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Chapter 31
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7th Grade
04/26/2010

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James Watt
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A Scottish inventor. He improved the steam power engines gave a boast to the other industries, coal and iron.
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Henry Ford
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He introduced the assembly line.
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Thomas Edison
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He developed a variety of new electric products, including phonograph and the light bulb.
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Reform Bill of 1832
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It extened the franchise to almost all middle-class men.
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Communist Manifesto
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Two Germany philosophers Marx and Engels, out lined their ideas. It called for a public ownership of all land.
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Factory System
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Brought workers and machines together in one place to manufacture goods.
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Assembly Line
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A complex job of assembling many parts were broken down into small tasks, each performed by a individual worker.
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Franchise
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A right to vote.
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Triple Alliance
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Germany, Austria, Hungary, and Italy made a triple allience.
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Triple Entente
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France joined Russia and Britain in the Triple Entente.
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Treaty of Versailles
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Set up a League of Nations to settle disagreements between nations and prevent future wars.
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Benito Mussalini
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Took advantage of the turmoil to gain power.
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Adolf Hitler
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He gained control of the National Socalist, or Nazi. Won popular support by attacking the Treaty of Versailles.  He blamed the Jews for Germany's defeat in WWI.
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D-Day
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June 6, 1944, the Allies landed on the coast of France, opening a new front.
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Appeasement
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Making concessions to an aggressor in order to preserve peace.
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Blitzkrieg
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Lighting War.
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Holocaust
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About 6 million Jewish men, woman, and children died. The Nazis carried out the Jews to the gas chamber.
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