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| Soviet Union wants to catch up to Germany, England, and the U.S. industrially |
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| collection of farmland for state ran farms |
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Stalin wants to purge the country of people that are against him. "enemy of the people"
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| Downward spiral=instability in industry, banks, and farming leads to decline in demand, which leads to decline in supply and increase in unemployment. |
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People begin to sell stock.
"Run on the Bank" of the 25,000 banks, 11,000 go bank rupt. |
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| president of US (1929-1933) |
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| man made environmental disaster in the mid-west |
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| Roosevelt came up with many different programs to create a sense of security, and stimulate the economy such as: National Recovery Administration, Securities and Exchange Commission, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation . |
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A set of political ideas that began after WWI from the losers:
1. anti-democratic
2. anti-communist
3. very naturalistic, extreme militaristic pride
4. racial undertone
5. associated with violence against the enemy |
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founder of Italian Fascist Party
becomes Prime Minister of Italy 1922-43 after 1922 March on Rome |
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| Nazi Party: Agenda and Rise |
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Rejected the Traty of Versailles and everything that went with it.
wanted to Re-arm and Restart "A Greater Germany"
1923- tries to seize power in Munich=BIG FAIL |
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The chancellor (Hitler) should have the power to rule by decree
this marks the end of democracy and the beginning of Nazi Germany |
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many weapons, manufacturing, draft (against the Versailles)
Outlaw communist, then socialist, then all others not Nazi |
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| denies all rights to Jews |
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| Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 |
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Naturalists: Catholic Churches, land owners, business, officers in the military
Republicans: middle class, working class, peasant farmers, communists and socialists.
Begins with General Franco and a revolt against the Govt. |
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| accepting Hitler's demands to avoid a war. |
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| Hitler wants to unify Austria and Germany |
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| Prime Minister of Britain |
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| German-Soviet Non-Agression Pact |
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| If one goes to war, then the other one will stay out of it |
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| German Invasion of Poland and France |
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| 'lightening" warfare. uses of air planes, tanks, and infantry |
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| a defensive wall in France |
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| British Prime Minister 1874-1965 |
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| the first airwar, Germans bomb London (the Blitz) |
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| German Invasion of Russia |
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June 1941
4 seperate armies set out in different directions into Russia
Leningrad is seized 1941-43 "900 Days" |
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1942-43
first big defeat for German forces |
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| Allied forces drop into Normandie (North part of France) |
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| Woman's suffrage movement |
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| the woman's right to vote |
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| famous speaker (1858-1928) |
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| founder of the women's suffrage movement |
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| 1920: allows women the right to vote |
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| Weimar Republic: its political and economic problems |
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| constitution for Germany was written. Hindenberg=president with emergency powers. Germany had to pay back millions of dollars. printed a lot of money and it lost its value. |
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| countries owe U.S. money. |
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| the ability to influence the people, small political party, uses industry, national mission: to create a new kind of state. calls for sacrifice, like a religion. against: rights, democracy, freedom of action, makes the state greater than the individual. |
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| Lenin: a mixture of communism and capitalism. "Commanding Heights". banking, industry, RRs, foreign trade centrally planned. |
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| "man of steel". originated from Georgia. was a journalist and sent to Siberia. comes back and gets involved in Bolshivik party. "General Secretary of Communist Party" in 1924. very ruthless, not a good public speaker, didnt mind to kill people. |
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| a treaty that prohibited the use of war as an instrument of national policy except in matters of self defense |
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During World War II, he served as Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe, with responsibility for planning and supervising the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944–45. In 1951, he became the first supreme commander of NATO.
President of U.S. from 1952-1960 |
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December 7, 1941
Japanese invade military bases in Hawaii |
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1942
1st big battle of aircraft carriers
many Japanese carriers were sunk when only a few American carriers were sunk.
1st significant U.S. victory |
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| built an Atomic bomb completed in 1945 |
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February 1945
Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin
Stalin wanted the countries of E. Europe to have favorable govts. Main interest was security.
Roosevelt and Churchill wanted the states of E. Europe should decide for themselves their own govt. |
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July, 1945
Atomic bomb is successfully tested.
Germany is divided up into zones of occupation by USSR, US, France, and Britain.
United Nations is finalized |
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US President 1944-1952
believed in containing communism |
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dived Europe from the end or WWII to the end of the Cold War when it was torn down in 1991
USSR set up communist govts in East Europe. |
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| supplied West Berlin with supplies through airplanes. |
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built in 1961
divided into West and East Berlin. East Berlin was very strict, West was not. |
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| The US financially aided to rebuilt Europe after WWII |
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a military alliance.
protection from the US armies. |
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| Problems of Communism 1980s |
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| some states opposed communism and gained independence from the USSR power. |
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last leader of the Soviet Union (1985-1991)
wanted to maintain a central government but still wanted a degree of openness (glasnost) and perestrokia-reconstructing economy and political system. |
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| President of US 1980-1988 |
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| British Prime Minister 1979-1990 |
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trade unions became illegal. disbanded by the military.
supported/financed by England and US |
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| States hold elections, and Communism parties are voted out of power. |
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| elected president of Russian assembly, then becomes the 1st president of Russia |
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