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A-bomb

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  • U.S. first created A bomb through top secret Manhatten project
  • U.S. bombed Japanese to end WW2 in 1945 in Hiroshima and Nagasakik
  • ends on war on the pacific with US
  • Quick solution to war that saved many lives
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Alliance System WW1

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WW1:
Triple Alliance: Germany, Italy, and Austria Hungary
Triple Entente: France, Britain, Russia
–>Central Powers: Germany and Austria Hungary
–>Allies: France, Britain, Italy, and Russia

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Alliance System WW2

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WW2

  • Axis Powers: Italy, Germany, and Japan
  • Allies: Britain, France, US, Russia
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Anti semitisim

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-Don’t like Jews

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Ashram

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-Gandhi creating a utopian society in India and South Africa

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Axis

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-Germany(nazis), Japan, and Italy

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Bapu

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“father” for Gandhi for Home rule

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Berlin Conference

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1884-1885 conference in which nations divided up Africa among themselves

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Blitzkrieg

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“lightning war” a form of warfare in which attacks with fast moving airplanes are followed by massive attacks with infantry attacks

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Brown Shirts

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-Nazis germans in WW2

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Capitalism

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-Economic system based on private ownership

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Communism

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Economic system in which all means of production are owned by people and private property does not exist

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Concentration camps

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-Jewish camps during WW2

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Congress of Vienna

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1814-1815 meeting where world leaders sought to create peace and security in Europe after Napoleon.

1) Containment
2) Legitimacy
3) Balance of Power
4) COncert of Europe

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Continental system

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-Napoleons military strategy to take over Europe using blockades

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Czar

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-Russian Kings

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Der Fuhrer

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-Hitlers name for “our leader”

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Economic systems (3)

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Traditional, market, command

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Fascism

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-Political movement that promotes an extreme an extreme form of nationalism , a denial of individual rights, dictaorship

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Fascist Party

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-Founded in 1919 by mussolini in Italy

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Final Solution

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-Hitlers plan to systemically kill entire jew population

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Il Duce

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-“our leader” for Mussolini

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Imperialism (4)

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  1. Colonization
  2. Protectrate
  3. Sphere of influence
  4. Economic Imperialism
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Kaiser

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-German parliament leader before Hitler

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Mahatma

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-“Great Soul” Gandhi

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Man of Steel

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-Stalin of Soviet Union name

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Mercantilism

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-Economic strategy by buying large quantities of gold and silver by selling more goods than bought

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Nazis

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-National Socialist German Workers party based on fascism, racial superiority, and totalitarianism

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Pearl Harbor

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-1941 Japanese attack on Hawaii causing US to enter WW2

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Propaganda

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-Information or material spread to advance a cause or to damage an opponents cause

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Red Shirts

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-Communists
-USSR, China, North Korea
Chinese revolution

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Reichstag

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-German parliament

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Self-determination

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-Freedom of a people to choose their own gov’t

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Soviet

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one of the local representative councils formed in Russia after fall of czar Nicholas 11

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Third Reich

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-Third German empire est. by Hitler in 1930s

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Treaty of Versailles

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-Peace treaty signed by Germany after ww1

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Utopia

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Perfect society with equality

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Nation (3 defined)

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3 characteristics:

  1. Established/maintain borders (geography)
  2. Strong ‘central’ government
  3. Common culture/citizens
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Totalitarian state

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  • Gov’t in charge of every aspects of public and private life
  • nationalism strongly used through propaganda
  • Hitler: 1930s Nazis(fascist)
  • Mussolini: 1919 Fascist
  • Stalin: 1924 communist
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Axis of evil

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Hitler, Japan, Mussolini

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