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Modern World History Exam
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History
10th Grade
06/03/2013

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The Independence Movement in Mexico
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Led by Miguel Hidalgo
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Nationalism
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Tore apart centuries-old empires, gave rise to the nation-state, was opposed by conservatives
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The Uprisings of 1848
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Resulted in the resignation of Klemens Von Metternich
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Mary Shelley
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Author of Frankenstein, an early gothic horror story
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Revolt of enslaved Africans in Saint Domingo
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Successfully led by Toussaint L'Overture
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Truths about Nationalism
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Loyalty should not be to the king, greatest loyalty should be to a nation to people, the nation should have a common culture
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1871 shift in power in Europe
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Prussia became Germany
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Romanticism
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The love of nature's untamed beauty, the value of common people, and the promotion of established ideas
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The goal of Impressionist artists and composers
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To illustrate a moment in time
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Spain loses all South American colonies
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By 1830
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A radical in the 1800's
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An example: a poor student who has read extensively about democracy
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Link between romanticism and nationalism
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national heroes and cultural pride were themes in both
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The Industrial Revolution
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Increased output of machine-made goods in England in the 18th century
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The Agricultural Revolution
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Small farmers became tenant farmers or moved to cities, enclosures became landmarks of wealthy landowners, and landowners experimented with new agricultural methods
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Factors of production driving the Industrial Revolution
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Land, labor, and capital
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Urbanization in 19th-century Britain and Western Europe
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Due to industrialization
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Britain keeps industrial secrets from the United States
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By forbidding engineers, mechanics, and toolmakers from leaving the country
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The benefit of being a stockholder in a corporation
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Stockholders are not personally responsible for the company's debts
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Laissez-Faire Policy
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Let owners of industry set working conditions without government interference
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Unions
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Voluntary associations of workers seeking labor reforms
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The Agricultural Revolution paves the way for the Industrial Revolution
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It led to population growth, it increased food supplies, and it caused farmers to lose land and seek other work
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How the Industrial Revolution affected cities
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It made the population grow faster than the housing supply
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Population growth between 1800 and 1850
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Industrial Revolution
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The impact of technological advances on industry
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Production of goods was increased
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Worldwide industrialization effects relationships: Industrialized nations vs. non-industrialized nations
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The relationship between industrialized nations was the driving force behind imperialism
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True of both socialism and communism
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Communism is a form of complete socialism in which the people own all production and property
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British voting rights prior to 1832
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5% of the British population has voting rights
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The reform bill of 1832
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Gave voting rights to middle class men
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Russian Pogroms
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Violence against Jews fueled by anti-semitism
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The only country to allow women to vote before 1900
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New Zealand
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The first country to give full voting rights to women
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New Zealand
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The great famine
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widespread starvation in Ireland caused by the destruction of potato crops
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Manifest Dynasty
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idea used to justify westward expansion
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The outbreak of the Civil War
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A direct result of the confederate attacks on fort sumter
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The Gadsden Purchase
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The United States purchased land from Mexico
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Territory ceded by Mexico as a result of the Mexican-American War
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Arizona, California, and New Mexico
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Te trail of tears
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the forced westward migration of the Cherokee from Georgia to Oklahoma
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Texas fights for its independence in 1836
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From Mexico
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The European policy of paternalism
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Reflected the belief that Africans should be watched over and taken care of
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Boundaries in Africa at the end of the 19th century
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Were unnaturally imposed by the Europeans
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The Ottoman Empire
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Decline to about a third of its greatest size by 1914
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The Crimean War
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Russia vs. Ottoman Empire (Russia lost)
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The Suez Canal
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Built through the combined efforts of the French and Egyptians
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The Sepoys
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Indian soldiers serving in the British army
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Causes of the Sepoy mutiny
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Nationalism, religious beliefs, and resentment of British rule
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The result of the sepoy mutiny
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the British government tightened its control on India
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Malaysia becomes the World's leading exporter
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Of rubber
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The British colonization of Singapore
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Purpose was to use their many harbors for trade
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The Spanish-American War
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As a result of winning the war, the U.s. acquired Guam, Puerto Rico and the Philippine Islands
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The Annexation of Hawaii
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Sugar-cane planters formed an interest group and pushed for the annexation of Hawaii
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Militarism
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The policy of glorifying power and keeping an army prepared for war
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Kaiser Wilhelm II
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German leader during the last decade of the 1800's and most of World War I
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U.S. gets involved in WWI
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Germany's actions caused the United States to declare war
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WWI comes to an end
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And armistice was signed on November 11, 1918
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Example of Wilson's Fourteen Points
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It included a plan for the postwar world
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Treaty of Versailles
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Germany was forced to assume sole responsibility for the war
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Unrestricted submarine warfare
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Germany's policy to sink any ship in British waters without warning
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Events after the Americans joined the war
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The Bulgarians and Ottoman Turks surrendered
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Treat of Versailles affects postwar Germany
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It left a legacy of bitterness and hatred in the hearts of the German people
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American opinion about the league of nations
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American believed that the U.S. should not join and stay out of European affairs
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Impact of the war on the Economy of Europe
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It drained the treasuries of Europe
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Link between militarism and imperialism
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As a country gains colonies, its military grows to protect them
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Factors leading the formation of the triple alliance and the tripe entente
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Bismark's fear of France's army and Britain's fear of Germany's empire
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Assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie
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The event in Sarajevo that ignited the world in WWI
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Germany's gamble
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Their blockade would defeat Britain before U.S. troops arrived
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The treaty of Brest-Litovsk
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It allowed Germany to focus all their efforts on the Western front
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Allied response to Wilson's vision for peace
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Britain and France were concerned with strengthening their own security, wanted to strip Germany of its war-making power, and showed little sign of agreeing to Wilson's plan
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The system of rationing
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Was designed to limit purchases of consumer goods
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The purpose of propaganda
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To influence public opinion
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The Zimmermann Note
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German plan to help Mexico regain U.S. territory, it pushed the U.S. to enter the war.
