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| During the Industrial Revolution, it was the consolidation of many small farms into one large farm, which created a labor force as many people lost their homes. |
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| money or wealth used to invest in businesses or enterprise |
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| person who assumes financial risk in hope of making a profit |
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| movement of people from rural areas to cities |
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| multistory building divided into crowded apartments |
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| production method that breaks down a complex job into a series of smaller tasks |
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| identical components that can be used in place of one another in manufacturing. |
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| an Englishnaturalist[I] who showed that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolutionresulted from a process that he called natural selection. |
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| a strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country. |
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| domination by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country or region |
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| glorification of the military |
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| formal agreement between two or more nations or powers to cooperate and come one another's defense. |
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| a concept in international relations theory holding that the world system is leaderless: there is no universal sovereign or worldwide government. There is thus no hierarchically superior, coercive power that can resolve disputes, enforce law, or order the system like there is in domestic politics. |
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the Ottoman Empire, and Austria-Hungary and, to a lesser degree, Imperial Germany, Great Britain, and Italy. In addition to the imperialistic ambitions and interests in this region, there was a growth in nationalism with the indigenous peoples of this region leading to the formation of the independent states of Greece, Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria and Albania. Within these nations there were movements to create "greater" nations, that is to enlarge the boundaries of the state beyond those areas where the national ethnic group was in the majority. This led to conflict between the newly independent nations and their former oppressor, Ottoman Turkey. Additionally, it led to differences between the Balkan nations who wished to gain territory at the expense of their neighbors.
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| a final peremptory demand |
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| archduke/ the heir to the Austro-Hungarian empire his assassination on 28 June 1914 sparked the First World War. |
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| assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28th 1914, sparking off World War I |
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| was the name given to the alliance between the Great Britain , France, and Russia during WWI |
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| was the military alliance among Germany, Austria–Hungary, and Italy that lasted from 1882 until the start of World War I in 1914 |
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| The Central Powers consisted of Germany, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Bulgaria. |
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1914,Great Britain ,Russia ,France ,Belgium' ,Serbia
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6. the US joined. but we didnt join until the telegram incident which was about Germany sending a telegram to Mexico stating that if the U.S. is to announce war on them, that Mexico is to declare war on them so as to distract the U.S. and hopefully stop us from joining WWI. The telegram was intercepted by Great Britain and publicly announced in the U.S. which caused us to enter WWI |
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| was a 1917 proposal from Germany to Mexico to make war against the United States. It was ignored by Mexico but angered Americans and led in part to the declaration of war in April. |
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| a form of communication that is aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position. |
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| any position or situation in which no action can be taken or progress made; deadlock: |
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| The name given to German submarines used in World Wars I and II. |
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| Trench warfare was a form of warfare in which both combatants occupied static fortified fighting lines, consisting largely of trenches, in which troops were largely immune to the enemy's small arms fire and were substantially sheltered from artillery. ... |
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| during wartime, military supplies and raw materials needed to make military supplies that may legally be confiscated by any belligerent. |
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| agreement to end fighting in a war |
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| payment for war damage, or damage caused by imprisonment |
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| the treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans |
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| was formed after World War I to try to prevent future wars between nations and "make the world safe for democracy." And although they suggested it,the United States never joined the organization and it lost all credibility as the world moved toward World War II. |
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| a member of the imperial family that ruled Russia |
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| (Siberian peasant monk who was religious advisor in the court of Nicholas II; was assassinated by Russian noblemen who feared that his debauchery would weaken the monarchy (1872-1916)) |
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| congenital tendency to uncontrolled bleeding; usually affects males and is transmitted from mother to son |
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| Italian fascist dictator (1883-1945) |
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| German Nazi dictator during World War II |
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| Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition (1879-1953) |
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| a political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government (as opposed to democracy or liberalism) |
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| azism, known officially in German as National Socialism (Nationalsozialismus), is the totalitarian ideology and practices of the Nazi Party or National Socialist German Workers’ Party under Adolf Hitler, and the policies adopted by the dictatorial government of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. |
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| a government that subordinates the individual to the state and strictly controls all aspects of life by coercive measures |
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the Nazi dictatorship under Hitler (1933-1945)
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| the secret state police in Nazi Germany; known for its terrorist methods |
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| The Nuremberg Laws (Nürnberger Gesetze) of 1935 were antisemitic laws in Nazi Germany which were introduced at the annual Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg Germany |
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| The state of being appeased; the policy of giving in to demands in order to preserve the peace |
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| the doctrine that all violence is unjustifiable |
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| The fascist alliance between mainly Germany, Italy, Japan, and a few other countries, during World War II, against the Allies |
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| was the 1938 de facto annexation of Austria into Greater Germany by the Nazi regime. |
