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History 104 Purdue Final Exam
Politicians and rulers
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History
Undergraduate 1
12/14/2008

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Clement Attlee
Definition

         -Prime Minister of United Kingdom

 

         -Leader of Labor Party

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Leon Blum
Definition
        -Prime Minister of France
 
        -Popular front
 
        - "republic is a whore"
 
        -socialist
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Neville Chamberlain
Definition
        - prime minister of United Kingdom
 
        - appeasment foreign policy
 
        - munich agreement
  
        - contianment policy of germany
 
 
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Luwig Erhard
Definition
        - Chancelor of West Germany
 
        -  poswar economic recovery
 
        - prosperity for everyone 
 
        - social market economy
 
 
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Francisco Franco
Definition
        - Spain gerneral 
 
        - Hitler's army helped him in civil war 
 
        - left wing popular front
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Charles de Gualle
Definition
        - founded French Fifth republic 
 
        - Was first president of it 
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Joseph Goebbels
Definition
        - Folower and associate of Adolf Hitler
 
       
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Mikhail Gorbachev
Definition
        - Last General Secretary of the Communist Party
                of the Soviet Union
 
        - contributed to the end of the cold war and
                  soviet union
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Paul von Hindenburg
Definition
        - signed the Enabling Act giving Hitlers
                government specail powers
 
 
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Nikita Khrushchev
Definition
        - Preceded Joseph Stalin
 
        - Destalinization os the USSR
 
 
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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Definition
        - Bolsheviks
       
        - Marxist theory
 
        - Bread, land, peace
 
        - All power to the soviets
 
 
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Slobodan Milosevic
Definition
        - President of Serbia and of Yugoslavia
 
        - Charged with crimes against humanity 
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Benito Mussolini
Definition
        - started out socialist
 
        - socialism - needs of many before needs of one
 
        - fought in wars
 
        - Italy on side of Axis powers
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Philippe Petain
Definition
        - France's head of state
 
        - Surrendered France to Germany
 
        - Considered traitor of France
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Joseph Stalin
Definition
        - Communist party of Soviet Union and USSR
 
        - cult of personality
 
        - got rid of rich peasant class
 
        - Great Purge 
 
        
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Margaret Thatcher
Definition
        - Prime minister of the United Kingdom
 
        - Fixed economy 
 
        - Reduces the welfare state
 
        - Breaks power of british unions
 
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Leon Trotsky

 

Definition
        - Russian red army
 
        - Bolshevik revolution 
 
        - Marxist theorist
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Lech Walesa
Definition
        - President of Poland
 
        - human rights activist 
 
        - nobel prize 
 
        - solidarity
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Woodrow Wilson
Definition
        - President of the United States 
 
        - negotiations with Germany
 
        - treaty of Versailles
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