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| Kamikazee Pilots and Japs Culture |
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| Kamikazees were Jap suicide pilots that would sink Allied ships by crashing in to them- represented love for Japan and how they would do anything for their country. |
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| 1941, the president had the right to distribute and receive arms and other supplies to an country vital to the US |
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| Germany’s Invasion of Poland |
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| sparked WWII, Hitler wanted to obtain the Polish Corridor taken from the German’s after World War I. |
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| US response to Japanese aggression in 1941 |
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| cut oil shipments to Japan |
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| . Final Solution/Holocaust |
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| death camps, concentration camps, genocide (the systematic killing of an entire people. |
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| turned the tide in the battle for the Pacific. Japs got owned by US |
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| trials held to decide the fates of Nazi officers after WWII. Hitler and 3 others escaped conviction by committing suicide before the trails. |
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| the Germans took out surrounding countries and surrounded the French with no land retreat possible |
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| Hitler’s final push forward, eventually defeated. Ended the war |
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| Battle of Stalingrad- Soviets v. Germans |
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| Russia’s major cities were all destroyed and Germans expected to win easily. As the war dragged on the Russians retreated and used scorched earth to wear down the Germans. The Germans gave up during the harsh winter months |
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| constitution took rights of emperor (no longer divine), real political power lied with the people. Bill of Rights protected basic rights |
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| Americans gave supplies to Brits. Germans found out and began sinking our ships |
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| Nazi-Soviet non aggression pact |
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| was intended to last 10 years. Hitler promised Stalin Polish Territory in a secret part of the pact. |
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| WWI French veteran who was put in charge of S France after Germany took of over France. |
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| Germany’s republic that failed miserably during the Great War. Was blamed for lack of success and Treaty of Versailles |
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| . Demilitarization of Japan |
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| Americans did not allow Japs to have their own army immediately after WWII |
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| Russians v Germans on East border. Germans v. Western Powers of West side. Was the system the Allies used to defeat Germans in WWII |
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| Franz Kafka, James Joyce, F Scott Fitz |
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| writers that described the economic concerns during the war |
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| Fascism rose in many countries including Italy, Germany, and Russia |
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| Hitler’s idea that the Nazi’s were the 3rd Great German dynasty |
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| Why did people start listening to Hitler |
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| After the Great Depression Hitler promised to impose a stable economic government |
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| used by the British and French to keep the German aggressors happy, because they wanted to avoid a major war. |
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| political movement that emphasized loyalty to the state and obedience to the leader. Extremely popular in Europe after World War 1 |
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| in the late 1920’s, American economic prosperity sustained the world’s economy. |
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| started by Hitler. Hatred of Jews was a main point. Largest political party in Germany by 1932. |
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| Great Purge, 5 years plan, soviets, collective farms |
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| Great Purge was Stalin’s campaign of Terror, the 5 yrs. Plan was the soviet outline for economic success, collective faming was the system of how the government held large amounts of land and sold them to farmers cheap. |
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| inflation. Germans tried to payoff expenses by simply printing more money. This made their paper money extremely worthless. Forced to set up the Dawes Plan to slow inflation. |
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| Japs invaded Manchuria in 1931. all out invasion with bombs and killings at high levels. By 1938, Japan held control of a large part of China |
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| living space promised by Hitler for the Germans |
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| similarities- both emphasized loyalty to the state and obedience to the leader, preached an extreme form of nationalism, both ruled by dictators, and both denied individual rights. |
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| France during World War 2 |
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| Agricultural revolution in Britain |
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| used crop rotation; enclosures were large lands that boosted crop yields. Paved way for industrial revolution |
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| Early improvements as a result of the IR |
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| transportation, balance of people moved to the cities, amount of jobs increased. |
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| Collective bargaining in the early 19th century |
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| unions engaged in collective bargaining, negations between workers and their employers. They bargained for better working conditions and higher wages. Often times resulted in riots and strikes |
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| theory proposed by Jeremy Bentham in the late 1700’s that gov. actions are useful only if they promote the greatest good for the greatest number of people. |
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| Trade union movements in Britain |
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| 1875, Brits trade unions won rights to strike and picket peacefully. 1 million people participated in these movements |
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| Factors of production for IR |
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| land, labor, and capital (wealth). |
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| main causes for urbanization in Britain |
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| growth of the factory system, where the manufacturing of goods was concentrated in a central location. |
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| How did the Brits keep IR secrets |
