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2nd Semester Final Flashcards

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Militarism

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A policy of glorifying military strength & maintaining a standing army prepared for war through the buildup of modern military equipment & technology.

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Imperialism

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A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries socially, politically, economically and/or culturally (SPEC).

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System of Alliances

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A formal agreement or pact, especially a military one, between two or more countries to achieve a particular goal.

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Nationalism

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The belief that people should be loyal to their nation-to people with whom they share a common culture, language & history. To many people the willingness to die for one’s country was the purest form of nationalism.

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Totalitarianism

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A form of government in which the state attempts to assert control over every aspect of public and private life

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Name the main characteristics of Totalitarianism

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  • Dictatorship or One-Man Rule
  • Leader is glorified as a hero
  • Denied individual rights
  • Censorship and Indoctrination
  • One Party Rule
  • Control by State over most aspects of life
  • Use of secret police to control citizens
  • Primacy of state over the individual
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Characteristics of Communism

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  • No Religion
  • No private ownership, govt. owns all business
  • Supported by the workers
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Nazism

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Religious Control- Some Freedom but not for Jews

Unifying Idea- Germans as the ‘master race’

Use of Terror- Millions killed, particularly Jews, homosexuals, gypsies (Romani) and communists

Media- Total Control (Censorship)

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Facism

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Religious Control- Catholicism was state religion, but free choice. No persecution of Jews

Unifying Idea- Strongly Nationalistic

Use of Terror- Only 23 political prisoners executed from 1926-1944. 4,000 imprisoned

Media- less than total control

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Censorship

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Govt. controls the media (you only see what the government wants you to see)

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Indoctrination

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brainwashing

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Mein Kampf

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‘My Struggle’ = Hitler’s book

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Third Reich

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The German Empire

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Anti-Semtic

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hatred of Jewish people

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Triple Entente

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Great Britain, France, Russia

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Triple Alliance

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Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy

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Allied Powers

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Great Britain, France, Russia, USA, Canada etc.

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Central Powers

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Ottoman Empire, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria

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Armistrice

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An agreement to stop fighting

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The Western Front

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The border between France and Germany

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The Eastern Front

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The border between Germany and Russia

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14 Points

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Written by President Woodrow Wilson, this treaty addressed the issues (the 14 points) that caused the war (No more secret alliances, no more Imperialism, etc.)

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The Treaty of Versailles

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Written by France and Great Britain, this treaty was signed at the end of WWI as a ‘fuck you’ to Germany. Germany was forced to give up land to form Poland and give back Alsace-Lorraine to France. They were forced to decrease their military, and completely remove military on the French-German border. They had to give up all over-seas colonies, and sign a guilt clause (as well as pay damages to France and Great Britain)

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The Shlieffen Plan

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  • Send %90 German soldiers to the western front (assuming that Russia would take time to deploy soldiers and that France would fall easily) and send %10 to the eastern front.
  • THIS PLAN FAILED
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The Powder Keg of Europe

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The Balkan Penninsula

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The Black Hand

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The Serbian terrorist group responsible for the

assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

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Total War

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ALL of the country’s effort was put into the war (Making citizens ration food, money going towards making weapons, etc.)

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June 28, 1914

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Gavrilo Princip assassinates Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie of Austria-Hungary

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July 28, 1914

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Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia which starts WWI

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November 11, 1918 (at 11:11)

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WWI ends

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Kaiser Wilhelm II

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Leader of Germany during WWI

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Czar Nicholas

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Leader of Russia DURING/BEFORE WWI

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V.I. Lenin

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A father of Communism, leader of the USSR at the end of WWI

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King George V

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Leader of Great Britain at the time of WWI

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Georges Clemenceau

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Leader of France at the time of WWI

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David Lloyd George

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Prime Minister of Great Britain at the time of WWI

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Archduke Franz Ferdinand

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Assasinated by Gravilo Princip, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary

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List the countries that stayed neutral during WWI

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Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland

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List the military strengths of the Allied powers

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  • Surrounded the Central Powers

- Strong Industrialization (Great Britain and USA)

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List the military strengths of the Central Powers

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Easy transport of troops and supplies

Easy lines of communication

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List the military weaknesses of the Allied Powers

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-Blocked lines of transport and communication

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List the military weaknesses of the Central Powers

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Germany had to fight a two-front war

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Describe the weapons used in WWI

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Poison Gas, Machine Guns, and Tanks

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Describe the 2 events that brought the USA into the war

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  1. Germany’s unrestricted submarine warfare
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List the names of the 3 major totalitarian governments, their leaders, and their form of govt.

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  1. Italy, Mussolini, Facism
  2. Adolf Hitler, Germany, Nazism
  3. Stalin, USSR, Communism
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The Vichy Government

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A French puppet govt. controlled by Germany (after France was invaded)

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