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This was the contested armed frontier between Germany and the Allied powers during WWI & WWII
During WWII it Germany expanded across most of Europe which made this warzone very active. |
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During the build up to WWI Belgium had been neutral in other European conflicts, and did not participate in alliances with other countries.
Germany invaded Belgium even though they were neutral because Belgium separated Germany and France.
Britain saw this as a threat to the balance of power in Europe because Germany was taking over neutral countries and expanding their empire across Europe. |
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This was the use of German U-boats during WWI. While Americans were sending supplies to Britain across the Atlantic, German submarines sunk the Lusitania and killed many innocent Americans.
These attacks on American supply ships was the reason the United states entered the war. |
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These were President Wilson's 14 points that would allow peace in Europe after WWI. Called for many changes that sounded easy to carry out, but in actuality it was hard to get every country to follow.
President Wilson didn't agree with the War guilt provision against Germany. |
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Nationalism due to a certain peoples race.
This give people the idea that their country should be entitled to self-determination.
This is what lead up to WWII because Germans felt that the reparations were unfair and holding them back from becoming a stable country again. |
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Trenches that ran along the Western Front during the war.
Were composed of three lines of trenches. These trenches allowed soldiers to move on the battle field without being killed. they were used on both sides |
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| This was the treaty that ended the war between the allied powers and Germany after WWI. the treaty required many things from Germany including the disarmament of Germany and Reparations for the war. These provisions seemed unfair to the German people and eventually this treaty helped cause WWII |
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After WWI the treaty of Versailles called Germany to pay reparations for all of the damages of the war. The Germans were held responsible for the losses of the allied power governments and owed them for it.
Germans felt that this was a harsh punishment and began to get angry the reparations |
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He was an Italian politician that led the National Fascist Party and was one of the leaders in the creation of Fascism.
Mussolini's politics made him look like a solution to the absence of leadership.
Mussolini occupied Rome with 50,000 fascists and without firing a shot came to power. |
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Nazi Germany's plans to exterminate the Jews in Europe resulting in the Holocaust which was led by Hitler
He began to send millions of Jewish people to extermination camps and began mass slaughter of their people.
About 6 million were killed in total. |
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This was the world wide economic depression during the late 1920s where the stock market crashed as a result of mass sales of stock and the prices of stocks falling.
The United states had become a leader of the world market after WWI and many European countries depended on our economy. When it crashed it had an immediate effect on European economy. |
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This is the diplomatic policy of avoiding warfare and trying to keep peace.
Western governments were trying to keep peace in the face of German Italian and Japanese aggression.
Eventually Hitler became too aggressive and began WWII |
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| Battle of Britain (the Blitz) |
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This was a battle between the British and German Air forces to establish superiority in the air. Germany bombed many British targets including London which resulted in thousands of innocent causalities.
The Royal Air Force fought back and the air battle ended in a stale mate. Hitler ended his battle for superiority in the air and focused on Russia. |
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When Right-winged military officers rebelled against the Spanish Republican Government. The Spanish Government could not overcome political polarization.
Germans began to aide the Rebelling military officers while the Soviet Union backed the Spanish Republic Government. They saw this war as a dress rehearsal for a later war between the two powers.
After three years of war, The rebels took over Spain.
Hitler drew two lessons from this war:
1)That it was hard for the allied powers to contain fascism
2)That British and French appeasement was strong and they didn't want another European War to break out. |
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An American naval base located in Hawaii that fell victim to a surprise attack by the Japanese Empire on December 7, 1941.
This attack devastated the American fleet killed over 2,000 soldiers and sunk 8 naval battleships.
This is what caused the United States to enter the war against Japan and Germany. |
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These are Japanese cities that were devastated by Atomic Bombs during WWII. Even though Japan had already suffered heavy bombings in many cities, they refused to surrender. Many U.S. officers said that the use of these bombs were not necessary because Japan had already been beaten.
Scientists believe that we could set a deadly example to the Nazi's if one of these bombs were used.
On August 6 the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and three days later another one dropped on Nagasaki.
This caused Japan to surrender unconditionally. |
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A Documentary that told the story of five Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust.
This documentary showed the horrors of concentration camps and how brutal Germans were towards Jewish people.
Showed the desire to survive among the jews in the concentration camps. |
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| This is an International organization that aims at world peace. This organization was founded after WWII to replace the League of Nations. |
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| Fidel Castro, Cubans communist leader allowed the Soviets to base nuclear missiles on Cuban soil during the Cold War. President Kennedy ordered a naval blockade of Cuba. When he announced what was happening to the American people, they became terrified and began to prepare themselves for a nuclear war. After three weeks, the Soviets agreed to back down and remove the bombs from cuba. |
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During conflict over power in Germany between the Soviets and the Western Allies. The Soviets set up a blockade to West Berlin which was occupied by the Western Allies.
The Soviets hoped that this would allow them to have complete control over Berlin.
This dispute over Germany split it into two separate Germanies, The Federal Republic in the west and the German Democratic Republic in the east. |
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A policy that was introduced by President Truman that stated that The United States would support Greece and Turkey economically and militarily to prevent them from falling into soviet control
This is considered to be the start of the Cold War |
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| the practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without proper regard for evidence. |
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This was a theory of the United States that if one country became communist, then surrounding countries would follow.
This domino theory allowed U.S. administrations to argue that there was a need for American intervention. |
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This was the first satellite to be put into earths orbit by the Russians during the Cold War.
This ignited the "Space Race" between the Americans and the Soviets, and marked the beginning of the space age |
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She was a leading figure in the Women's rights movement in the united states.
She wrote the Feminine Mystique which sparked the second feminist movement.
She also founded and was the first president of the National Organization for Women |
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She was an African American Civil Rights activist during racism against blacks during the 1950s and 60s
She refused to move to the back of the bus and was arrested for this, but her actions sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Her resistance towards racial segregation became an international icon towards the civil rights movement. |
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| Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) |
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This was a U.S. civil rights organization that played an important role in the movement.
The believed in non-violent civil disobedience to challenge racial segregation. |
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the Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer was the first general-purpose electronic computer built by the U.S. Army.
This computer was built in 1946 and boasted that it was faster than any electronic device up to that point.
Opened up a wide range of uses for the computer. |
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An infectious disease that can be acquired through a virus and was very deadly.
There was a worldwide effort to exterminate this disease in the 1950's and a vaccination was found. |
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| African National Congress |
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| This was South Africa's Governing political party |
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| What makes up our genetic material. |
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