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33 Cards in this Set
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1914-1918
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world war 1
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1915
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italy enters war
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1916
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beginning of arab revolt againt the ottoman empire
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1917
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-russian revolution
-british balfour declaration promises jews a homeland in palestine -united states enters war |
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1918
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-german emperor abdicates
-treaty of brest-litovsk; russia withdraws from war |
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1919
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-versailles conference and treaty; league of nations established
-treaty of st. german recognizes czechoslovakis, yugoslavia, poland, and hungary |
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1919-1939
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period of united states isolation
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1920
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treaty of sevres dissolves ottoman empire; french and british mandates set up in the middle east
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1923
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treaty of lausanne recognizes independence of turkey
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1929-1939
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great depression
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1931
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japan invades manchuria
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1933
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nazis rise to power in germany
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1935
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germany rearms; italy invades ethiopia
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1936-1939
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spanish civil war
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1937
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new japanese attack on china; beginning of war in asia
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1938
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germany's union (anschluss) with austria; germany invades czechoslovakia; munich conference
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1939
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world war 2 begins; germany and soviet union invade poland; nazi-soviet pact
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1940
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axis agreement (germany, italy, and japan); fall of france
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1941
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japanese attack pearl harbor; united states enter war; german invasion of soviet union
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1942
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tide begins to turn in both war theaters; soviet union repulses attack on stalingrad; allies invade north africa
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1942-1945
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allied conferences in tehran, yalta and potsdam
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1944
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invasion of france by allies
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1945
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u.s. drops atomic bomb on japan; end of world war 2; united nations established
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1946
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united states grants philippines independence
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1947
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cold war begins between united states and soviet union; wider decolonization begins with independence of india and pakistan
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1949
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formation of NATO
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1950-1953
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korean war
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1960
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diminution of cold war
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1962
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cuban missle crisis
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1963
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nuclear test ban treaty
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1964-1973
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u.s. and vietnam war
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1972 and 1974
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strategic arms limitation treaties, u.s. and soviet union
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1989
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end of cold war
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