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| The first event causing World War I was the assasination of Archduke Fancis Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary. Other factors that had been brewing such as Militarism, Imperialism and Nationalism between the allies also were causes. |
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| A deep devotion to your country. Can casue many problems and conflicts between two countries or nations when the people of each feel strong nationalism for their homeland. |
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| Beginning in the 1890s strong nationalism led to a race between European counties to arm themselves, or rather build up their armies and navies. European nations believed that to be considered truly great they need a strong military. |
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| Growing militarism and nationalism led to several alliances between the Great Powers. Countries formed alliances with other countries in order to more safe if they were attacked. They wanted to keep peace in Europe but the formation of alliances actually pushed Europe into war. |
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| The DUAL ALLIANCE was between what two countries? Which country joined the first two to make the TRIPLE ALLIANCE |
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Germany and Austria-Hungary were a dual alliance, then they were joined by Italy to make the triple alliance.
The word DUAL refers to two countries and
TRIPLE refers to three countries |
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Imperialism is another force that helped set the stage for war in Europe. Imperialism is when a country wants to get bigger and bigger thru adding smaller countries to it either by force or treaty.
Seeing certain countries become larger and more powerful made other countries feel threatened. |
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| Which Countries made up the CENTRAL POWERS? In Europe before and during WWI? |
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| Austria-Hungary and Germany were the original countries in the CENTRAL POWERS. They were later joined by Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire |
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| Which countries formed the ALLIED POWERS during WW I? |
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| Great Britain, France and Russia later joined by Japan and Italy |
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| What was the SCHLIEFFEN PLAN? |
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| The Schlieffen plan was Germany's military plan at the beginning of WW I. They planned to quickly defeat France and then move east to attack Russia. |
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| What were the THREE major techniques of warfare during WW I? |
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| The use of trenches, poison gas machine guns. |
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| What is the definition of Trench Warfare? |
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| Trench warfare is a form of warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from opposite trenches |
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| Poison gas was introduced by the Germans and was a horrible new weapon. Some gasses caused death by blinding men or severly blistering them. Other gasses caused death by choking and suffocation. |
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| The machine gun fires ammunition/bullets automatically and very quickly. Machine guns sometimes caused a "stalemate" when both sides had lost so many soldiers they could not continue fighting - but neither side had really won the battle. |
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| What is the definition of a Stalemate? |
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| A situation were neither country that is fighting a battle can go on fighting - no one wins the battle but they are also unable to continue. |
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| What year did the United States enter WWI? |
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| The US entered in 1917. There had already been three years of war in Europe. |
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| What is the definition of a "Total War"? |
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| A total war is when all the countries involved in the conflict use all their resources to help the war effort. The war effort controls the economy. Factories could only produce what the government told them they could - usally amunition, tanks, guns, etc. Other products were made only minimally. |
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| What is the Treaty of Versailles? |
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| This was the great peace treaty signed by Germany and the Allied Powers after WW I. It is called they treaty of Versailles as it was signed in the City of Versailles in France. |
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| What were the 4 major provisions (parts) of the Treaty of Versailles? |
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1. The formation of the League of Nations which was all 32 allies except for Germany and Russia
2. Germany had to return territory to the French that they had captured
3. Military restrictions were imposed on Germany - they couldn't build up a big army again
4. War Guilt - the total responsibility for the war was placed on Germany. Germany had to pay the allies money for their losses during the War |
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| Define the League of Nations and what it does. |
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| The League of Nations was part of the Versailles treaty signed at the end of WWI. This was an international group formed after WW I with the goal of keeping peace between nations. |
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| What were President Wilson's 14 Points? |
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| President Wilsons 14 points outlined a plan for achieving and keeping peace. |
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| What is the definition of Totalitarianism? |
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| Totalitarianism is when a goverment completely controls every aspect of people's lives - their job, how many children they can have, what their religion will be, etc. |
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| What does the word "Propoganda" mean? |
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| Information spread to convince people someone their ruler is right and the opponant is wrong. Dropping leaflets from planes was used during war to spread information such as this. Russia used propoganda to convice the Russian people everything was good in Russia. |
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| What is Censorhip and how is it used in War situation? |
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Censorship is used during a war to delete information that might be helpful to the enemy if they read it. Soldiers letters home would be censored (words blacked out) if parts of the letter were thought to benefit the enemy should they read it.
Russia often censored their writers and composers. Russian leaders did not want their own people to hear anythig bad about Russia. |
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| What is Religious Persecution? |
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| When people are persecuted (attacked or punished) because they worship God - someone other than the dictator of their coutry. Russia persecuted people and said that no one could go to Church. Hitler picked one religion Judaism and persecuted only the Jew. |
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| What is Dictatorship or One Party Rule? |
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a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
There is only one political party and one ruler. |
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| Use of Terror - what is it? |
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A dictator will often use terror to dominate an entire nation of people. Dictators use terror and violence to force obediance and crush their enemies. Dictators often have a special police force to carry out the terror activities.
Hilter had the SS. The police could punish you for anything at any time and the rules were always changing. |
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What was the Bolshevik Revolution?
