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Semester 2 Study Guide Flashcards

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The disagreement over the holy trinity and the origins of the son

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Filioque

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-In constantinople-Taken over by Muslims and made in to mosque-Means “sacred wisdom”

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Hagia Sophia

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The argument over the control of appointment of church offices

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Investiture Controversy

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Names for the earthly head of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches

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Pope Patriarch

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Names for leader of the Monks and Nuns

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Abot Abess

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Book written by St. ______ about monasticism and clergy

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Rule of Benedict

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_____ lives in monasteries, ______ live in society

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Regular Secular

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Code of ethics for Japanese warriors

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Bushido

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Fast maturing rice, producing high yield

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Champa Rice

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Volcanic rock used as tools, knives, and mirrors by Native Americans

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Obsidian

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Device used to record info consisting of colored and knotted rope/string

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Khipus

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Main objective was to secure captives

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Mayan Military

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Preferred war leaders and nobles

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Native American Human Sacrifices

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Lived in four corners region

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Anasazi

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Maize, beans, squash

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“Three Sisters”

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Largest mound ever discoverd in North America

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Cahokia

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Government ruled by religious leaders

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Theocracy

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Established the Yuan Empire

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Khubilai Khan

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Chinese expeditions “unicorn”

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Giraffes

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Why Chinese expeditions stopped

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  • New emperor wanted to distinguish himself
  • Money diverted to deal with Mongols
  • Spending money on imperial city in Beijing
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____ type is slower and 2x bigger than ________ type

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Woodblock Movable

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Chinese first to invent the _______

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Compass

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What “kicked off” European exploration

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Bypassing the Middle East and the search for an alternative route to the indies

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First to circumnavigate the world

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Ferdinand Magellan

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First to reach India by sea

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Vasco de Gama

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First to round southern tip of Africa

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Bartholomeu Dias

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Sailed for Spain but was Italian, found cuba

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Christopher Columbus

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First british settlement in N.A. named after Queen Elizabeth I

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Virginia Colony - Elizabeth was the “Virgin Queen”

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-Written to impress Medici family in France-Guide to get political power & keep it-Stressed morality & politics don’t go hand in hand-Taught better to be feared than loved

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The Prince

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30
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“Venus” made by _______

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Botticelli

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31
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Who painted in the Sistine Chapel

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Michelangelo

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32
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Who created Lutherianism

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Martin Luther

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Advocated baptism, clergy marriage, monasticism’s end

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Ninety-Five Theses

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Discovered the heart was the central pumping station of the circulatory system

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William Harvey

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35
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3 laws of motion & gravity

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Isaac Newton

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36
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Discovered the world was heliocentric

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Nicolaus Copernicus

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Father of Modern philosophy

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Rene Descartes

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38
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The day the Declaration of independence was signed in America

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July 4th

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Celebrated in France because it was the day the revolutionaries stormed the political prison and armory (Bastille)

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July 14th

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1st to create a national anthem

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France

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More than 50% living in cities

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Urbanization

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1st country to reach urbanization status

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Great Britain

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  • U.S. got California
  • U.S. gets 1/2 of Mexico’s territory
  • Mexico admits defeat
  • Signed in February 2, 1848
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Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

44
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USS Maine exploded in the harbor of Cuba sparking the start of the _____

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Spanish-American War

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-Napoleon III coined the term for claim he had the same “____” roots

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“Latin America”

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Founded the Qing dynasty

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Manchus

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The end of civil service exams

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End of traditional Chinese history

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Triple Alliance

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Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy

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Triple Entente

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Great Britain, Russia, France

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Socialism

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Economic and political system in which the government owns and controls the county’s means of production (such as buinesses, farms, etc)

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Event that started WWI

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Austria Hungary declares war on Serbia because Black Hand Group killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand

52
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Order of war declarations

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A-H------------>  Serbia
Germany---->  Russia
Germany---->  France
Great Britain---->  Germany
A-H------------->  Russia
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Belgium

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Germany attack France through Belgium, subsequently violating their neutrality

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Entry of Italy into WWI

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  • May of 1915

- Triple Alliance was just a defensive treaty and was violated by Germany and A-H

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Airplanes (WWI)

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Used as scouts to spot enemy positions

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Zeppelins

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German blimps for war

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Trench Warfare

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  • Stalemate for 4 years
  • No man’s land in-between
  • This kind of warfare never fought before
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Entry of U.S. into WWI

