Section 2 Vocab Flashcards

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Central Powers

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Germany and its allies in World War I

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Neville Chamberlain

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A British prime minister who tried to avoid war between Britain and Germany by negotiating

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Chiang Kai-shek

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president of China until he was overthrown in 1949 by Chinese communist forces

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Winston Churchill

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he became prime minister shortly after World War II began and served through the end of the war. He symbolized the fierce determination of the British to resist the conquest by the Germans under Adolf Hitler

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Commonwealth

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It was in the form of a republic under the leadership of the Parliament

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The Communist Manifesto

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A book published in 1848 which proclaimed the principles of communism. It ends “Workers of the world, unite.”

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concentration camp

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a place for assembling and confining political prisoners and enemies of a nation(particularly associated with the Nazis in Germany)

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Captain James Cook

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An English explorer who established the first European colony in Australia

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Cossacks

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A people in southern Russia who became aggressive warriors during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

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Counter Reformation

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The reaction of the Roman Catholic Church to the Reformation

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What were the chief aims of the Counter Reformation

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  1. to increase faith among church members 2. to end many of the abuses 3. to affirm some of the principles rejected by the Protestant Churches
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Crimean War

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a war fought in the middle of the nineteenth century where Russia was defeated and the independence of Turkey was guaranteed

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Oliver Cromwell

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the led the army of Parliament to victory over King Charles I in the English Civil War; emerged as ruler of the nation under the title Lord Protector of the Commonwealth

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Cuban missile crisis

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a confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962 over the presence of missile sites in Cuba

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Cultural Revolution, Great Proletarian

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led by Mao Zedong to restore the vitality of communism in China

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16
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czar

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the title of rulers or emperors of Russia

17
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Dachau

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a concentration camp established by the Nazis in southern Germany

18
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D-Day

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the code name for the first day of a military attack on German-occupied France during World War II on June 6,1944

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Charles De Gaulle

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headed the Free French Resistance to the Nazis in World War II

20
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de-Stalinization

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an effort to soften some of the repressive measures used by Joseph Stalin’s government

21
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Catherine the Great

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an empress of Russia in the late eighteenth century who extended Russian territory toward the Black Sea