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21 Cards in this Set
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Isolationism
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Withdrawal from world affairs in 1920s and 1930s
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Disarmament
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Reducing the size of a country's military
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Emily Greene Balch
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Leader of the women's movement that played an important role in peace efforts
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Washington Conference
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International conference in Washington D.C., that focused on naval disarmament and pacific security
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Charles Evans Hughes
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Secretary of State
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Kellogg-Briand Pact
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Outlawed war "as an instrument of national policy" but allowed countries to go to war in self-defense
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Adolf Hitler
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Survived a poison gas attack during the war and remained convinced that politicians, not the German army, were responsible for Germany losing the war.
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Emiliano Chamorro
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Overthrew the government, sparking a bitter civil war
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Henry Stimson
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A long time public official, to negotiate an end to the civil war
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Augusto César Sandino
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A general who opposed Chamorro , refused to accept Stimson's proposal
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Adolfo Díaz
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Chamorro's successor
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Anastasio Somoza
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Ordered Sandino's assassination
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Lázaro Cárdenas
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Began to nationalize the country's oil industry
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Nationalize
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Assert government control over
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Caudillos
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Took power in many Latin American countries
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Benito Mussolini
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Founded the Fascist Party in 1921
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Fascist Party
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Founded to destroy the Communist Party
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Blackshirts
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Army of Mussolini followers, named blackshirts because of their uniforms
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Joseph Stalin
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Emerged as the nation's leader
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Totalitarian state
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Country where the government is in control
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Brown shirts
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They had brown uniforms
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