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Main region where World War I took place between the Germans and the French/British.

Western Front

Austrian journalist who founded the Zionist movement. He lived from 1860 to 1904 C.E. The movement was a nationalistic movement in which Jews risked it all to fight for their country.

Theodore Herzl

The 1917 proposition that released Arthur Balfour with the goal of letting the Jews have a homeland.

Balfour Declaration

Founded by Lenin, it was based off of radical Marxist views in 1903 C.E. They seized power in Russia during the Russian Revolution.

Bolsheviks

The founder of Bolsheviks that rose to power during the Russian Revolution. He lived from 1856 to 1924 C.E.

Vladimir Lenin

President of the United States from 1913 to 1921 C.E. He was a crucial representative in the Paris Peace Conference. He proposed his fourteen points to find peace.

Woodrow Wilson

agreement that marked the end of the war, signed by many nations and forcing Germany, who was the main cause of WWI, to get rid of their army and give back Polish land. This led to WWII and the rise of Hitler.

Treaty of Versailles

In 1919 C.E., it was a group that had the common goal of uniting all the nations and promoting peace globally.

League of Nations

Introduced by Lenin in 1924 C.E., it was a policy providing for the soviet russian economy to increase with the use of small enterprises that were private.

New economic Policy

agreement that lost Austria and hungry three-quarters of its terriotry

Treaty of Saint-Germain

Chinese revolutionists who based themselves and their ideas upon great nationalist; leader of the Guomindang.

Sun Yat-sen

the most powerful of the chinese regional generals that refused to support the qing

Yuan Shikai

a political party that was led by sun yat-sen

guomindang

an officer and director of the military academy in which the leadership of Sun (after his death in 1925) was passed to this man

chiang kai-shek

new rule in which colonial rulers would administer the territories BUT would be accountable to the league of nations for the "material and moral well-being and social progress of inhabitants"

mandate system

found that atoms only absorb energy in discreet amounts, called "quanta"

Max Planck

built the first aircraft that was heavier than air and could still be maneuvered in flight

Wilbur and Orville Wright

Head of the communist Russian party; established his five years plan; developed stalinism; promising for Russia and brought the nation back. He was hungry for power and control.

Joseph stalin

a system of centralized control copied from the german experience of WWI

five-year plan

these better off peasants resisted giving up property

kaluks

Italian fascist who became the autocrat of the country and was able to rise to the top and counter socialism. He had great leadership, which was favourable to citizens.

Benito Mussolini

Neato Benito created this.. through this he was able to rise to the top of the political system of Italy. This party served as an opponent or counter to that of the socialists, making is more favourable as a thought.

Fascist Party

Leader of the German Nazi Party; believed that it was Germany’s obligation to conquer and rule the world and start conflict with anyone that opposed them. Believed the Aryans were the master race.

Adolf Hitler

book that hitler wrote

Mein Kampf

Chiang and Mao both held loyal followers, who were willing to form military services to oppose Japan; ruler of the Republic of China

Chiang Kai-shek

Governed the people’s republic of China; led Chinese soldiers to Guomindang. Chiang and Mao both held loyal followers, who were willing to form military services to oppose Japan.

Mao ze dong

Major conflict between China and Japan, second major, China was aided by Russia, Germany, and the United States.

Sino-Japanese War

Japan successfully conquering the Chinese city of Nanjing, raping the women in the city and killing lots of people.

rape of nanjing

it was one of the first major attacks on American soil that deeply affected the entire nation. Japan wished to flaunt their power on the United States, but all it did was bring the United States into the war and it was quite detrimental to Japan instead.

Attack on US navy @ Pearl Harbor

Killed everyone and everything instantly, massive loss of life in seconds


Radioactive substance spread instantly, affecting future generations


After stopping the second atomic bomb, Japan finally surrendered to the United States


With the new technology, nations were now more threatening if they had it

Hiroshima & Nagasaki

Biggest concentration camp where an extreme number of Jewish peoples and people who the Nazis did not like were murdered. This camp was especially gruesome.

Auschwitz Concentration Camp

basically doomed japan from winning war

Battle of Midway

Mass killing of people that the Nazis of Germany thought were inferior or undesirable, in attempt to globally dominate. They only wished for Aryans to survive, murdering everyone else, sending to concentration camps.

Holocaust