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13 Cards in this Set
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RUSSIAN REVOLUTION OF 1917
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Russia became the worlds first communist state, known as the soviet union.
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JOSEPH STALIN
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In the 1920s, Joseph Stalin seized power and established a brutal totalitarian dictatorship.
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BENITO MUSSOLINI
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In Italy, Benito Mussolini rose to power as the fascist party seized power.
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ADOLF HITLER
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In Germany, economic strife caused by the Great Depression brought Nazi to achieve German domination throughout Europe.
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COLLECTION SECURITY
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Was the idea that peaceful nations would band together to stop aggressors, failed when countries like the United States and the Soviet Union failed to join the League of nations.
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NEUTRALITY ACTS (1935-1937)
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To avoid a similar turn of events , congress enacted the neutrality act, which prohibited Americans from traveling on the ships of nations at war.
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CASH-AND-CARRY
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That act sought to keep the U.S. out of what was widely viewed by most Americans as another inevitable European conflict.
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"QUARANTINE" SPEECH
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When Japan invaded China in 1937, president Roosevelt delivered his "Quarantine" speech .
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THE FLYING TIGERS
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When the Burma Road that supplied China was cut off by Japan, U.S. volunteer fighter pilots , known as the FLYING TIGERS.
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DESTROYER FOR BASES AGREEMENT
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As war I Europe began 1939, american hoping to avoid war began preparing just in case.
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LEND-LEASE ACT |
In 1941, Roosevelt proposed the lend-lease act to sell, lease, or lend war materials to any country the president saw as vital to the defense of the U.S. American battleship began protecting British ships crossing the Atlantic with supplies for Britain. |
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WINSTON CHURCHILL |
Winston Churchill aboard a U.S. warship in the Atlantic. |
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. ATLANTIC CHARTER |
Roosevelt and Churchill signed the Atlantic charter, laying the foundation for the later creation of the United Nations. |
