December 1976, and then the President of the Council of State of Cuba until his resignation from the office in February 2008. He currently serves as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, a position he has held since its inception in 1965. |
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| an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, intellectual, guerrilla leader, diplomat, military theorist, and major figure of the Cuban Revolution. Since his death, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol and global insignia within popular culture. |
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| the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. |
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| the campaign led by the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN) which led to the violent ouster of that dictatorship in 1979, and the subsequent efforts of the FSLN, which governed from 1979 until 1990, to reform the society and economy of the country along somewhat socialistic lines. |
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| a Polish politician and trade-union and human-rights activist. |
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| the seventh and last General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, serving from 1985 until 1991, and the last head of state of the USSR, serving from 1988 until its collapse in 1991. |
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| a federal subject of Russia. It is located in Southeastern part of Europe, in the Northern Caucasus mountains, in the North Caucasian Federal District. |
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| the pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India during the Indian independence movement. |
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| A leading figure in the Indian independence movement, Nehru was elected by the Congress Party to assume office as independent India's first Prime Minister, and re-elected when the Congress Party won India's first general election in 1952. |
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| a 20th century lawyer, politician, statesman and the founder of Pakistan. |
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| he northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent. Until the mid-19th century, the term Kashmir geographically denoted only the valley between the Great Himalayas and the Pir Panjal mountain range. |
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| the second President of Egypt from 1954 until his death. He led the bloodless coup which toppled the monarchy of King Farouk and heralded a new period of modernization and socialist reform in Egypt together with a profound advancement of pan-Arab nationalism. |
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| a Central African ethnic group, living mainly in Rwanda and Burundi. |
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| one of three native peoples of the nations of Rwanda and Burundi in central Africa |
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| as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, the first South African president to be elected in a fully representative democratic election. Before his presidency, Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist, and the leader of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress |
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| the second President of Indonesia, having held the office for 32 years from 1967 following Sukarno's removal until his resignation in 1998. |
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| the first Prime Minister of Israel. Ben-Gurion's passion for Zionism, which began early in life, culminated in his instrumental role in the founding of the state of Israel. After leading Israel to victory in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Ben-Gurion helped build the state institutions and oversaw the absorption of vast numbers of Jews from all over the world. |
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| an Israeli general and politician, who served as Israel’s 11th Prime Minister. He is currently in a permanent vegetative state after suffering a stroke on 4 January 2006. |
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| a Palestinian leader and a Laureate of the Nobel Prize. He was Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), President of the Palestinian National Authority |
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| the Shah of the Imperial State of Iran from December 15, 1925 until he was forced to abdicate by the Anglo Soviet invasion of Iran in September 16, 1941. |
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| an Iranian religious leader and politician, and leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution which saw the overthrow of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran. Following the revolution and a national referendum, Khomeini became the country's Supreme Leader—a position created in the constitution as the highest ranking political and religious authority of the nation—until his death |
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| the sixth and current President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the main political leader of the Alliance of Builders of Islamic Iran, a coalition of conservative political groups in the country. |
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| A leading member of the revolutionary Ba'ath Party, which espoused secular pan-Arabism, economic modernization, and Arab socialism, Saddam played a key role in the 1968 coup that brought the party to long-term power. |
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| a member of the prominent Saudi bin Laden family and the founding leader of the terrorist organization al-Qaeda, best known for the September 11 attacks on the United States and numerous other mass-casualty attacks against civilian targets. |
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| it was a military allience between germany hungry and itialy started from 1882 to 1914 |
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| name given to the alliance between the Great Britain, the French Third Republic, and Russia after the signing of the Anglo Russian Entente in 1907. |
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| was the German General Staff's early 20th century overall strategic plan for victory in a possible future war where it might find itself fighting on two fronts: France to the west and Russia to the east. |
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| a form of warfare in which both combatants occupied fighting lines, consisting largely of trenches, in which troops were largely immune to the enemy's small arms fire and were substantially sheltered from artillery. |
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| unrestricted submarine warfare |
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| a type of naval warfare in which submarines sink merchant ships without warning, as opposed to attacks per prize rules |
