world history unit 7 study guide – Flashcards
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Benito Mussolini
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during the war he rejected socialism. he organized veterns into the kascist party. supported the cathloic church
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Kellogg briand pact
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it was a pact to help prevent war and almost every country signed it.
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disarmament
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the reduction of armed forces and weapons.
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Treaty of Versailles
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blamed germany for causing the war germany had to pay damages to weaken germany
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Schlieffen plan
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russia moblized more quickley than expected in turned into a deadlock in which neither side was able to defeat each other
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U Boat
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german submarines that did tremendous damage sinking merchant ships
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Battle of tannenberg
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Russia suffered a disastrous defeat.
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Militarism
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Glorfication of the military.
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Soviet
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Council of workers and soliders
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Axis powers
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Germany, Italy and Japan. the three nations agreed to fight soviet communism.
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appeasment
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Giving into the demands of an aggressor in order to keep peace.
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Neutrality acts
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One law for bade the sale of arms to any nation at war
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Nazi soviet Pact
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to bond hitler ant stalin together the two secretly aggreed not to fight aginest each other.
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Anschluss
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union of austria and germany
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NATO
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An alliance of countries from North America and Europe committed to fulfilling the goals of the North Atlantic Treaty signed on 4 April 1949.
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Blitzkrieg
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improved tanks and air power techongly
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Luftwaffe
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german air force
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Holocaust
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Nazis had massacred 6 million jewish people in which became know as the Holocaust
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Lend lease act
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allowd the goverment to lend war materials to any country who defends the president
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Hideki Tojo
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Used military strength. controled the pacfic ocean supported hitler/ nazi party extreame nationalism
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Hitler
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entered polticts in 1920 became leader of nazi's took over slovkia invaded russia decleard war on us
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Joseph stalin
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Helped lennin with the comunist goverment. He sighned a peace pact with hitler.
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Bolshevik's
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Representatives of farmers and soldiers
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Alliances
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an agreement between two or more countires for example axis powers.
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Cheka
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the first of a succession of Soviet state security organizations
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policy
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goverment status
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nagasaki
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the capital and the largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in Japan.
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final soultion
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it was a plane by hitler to kill and exterminate all jews in the world
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inflation
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a rise in the general level of prices of goods and services in an economy over a period of time.
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USSR
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soviet union
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Pearl Harbor
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japan bombed pearl harbor in 1941 which brought the united states into the war against japan and into an alliance with the chinese.
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Propaganda
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the spreading of ideas to promote a cause or damage to an opposing cause.
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phony war
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quite time during the war was referred to as the phony war.
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Lusitania
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british liner that got sunk by a german U boat
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Leauge of nations
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an intergovernmental organization founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War.
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Kamikaze
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pilots who undertook suicide missions
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kulaks
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wealthy farmers
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kristallnacht
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series of coordinated attacks against Jews throughout Nazi Germany
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allied powers
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armistice
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agreement to end fighting
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central powers
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composed of the German Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Kingdom of Bulgaria.
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pacifism
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opposition to all war
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fascism
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to describe a goverment that is not communist
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D Day
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the invasion of france
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command econmy
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Goverment officals made all basic econmic deisions.
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communism
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revolutionary socialist movement to create a classless, moneyless, and stateless social order ...
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Gestapo
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rooted out opposition
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genocide
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an attempt to destroy a racial political or cultural group
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great purge
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increased stalins powers
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gulag
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a system of brutal labor camps where many people died
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Marshall plan
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the united states funneled food and economic assistance to europe to help countries rebuild
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manhattan project
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racing to harness the atom
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mandate system
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countries had high hopes for the paris peace conferance.
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imperalism
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the domainace by one country of poltical economic or cultural life
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great purge
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stalin feared his rivaly was plotting aginest him
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gulag
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a system of brutal labor camps where many died
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hiroshima
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city in japan where the us dropped and atomic bomb on
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five year plan
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once in power stalin imposed goverment control over the soviet union
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fourteen points
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a list of terms for resloving this and future wars.
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great depression
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an econmic crisis began in the us and spread to the rest of the world leaving almost no corner untouched.
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tzar nicholas II
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His reign saw Imperial Russia go from being one of the foremost great powers of the world to economic and military collapse.
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gavrilo princip
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killed archduke francis in two shots
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roosevelt
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promised to bring the united states out of the great depression
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neville chamberlain
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told people he had achieved peace for our time
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new economic policy
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Allowing some private ventures, the NEP allowed small animal businesses or smoke shops, for instance, to reopen for private profit while the state continued to control banks, foreign trade, and large industries.[
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nuremberg laws
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deprived jews of german citizenship and placed several restrictions on them
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nuremberg trials
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when hitler staged mass nearly 200 germans and austrians were tried and most found guilty
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paris peace conferance
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the victorius allies met at the paris peace conferance to discuss the fate of europe and various colonies around the world
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allied powers
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the allied powers marked the turning point of the war the allies won victories on four fronts the pacific north aferica and italy.
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third reich
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hitler boosted germany would take over europe which never happened ponage go europe