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Pogroms in late 19th century Russia
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Russians violently persecuted Jews
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The Bolsheviks
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Radical Marxists revolutionaries who founded communism in Russia
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Communist
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China's peasants align themselves with them in the late 1920's
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Totalitarian state
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A state in which the government controls every aspect of public and private life
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The Soviet's five-year plans
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Purpose was economic development
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The "Long March"
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Chinese communists take a 6,000 mile journey to safety, fleeing the nationalists
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The salt march
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protest led by Mohandis K. Gandhi
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The Russo-Japanese War
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News of repeated losses showed the Czar's weakness and sparked unrest that led to revolt
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The treaty of Versailles
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The Allies give Chinese territories to Japan that had previously been controlled by Germany
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The Bolshevik Revolution
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Did not immediately establish a totalitarian state in Russia
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Great Britain grants India limited self-rule
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Was finally granted due to continuous campaigns of civil disobedience by the Indians
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The Impact of Russia's involvement in WWI
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It revealed the weaknesses of czarist rule and military leadership
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Life changes after the Bolshevik revolution
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Russia was organized into several self governing republics
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Chinese peasants align themselves with communists rather than nationalists
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Communists divided land among the farmers, while the nationalists ignored their problems
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Event halts the Chinese civil war
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The Japanese launched an all out invasion of China in 1937
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Promises made to Indian people in exchange for their service in world war
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Reforms would be made that would eventually leas to self-government
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The weakness of the Weimar republic
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Uncontrollable inflation, a lack of democratic tradition, and a large number of political parties
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The new deal
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Involved attempts to stimulate the American economy by increasing government spending
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The great depression
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Number of banks closing, unemployment, and business failures increase dramatically
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The global depression
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War debts caused by great suffering in Germany
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Common to both fascism and communism
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A one party system, a disregard for individual rights, and strong nationalist feelings
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Hitler's book "Mein Kampf"
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Translates to "My Struggle"
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Nazism
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The German form of fascism
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Aggressive countries during the 1930's
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Italy, Japan, and Germany
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Manchuria invaded in 1931
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By Japan
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The Axis Powers
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Italy, Japan, and Germany
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Nonaggression pact signed with the Soviet Union in 1939
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Germany
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Leader the the third reich
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Adolf Hitler
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The Munich Conference
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Held to address the problems of a German threat to Czechoslovakia
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Nonaggression Pact
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Soviet Union signed with Germany in 1939
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Great Britain and France enter WWII
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Because of the German invasion of Poland
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Blitzkrieg
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The Germans first successfully used this form on Poland
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Advantages for the British the the Battle of Britain
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Radar, Enigma code, and high level of British morale
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The Atlantic Charter
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A declaration of the right to freedom of trade
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Isoroku Yamamoto
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Famous for masterminding the Japanese naval strategy during WWII
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The Bataan Death March
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Marched by Allied prisoners of war, forced by Japanese
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Turning the tide of the war in the pacific
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Success at the battle of Midway allowed the allies to begin taking the offensive
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"Island Hopping"
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Allies attacked and seized the least heavily defended Pacific islands from Japan
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The mastermind behind "Island Hopping"
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General Douglas MacArthur
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The Supreme Commander of the western allied forces in Europe
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General Dwight D. Eisenhower
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D-Day
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The allied invasion of France
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Kamikazes
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suicide pilots targeted allied ships with planes loaded with explosives
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Invasion of France
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Stalin repeatedly urged Churchill and Roosevelt to do this in order to relieve German pressure of Soviet armies
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The Battle of El Alamein
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Led by British General Bernard Montgomery
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Relocation Camps
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Thousands of Japanese Americans interned in the camps due to their ancestry
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European cities not extensively damaged during the War
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Paris, France
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Nation that paid the greatest price in terms of lives lost during the war
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Soviet Union
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The Nuremberg Trials
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Nazis were put on trial for war crimes
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The Japanese constitution
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Effort to get it written led by General Douglas MacArthur
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The Demilitarization of Japan
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Was organized and overseen by the U.S. army
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