page one Flashcards

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great war

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ww1

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2
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Germany’s policy of unrestricted submarine warfare

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subs would sink without any warning, any ship found in the enemies waters

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total war

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A word used to describe how all people and resources were expected to be used for the war effort

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4
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rationing

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Goods were on short supply so people could buy only small amounts of those items

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5
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propaganda

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new and information put out by the government to influence thoughts and actions

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6
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Zimmerman note

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A message from Germany asking Mexico to join the war and attack the US

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7
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central powers

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Germany and Austria- Hungary, Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria

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8
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what brought ww1 to an end

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treaty of Versailles

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9
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fourteen points

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The plan for peace created by US president Woodrow Wilson

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10
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treaty of versailles

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The main treaty that ended WW1 and was used to punish Germany

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Joseph Stalin’s command economy

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all economic decisions were made by workers and government officials

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12
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kulaks

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strong resistance to religious persicution

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goals of the five year plans

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rapid industrial growth, stronger national offence, mondernization of the soviet economoy

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great purge

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campaign to eleminate traditional religious belifes

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15
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totalitarianism

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government that takes control, centralized, state control over every aspect of public and private life

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16
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jiang jienshi

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Nationalist leader who fought in the Civil War against communist forces

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17
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pogroms

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Usually describe violence by Russians authorities against the Jewish people.

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18
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bolsheviks

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A group of revolutionary Russian Marxists who took control of Russia’s gov’t

19
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totalitarian state

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A government in which a one party dictatorship regulate every aspect of citizens lives

20
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mohandis k. ghandi

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21
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Charles lindbergh

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the first person to fly across the Atlantic

22
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f. Scott Fitzgerald

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He was a novelist and short story writer, the author of “The Great Gatsby

23
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things that contributed to the weaknesses of the weimar republic

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uncontrolable severeve inflation, lack of democratic tradition, and large number of political parties

24
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new deal

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a series of programs and policies of Relief, Recovery and Reform to combat the effects of the Great Depression.

25
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during the Great Depression, war depts caused great suffering in what

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germany

26
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mein kamp

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hitlers book that translates to my struggle

27
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lebenstraum

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Lebensraum translates to “living space.” It becomes a Nazi policy of conquest and expansion before the beginning of WW2.

28
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nazism was the German form of what

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fascism

29
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who did the Soviet Union sign a nonaggression pact with in 1939

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nazi germany

30
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Francisco franco

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Franco led the Fascists, fighting republican forces

31
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German blitzkrieg

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German term meaning “lightning war”

32
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bataan death march

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A march in which soldiers marched 55 miles to get to prison camps

33
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Douglass macarther

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34
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Dwight d. eisenhower

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a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe

35
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d-day

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a military term that referred to the start of the Battle of Normandy in France

36
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what was the main target of kamikazes

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ships

37
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what did stalin want Churchill and Roosevelt to do in order to relieve German pressure on soviet armies

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invade france

38
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Bernard montgomery

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French general that lead troops to victory in the battle of el alamein

39
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explain why thousands of Japanese Americans were entered in relocation camps

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in order to become “Americanized” under conditions that were not ideal

40
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Nuremberg trails

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nazi were tried at these trials

41
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NATO

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an alliance of countries from Europe and North America

42
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containment

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the United States tried to stop the spread of communism by creating alliances and helping weak countries to resist Soviet advances

43
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Ho Chi Minh

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a communist leader who founded both the Indochinese Communist Party

44
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bay of pigs

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