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Prison/Work camps; Northern Siberia

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gulags

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Government control over every aspect of public & private life

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totalitarianism

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Political party based on ideas of Marx & Lenin

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Communist Party

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The workers

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Proletariat

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Groups who killed large numbers of Jews

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death squads

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Some of the more radical Marxists; revolutionaries

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Bolsheviks

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Prisoner

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Zek

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Large government owned farms; used to be privately owned

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collective farms

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A time of terror (when Stalin was leader); anyone who was opposed to Stalin was killed or emprisoned

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Great Purge

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From Ukraine; they did not want collectivization so they murdered officials and burned crops and protested

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Kulaks

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Government makes all the economic decisions

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Command Economy

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Major revolutionary leader of Bolsheviks; very organized; became first leader of communist party; died in 1924; though Stalin had too much power

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Lenin

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“Holy Man”; evil; ran the government when Czar Nicholas II was at war; he was murdered

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Rasputin

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A revolutionary leader of the Red Army during Russia’s civil war-1918-1920; Stalin made him leave Russia

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Leon Trotsky

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Hitler called “the leader” in German of the Nazis (National Socialists) during

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Der Fuhrer

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Battle between Germany & Russia; 1942; Germany controlled this city; Russia cut off supplies to city; Russia won

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Stallingrad

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The code name for German’s invasion of Russia during WWII; largest invasion in history of warfare

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Barbarossa

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WWI ruler of Germany; wanted power, proud, stubborn

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Kaiser Wilhelm II

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British Prime Minister before WWII; did not do much to stop Hitler; appeasement, “it will all be ok!”

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Neville Chamberlain

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German plan for a quick end to war; quick defeat of France then fight Russia

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Schliffen Plan

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WWI German announcement that they would sink ships around England without warning

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unrestricted submarine warfare

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After WWI, this was the name of Germany’s new democratic government; a weak and ineffective government; named after the name of the city that held the meeting

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Weimar Republic

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Nov 1923; Hitler’s attempt to overthrow Weimar government; failed attempt; Hitler arrested and jailed

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Beer Hall Putsch

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A ravine near Kiev (capital of Ukraine); site where masses of Jews were murdered

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Babi Yar

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Money paid by the loser of a war to make up for damages/injuries

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reparations

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Type of government that takes complete control over every aspect of public and private life

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totalitarianism

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Private military men, called “storm toopers” of the Nazi Party

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Brown Shirts (SA)

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Italy; military form of government; stressed nationalism, loyalty to the leader

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fascism

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Nazi secret police; brutal, terrifying

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Gestapo

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Hitler wrote book in jail; book title means “my struggle”; contained beliefs and goals for Germany about being mastery (Aryan) race

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Mein Kampf

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June 1934; arrest/execution of Ernst Rohm and SA (brownshirts) leaders who threatened Hitler’s leadership

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Night of the Long Knives

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3rd German Empire; est. by Hitler in 30’s; took over Austria, Czechoslovakia, and part of Poland

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Third Reich

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Special squad, bodyguards who protected Hitler; SS; murdered Hitler’s enemies

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Black Shirts (SS)

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horrifying weapon of WWI; caused convulsions in victims

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poison gas

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dominate weapon of WWI; rapid bullets shot by this weapon

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machine gun

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11 A.M; 11/11/1918; WWI; agreement to stop fighting; signed by Germany & France

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Armistice

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WWI; Allied attempt to take Dardanelles Strait in the Ottaman Empire; ended in stalemate; Allies finally gave up

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Gallipoli

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Eastern Front

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Russia

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Western Front

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France, Great Britain

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Financial help from U.S. to Germany after WWI

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Dawes Plan

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Capital city of China; walled city; Japan attached; WWII

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Nanking

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Code of honor; samuria warriors

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Bushido Warrior Code

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Spoke out against apartied; spent most of adult life in prison

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Nelson Mandela

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Separation of races

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Apartied

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Leader of peaceful independence movement in India

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Mahatma Gandhi

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Refusal to obey a bad or unjust law

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civil disobedience

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5 year agreement; number of missiles a country can have

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SALT

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International organization of many countries of the world

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United Nations

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Largest tank battle of WW II in a town located in present day Ukraine

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Kursk

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Willingness to “go to the edge” of war but not fight in it

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Brinkmanship

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January, 1944; WWII; fortified area by two areas was ready for battle

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Gustav Line

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