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History 104 Purdue Final Exam
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Undergraduate 1
12/15/2008

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appeasement
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        - policy settling international quarrels 
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Bauhaus
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        - school in Germany that combined crafts and the fine arts
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Berlin Airlift
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        - Germany cuts off Berlin supplies, American and Berland airforce drop supplies in Berlin
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Bolshevik
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        - Communist Party of the Soviet Union
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Chernobyl
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        - met down power plant
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Comintern
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        - international communist organization
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dada
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        - cultural movement invovling the arts
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ethnic cleansing
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        - persecution through imprisonment, expulsion, or killing of members of an ethnic minority
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gulag
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        - government agency that administered the penal labor camps of the soviet union
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Lebensraum
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        - land with raw materials that hitler believed Germany needed
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Marshal Plan
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        - reconstruction plan after World War II
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New Economic Policy
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        - was an econmic policy proposed by Vladimir Lenin to prevent the Russian economy from collapsing
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Night of the Broken Glass
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        - Jews were murdered and deported to consentration camps in one night
 
        - Nov 9-10, 1938 
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Night of the Long Knives 
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        - Nazi regime carried out a series of political executions, most of those killed being members of the Sturmabteilung
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Nuremburg Laws 
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        - classified people as Jew or not
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Operation Barbarossa
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        - was the code name for Nazi Germany's  invasion of the Soviet Union duringWorld War II that commenced on June 22, 1941
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SA, SS
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        - Nazi parties and organizations
 
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Squadristi
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        - Fascist Blackshirts were organized by Benito Mussolini as the military tool of his political movement
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Solidarity
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        - is a Polosh trade union federation founded in September 1980 led by Lech Walesa
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Soviet
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        - socialist society of the USSR
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Wannsee Conference
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        - conference was to inform administrative heads of Departments responsible for various policies relating to Jews
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