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| a foreign policy which combines a non-interventionist military policy and a political policy of economic nationalism |
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| a coded telegram dispatched by the Foreign Secretary of the German Empire, Arthur Zimmermann, on January 16, 1917, to the German ambassador in Washington, Johann von Bernstorff, at the height of World War I. |
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| one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. |
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| Article 231/War Guilt Clause |
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| the first article in Part VIII, "Reparations" of the Treaty of Versailles. Apart from "Article 231", there is no title for this article in the treaty itself. The names "Guilt Clause” and "War Guilt Clause" were assigned in later commentaries. The American historian Sally Marks argues that the clause says no such thing, and all that the clause does say is "the responsibility of Germany and her Allies for causing all the loss and damage to which the Allied and Associated Governments and their nationals have been subjected as a consequence of the war imposed upon them by the aggression of Germany and her allies. |
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| a speech delivered by United States President Woodrow Wilson to a joint session of Congress on January 8, 1918. The address was intended to assure the country that the Great War was being fought for a moral cause and for postwar peace in Europe. |
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| an inter-governmental organization founded as a result of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919–1920, and the precursor to the United Nations. At its greatest extent from 28 September 1934 to 23 February 1935, it had 58 members. |
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| a legal status for certain territories transferred from the control of one country to another following World War I, or the legal instruments that contained the terms for administering the territory on behalf of the League. |
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| an influenza pandemic that spread widely across the world. |
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| an anti-imperialist, cultural, and political movement growing out of student demonstrations in Beijing on May 4, 1919 protesting the Chinese government's weak response to the Treaty of Versailles, especially the Shandong Problem. |
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| constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 |
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| the Soviet government’s revolutionary militia beginning in the Russian Civil War of 1918-1922. It grew into the national army of the USSR. |
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| a series of directives issued by Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin upon his return to Petrograd , Russia from his exile in Switzerland. |
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| a peace treaty signed on March 3, 1918 |
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| New Economic Policy (NEP) |
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| an economic policy proposed by Vladimir Lenin to prevent the Russian economy from collapsing. Allowing some private ventures |
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| a series of nation-wide centralized exercises in rapid economic development in the Soviet Union. The plans were developed by a state planning committee based on the Theory of Productive Forces that was part of the general guidelines of the Communist Party for economic development. Fulfilling the plan became the watchword of Soviet bureaucracy |
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| a political system where the state, usually under the control of a single political organization, faction, or class domination, recognizes no limits to its authority and strives to regulate every aspect of public and private life wherever feasible |
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| an organization of agricultural production in which the holdings of several farmers are run as a joint enterprise. A collective farm is essentially an agricultural production cooperative in which members-owners engage jointly in farming activities. |
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| describes social legislation passed by the British Liberal Party after the 1906 General Election. |
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| a historical edifice in Berlin, Germany, constructed to house the Reichstag, parliament of the German Empire. It was opened in 1894 and housed the Reichstag until 1933, when it was severely damaged in a fire supposedly set by Dutch communist Marinus van der Lubbe |
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| comprised the countries that were opposed to the Allies during World War II. The three major Axis powers—Germany, Japan, and Italy |
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| everyday English usage, allies are people, groups, or nations that have joined together in an association for mutual benefit or to achieve some common purpose, |
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| 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. It began in March 1941, over 18 months after the outbreak of the war in September 1939. |
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| is 'leader' or 'guide' in the German language, derived from the verb führe |
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| he government of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Worker's Party (NSDAP), from 1933 to 1945. Third Reich (German: Drittes Reich) denotes the Nazi state as the historical successor to the mediæval Holy Roman Empire |
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| were antisemitic laws in Nazi Germany which were introduced at the annual Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg. The laws classified people as German if all four of their grandparents were of "German or kindred blood" |
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| Munich Conference of 1938 |
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| checklosvakia was given to Hitler by the UK |
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| the policy of European democracies in the 1930s aimed at avoiding war with the dictatorships of Germany, Italy and Japan. |
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| colloquially named after the Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov and the German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, was an agreement officially titled the Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Soviet Union |
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| he code name for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II that began on 22 June 1941 |
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| Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere |