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| blockade against US to keep them outta int. affairs |
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| idea that Gov. shouldn’t interfere with or regulate industries and businesses. |
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| How did Britain’s economy affect industrialization |
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| poverty caused bad living and working conditions |
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| could work faster and more efficiently, slashed cost of transporting both raw materials and finished goods. |
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| population increases, living conditions suffered and there was less empty space. |
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| shorter life spans in cities |
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| workers worked in cramped dirty spaces, sickness was widespread, and the conditions were dangerous because they were cramped. |
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| Legislative reforms in the 1800’s |
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| was not a total democracy. Upper class ran Gov. |
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| tech. advances in industry |
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| factories allowed faster production of goods, steam engines and railroads made transportation and distribution of goods easier. |
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| . Canada/ Dominion status |
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| In 1867, Nova Scotia and new Brunswick joined the province of Canada. As a dominion, Canada was self-governed in domestic affairs but was still part of GB. |
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| Full voting rights to women |
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| During 1800’s, women in both GB and “US worked to gain rights to vote. |
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| Catholic Emancipation Act |
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| a process in GB and Ireland which involved reducing and removing many of the restrictions on Roman Catholics which had been introduced by the Act of Uniformity, the Test Acts and the Penal Laws. Daniel O’Connell important bro |
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| 1840’s, Ireland faced one of greatest famines in recent history. 1 million died as a result of the lack of potato production. |
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| reached climax when he was elected. States seceded once he promised to stop the spread of slavery. |
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| 1846-1848. Fought over Texas. After those damn corn eaters surrendered to America they gave us California and a huge area in the SW. |
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| brought the lower continental United States to its present boundaries. A gift from Mexico after we kicked their shit around. |
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| with Mexico’s permission, American settlers moved into the Mexican territory of Texas. Revolted in 1836, and won independence. Mexico saw this as an act of war. |
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| 1838, called for suffrage for all men and annual Parliamentary elections. Voting became private in Parliament. |
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| in 1894, Captain Alfred Dreyfus (1 of a few Jews in France army), was accused of selling military secrets to the Germans. TO which a court found him guilty of false charges. Eventually was relieved of his life imprisonment charge |
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| In the British expire, a nation such as Canada was allowed to govern its own domesticate affairs in a dominion. |
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| The Indians were forced to move from East to West. Most traveled 8,000 miles to Okla. About ¼ of the population died. The land they were given was inferior to what they previously owned. |
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| preferred more direct control of their colonies. Used paternalism on their colonies in Africa. |
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| New Zealand political reforms |
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| 1st nation with women rights to vote (whites only). |
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| Reform Act of 1832 (Britain) |
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| eased the property requirement so that well-to-do men in the middle class could vote. Made diverse districts for electing members of Parliament and gave thriving new industrial cities more representation |
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| idea that it was the right and duty of Americans to rule North American from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean |
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| Colonies v. proctectorates |
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| a colony was a country ruled by another nation. A protectorate was a country that had its own internal government but was under control of an outside force. |
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| policy of treating subjects as if they were children, providing for the but giving them no rights. |
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| Assimilation in Africa, which country? |
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| used by Frenchies. Policy based on that their colonies would adopt French culture. |
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| French chemist who discovered that he could kill bacteria in liquids. |
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| Colonization of Singapore |
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| Brits controlled Singapore as a naval harbor to compete with Dutch sea trades. |
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| Hawaii’s only Queen and last monarch who demanded more power but was instead stripped of her power. |
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| Siamese King that called for overall reformation by starting schools, imposing a new legal system, and reorganizing the government. |
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| US joined was to help Cuba gain its independence from Spain, war lasted about 4 months. |
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| Menelik II- Ethiopian emperor |
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| Was the only African leader to gain independence from a European nation. |
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| 1830’s, Dutch settlers (Boers) moved north to escape the Brits. |
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| the Russians had been fighting to gain a warm weather sea port on the Black Sea for years. |
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| National boundaries in Africa (19th century |
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| before European colonization people were distributed into hundreds of ethnic and linguistic cultures. |
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| Indian soldiers staffed by Great Britain. The Sepoy Mutiny was started when the Sepoys began fighting against the British soldiers as they not treated equally. |
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| officials created the Federation of Malaya from Singapore, Malaya, Suriname, and Saboh. Coalition of many ethnic groups maintained steady economic progress. |
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| human made waterway opened in 1869, connecting the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. |
