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Allied Troops in 1915

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UK, Russia, and France

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Allied Troops in 1917

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UK, Russia, France, and USA

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Central Power (Axis) Troops

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Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkish Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria

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What did Czech representatives want prior to WWI in regards to the Austrian-Hungarian Empire?

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Autonomy, not independence

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Czech’s vision of Austroslavism

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The reconsctruction of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire to a Democratic Federation of equal nations

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6
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Why did Czechs not like the war?

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  • Opposed allegiance with Germans
  • Threat of Germanization
  • Opposed war against French (loved French culture) and Russian (Slavic brothers)
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7
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Tomas Garrigue Masaryk

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Leader of Czech foreign resistance and push for Czech independence

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8
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Russia in 1917 and 1918

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Created a Communist government and signed a peace treaty with the Central Powers

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9
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The death of Franz Josef I occurred when?

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1916

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10
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Who became emperor of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire in 1917?

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Charles I

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11
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The Czechoslovak Legions

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Czech and Slovak militants as well as A-H empire deserters who

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12
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What happened to the empires and monarchies during WWI

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They were destroyed and independent states formed

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What developed from the extinction of the Russian Empire?

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Finland and Baltic states

- Formation of Soviet Union by Lenin

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What developed from the extinction of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire?

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Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary, Poland, Yugoslavia

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The Paris Peace Conference of 1919

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Negotiations of states who were victorious

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Treaty of Versailles of 1919

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Germany becoming the Weimar Republic with democratic constitution (until Hitler’s takeover in 1933)

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17
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Treaty of Trianon with Hungary of 1920

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Hungary was forced to surrender their Slovak territory to Czechoslovakia

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Czechoslovakia’s government system

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Parliamentary Democracy (inspired by US and French constitutions)

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19
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Czech lands were which part of AH Empire (after WWI)?

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Austrian part

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20
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Slovakian lands were which part of AH Empire (after WWI)?

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Hungarian part

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Biggest difference between Slovak and Czech after Czechoslovakia was formed following WWI

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Slovaks were poor, uneducated, and were used to an agricultural society

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German Minority

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sd

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23
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Neville Chamberlain, the main representative of the appeasement policy, was the prime minister of:

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Great Britain

24
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Nazi Germany implemented the ANSCHLUSS in March 1938, which was the annexation of?

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Austria

25
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Write the names of 4 successor states which were created in the AH territory after WWI (1918)

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1) Czechoslovakia
2) Austria
3) Hungary
4) Yugoslavia

26
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A unique Czech style of artitecture, popular in the WWI period:

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Cubism

27
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Karel Capek, who introduced the word ‘robot’, was a:

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Playwright Dramatist

28
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The Munich agreement, signed in 1938, was was:

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THe permission of Great Britain and France for Hitler’s annexation of part of Czechoslovakia

29
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German immigrants settled in the 13th century into the mountains between Austria and Germany into which region?

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Sudetenland

30
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German Irredentism

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Denial of the right to self-determination

31
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Rise of the Fascist the movement occurred when and was led by who?

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1922 Mussolini

32
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What’s the concentration camp called in the Czech Republic?

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Terezin

33
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Czechoslovakian soldiers escaped German occupation and did what:

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Joined the USSR, France, and Great Britain

- many helped as pilots in the Battle of Britain

34
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Which are the 2 centers for German resistance abroad?

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  • London, led by Eduard Benes (Czechoslovak democrat)

- Moscow

35
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Nazis did what to Czech universities?

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Closed all of them on November 17th, 1939, later declared as ‘International Student’s Day’

36
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What’s the most famous act of Czechoslovak resistance?

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Assassination of Heydrich

37
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Village annihilated by Nazis as revenge for Heydrich’s murder:

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Lidice

38
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The US Army occupied which Czechoslovak city before liberating West Bohemia?

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Pilsen (city of beer)

39
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Post-war political system:

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Limited Democracy/People’s democracy led by Eduard Benes

40
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Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

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Allied forces authorized the expulsion of over 10 million German citizens

41
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in 1946 who won the Political elections in Czech Republic?

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Communist Party (CPC)

42
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After the communists took power of Czechoslovakia in 1946, it became a part of:

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The Eastern Soviet Block, eventually becoming 1 of the Satellite States

43
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Which are the Satellite (Communist) States

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East Germany
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Romania
Bulgaria
USSR
44
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What does the term, ‘Iron Curtain’ mena?

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Winston Churchill’s fear of Communism spreading from the East to West

45
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Rejection of the Marshall Plan

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Initiative for America to aid Europe post-WWII which was rejected by all satellite states

46
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The Cold War lasted from?

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1947 to the dissolution of the USSR in 1991

47
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Idelogical struggles in the Cold War (components of Cold War):

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  • Arms Race (nuclear escalation)

- Espionage (KGB x CIA)

48
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What happened in the 1948 Coup d’etat?

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Communist leader Gottwald forced weak President Benes to hand over the government to the Communist regime

49
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When was NATO created

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1949

50
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Dictatorship of Proletariat meant:

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The birth of real socialism, quick Sovietization (adoption of USSR political system) and CZ declaring itself a People’s Republic

51
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Communist Political Trials:

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Communists would torture opposers and force them to admit guilt on publicized media

52
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What was State Security Secret Policy?

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Communists trying to repress the people

53
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What is the name of the Communist concentration camp near Prague?

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Vojna, where prisoners mined Uranium

54
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When did Stalin die?

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1953 (end of the development of Eastern Bloc)

55
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Who was the new leader of the USSR after Stalin died?

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Nikita Khrushchev

  • Very liberal chill guy
  • Eliminated concentration camps
56
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The Warsaw Pact (1955-1991)

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Military organization created in the Eastern Bloc to counter NATO

57
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Neo-Stalinism

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Going back to Stalin-ism style Communism after removal of Khruschev (end of relative Liberalism)

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