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WWI, WWII Flashcards

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What led to the Serbia & Austria-Hungarian war?

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Austria- Hungary gave Serbia an ultimatum to end all the anti-Austrian organizations, but Serbia did not agree

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Who did Austria-Hungary seek assistance to during the Serbia & Austria-Hungarian war. Who was Serbia aided by. Who did Germany declare war on. Who did Britain declare war on. Who did Austria declare war on.

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Seeked assistance from Germany. Serbia was aided by Russia. Germany declared war on Russia & France. Britain declared war on Germany. Austria declared war on Russia.

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Triple Entente

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Britain, France, Russia

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The Great War led to the downfall of which four monarchies

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Russia, Austria-Hungary, Germany, Ottoman Empire

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Map result of Great War

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Created a new map with major changes around Eurasia

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Paris Peace Conference

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  • United States, France, Great Britain, and Italy.
  • Italy was not happy about the aftermath of the Great War & did not get the territories promised to them
  • Different POVs on how to reach peace
  • Woodrow Wilson pushed for principles in the Fourteen Points (desired to create a League of Nations where countries can talk about current events together)
  • nations agreed to join (U.S. senate voted against joining & were against the Treaty of Versailles, a peace treaty with Germany)
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What did the Treaty of Versailles do?

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Made Germany pay for all the damage done during the war, give up its colonies, and restrict the size of its armed forces.

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What caused the creation of the Nazi Party?

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Deep hatred for the German Republic after the Treaty of Versailles

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What did the British refuse to allow the Egyptians to do?

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Refused to allow them to proclaim Egyptian independence

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What did the refusal for Egyptian Independence result in

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National liberation movement (resistance to colonial domination)

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National liberation movement

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Resistance to colonial domination

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Why did Russia ally with France and Britain?

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Due to the fear of Germany’s growing economic and military power

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Why did Britain ally with the triple entente?

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Due to Germany‘a desire to build a back to threaten Britain’s control over the oceans

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Central powers

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Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy

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How did imperialist rivalries contribute to the coming of war

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Caused a further division between two alliances

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What destroyed Russia’s tsarist regime

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German forces destroying the Russian army which produces Russia weak and the tsar of Russia (Nicholas II) poor handling of the army

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Benito Mussolini

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Italian fascist dictator

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Armenian genocide

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After the Ottoman Empire entered the war on Germany’s side, Turk leaders launched an assault against Armenians

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What pandemic occurred after the Great War? What resulted after.

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Influenza pandemic that led to the Great Depression

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Georges Clemenceau

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(French) encouraged a peace conference to force Germans to pay reparations to France and other nations. Desire to reduce the size of Germany and share its resources

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David Lloyd George

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(British) feared that with a reduced Germany, the spread of a communist revolution would be born. Attempted to compromise with Clemenceau and Woodrow Wilson to with reparations from Germany

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League of Nations

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Mission to maintain world peace (forum to discuss and resolve international disputes)

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National congress party

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Led Indians to ineptness and governed through the early decades of the post colonial era

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Morley-Minto Reforms

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Provided educated Indians with opportunities to vote for and serve on local and Indian legislative councils

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Montagu-Chelmsford reforms

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British promises to India (India to self govern)

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Rowlatt act

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Placed restrictions on Indian civil rights (resulted in protests)

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Mohandas Gandhi

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Leader of India that turned protests into Indian campaigns against the politicies of the British

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Appeasement

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Negotiation to prevent war

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D Day

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Allied invasion of Europe

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Eisenhower

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US general that commanded operations in Europe and led to the D Day invasion

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MacArthur

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U.S. general that led forces into the Pacific theater

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Nuremberg trials

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Ruled who should be punished for violations of human rights

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Dinshawai incident

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Confrontation between the British and the Egyptians which illustrated British racial arrogance

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Balfour declaration

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British secretary, lord Balfour promised Zionist leaders the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine

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Wafd Party

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Created by Sa’d Zaghlul to provide nationalists with a primary focus of unified action for a hearing

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Négritude literary movement

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Combatted much racial stereotyping that held the Africans in psychological bondage to the Europeans

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Ethiopia

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Italians used bombs and poisonous gas on civilians

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Axis powers

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Germany, Italy, Japan

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Tripartite pact

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Joined axis states and signed one year after WWII to deter the United States from entering the war

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Battle of Britain

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Battles between Britain and Nazi air attacks. Britain won and Nazis had to abandon British conquest plan

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Wannsee conference

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Conference to determine the punishment to Jews

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Battle of the bulge

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Allies invaded Germany from the west Soviet armies from The east

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Battle of the coral sea

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United States against Japan

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United Nations (UN)

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Mission to provide a forum for negotiating international disputes, human rights, labor organizations, family relief, agricultural development, womens concerns, etc.

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Tehran conference

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Allie’s agreed on the invasion of France

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Yalta conference

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U.S president Franklin Roosevelt pressed the Soviet Union for assistance in fighting Japan

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Potsdam

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Agreement that the Soviet Union could take over eastern Poland and give the poles eastern Germany

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Atlantic charter of 1941

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Pact sealing the alliance between the United States and Great Britain

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Muslim league

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Led by Muhammad Ali Jinnah rallied to British cause and won favor from the British for its wartime support. They demanded a separate Muslim state

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Convention People’s Party (CCP)

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Won concessions from the British

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Kenya African Union

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Underground organization that formed the land and freedom army and campaigned against the British (rebel movement was defeated)

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National liberation front

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Mobilized parts of the Arab & Berber population to rebel against French rule and settler dominance

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Secret army organization

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Settler violence for the Algerian struggle where violence was directed against Arabs, Berbers, and French who favored independence for the colony

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Armistice day

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Allied advances against central powers forced Germany to surrender

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