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  • May 7 1915 Lusitania attacked and sunk with 100 american passengers
  • U.S. demands restricted submarine warfare
  • Germans get bored and go unrestricted again
  • U.S. enters on April 6 1917
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Gain for women after WWI

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Right to vote in U.S. (19th amendment)

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Grigory Rasputin

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  • Supposed to have some sort of “magic”
  • Helps Alexei with hemophilia
  • He makes suggestions to Alexandra, she makes them to the czar and the czar does them
  • People enraged and poison Rasputin, and shot three times
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Petrograd

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-Used to be St. Petersburg but “burg” is too German, and the Russians won’t tolerate it because they are at war with them

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Soviets/Bolsheviks Ideas

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  • Socialist

- Want to represent lower class

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Soviets/Bolsheviks Leader

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Vladimir Lenin

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Soviets/Bolsheviks Seizure of Power

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  • Helped by Germans
  • Lead by Leon Trotsky
  • Takes over provisional government
  • Give land to Germany to maintain peaceful evacuation from war
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Cheka

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  • Red secret police

- Made red terror (Get rid of any opposition to communism)

66
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Armistice that ended WWI

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Germany signs armistice (agreement to end fighting) on Nov. 11, 1918, at 11 A.M.

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Treaty of Versailles

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  • Germany made to pay reparations and reduce army and navy, and abolish their air-force.
  • Made Rhineland between France and Germany
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League of Nations

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Can govern another nation but does not own it

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Benito Mussolini

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  • Leader of Fascist Italy

- King made him prim minister, and he took power from their and proclaimed himself “Cheif”

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Vladimir Lenin

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Made soviet union in 1922

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USSR

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Union of Soviet Socialist Republic

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Capital of USSR

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Moscow

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Joseph Stalin

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1924 Lenin’s death leads to his rise to dictatorship

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NSDAP

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  • Hitler made it
  • Nations Socialische Deutsche Arbeipartei
  • National socialist German Workers Party
  • NAZI
75
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Adolf Hitler’s manifesto

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  • Mein Kamf

- Proclaimed nationalism, anti-semitism, anti-communism

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Master Race

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  • Aryan people which are descendant from ancient Romans and Greeks
  • Better than any other race
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“Living room”

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Lebansraum - every empire needs a space for its perfect people to live

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Hitler’s Ideas about empire’s

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  • Hitler wanted to make the 3rd Reich
  • 1st was the Roman Empire
  • 2nd was Germany pre WWI
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Rhineland during WWII

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  • De-militarized to buffer France
  • Germany sends troops in it
  • France is angry but has no support due to other countries appeasing Germany
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Rome Berlin Axis

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  • Italy & Germany Alliance

- Both Mussolini & Hitler want perfect Empires

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Anti-Comintern Act

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Between Germany and Japan vowing to work together against communism

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Nazi Soviet Nonaggression Pact

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  • Beats allies to Stalin
  • Promises to not attack each other
  • Promises Stalin control of Eastern Poland & Balkins
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Official start of WWII

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  • Attack on Poland in Sept. 1 1939

- GB & France declare war on Germany on Sept. 3

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Allies

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Soviet Union, U.S., and Great Britain

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Axis Powers

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Germany, Italy, and Japan

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Official end to WWII

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-V-J Day, September 2, 1945

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Holocaust

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-6 million Jews killed by murder, death camps, starvation, and medical experiments

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Anti-Semitism

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Discrimination against Jews

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Josef Mengele

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  • “Angel of Death”
  • Auschwitz
  • Experimentation on Jews (mainly twins)
  • Fled to Argentina/South America
90
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Leningrad

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Named for the death of Lenin, used to be Petrograd, then before that St. Petersburg

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Women on the home front

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  • Work in factories, mines, railroads, etc…

- Soviets only ones to allow in combat

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Tehran Conference

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  • Decide future course of war and final blow to Germany
  • Between U.S. Great Britain, Soviet Union
  • Spring 1944
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Yalta Conference

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  • Stalin is suspicious of western powers and wants a soviet buffer zone
  • Roosevelt wants self determination for those countries
  • U.N. created
  • Germans surrender, Germany divided into 4 zones
  • Free elections in E. Europe
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Potsdam Conference

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  • Agree to trials for Nazi’s crimes

- Nuremburg Germany

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Nuremburg Trials

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Trails against Nazi leaders

Pre-AP World History (3 decks)

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