Unit 2 test Flashcards

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foreign policy

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government strategy, actions, decisions to deal with other countries ex.trade, alliances etc

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domestic policy

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how a government handles things inside its own country
ex. healthcare, education, taxes etc

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short term affects of ww1

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  • human loss/injuries
    -led to collapse of empires like ottoman, russian, german
    Technology advanced, development of tanks, airplanes, chemical weapons.
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long term affect of ww1

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-caused great depression
-unresolved issues led to ww2 only 2 decades later
-territorial changes and reshaped europe and middle east

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5
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attrition

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-slowly wekans opponents through pressure through continues pressure or conflict. Usually used in Ww1

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nationalism

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nationalism among major powers like britain france and germany, it created tensions between the nations and led to a complex web of alliances which led to ww1

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imperialism definition

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policy of extending a countries power and influence through military force

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imperialism

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see as the key cause of world war 1 because as countries like britain and france expanded their empires it resulted in increasing tensions in europeans countries

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propaganda

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ww1 & ww2 had lots of use of propogands to shape publics opinion

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10
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trench warfare

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common type of fighting in ww1, soldiers dug holes on each side, area between is called no man’s land

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pan slavism

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before ww1 there was a push to unite slavic people in europe against the central powers, the assassination of archduke ferdinand escalated the conflict and many slavic nations joined serbia

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holocaust

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genocide carried out by nazi germany during ww2, resulting mass murder of 6m jews.

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night of the long knives

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hitler ordered a number of deaths during a purge to strengthen his authority and be feared by german military

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14
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night of the broken glass

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jewish businesses/homes were broken in by nazi forces and valuable things were stolen

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ultranationalism

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extreme form of nationalism,could be aggressive and intolerant
hitler was like this as believed the aryan race was superior than any other

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16
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treaty of versailles

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document that ended ww1 in 1919 mainly between the allied powers

17
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league of nations

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founded in 1930 to maintain world peace by the paris peace conference that ended ww1

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appeasement

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19
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facism

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political ideology, extreme ultranationalism, heavy militarization. Hitler and mussolini were key figures in ww2.

20
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genocide

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ethnic cleansing of a group of individuals because of ethnicity ex. the holocaust

21
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nazism

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hitlers ideology of extreme nationalism, and belief in aryan superiority leading to the holocaust in ww1

22
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alliance system before ww1

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triple entente and the triple alliance