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| a concept created and promulgated during the Shōwa era by the government and military of the Empire of Japan. It represented the desire to create a self-sufficient "block of Asian nations led by the Japanese and free of Western powers". |
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| was concluded between Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan (later to be joined by other countries) on November 25, 1936 and was directed against the Communist International (Comintern) in general, and the Soviet Union in particular. |
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| a pact signed in Berlin, Germany on September 27, 1940, which established the Axis Powers of World War II. |
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| the name given to the air campaign waged by the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940. |
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| as the most important naval battle of the Pacific Campaign of World War II. |
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| World War II, both fought in 1942. The Battles occurred in Egypt in and around an area named after a railway stop called El Alamein |
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| a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in southwestern Russia |
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| the landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy, also known as Operation Neptune and Operation Overlord, during World War II. |
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| the codename for a project conducted during World War II to develop the first atomic bomb. |
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| the term generally used to describe the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored extermination by Nazi Germany |
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| “crimes against humanity” |
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| particularly odious offences in that they constitute a serious attack on human dignity or grave humiliation or a degradation of one or more human beings |
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| mass (or popular) culture |
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| the totality of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, memes, images and other phenomena that are deemed preferred per an informal consensus within the mainstream of a given culture |
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| to the deliberate and systematic destruction (genocide) of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire during and just after World War I. |
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| the foreign policy of the administration of United States President Franklin Roosevelt toward the countries of Latin America. |
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| Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) |
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| a Mexican political party that wielded power in the country—under a succession of names—for more than 70 years. The PRI is a member of the Socialist International |
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| the primary program, 1947–51, of the United States for rebuilding and creating a stronger economic foundation for the countries of Western Europe. |
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| the common name for the Cold War strategy of containment versus the Soviet Union and the expansion of communism. This doctrine was first promulgated by President Harry Truman in an address to the U.S. Congress on March 12, 1947. |
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| Conference at Yalta and Potsdam |
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| the February 4–11, 1945 wartime meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union—President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and General Secretary Joseph Stalin, respectively—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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| the first major international crises of the Cold War and the first such crisis that resulted in casualties. During the multinational occupation of post-World War IIGermany, |
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| arry supplies to the people in West Berlin. The over 4,000 tons per day required by Berlin during the air lift totaled, for example, over ten times the volume that the encircled German 6th Army required six years earlier at the Battle of Stalingrad |
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| eparated the city of Berlin in Germany from 1961 to 1989. Many people thought it was a symbol of the Cold War. The Berlin Wall was taken down on November 9, 1989. |
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| the tense relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union during the 45-year period following the World War II's end. It refers to the time between 1945 and 1989. |
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| an organization of Central and Eastern European Communist states. |
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| n international organization for peace and defense established in 1949, from the North Atlantic Treaty signed in Washington, D.C., USA, on April 4, 1949. |
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| containing communism within borders where it already exists |
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| members of the warsaw pact and those who were not This border was between East Germany and West Germany, between Czechoslovakia and Austria, and between Hungary and Austria. |
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| Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (1968) |
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| treaty says that only five countries are allowed to have nuclear weapons. These are called nuclear weapons states. The five nuclear weapons states are China, France, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Russia |
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| decolonization/national liberation |
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| a communist army based in South Vietnam that fought against the governments of South Vietnam and the United States during the Vietnam War (1958-75). |
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| Chinese Communist Party (CCP) |
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| he dominant political party and founder of the People's Republic of China. The leader of the CPC is named Hu Jintao |
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| a plan that was created to increase China's economy and industry. It was started by the Communist leader Chairman Mao Zedong in 1957 and ended in 1960. The Great Leap Forward was bad for the Chinese people, as it ended up with many people dead. |
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| a time of large cultural change in China, started by the leader Mao Zedong. It happened from 1966 to 1976. |
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| the Japaneese soldiers invaded Nanjing and raped tens of thousands of women and children |
