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Schlieffen plan

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Hold off Russia and attack France and then go back to attack Russia

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Battle of the Marne

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Trench warfare where the Schefflin plan was stopped

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How airplanes were used in WW1

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They were used to spot enemy targets

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Unrestricted submarine warfare

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It was the sinking of passenger liners caused the US to enter World War II

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Total war

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A word that involve the complete mobilization of resources and people affected the lives of all citizens in the warring countries, even those remote from the battlefield

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14 point plan

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Wilson’s plan for world peace after World War I

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Lusitania

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It was a British ocean liner, the sinking of which buy a German U-boat on May 7, 1915 contributed and directly to the entry of the United States into World War I.

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No mans land

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It was the narrow muddy tree list stretch of land, characterized by numerous shell holes that separated, German and Ally trenches during the first world war

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Militarism

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It is the aggressive preparation for war

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Propaganda

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Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a war cause

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The war guilt clause

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holds Germany responsible for the war

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What did Italy do after WW2 began

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After they decided to stay neutral and then they jumped sides

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Conscription

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The formal term that means to draft people into the military

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How the western front differed from the eastern

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The eastern front was mobile and the western wasn’t

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The Black hand society

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A serbah terrorist organization that wanted Bosnia free from austri-hungary

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U-boats

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The name of the German submarines

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The League of Nations

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It was our worlds first international peacekeeping body

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Stalin 5 year plan

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A plan to industrialize across the ussr

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Why wasn’t the U.S. A member of the league of nations

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They wanted to try and isolate themselves

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Dawes plan

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Helped reduce Germany’s payments that they had to pay

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Economic depression

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A period of low economic activity and rising unemployment

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Nuremberg laws

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laws that only apply to people who were considered Jews

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anti-Semitism

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The discrimination towards Jewish people a form of racism

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Collecting bargaining

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The right of unions to negotiate with employees over wages and hours

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Totalitarian
A government that aims to control the political, economic, social, intellectual and cultural lives of its citizens
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Kristallnacht
Also called “the night of shattered glass” it was when the Jewish went on a destructive rampage, and they got sent to concentration camps
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Cause of the great depression
The stock market, crashing and droughts
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The new deal
Programs that helped improve peoples lives after suffering through the Cold War
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The ss
An organization under Hitler in the Nazi party in Nazi Germany Hitler, secret police force
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Deficit spending
When a government pays out more money than it takes in through taxation, and other revenues, thus going into debt
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FDIC
An independent agency, created by the Congress to maintain stability and public confidence in the nation’s financial system
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Aryan
A term used to identify people speaking, Indo European languages; Nazis, miss use the term, treating it as a result designation and identifying the Aryans with the ancient Greeks and Romans in 20th century Germans and Scandinavians
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Hoover dam
It was president Hoover’s plan to jumpstart the economy
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Hitters last invasion before WW2 began
Hitler invaded Poland before World War II begin
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Pearl Harbor
A military strike by the Japanese army on the United States US naval base in 1941
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Einstanzgruppen
They were special forces that carried out the Nazis plans
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Appeasement
Satisfying, reasonable, demands to dissatisfied, powers in an effort to maintain peace and stability
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The Cold War
The period of political tension following World War I ending with the fall of communism in the Soviet Union at the end of the 1980s
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Axis powers of WW2
The axis powers was made up of Germany, Italy and Japan
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Isolationism
A policy of national isolation by abstain from alliances and other international political and economic relations
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D-day
Became known as the largest invasion force in history
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Sudetenland
A area in the north or western Czechoslovakia that was inhabited largely by Germans
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Blitzkrieg
German for "lighting war"; A Swift, and sudden military attack; used by the Germans during World War II
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Battleof the midway island
A naval battle fought with aircraft
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Potsdam conference
President. Truman’s conversation with Stalin
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Battle of Stalingrad
A battle between Russia and the Nazi Germany, for Stalingrad, Russia
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Holocaust
The largest genocide in history of Jewish during World War II
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Luftwaffe
It was a German Air Force
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Auschwitz's
The largest concentration camp that the Jews were sent to
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Hiroshima
A city in Japan, that was destroyed by an atomic bomb
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The Marshall plan
Give $13 billion to war torn countries in Europe
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NATO
What is a non-Communist alliance that was formed after World War II
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International dateline
When you cross the international dateline, you lose a day or gain a day
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Berlin airlift
Was used as an attempt to supply the non-Communist side with supplies
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Cold War ideologies at war
The two ideologies of the Cold War are capitalism and communism
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Containment policy
Hey, plan to keep some things such as communism within its existing geographical boundaries and prevent further aggressive movements
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Proxy war
A war in which the powers in conflict use third parties at substitute instead of fighting each other directly
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Years and sides of the Chinese Civil War
1927-1949 and nationalist versus communist party’s
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Cuban missile crisis
When the Soviet Union invade Cuba
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Sputnik 1
The first human made space satellite
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Bay of pigs invasion
They invaded Cuba to try and overthrow Fidel Castro
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Satellite states
A country that is economically, and politically dependent on another country
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Truman doctrine
Where is the United States would provide money to other countries (to keep communism from spreading)
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Why the Berlin wall was built
Two separate east, and west Germany
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38th parallel
It is the line that divides north and South Korea
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Vietcong
They were the Gorillaz that used guerrilla tactics
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Kent state shooting’s
Shooting after the students from Kent state were violently protesting because they didn’t want the US to invade Cambodia
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President Kennedy’s assassination
Kennedy get assassinated on November 22, 1963 in Texas
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Civil rights act of 1964
Equality for all races and color, religion, and etc.
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Women’s liberation movement
The renewed feminist movement to the late 1960s, which demanded political and economic equality with men
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Why crucified was removed from power in the USSR
He back down during the Cuban missile crisis
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Asian tigers
South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong
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Carter’s response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
He withdrew the salt 2 treaty and banned the Olympics
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How Regan hated the Cold War back up
Ronald Reagan called them and evil empire
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The red scare
Fear of communist subversion
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EEC
It was the European economic community
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Communist countries that were never satellite states
They were called non-Communist countries
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The baby boom generation
The generation after the men came home from the war
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Martin Luther Kings ” I have a dream” speech
Martin Luther King Jr. gave that “I have a dream” speech to end racism
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Desalinization
The process of eliminating stolons more ruthless policies
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Detente
Hey phase of relax tensions, and improve relations between two adversaries
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Salt 1 and Salt 2
The two treaty signed during detente
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Vital statistics, that Japan leads the world in
Japan leads the world in the light expectancy statistic
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The euro
It was the European money currency
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One president of Russia after Gorbachev
Boris Yeltsin was president of Russia after Gorbachev
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Countries the US invaded after 9/11
Do US invade Afghanistan after 9/11
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Regan’s life before politics
He was a sports announcer, and then became a film actor
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US president that passed healthcare reform in 2014
It was Obama and he called Obamacare
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When the Soviet union collapsed
Soviet union collapse in 1991
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My Gorbachev receive the Nobel peace prize
He won the award for putting an end to the Cold War
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What ended detente
The invasion of Afghanistan ended detente
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Perestroika
Fundamental restructuring of the Soviet economy; a policy introduced by Gorbachev
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Watergate scandal
A scandal in the 1970s that led President Nixon to resign
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Bill Clinton scandal while in office
He had a relationship with a white house and intern
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What happened at Tiananmen Square?
There was a pro democracy riot
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What does 2001 package to Columbia consisted of
$1.3 billion to try and prevent drug problems

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