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Exam 2 Flashcards

1
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Balance of Power in WW1

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series of alliances designed to keep any one nation from gaining hegemony over Europe

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arms race

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attempts by European nations to produce more weapons and larger military forces than other European nations

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dreadnaughts

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modern WW1 battleships

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treaty of Versailles

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treaty ending WW1

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spanish flu

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a strain of flu prevalent in the last year of WW1 and the first year after the war which killed more people than the war

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warren g. harding

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corrupt president during early 1920’s

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“Babe” Ruth

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biggest sports star of the 1920’s, radio made him a celebrity

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Ku Klux Klan

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newly reinstituted, the Klan was a widespread terrorist organization using violence to intimidate political enemies

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scopes monkey trial

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criminal trial of John Scopes, accused of teaching evolution in Tennessee, where such teaching violated State law

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Teapot Dome Scandal

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Bribery Scandal involving members of Harding’s cabinet, involved oil drilling leases in WY and CA

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New Deal

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Roosevelt’s response to the Great Depression

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Stock Market Crash

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sudden drop of stock prices, which started the great depression

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Great Depression

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worst economic disaster in modern history

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dust bowl

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crop failures caused by draught and poor farming methods

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public works projects

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a series of depression era laws passed to provide governmental jobs for unemployed, very successful

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isolationism

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political view that the US should not involve itself politically or militarily with other nations

17
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Alfred Thayer Mahan

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19th century naval theorist who believed battleships the key to military power

18
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Giulio Douhet

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early 20th century air power theorist who believed heavy, long range bombers were the key to military power

19
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strategi bombing

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the bombing of civilian and productions targets rather than direct military targets

20
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aircraft carriers

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large military ships designed for storage, take off, and landing of military aircrafts

21
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capitalism

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political system in which private enterprise and personal initiative are primary, often heavily influenced by big business

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communism

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political system motivated by class, theorized to make all people part of both the working and ruling classes

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fascism

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political system devoted to the state, all things are subordinate to what is best for the nation and its leaders, racist and nationalistic

24
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joseph stalin

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ruler of the soviet union during WWII

25
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adolph hitler

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ruler of germany during WWII

26
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great purge

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stalin solidified his hold on power by executing thousands of political opponents and “undesirables”

27
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spanish civil war

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war between socialist and fascists in Spain, laboratory for WWII

28
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Weimer Republic

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gov of Germany from WWI until Hitler took power

29
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Mein Kampf

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book written by Hitler outlining his expansion plan for Germany

30
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Munich Accords

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treaty between Germany, France, and England agreeing that Hitler would take German populate area of Czechoslovakia but nothing afterward; immediately broken by Hitler

31
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Hideki Tojo

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Japanese ruler during WWII

32
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Chiang Kai-Shek

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Leader of Nationalist China during WWII

33
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rape of nanking

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period of looting , rape, and murder following the Japanese capture of nanking from the Chinese

34
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Tripartite Pact

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treaty between Germany, Italy, and Japan forming the Axis Powers of WWII

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Pearl Harbor

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US naval base in Hawaii, site of the japanese attack that brought the US into WWII

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