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Ricardo

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Iron law of wages

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Malthus

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Believed the population would outstrip the food supply

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Chartism

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The first large scale working-class political movement 
step toward working-class rights
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English factory act of 1833

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During industrial revolution
broke pattern of whole families working together
Limited child work day and made kids under nine go to school

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Concert of Europe

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European countries continued to meet after napoleonic wars

First attempt at collective security

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Conservatism

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Believed traditions were the essential foundations of any society
Aimed to preserve authority of monarchies aristocracies and established churches

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Nationalism

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Idea that each people had its own specific unity which manifested itself in a common language and history
often led to the desire for an independent political state
Hungarians and Austrians especially

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Liberalism

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Challenged conservative political social and religious values
Upper-middle-class Europeans especially
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Socialism

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Against individualism
Movement toward a sense of community
economic equality and state regulation of property

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Marx and Engels

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Wrote the Communist manifesto

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Marxism

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Conflict between the established order in the challenge order resulting in classless society

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Metternich

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Austrian Foreign Minister that believed strong government was necessary and worked to prevent movement against conservatism

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Carlsbad decrees

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Metternich
Created to root out subversive ideas and crush liberal organizations
dissolved the burschenshaften (liberal student associations) and monitored press

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Greece gained independence from

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Ottomans with help of Britain France and Russia in a nationalism revolt

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Corn laws (1815)

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Made it too expensive to important grain thus raising the price of food

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Coercion act of 1817

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Suspend habeus corpus and repress liberals in London

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Peterloo massacre

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Radical protest at St. peters fields in London killed 11 people

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Britain’s great reform bill of 1832

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Increased voters by 50%
eliminated rotten boroughs and pocket boroughs
gave industrial areas representation made revolution unnecessary

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Charter

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France’s Constitution
established bicameral legislator
Guaranteed declaration of rights of man, religious freedom, and protection of property

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Revolution of 1830/four ordinances

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4 ordinances restricted rights (ultra conservative)
Citizens revolt and Charles X abdicated the throne
Louis Philippe takes over and creates (constitutional) July monarchy with with toleration and no censorship

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Revolutions of 1848

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France Austria Prussia
Food shortages depression unemployment frustration…
Led to conservative ideas keeping hold but liberal ideas gaining support

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Six acts

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Issued In response to the Peterloo massacre and moved Britain toward becoming a repressive state

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When did urban society begin to emerge

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Mid to late 19th century after the Industrial Revolution

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Utilitarianism

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Jeremy Bentham

Idea that social policies should promote the greatest good for the greatest number of people

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Edwin Chadwick

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Worked to change urban conditions after industrial revolution
published evidence that disease was related to unsanitary environmental conditions

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Louis Pasteur

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Germ theory

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Robert Koch

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Experimentation with bacteria

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Joseph lister

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Antiseptic principle

sterilization

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28
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Romance began to replace tradition and financial considerations relating to marriage in…

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1850

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Components of first industrial revolution

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Second half of 18th century
Textiles
Steam
Iron

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Components of second Industrial Revolution

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Second half of 19th century
Electricity
Steel 
Chemicals
Car
Oil
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Auguste Comte

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Father of sociology

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Realism

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Mid 19th century
Stressed the depiction of life as it actually was
Showed the dark side 
Balzac
Flaubert
Zola
Tolstoy 
Dickens 
Dreiser
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Napoleon III

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Led France in the Second Republic then declared himself emperor
Authoritative at first and then liberal
Tried to beat Bismarck in Franco-Prussian war which led to his capture and defeat

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Paris commune

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Parisians upset over loss of Alsace-Lorraine in Franco-Prussian war took over city
French army put it down
Resulted to the third republic

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Dreyfus affair

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French Jewish army captain wrongly accused of treason

Split catholic and govt ties

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Italian unification

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Led by Mazzini and Cavour and Garibaldi

Resulted in kingdom of Italy (led by Emanuel II)

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Bismarck’s kleindeutch policy

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Without Austria

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Schleswig-Holstein affair
Austro-Prussian war
Ems dispatch
(Steps to German unification)

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Prussia and Austria allies to defeat Denmark for control of Schleswig and Holstein
………….
Bismarck defeated Austria to get Holstein
………….
Bismarck edited a message from William I to enrage french and start Franco-Prussian war and get Alsace-Lorraine

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Crimean war

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over who should protect Christian shrines in Ottoman Empire

Russia vs France Britain ottoman and Piedmont Sardinia

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Alexander II

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Abolished serfdom in Russia
equality before the law
censorship relaxed
industrial development

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October manifesto

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Nicholas II of Russia promised constitutional government

