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Abdicate

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Give up or step down from power

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Abolition

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Campaign gains slavery and slave trade

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Absolute monarchy

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Ruler has complete authority over gov and lives of people

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Absolutism

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Belief of complete unrestricted power in gov

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Acid rain

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Toxic chemicals in air come back down to earth in form of rain or hail

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Agribusiness

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Giant commercial farm owned by multinational corporation

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Alliances

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Agreement between nations to defend each other

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Anarchists

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Person who wants to abolish all government

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Ancien regime

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Old order system or gov in in prerevolutionary France

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Annex

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Add a territory to an existing state or country

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Anschluss

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Union of Austria and Germany

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Apartheid

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Policy of rigid racial segregation in South Africa

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Appeasement

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Giving in to an aggressors demands in order to keep the peace

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Armada

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Fleet of ships

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Armistice

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Agreement to end fighting in a war

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Assembly line

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Method of production where job is broken down into tax

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Atheism

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Belief that there is no God

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Auschwitz

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Three concentration camps in southern Poland during Third Reich

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Autocratic

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Having unlimited power

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Autonomy

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Self-rule

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Axis powers

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Group of countries led by Germany, Italy, and Japan that fought the Allies in World War 1

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Balance of Power

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Distribution of military and economic power that prevents one country from growing stronger than another

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Balfour declaration

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Statement issued by British gov saying that Jews should have homeland in Palestine mandate

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Bastille

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Fortress used in Paris as a prison; the French Revolution began when Parisians stormed it in 1789

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Bataan death march

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Forced march of Filipino and American prisoners of war by the Japanese military during ww2

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Blitzkrieg

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Lightning war

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Blocs

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Group of nations supporting one another

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Bourgeoisie

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The middle class

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Boxer uprising

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Anti foreign movement in China from 1898-1900

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Boycott

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Refusal to buy

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Capital

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Money and wealth used to invest in businesses

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Capitalism

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Means of production are privately owned and operated for profit

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Capital offenses

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Crime punishable by death

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Cartel

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A group of companies that join together to control the production and price of a product

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Cartographers

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Person who makes maps

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Censorship

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Restriction to access risks and ideas

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Checks and balances

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Branches of gov monitor and limit access of other branches

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Chinampas

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Artificial island used to cultivate crops

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Circumnavigate

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Travel completely around the world

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Civil disobedience

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Refusal to obey unjust laws

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Cold War

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Tension and hostility between nations aligned with US on one side and Soviet Union on other

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Collectivization

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Forced joining of workers and property into collectives

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Columbian exchange

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Global exchange of goods, ides, plants, and animals, disease

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Command economy

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Products, investment, prices, and incomes are determined centrally by gov

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Commercial revolution

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Period of economic growth, colonialism, and mercantilism

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Communism

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Classless society, property is all publically owned

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Congress of Vienna

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Series of meetings where European leaders sought to establish peace after Napoleon

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Conquistador

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Spanish explorer who took part in conquest of Americas

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Constitutional government

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Rulers power is limited by law

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Containment

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Harry Truman, US tried to stop spread of communism

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Continental system

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Napoleons policy of preventing trade between Britain and Europe

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Contraband

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Goods imported or exported illegally

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Corporations

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Company or group of people authorized to act as single entity

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Creoles

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Colonist born in Latin America to Spanish parents

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Cult of domesticity

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Idealization if women and the home

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Cultural nationalism

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Pride in one’s country

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D Day

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Allies began invasion of European mainland during WWI

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Deficit

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Shortage

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Deficit spending

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Gov spending borrowed money in excess of revenue

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Deforestation

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Chopping down trees

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Depopulation

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Substantial reduction in the popular of an area

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Developing world

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Another name for third world

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Disarmament

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To prohibit weapons

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Dissentor

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Person opposed to the church if England

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DMZ

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Demilitarized zone

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Dutch East India Company

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Establish direct trade throughout Asia

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Edict of Nantes

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Deceleration where Henry IV promised that Protestants could live in peace

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Electorate

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All the people in a country who are entitled to vote in an election

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Emancipation

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Fact or process of being set free from legal, social, or political restrictions

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Enclosure

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fenced in fields created by wealthy British men

