Chapter 17 Vocab Flashcards

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Reinsurance treaty

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Bismarck secret treaty with Russia

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Wilhelm II

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Ruler of Germany, who dismissed Bismarck and allowed the reinsurance treaty to expire

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Triple Entente

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loose confederation between Russia, England, and France prior to World War I

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June 28, 1914

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Date of the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary

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Francis Ferdinand

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archduke who was heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, and was assassinated in 1914

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Central Powers

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alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire during World War I

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Allies

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Alliance of Russia, Serbia, and France in World War I; alliance of Britain, France, and Poland ( And later the US and the Soviet union )in World War III

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Schlieffen Plan

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Germany’s two front war strategy during World War I, in which Germany would quickly conquer France, and then fight Russia

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Stalemate

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War time condition in which two opposing forces have no major gains on either side

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Civil Religion

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The use of religion to promote the goals of the state

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Total War

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War, in which all of the countries resources are devoted to destroying the enemy; war in which there are no limits on targets, or the kind of weapons used

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Vladimir Lenin

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communist leader, who came to power in the Russian revolution and signed a treaty with the Germans, which took Russia out of World War II

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Paris Peace Conference

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Conference after World War II, where five treaties were formulated, including the treaty of Versailles

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Treaty of Versailles

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Treaty between the allies in Germany that contained harsh demand, and blamed Germany for World War I

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Bolsheviks

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Radical Russian political group, led by Lenin that supported the violent overthrow of the monarchy

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Mensheviks

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the more moderate russian political group who sought peaceful changes

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Joseph Stalin

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The second dictator of the Soviet Union; continued, and intensified oppression of religion (1879-1953)

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Weimar Republic

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German government after World War II; organized at Weimar

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Nazi

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The national socialist, German workers party led by Adolf Hitler

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Adolf Hitler

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Lead the Nazi party and use the political process to gain control of the German government

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Benito Mussolini

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Formed the fascist Party in Italy, gradually transformed Italy into a dictatorship

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Lateran Treaties

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Agreements between Mussolini and Vatican City that ended the popes Opposition to Italys Unified government

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League of Nations

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An organization proposed by Woodrow Wilson, that was supposed to bring about international cooperation

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Washington Naval Conference

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Meeting of several nations that agreed to limit the number of warships each each could built

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Locarno Pact
An agreement, Germany, signed with France and Belgium, recognizing its present borders with those two nations as Permanent
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Kellogg-Briand Pact
Agreement signed after World War I, by which nations agreed to settle their dispute by negotiation rather than force
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Sun Yat-Sen
leader that worked to bring reform to China; struggle to bring unity to China through the Kuomintang or nationalist party
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Kuomintang
nationalist Chinese party in the early 1900s
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Ching Kai-Shek
Leader of the kuomintang Party in China, following the death of Sun Yat-sen
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Chinese Communist Party
Radical element of the kuomintang party
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Mao Zedong
Lead the Chinese communist party in the stirred up peasant revolts in order to undermine the conservative government of Chang kia - shek
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Pan-Arabism
movement started by air Arabs to seek a United States of Arabia and an Arab league that would spread from the west coast of northern Africa to Saudi Arabia
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Pierre and Marie Curie
French physicist who pioneer work in radioactive matter
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Albert Einstein
Made tremendous contributions to science with his theories on the relationship between modern energy; father of modern physics
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Expressionism
Art style after World War I that emphasized how the artist felt on his subject
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Cubism
art style after World War I that showed subjects in geometric shapes, and from several perspectives at once
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Great depression
An economic downturn in the US during the 20th century; affected many other nations
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Federal reserve
American agency that controls the US money supply and works to protect the American banking system
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Smoot
hawkeye tariff act -Established the highest tariff ( Duty or tax on foreign products ) in US history
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