When did it occur, which country? |
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| The Bolshevik Revolution was on January 22, 1905. Russian workers and revolutionaries (called Bolsheviks) march on the Winter Palace of Czar Nicholas II. |
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| The Bolsheviks were a group of revolutionary Russian Marxists who took control of Russia's government in November 1917. |
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| Describe some major points of Stalin's rise to Power in Russia.... |
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| Stalin came to power after Lenin died. Stalin turned Russia into a totalitarian state with him as the dictator. FIrst Stalin took control of the economy. He wanted complete government control. He could control people by having the factories only produce a certain amount of differen goods - so people never had a enough of anything including food. Stalin also used terror to control people and had a special police force to keep control. |
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| True or false - was Lenin a Bolshevik? |
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| TRUE>>> He was the Russian founder of the Bolsheviks, leader of the Russian Revolution (1917), and first head of the USSR (1917-1924). Lenin was the Russian ruler just before Stalin. |
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| What is the definition of collectivisation? |
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the organization of a nation or economy on the basis that everyone works and contributes to the economy - no one becomes rich, everything is shared
Stalin believed that "collective farms" where everyone worked equally was better than letting people own their own farms. |
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| Describe Stalin's "Great Purge" |
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| In 1934 Stalin turned against the Communists and began the Great Purge or the reign of Terror. The purge was supposed to eliminate anyone who threatened to take Stalin's power. Thousands of Bolsheviks were executed. |
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| What were the Russian 5-Year Plans? |
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| Stalin realized that Russia was far behind many other countries and so he put together 5-year plans meant to develop Russia's economy. Russia produced more products that could be shipped out to other countries than it did of the things their own people needed to live - like clothes and food. |
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| A Soviet (Russian) forced labor camp or prison. |
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| riginally a series of trials held in Moscow in the late 1930s under Stalin. It refers to any political trial where the accused make a public confession of their ‘crimes’, although their guilt is often open to doubt. The process tries to justify political repression by allowing the state to point to the use of ‘fair’ procedures in dealing with opponents of the regime. |
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| Describe the term "Secret Police" |
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| A police force operating in secrecy for the political purposes of its government, often with terroristic procedures. The use of terror and violence to keep peace. |
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| What was the Weimar Republic? What country, etc. |
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| This was the republic that was formed in Germany in 1919 and ended in 1933. |
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| True or false - the Weimar Republic was a very strong governement |
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| False - the Weimar Republic was very weak. There were many economic problems and political fighting in Germany. |
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| In which country did the Weimar Republic form? |
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| What is the definition of the term Inflation? |
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| Inflation refers to what happens when the value of money becomes less and less. You can no longer buy as much with a dollar since the worth of dollar has gone down. People begin to go hungry because they no longer have enough money to buy food since a loaf of bread can cost $25 instead of $1. As an example. |
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| What does "Mein Kampf" mean in english |
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| What was Mein Kampf about? |
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| Adolf Hitler wrote the book while he was in prison in 1923-24. He wrote about his beliefs and his goals for Germany. |
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| What was the Reichstag Fire? |
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| The deliberate burning down of Germany's parliament building (27 Feb 1933), shortly after the Nazi accession to power. |
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| Was the Reichstag fire started on purpose? |
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| Yes, it was deliberately set |
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| What is the definition of the Reichstag? |
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| The German Parliment (governing body) until Hitler took over. It also refers to the building were the Parlaiment met. It was burned down. |
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| What was the Enabling Act in Germany |
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| was passed by Germany's parliament (the Reichstag) on March 23, 1933. It was the second major step after the Reichstag Fire Decree through which the Nazis obtained dictatorial powers using largely legal means. The Act enabled Chancellor Adolf Hitler and his cabinet to enact laws without the participation of the Reichstag. |
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| Define the Nazi Party (Nazism) |
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| A German political party which dominated Germany from 1933 to 1945. Usually associated with Adolf Hitler.Its ideology was the belief n a totalitarian government, racial superiority of the Aryan race and complete control the government and economy. |
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| The purest class of Germans - usually blonde and blue-eyed. |
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| How did the Nazis gain popularity? |
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| When the American Depression started the US could no longer loan money to Germany. The German economy collapsed and people were frightened and hungry. Afraid they turned to Adolf Hitler and Nazi Party - he was such a strong speaker and people thought he would take care of them. |
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| What is the name of the German (Nazi) secret police? |
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| What was the elite unit of the german police called that wore black shirts? |
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| Hitler was a dictator - what is the German word for Dictator? |
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| Fuhrer meaning supreme being |
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| What were the reasons for Japan's attempts as expanding their country? |
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| Economic strength - more territory would mean a stronger economy. During the Depression the Japanese people blamed the civilian democratic government for the bad ecoomy (everyone was hungry and out of work, etc) so the military took over the government and wanted to become bigger - take over China and other prosperous countries. |
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| What is the Rape of Nanking? |
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| The Nanking Massacre, commonly known as "The Rape of Nanking", refers to the raping of women by the Japanese troops in and around Nanking China after the Japanese took over the area. |
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| In what coutry is the City of Nanking? |
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| What is another name for the National Socialist German Worker's Party? |
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| What are three major characteristics and beliefs of the Nazi Party? |
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Totalitarianism - one absolute ruler
A superior race of people - Aryans
Complete control of the economy
Also believe Jews were the most inferior race of people. |
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