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| modern thinking man. Believed that if practices were not changed, India would continue to be controlled by outsiders |
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| - meeting in 1884-85 at which representatives of Euro nations agreed upon rules for European colonization of Africa |
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| anger against French colonization set stage for war. |
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| US-Hawaii, businessmen, queen. Relationship |
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| Hawaii was a republic, Queen wanted power but was stripped of power and then business people took over power because their sugar could be sold for greater profits. |
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| belief that magic water could turn German bullets into water. They were then mowed down and 75,000 people died. None were Germans |
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| China didn’t want to be involved in international economic affairs. Brits then discovered that they were addicted to Opium so they exploited their excess of Opium to get dat money from the Chinese. |
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| US policy of opposition to Euro interference in Latin America. |
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| Latin American Countries/ money spent on exports |
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| depended heavily on foreign exports, never invested money in self-suffiency programs. |
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| from Spain. Francisco Madera believed that democracy would help strengthen Mexico. Francisco Villa was a robin hood like hero to Mexican independence. Emiliano Zapata raised a powerful revolutionary army, and Venstrano Carrena made a New Mexican Constitution. |
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| strongly influenced Mexican politics. La Reforma is what is called his presidential candacy. |
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| Opium War/Boxer Rebellion |
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| conflict btwn Brits and China, lasting from 1839 to 1842, over Britain’s Opium trade in China. |
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| US/Panama Canal, how’d we get right to build it?- |
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| bought it from France after they failed to have economic success to build it themselves for $10 million and yearly rights. |
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| played a leading role in Mexico’s fight for independence from Spain in 1821. !829, fought again against Euro power to get power (president in 1833). |
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| use of subs to sink ships without warning in enemy waters |
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| goods in countries during WWI were in short supply so many countries imposed rationing (preservation of goods) to maintain economic homeostasis |
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| Armistice, when/where signed (WWI |
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| between France and Germany during WWI in a railway car near France. |
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| a blood-and-iron chancellor who used war to unify Germany. |
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| forced Bismarck to resign. The Kaiser thought a great deal of himself and his reputation. Was the German chancellor during WWI |
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| Germany’s military plan imposed at the outbreak of WWI, Germans planned on swiftly defeated the French and then move east to attack Russia |
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| the Balkans, region in SE Europe full of international tension |
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| during WWI the nations of Germany, Austria-Hungary and any other country that supported them. |
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| series of proposals in which Woodrow Wilson outlined a plan for achieving a lasting peace after WWI |
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| Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia, France, GB |
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| Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy |
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| Why did Italy refuse to support Germany |
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| t hey accused th¬¬¬¬em of unjustly starting war |
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| battle between Russians and Germans in which Germany destroyed the Russians. |
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| Allies attack against Ottoman Empire, both sides dug trenches but eventually the allies had to pull back the attack after suffering 250,000 casualties |
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| . Response to Wilson’s peace proposal |
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| not accepted by British and French |
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| Formation of new nations out of central powers |
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| Austria, Hungary, Czech, and Yugoslavia came from Austria-Hungary. The Ottoman’s only kept Turkey and the rest of their land was divided among the allies instead of being independent nations |
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| Stalin’s plans for economic success relied heavily on this system (Government made all economic decisions). |
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| first used in trench warfare during WWI |
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| reforms made by Alexander III and Nicholas II |
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| Alex III used harsh tactics to wipeout revolutionaries and forbade minority languages and customs. He also set up pogroms. Nick II continued to impose Russian autocracy. |
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| control of China- shifted from Germany to Japan |
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| 3,000 army students gathered in the center of Beijing to promote a strong and modern China. |
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| WWI/affect on govt in Russia |
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| The Bolshevik Revolution was led by Lenin after WWI, and then civil war raged in Russia. Eventually the Bolsheviks maintained control because the White army failed to come together as a whole because they came from different political backgrounds (white army was made up of numerous political parties that feuded on many subjects on how to rule the country). Bolsheviks then named their party the “Communist Party” |
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| Five Years Plan- Stalin’s plan for the Soviet economy |
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| Set impossibly high quotas to increase output of steel, coal, oil, and electricity. People faced shortages of food, clothing, etc. |
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| group of revolutionary Marxists who took control of Russia under Lenin. |
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| Who seized power? - Brits and Russians seized power and set up spheres on influences in the country |
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| organized violence against Jews that broke out in many parts of Russia |
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| led by Gandhi to protest British economic control of India, preached nonviolence revolution |
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