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Western Civilization 112
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04/23/2010

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5 year Plan
Definition
Soviet Union wants to catch up to Germany, England, and the U.S. industrially
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Collectivization
Definition
collection of farmland for state ran farms
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Purges
Definition
Stalin wants to purge the country of people that are against him. "enemy of the people"
spreads into the military and many leaders are purged.
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Great Depression: nature and effects
Definition
Downward spiral=instability in industry, banks, and farming leads to decline in demand, which leads to decline in supply and increase in unemployment.
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Stock Market Crash 1929
Definition
People begin to sell stock.
"Run on the Bank" of the 25,000 banks, 11,000 go bank rupt.
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Herbert Hoover
Definition
president of US (1929-1933)
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Dust Bowl
Definition
man made environmental disaster in the mid-west
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Franklin Roosevelt
Definition
US president (1933-1945)
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New Deal
Definition
Roosevelt came up with many different programs to create a sense of security, and stimulate the economy such as: National Recovery Administration, Securities and Exchange Commission, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation .
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Fascism
Definition
A set of political ideas that began after WWI from the losers:
1. anti-democratic
2. anti-communist
3. very naturalistic, extreme militaristic pride
4. racial undertone
5. associated with violence against the enemy
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Benito Mussolini
Definition
founder of Italian Fascist Party
becomes Prime Minister of Italy 1922-43 after 1922 March on Rome
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Adolf Hitler
Definition
head of Nazi party
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Nazi Party: Agenda and Rise
Definition
Rejected the Traty of Versailles and everything that went with it.
wanted to Re-arm and Restart "A Greater Germany"
1923- tries to seize power in Munich=BIG FAIL
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Enabling Act
Definition
The chancellor (Hitler) should have the power to rule by decree
this marks the end of democracy and the beginning of Nazi Germany
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Nature of Nazi Germany
Definition
many weapons, manufacturing, draft (against the Versailles)
Outlaw communist, then socialist, then all others not Nazi
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Nuremburg Laws
Definition
denies all rights to Jews
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Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
Definition
Naturalists: Catholic Churches, land owners, business, officers in the military
Republicans: middle class, working class, peasant farmers, communists and socialists.
Begins with General Franco and a revolt against the Govt.
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Appeasement
Definition
accepting Hitler's demands to avoid a war.
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Austrian Anschuluss
Definition
Hitler wants to unify Austria and Germany
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Neville Chamberlain
Definition
Prime Minister of Britain
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German-Soviet Non-Agression Pact
Definition
If one goes to war, then the other one will stay out of it
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German Invasion of Poland and France
Definition
1939
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Blitzkrieg
Definition
'lightening" warfare. uses of air planes, tanks, and infantry
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Maginot Line
Definition
a defensive wall in France
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Vichy regime
Definition
vichyites=collaborators
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Winston Churchill
Definition
British Prime Minister 1874-1965
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Battle of Britain 1940
Definition
the first airwar, Germans bomb London (the Blitz)
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German Invasion of Russia
Definition
June 1941
4 seperate armies set out in different directions into Russia
Leningrad is seized 1941-43 "900 Days"
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Battle of Stalingrad
Definition
1942-43
first big defeat for German forces
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D-Day June 6, 1949
Definition
Allied forces drop into Normandie (North part of France)
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Woman's suffrage movement
Definition
the woman's right to vote
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Emmeline Pankhurst
Definition
famous speaker (1858-1928)
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Susan B. Anthony
Definition
founder of the women's suffrage movement
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U.S. 19th Amendent
Definition
1920: allows women the right to vote
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Weimar Republic: its political and economic problems
Definition
constitution for Germany was written. Hindenberg=president with emergency powers. Germany had to pay back millions of dollars. printed a lot of money and it lost its value.
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Dawes Plan
Definition
countries owe U.S. money.
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Totalitarianism
Definition
the ability to influence the people, small political party, uses industry, national mission: to create a new kind of state. calls for sacrifice, like a religion. against: rights, democracy, freedom of action, makes the state greater than the individual.
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New Economic Policy
Definition
Lenin: a mixture of communism and capitalism. "Commanding Heights". banking, industry, RRs, foreign trade centrally planned.
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Josef Stalin
Definition
"man of steel". originated from Georgia. was a journalist and sent to Siberia. comes back and gets involved in Bolshivik party. "General Secretary of Communist Party" in 1924. very ruthless, not a good public speaker, didnt mind to kill people.
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Kellogg-Briand Act
Definition
a treaty that prohibited the use of war as an instrument of national policy except in matters of self defense
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Dwight Eisenhower
Definition
During World War II, he served as Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe, with responsibility for planning and supervising the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944–45. In 1951, he became the first supreme commander of NATO.
President of U.S. from 1952-1960
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Pearl Harbor
Definition
December 7, 1941
Japanese invade military bases in Hawaii
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Battle of Midway
Definition
1942
1st big battle of aircraft carriers
many Japanese carriers were sunk when only a few American carriers were sunk.
1st significant U.S. victory
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Manhattan Project
Definition
built an Atomic bomb completed in 1945
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Hiroshima
Definition
bombed in August 1945
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Yalta Conference
Definition
February 1945
Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin
Stalin wanted the countries of E. Europe to have favorable govts. Main interest was security.
Roosevelt and Churchill wanted the states of E. Europe should decide for themselves their own govt.
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Postdam Conference
Definition
July, 1945
Atomic bomb is successfully tested.
Germany is divided up into zones of occupation by USSR, US, France, and Britain.
United Nations is finalized
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Harry Truman
Definition
US President 1944-1952
believed in containing communism
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"Iron Curtain"
Definition
dived Europe from the end or WWII to the end of the Cold War when it was torn down in 1991
USSR set up communist govts in East Europe.
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Berlin Airlift
Definition
supplied West Berlin with supplies through airplanes.
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Berlin Wall
Definition
built in 1961
divided into West and East Berlin. East Berlin was very strict, West was not.
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Marshall Plan
Definition
The US financially aided to rebuilt Europe after WWII
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NATO
Definition
a military alliance.
protection from the US armies.
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Problems of Communism 1980s
Definition
some states opposed communism and gained independence from the USSR power.
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Mikhail Gorbachev
Definition
last leader of the Soviet Union (1985-1991)
wanted to maintain a central government but still wanted a degree of openness (glasnost) and perestrokia-reconstructing economy and political system.
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Ronald Reagan
Definition
President of US 1980-1988
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Margaret Thatcher
Definition
British Prime Minister 1979-1990
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Solidarity movement
Definition
trade unions became illegal. disbanded by the military.
supported/financed by England and US
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1989 Revolutions
Definition
States hold elections, and Communism parties are voted out of power.
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Fall of Soviet Union
Definition
December 25, 1991
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Boris Yeltsin
Definition
elected president of Russian assembly, then becomes the 1st president of Russia
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