Ap 3 Ch28 International Contacts & Conflicts, 1914-1999_Key People

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International Contacts & Conflicts
Serbian Nationalist

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~shot the Austrian Archduke Ferdinand
~Casued Austria-Hungary to attack Serbia

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International Contacts & Conflicts
Mata Hari

Back 2

~accused of spying
~ executed by the French in WWI
~claimed she was spying for the French

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International Contacts & Conflicts
Woodrow Wilson

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~president of U.S.
~espoused great ideals and hoped for just settlement of all nationalist issues

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International Contacts & Conflicts
Gandhi & Ho Chi Minh

Back 4

~seized on Wilsonian principles of self-determination
~nationalist leaders

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International Contacts & Conflicts
Mustafa Kemal

Back 5

~led Turkic republic in 1923
~repelled Italy and Greece in their attempts to carve up the areas around Constantinople

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International Contacts & Conflicts
Joseph Stalin

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~uncontested leader of the Soviet state
~attacked the motivations of Western countries, particularly capitalism

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International Contacts & Conflicts
Adolf Hitler

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~led Nazi party
~took power legally in 1933
~abolished parliamentary regime and built a totalitarian state

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International Contacts & Conflicts
Benito Mussolini

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~like Hitler, he had promised an aggresive foreign policy and new nationalist glories
~in his first decade, he was rather moderate diplomatically
~with Hitler in power, he began experimenting more boldly
~1935, attacked Ethopia

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International Contacts & Conflicts
Neville Chamberlain

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~British prime minister
~proclaimed that his appeasement had won "peace jin our time."

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International Contacts & Conflicts
Harry Truman

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~president during bombing of Hiroshima
~ called the bombing "the greatest thing in history."

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International Contacts & Conflicts
Franklin Roosevelt

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~eager to press the Soviet Union for assistance against Japan

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International Contacts & Conflicts
Winston Churchill

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~long feared communist aggression
~coined the term "iron curtain."

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International Contacts & Conflicts
Mikhail Gorbachev

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~Soviet leader in 1985
~openly acknowledged the economic crisis
~encouraged several significant arms reductions with the U.S.