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| when cuba was independent but americans still controlled the island |
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| In 1959, Fidel Castro led a revolution against Fulgencio Batista. |
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| It was a proxy conflict around Cuba. It happened when the Soviet Union (USSR) began building missile sites in Cuba in 1962. |
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| a confrontation between the United States, the Soviet Union, and Cuba in October 1962, during the Cold War. In the countries of the former Soviet Union, former Eastern Bloc countries, and other communist countries |
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| a unity of purpose or togetherness |
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| the russian term for the political and economic reforms introduced in June 1987 by the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Its literal meaning is "restructuring", referring to the restructuring of the Soviet political and economic system. |
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| the policy of maximal publicity, openness, and transparency in the activities of all government institutions in the Soviet Union, together with freedom of information, introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev in the second half of the 1980s |
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| a term that has come to be used broadly to describe all forms of ethnically-motivated violence, ranging from murder, rape, and torture to the forcible removal of populations. |
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| the most fateful and petrifying day in the History of Indian Freedom Movement is the day of the Amritsar Massacre. The date was 13th April, 1919. |
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| passive resistance (satyagraha) |
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| the practice of achieving socio-political goals through symbolic protests, civil disobedience, economic or political noncooperation, and other methods, without using violence |
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| a civil disobedience movement in India launched in August 1942 in response to Gandhi's call for immediate independence of India and against sending Indians to the World War II. |
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| the partition of British India on the basis of religious demographics that led to the creation, on 14 August 1947 and 15 August 1947, respectively, of the sovereign states of the Dominion of Pakistan |
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| the name given to the followers of the Communist Party of Kampuchea, the totalitarian ruling party in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, |
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| the 1994 mass killing of hundreds of thousands of Rwanda's Tutsis and Hutu political moderates by the Hutu dominated government under the Hutu Power ideology |
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| an international nationalist political movement that, in its broadest sense, calls for the existence of a sovereign, Jewish national homeland. |
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| applied to two key British government policy statements associated with Conservative statesman and former Prime Minister Arthur Balfour. |
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| a war between Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. The Arab states of Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria also contributed troops and arms. |
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| signed by Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on September 17, 1978, following twelve days of secret negotiations at Camp David. |
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| a term used to describe religious ideologies seen as advocating a return to the "fundamentals" of Islam: the Quran and the Sunnah. |
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| Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) |
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| a political and paramilitary organization founded in 1964. It is recognized as the "sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people," by over 100 states with which it holds diplomatic relations, and has enjoyed observer status at the United Nations since 1974. |
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| a Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation in the Palestinian Territories. |
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| a Palestinian Islamic socio-political organization which includes a paramilitary force, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades |
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| major Palestinian political party and the largest faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization |
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| Party of God") is a Shi'a Islamist political and paramilitary organisation based in Lebanon |
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| a cartel of twelve countries made up of Algeria, Angola, Ecuador, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Venezuela. OPEC has maintained its headquarters in Vienna since 1965 |
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| the partial or complete prohibition of commerce and trade with a particular country, in order to isolate it. |
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| the name of two dams, both located in Aswan, Egypt. Most commonly today the name refers to the High Dam, which is the newer of the two. |
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| a Sunni Islamist political movement that governed Afghanistan from 1996 until they were overthrown in late 2001 during Operation Enduring Freedom |
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| an Islamist group founded sometime between August 1988 and late 1989. terroist and did bombings |
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| an agreement signed by the governments of the United States, Canada, and Mexico creating a trilateral trade bloc in North America |
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| an economic and political union of 27 member countries, located primarily in Europe. Committed to regional integration, the EU was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the European Communities. |
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| an international organization designed by its founders to supervise and liberalize international trade. |
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| negotiated during the UN Conference on Trade and Employment and was the outcome of the failure of negotiating governments to create the International Trade Organization |
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| the summit of the top nations of the world, the great 8; China, France, America, Japan Italy, Canada, Russia, UK |
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