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Why was the Balkans referred to as the “powderkegs of Europe”

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Many ethic groups, Slavic people, Russia descendants, Austria-Hunary trying to control them

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How did people persuaded others to support world was 1 ?

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Propaganda

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What event marked the beginning of the Great Depression in America?

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Stock market crash

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What does “Raj” mean?

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British rule of India

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Who was Rasputin?

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Holy man in Russia

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What are the MAINE cause of world war 1

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Militarism alliance imperialism nationalism and ethic groups

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Describe a countries reason for imperialism

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They want to be stronger

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Why is imperialism needed? (What will colonies gain?)

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They get resources

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Pair the world leaders with countries

Joseph Stalin, FDR, Mussolini, Churchill

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Joseph- Russia
FDR- USA
Mussolini- Italy
Churchill- Great Britain

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Why did Germany establish Weimar Republic?

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Struggling to develop a stable government

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How does Imperialism effect the country? BIG ideas

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Religion, population, government, languages - not moving

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What is the purpose of inexpensive labor?

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To make cheap manufacture products

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What was the campaign of terror called?

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Great Purge- Lenin

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Meji Restoration- What did the governor want to do for Japan’s economy?

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Modernize the economy

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Who was the first Kumintang Communist National Party? (Before Mao Zedong) 882

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Sun Yixian

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Sequence: Nicholas II abdicated the throne and then what group came to power?

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Bolshevik

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What event was the main cause of the Petrograd uprising of the Russian Revolution? (Why were the Russians upset-caused a civil war and wanted out of WWI )

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Food shortages

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What did Stalin so to the farms during his 1st 5-year plan?

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Collectivization

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What government has extreme nationalism combined with militarism and dictator is called?

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Fascism

16
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How did trench warfare change the fighting of WWI?

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Fight a defensive war for a stalemate

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Which group of people revolted against the Russian revolution provisional government

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Bolsheviks

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What was the major consequences of the March Revolution? Who revolted against the March Revolution?

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Cause Nicholas II abdicate the throne (left the throne during WWI and communism came to power) women workers revolted

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Which country lost significant territory as a result of the 1919 Paris Peace Conference? (Meeting after WWI)

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Germany

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What does “Armenians deported by the Ottoman Empire) mean?

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Genocide of an ethnic group

20
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Crimean War, 1st Boer War, Russ-Japanese War = all fought war?

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Imperialism

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What was the focus of the Big four during the Paris Peace Conference? (Meeting after WWI)

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Prevent future wars

22
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How was the Ottoman Empire effected by the end of WWI? (Think Kemal)

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Lost territory of turkey

23
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Why did the Germans create the Schlieffen Plan?

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To fight on 2 fronts

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Why did the US fail the ratify the Treaty of Versailles?

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Wanted isolation- knew to stay out of European Affairs, didn’t like that Germany was blamed, not the League of Nations

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What was Bloody Sunday and in what year?

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Russian revolution before WWI

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How did the Bolshevik Revolution affect the course of WWI ?

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Made western front the focus of the war ( Russia pulled of the western front because it the civil war

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Germany and Austria Hungary prearranged agreement before the entrance into WWI was called ?

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Alliance

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What event causes the start of WWI

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Assassination of Arhduke Franz Ferdinand

34
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What are Britain and France concerned with Germany’s threatening

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National security

35
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What plan helped Germany repay with war reparation from WWI

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Dawes plan

36
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What is WWI a turning point for US Foreign Policy

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Isolationism - rejected world leadership

37
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What government did Lenin support

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Communism

38
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What drug did China and England fight over?

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Opium

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