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Era Of Global Wars Flashcards

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Start of WW1

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•Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated

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Causes of WW1

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•M.A.I.N

  • Militarism
  • Alliances
  • Imperialism
  • Nationalism
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Kaiser Wilhelm 2

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•Leader Of Germany During WW1

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Causes Of World War 2

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  • Aggression by totalarism leaders:(Germany, Italy, Japan)
  • Nationalism
  • Failures of Treaty of Versailles
  • Weakness of League Of Nations
  • Appeasement
  • Belief In Isolation and Pacifism
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Battle Of Britain

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  • Hitler Bombs Britain

* showed that Hitler Could Be Defeated

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Franklin Roosevelt

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•U.S President

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Harry Truman

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•U.S President after Death of FDR

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Dwight D Eisenhower

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•Allied commander in Europe During War

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Douglas McAurthor

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•U.S General in pacific during war

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George Marshall

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U.S General

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Winston Churchill

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•Prime Minister Of Great Britain

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Hitler

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•Nazi Dictator

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Hideki Tojo

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•Japanese military Leader

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WW2 Begins

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•Germany invades Poland in 1939

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Genocide

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•the systematic and purposeful destruction of racial political religious or cultural group

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Final solution

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•exterminate Jews through concentration camps (gas chambers)

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Armenian Genocide

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•during ww1 By leaders of Ottoman Empire

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Cambodian Genocide

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•Pol pot had the educated , artist, religious , minorities killed

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Rwanda genocide

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•Tutsi minority killed by Hutu

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2 Major Powers after WW2

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USA and SOVIET UNION

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Iron Curtian

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•Europe divided (east /and west)

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US role when WW1 begins

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•USA begins neutral then enters war when Germany uses unrestricted submarine warfare

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Woodrow Wilson

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•president of USA during WW1

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End of empires after WW1

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  • Russian empire
  • Ottoman Empire
  • German and Austria- Hungarian empire
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Treaty of Versailles

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  • Germany forced to accept all guilt
  • pay repetition
  • Germany no longer allowed to have military
  • League of Nations created
  • USA not a member
  • failure
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League of Nations

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  • created to prevent global conflicts
  • us not a member
  • failure

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