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magyarization

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austria hungary
dominance in hungary

magyar language and culture

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duma

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parliament
russia
constitutional monarchy

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dual alliance

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prussia and austria

bismarck

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reinsurance treaty

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prussia y russia

placate russia

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kaiser william II

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prussia
bye bye bismarck
didnt renew reassurance treaty

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entente cordiale

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gb and france

wwi

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Entente powers

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Britain France Russia

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Franz Ferdinand

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archduke of austia
assassinated by bosnian serb
basically catalyst for wwi

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black hand

A 
wwi
assassinated franz
gavrilo pricip
serbian terrorists with connections to gov
austria → ultimatum → war !!!
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wwi start

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1914

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wwi alliances

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russia,serbs,france,gb

germany,austria,turkey

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why did wwi last so long??

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new technology !!
mostly defensive
trenches !!
machine guns, barbed wire, planes !!
poison gas c;
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first battle of marne

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french victory against germans

in france

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central powers

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germany,austria-hungary,turkey

wwi

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entente powers

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wwi

russia,serbia,france,gb,usa

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zimmermann telegram

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germany to mexico
join us mexico !! we have chalupas!! and also us territory but whatevs

intercepted by gb and decoded
angry US ! grrrr

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lusitania

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german submarines sank ship in british waters
many americans on board
US ENTERS WARRRRR

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Fourteen Points

A 
woodrow willson
wwi
idealistic document
free trade, end to secret deals
reduce tention
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wwi end

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1918

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treaty of versailles

A 
wwi
meanie germany → not really uvu
league of nations
punish !! punish !! punish !!
pay da cash monayy
alsace-lorraine → france
french troop in west bank of rhine and right bank
demilatarized → 100,000 soldiers, no weapons, no airforce
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march revolutions

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russia
petrograd collapsed → mo food omjeethus
troops called → sided with strikers
tzar abdicated
provisional gov → duma
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bolsheviks

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followers of lenin
workers would rise to power
commies
extremists
turned into 'communits'
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mensheviks

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marx
followed steps of marx
commies

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trotsky

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military

bolsheviks

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lucarno agreement

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germany and france

accept borders

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white forces

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russia
anti-commie
monarchists
rebublicans
us and gb support
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red terror

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lenin and trotsky

against opponents

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New Economic policy [nep]

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russia
basically complete gov control over economy and industry , but allowed some private industry
lenin

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war communism

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total gov control over economy

a trotsky le gusta

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left opposition

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spread communism to industrialized west

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right opposition

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continue nep

build comm within ussr

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stalin

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took power by forcing confessions out of opponents
hated ‘old bolsheviks’
executed millions
assassinated trotsky
left opposition
five year plan
collective farming → kill anyone who refused

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kulaks

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wealthy peasants

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Great depression?

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wwi devastated economy
gb → econ stagnation
erryone dependent on us bank lones
stock market crash destroyed everyone

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vienna bank collapse

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biggest bank
citizens lost trust → withdrew savings → no $ for other depositors → no loans → store $ → ↓industrial goods → ↓available jobs → no $ to spend → bye bye economy

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fascism

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destroy indivitual → common good
state not people
extreme nationalism
hate women,hate modern art, hate jews

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corporatism

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association of workers/owners that would solve problems themselves

mussolini

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why fascist italy??

A

worker revolts → Bolsheviks??

owners threatened → turn against democracy

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black shirts

A

mussolini
fascists
rightist organization
support of factory/landowners → $

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lateran pact

A

mussolini
with cath church
papacy officially recognized italy as country

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Wiemar republic

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hindenburg
germany
inflation
weak

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beer hall putsch

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hitler
arrested
attention for him
mein kampf → outlined his views

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burning of reichstag

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nazis blamed commies
hitler → emergency powers
revoke human rights
total control

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enabling act

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official complete authority
cause why not?
writing it on paper is rad

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Night of long knives

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murdered his own allies
sa→ nazi political army
gained german army loyalty

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spanish civil war [yes this is a thing]

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parliamentary democracy
failed to divide land to peasants
francisco franco
nationalists → german italian support
unstable gov
guernica bombed by italty germany → civilians
Pablo picasso !!!!
france and gb refused to help republicans
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schlieffen plan

A

wwi

knock out france [russian ally] first

48
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road to wwii

A

treaty of versailles
took austria
took Czechoslovakia
took poland

49
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appeasment

A 
wwii
gb to germany
recognized ethiopia as italy
neutral when g annexed austria
gave czechs to germany
german ignored and still killed everyone
chamberlain
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munich agreement

A 
wwii
gb,germany,italy,france
decide czech future
didnt invite czechs
gave part to hitler
hitler would leave rest alone
he didnt of course
51
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nonagression pact

A

hitler and stalin buddies
gb and france meanies
hitler ignored of course
soviets regained poland finland balkans

52
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wwii start

A

1939

g attack on poland

53
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wwii finish

A

1945

54
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phony war

A

british and french on defensive
nothing really happened for a year
ended when g attacked norway and denmark

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maquis

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french resistance wwii

fought against germans and vichy [petain]

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winston churchill

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gb pm
wwii
continue the war to the end

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battle of britain

A 
wwii
german planes
radarrrrr !! icu
gb cracked german code
stopped attacking mitlitary → attacked cities
gb army recover
hitler retreated
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luftwaffe

A

german air force

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royal air force

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raf

gb planes

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nuremburg laws

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jews lost citizenship

wear yellow star

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kristallnacht

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night of broken glass

jewish stores and homes destroyed

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operation barbarossa

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german attack on ussr

soviets completely unprepared

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axis powers

A

germany japan italy(?)

wwii

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allies

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wwii

gb us ussr

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d-day invasion

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1944

Normandy

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nuremburg trial

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crimes against humanity
no one to persecute
all killed themselves

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zero hour

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darkest point in german history
after wwii
no economy

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