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WWII for APEH
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10th Grade
03/25/2014

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Lost Generation
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Generation of people who came of age during and just after WW1; group of American writers including Hemingway & Fitzgerald
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Surrealism
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20th century literary and artistic style stressing images from the uncounscious mind
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Spartacist Uprising
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January 1919 attempt to bring about a German proletarian revolution
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Weimar Republic
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Name for the regime in Germany from 1919 to the advent of Hitler in 1933
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Treaty of Rapallo
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1922 pact b/w Germany and Soviet Union; allowed Germany to employ workers in factories & keep factories abreast of weapons and equipment
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Blitzkrieg
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"Lightening War;" Intense military campaign intended to bring about a swift victory
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Dawes Plan
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1924 (named after Charles Dawes) plan to ensure the flow of reparations; French evacuated the Ruhr, reparations cut down, Germany allowed to borrow money from U.S.
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Kellog-Briand Pact
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1929 "Pact of Paris" b/w French Aristide Briand and U.S. Frank B. Kellogg; signed by 65 nations, it condemned the recourse to war for the solution of international controversies. Irony was no way to enforce!
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Locarno Pact
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1925; aka "Spirit of Locarno." Germany, France, Belgium, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Great Britain all sign pact of goodwill in Locarno, Switzerland.
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Trades Dispute Act of 1927
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British act of Parliament passed in response to the General Strike of 1926; declared strikes unlawful
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Sinn Fein Party
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"Ourselves Alone;" An extremist 20th century Irish nationalist organization
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Popular Front
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The political partnership of parties of the left, particularly in France and Spain during the 1930s
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Stavisky Riots
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1934 uprising
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Corporative State
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Mussolini's economic and political machinery to manage the Italian economy and settle issues b/w labor and management
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Third Reich
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The Nazi dictatorship under Hitler (1933-1945) meant to last 1000 years
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Nuremberg Laws
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Hitler's anti-Jewish laws of 1935
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Falangists
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Members of Spanish fascist party that supported Francisco Franco during the Spanish Civil War
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Anschluss
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Unification of Austria with Germany in March 1938
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Anti-Comintern Pact
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11/25/1936 pact b/w Nazi Germany and Japan against the Third International / communists
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Munich Conference
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Meeting in 1938 in which France and Britain sought to appease German aggression and avert war.
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Appeasement
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Policy in 1930s that tried to maintain peace in Europe in the face of German aggression by making concessions
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Nazi-Soviet Pact
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1939; aka Non-Aggression Pact b/w Germany and U.S.S.R. in which they agree to not invade each other and split the spoils of Poland
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Fascism
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System of government that advocates a dictatorship of the extreme right together with an ideology of belligerent nationalism
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Four Freedoms
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Goals by FDR in State of the Union speech on 1/6/1941; Freedom of speech and worship, freedom from want and fear.
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Atlantic Charter
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8/14/1941 b/w FDR and Churchill defining goals for post WW2, similar to Wilson's Fourteen Points
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Casablanca Conference
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Ten day meeting in 1943 b/w FDR and Churchill that defined military objectives of the Allied nations
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