42
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Ausgleich compromise of 1867

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Dual monarchy of Austria Hungary

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Zionism

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Movement toward political nationhood of Jews

Theodore Herzl

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Revisionism

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Effort to update Marxist doctrines to reflect the realism

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Great migration

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This movement of people from Europe in the 19th century

Caused by overcrowding, better opportunities, and liberalism

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New imperialism

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Late 19th century drive by European countries to create political empires abroad

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Berlin conference

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Agreed no single country and claim all of Africa in late 18th century

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Imperialism in India

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In 1907 Indians rebelled against Great Britain

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Kulterkampf

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Bismarcks attack on the Catholic Church

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German blank check

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Offers full support to austria-Hungary after assassination of archduke Ferdinand

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Schlieffen plan

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During ww1
Herman plan to take over France and then Russia
Failed

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Cause for US involvement in ww1

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Sinking of Lusitania
sinking of Sussex
Germans violate Sussexx pledge and resume submarine warfare
Britain releases Zimmerman telegram

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February revolution

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Strikes in Russia during ww1

Led to the provisional govt which was overthrown by the Bolsheviks

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Treaty of breast-litovsk

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Took Russia out of ww1
Permitted Germany to push troops west
Acknowledgement of Poland Ukraine Finland and Baltic states

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Checka

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Secret soviet police who carried out the red terror

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Paris peace conference

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Gathering of victorious countries after ww1 at Versailles

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Treaty of Versailles

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Stripped Germany of its colonies restricted German army
made Germany pay reparations and except full responsibility for ww1
called for league of Nations
never ratified by US

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Friedrich Nietzsche

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Argued Christianity was a slave morality and god is dead
Said the west overemphasized rationality and stifled instinct
Early 20th century

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Soren Kierkegaard

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Believed you must take a leap of faith and accept the existence of God
Early 20th century

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Werner Heisenberg

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Nature is unpredictable
Uncertainty principle
Early 20th century

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Existentialism

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Emphasized meaningless of existence in a godless world and importance of searching for moral value
Early 20th century

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Modernism

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Rejected older values in favor of constant experimentation and the search for new kinds of expression
Early 20th century

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Dadaism

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Attacked all excepted standards of behavior and art
Most radical
Early 20th century

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Keynes

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Believed Treaty of Versailles would destroy Germany

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Occupation of the Ruhr

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Germany proposed a suspension on reparation payments
France and Belgium occupied the heartland of German industry
Germans went on strike and started printing money

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Dawes plan

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Lowered Germany’s reparations based on economic prosperity

Germany could receive US loans

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Locarno agreement

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Germany and France accept their common border

Britain and Italy agree to step in if either invade one another

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Kellogg Briand pact

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15 nations agreed to renounce war as an instrument of international policy

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Great purges

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Stalin arrested interrogated tortured and executed millions to fully control the communist party

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The black shirts

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Mussolinis private army that terrorized socialists and demanded to the long that Mussolini be appointed prime minister

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Beer hall putsch

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Hitler attempts to revolt against the Weimar Republic and is jailed

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SA/brown shirts vs SS

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Nazi storm troopers vs hitlers elite personal guards

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Nazi policy of coordination

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Forced society to conform to the national Socialist ideology

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Lebensraum

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Gain living space for Germans

75
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Spanish civil war

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Training ground for ww2
Nationalists were helped by Germany and Italy
Republicans were helped by Russia Mexico and France

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Appeasement before ww2

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Germany takes Rhineland
Germany takes Austria
Germany takes Sudetenland (in Munich agreement Germany promises it will stop after this)
Germany takes Czech 
War began when Germany attacked Poland
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Sitzkrieg

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Quiet period In World War II through winter

Germans watched French forces behind Maginot line (border)

78
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Miracle of Dunkirk

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Allies soldiers rescued from a French beach in ww2

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Teheran conference

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Stalin asked his allies to open a second front in France during World War II
Only soviets would liberate the east

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Yalta conference

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Each Allie would occupy a separate zone of Germany after ww2

81
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Potsdam conference

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Truman demanded immediate free elections throughout Eastern Europe but Stalin refused
Nazi leaders would be tried
After v-e day

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Marshall plan

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After ww2 American aided European countries to prevent the spread of communism

83
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Khrushchev

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He secret speech attacked Stalin
Destalinization
Shift of goods from military to agriculture
Closed labor camps

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Anschluss

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Union of Germany and Austria when Hitler annexed Austria

85
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Secret provision of the Nazi Soviet nonaggression pact

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Germany and Soviet union would split Poland in half

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Soviets called World War II…

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The great patriotic war of the fatherland

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