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Encomiendas

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Grant of land made by Spain to Americas

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Enlightened despots

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18 th century monarchs inspired by enlightenment ideas to rule justly

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Enterprise

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Business or company

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Estates

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One of three social classes in France before French Revolution

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Estates general

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Assembly of representatives from all three of the estates in France

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Ethnic cleansing

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Violent brutality in order to get rid of a religious race

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European Union

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Achieves political and economic integration

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Expansionism

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Policy of territorial or economic expansion

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Extraterritoriality

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Exercise of laws outside of its territory

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Faction

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Group within a larger group

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Fascism

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Promotes extreme nationalism and dictatorship and denial of individual human rights

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Federal system

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power is divided between central authority and number of individual states

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14 points

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Proposals by Woodrow outlining lasting peace in ww1

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Free enterprise system

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Capitalism

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Free market

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Prices are determined by business competition

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Free trade

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Commerce between nations without economic restrictions or barriers

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French and Indian War

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Britain and France over North America

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Fundamentalists

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Person who believes in strict religion

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Genocide

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Killing of a nation or ethnic group

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Germ theory

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Diseases are caused by Germs

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Gestapo

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German Nazi state

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Glasnost

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Soviet policy if openness to ideas

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Great Depression

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Severe worldwide economic downfall after collapse of stock market in the 1930s

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Green revolution

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Increase in fertilizers, and pesticides to help growth of new and better crops

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Gross domestic product

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Total value of goods produced during one year

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Guerrillas

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Fighting force that makes surprise attacks on enemies

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Gulag

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Labor camps in Soviet Union

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Huguenots

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French Protestant

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Imperialism

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Nation tries to overtake another nation politically or economically or socially

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Import substitution

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Replacing foreign products with homemade ones

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Internment

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Confined as a prisoner

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Island hopping

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Allies going from island to island in Japan attacking randomly

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Kaiser

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German emperor

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Kamikaze

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Japanese suicide pilots trying to sink allied ships by crashing bomb planes into them

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Kellogg Briand Pact

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International agreement to not use war to solve conflict in 1928

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Labor unions

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Organized association of workers

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Laissez faire

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Gov should not regulate business and industries

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Legitimacy

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Conforming to the laws or rules

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Line of demarcation

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Between Spanish and Portuguese territory

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Luftwaffe

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Aerial warfare branch of combined Germany military forces

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Lusitania

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British ship sunk by German submarines

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Maginot line

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Line of defensive fortifications built before ww1 to protect eastern French borders

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Mandates

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Official order to do something

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Manhattan project

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Nuclear weapon research

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Manifest destiny

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Expansion of US is justified and inevitable

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Marshall plan

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American aid to Western Europe

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Mercenary

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Soldiers who fight for money

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Mestizos

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Person of mixed Spanish and Native American ancestry

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Middle passage

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Sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies

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Mobilize

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Prepare and organize troops for active service

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Monopoly

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Control of supply and trade in commodity and commerce

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Mujaheddin

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Holy warriors in afghan

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Mulattoes

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Mixed European and African ancestry

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Mutual aid society

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Provides mutual aid

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Napoleonic code

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Laws by Napoleon

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NATO

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Defensive military alliance formed by WE, US, CA

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Nazi Soviet pact

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Non aggression pact made by Germany and SU

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Nonaligned nations

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Neutral countries in Cold War

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Nuremberg laws

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Laws encouraging Nazism

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Nuremberg trials

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Nazi leaders tried for aggression

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Oligarchy

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Power is in the hands of a few people

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Opium war

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Btwn British and China

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Outpost

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Military position as a guard

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Pacifism

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Opposition to war

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Parliamentary democracy

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Prime minister

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Partition

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Dividing into two parts

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Peninsulares

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Colonists born in Spain

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Adam smith

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Scottish economist, believed in free market

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Ataturk

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First Pres of turkey

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Bartolemu de las cases

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Spanish historian spoke out against indigenous oppression

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Benito Mussolini

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Leader of national fascist party WW1

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Deng xiapong

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Chinese politician, most powerful figure

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Dwight Eisenhower

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General of allied forces led massive invasion of Nazis

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