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| Part of Czecholslvakia that Germany took over |
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| The pact signed in 1939 by Germany and the Soviet Union that enabled a one-front war when Germany started World War II. |
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| a seaport in northern France on the North Sea; scene of the evacuation of British forces in 1940 during World War II |
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| Internment is the imprisonment or confinement of people, commonly in large groups, without trial. |
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- an act of mass destruction and loss of life (especially in war or by fire); "a nuclear holocaust"
- the mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime from 1941 until 1945
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| was the name of the program under which the USA supplied the UK and other Allied nations with vast amounts of war material between 1941 and 1945 in return for, in the case of Britain, military bases in Newfoundland, Bermuda, and the British West Indies. |
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| a harbor on Oahu to the west of Honolulu; location of a United States naval base that was attacked by the Japanese on 7 Dec 1941 |
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| the term refers to the means of crossing an ocean by a series of shorter journeys between islands, as opposed to a single journey directly across the ocean to the destination. |
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| date of the Allied landing in France, World War II ( 6 June 1944) |
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| a conference held in Yalta in February 1945 where Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill planned the final stages of World War II and agreed to the territorial division of Europe |
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| nvolving the forcible transfer of 75,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war captured by the Japanese in the Philippines from the Bataan peninsula to prison camps |
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| fighter plane used for suicide missions by Japanese pilots in World War II |
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a former United States executive agency that was responsible for developing atomic bombs during World War II
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| a port city on the southwestern coast of Honshu in Japan; on August 6, 1945 Hiroshima was almost completely destroyed by the first atomic bomb |
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| The Second Atomic Bomb completely destroyed this Japanese city |
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| an organization of independent states formed in 1945 to promote international peace and security |
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| superpower - world power: a state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world |
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| n impenetrable barrier to communication or information especially as imposed by rigid censorship and secrecy; used by Winston Churchill in 1946 |
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| he Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway and road access to the sectors of Berlin under their control. Their aim was to force the western powers to allow the Soviet zone to start supplying Berlin with food and fuel, thereby giving the Soviets practical control over the entire city. |
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| airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin |
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| The Berlin Wall (Berliner Mauer) was a concrete barrier built by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) that completely enclosed the city of West Berlin, separating it from East Germany, |
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| policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power or ideology or to force it to negotiate peacefully |
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| resident Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology |
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a United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952); named after George Marshall
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| he Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation between the United States, the Soviet Union, and Cuba in October 1962, during the Cold War |
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| e political theory that if one nation comes under communist control then neighboring nations will also come under communist control |
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| Vietnamese communist statesman who fought the Japanese in World War II and the French until 1954 and South Vietnam until 1975 (1890-1969) |
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| the common name for the South Vietnamese Communist guerrillas, called the People's Liberation Armed Forces (PLAF), the fighting arm of the National Liberation Front (NLF). |
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| When North Vietnam shot down the USS Maddox, mistaking it for a South Vietnam ship, causing the US to the enter the Vietnam War. |
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| Attack on major North Vietnam cities on Tet, major turning point in the war |
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| 35th President of the United States; established the Peace Corps; assassinated in Dallas (1917-1963) Cuban Missle Crisis |
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founder of modern communism; wrote the Communist Manifesto with Engels in 1848; wrote Das Kapital in 1867 (1818-1883)
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| Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba (born in 1927) |
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- a political theory advocating state ownership of industry
- an economic system based on state ownership of capital
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| the factory system was a method of manufacturing first adopted in England at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution and later spread abroad |
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| 28th President of the United States; led the United States in World War I and secured the formation of the League of Nations (1856-1924) |
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| he last czar of Russia who was forced to abdicate in 1917 by the Russian Revolution; he and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks (1868-1918) |
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| act of assembling and putting into readiness for war or other emergency: "mobilization of the troops" |
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| British statesman who as Prime Minister pursued a policy of appeasement toward fascist Germany (1869-1940) |
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| British statesman and leader during World War II; received Nobel prize for literature in 1953 (1874-1965) |
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| United States general who supervised the invasion of Normandy and the defeat of Nazi Germany; 34th President of the United States (1890-1961) |
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| 32nd President of the United States; elected four times; instituted New Deal to counter the Great Depression and led country during World War II (1882-1945)) |
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| lightening war, German war tatic |
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| Royal Air Force: the airforce of Great Britain |
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| an organization of independent states formed in 1945 to promote international peace and security |
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| The night, 9 November 1938, on which Nazi ant-Semitism in Germany moved onto a newe level of ferocity: synagogues were burned down and Jewish-owned shops were looted and destroyed (hence the name, because the streets were covered in glass) |
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| (April 15, 1894 – September 11, 1971) led the Soviet Union during the Cold War |
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