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Industrial Revoultion
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England, Northern France, Netherlands, and Rhine River Germany is where the Industrial Revolution is considered to have began (the mass production of using the factory system)
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Urbanization in Europe
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was caused by the Industrial Revolution because after all the better jobs happened everyone wanted to get those jobs instead of being poor
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Underdeveloped places in Europe
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parts of Souther Europe (Spain, the Balkans) and the Russian Empire remain poor and underdevloped
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European Colonialism
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was caused by the need for raw materials and rivalries between European countries because they just can not get along
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Diffusion of European culture
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diffusion of European culture (language, religion, culture) that results because of the colonization to other places
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Nationalist Clashes
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the rise of nationalistic and industrial countries leads to fighting over colonies
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Bosnains
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Nationalist people from Bosnia who (supported by Serbia) assinated the heir to the Austrian Empire which was a realllyyyyyyyy bad idea
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World War I
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the first industrialized war that was fought by all the major powers of Europe (including the US and other places) in 1914-1918 that was caused by the Bosnians killing the heir to the Austrian Empire
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Results of World War I
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a bunch of people died all thanks to those stupid Bosnians and machine guns, tanks, aircraft, and weapons of mass destruction were used for the first time during this war and the multi-ethnic Empires broke up,
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Ethnic Hatred
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a lot of this was stired up after WWI when everyone disliked other ethnic groups other than their one
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Russian Revolution
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(another) result of WWI in which Russian Communists overthrew the Russian Czar and kiled the royal family (#Anastasia) and created the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics after the Russian economy collapsed due to the terrible losses against Germany and Austria
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Bolsheviks
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another name for the Russian Communists who killed the Russian royal family and took over (#suchinspirations)
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The Soviet Union
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A totalitarian government ruled by Joesph Stalin; has a centrally planned, command economy and is ruled by fear and demands control of neighboring countries
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KGB
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Secret police in The Soviet Union that would kill people who would be talking against the government; they would also make people who were talking about their homeboy Stalin disappear
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Russification
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a policy of forced cultural assimilation of ethnic minorities (basically they forced their Russian-ness onto other not Russian ethnic groups)
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Ethnic Groups in Russia
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everyone should be russian and if you weren't russian you weren't allowed to teach your culture to others
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Joseph Stalin
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all-powerful leader of the USSR who feared enemies, revolutions, and spies
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Gulags
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prison camps that Stalin had some of those jerks who were talking bad about him and his peeps sent to where they would be worked to death
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Untranationalist
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peeps in Germany who thought they wwere better than everyone else who were vowing revenge for Germany's defeat
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Adolph Hitler
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a bad guy who was an ultranationalist who led the Nazi political party and eventually became Germany's new leader
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Germany in the 1930s
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demands German lands in Czechoslovakia and Austria and invades Poland in 1939 to spread Germanic peoples control to the East which starts WWII
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Hitler's Nazi Germany
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conquers most of western and central Europe w
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Nazi Ideology
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the Nazi peeps idea that the German Aryans (supermen) should be the rules of the world with everyone else being thier slaves
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Lesser Ethnic Groups in Nazi Ideology
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Jews, Poles, Russians, etc. needed to be eliminated
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The Holocaust
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where the Nazi peeps executed a bunch of people for not being German
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USSR and Eastern Europe
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Eastern Europe is basically controlled by the USSR, but the USSR doesn't have any formal authority over it
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Warsaw Pact
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a pact that communist countries made to be an alliance
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NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
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treaty that USA, France, and Great Britain made to be military buddies that inspired the Warsaw Pact to happen
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Cold War
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period from 1945- 1991 with intense political, diplomatic, and econmoic confrontation between the US and it's allies and the Soviet Union and it's allies; nothing ever really happened (no real fights) between the two countries who both had nuclear weapons
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Collapse of the USSR
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despite their military and science, they can't keep up with the US and Europe and eventually begins to collapse in 1991 due to it's inefficient government
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Russian Federation
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after the USSR collapsed the Russian Federation emerged even though it lost 1/3 of it's territory it's still the biggest country
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Russia
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it has a lot of mineral and energy wealth and the minerals and energy are mostly found in Siberia (where not a lot of people live); still has a powerful, nuclear-armed military; remains a security council member of the United Nations
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Trans- Siberian Railroad
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the railroad that moves resources to Western Russia and people to Eastern Russia
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Vladimir Putin
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current leader of Russia that was an ex-KGB officer that has been strengthening the central power of the Russian government
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Ethnic unrest in non-Russian territories
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has led to warfare and terrorism across the region
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Acid Rain
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pollutions mixed wiht precipitation that was caused by powerplants that were used in Soviet-era Russia that would produce toxic wastes and air pollution
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Chernobyl
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A massive explosion at a Soviet nuclear powerplant in 1986 that resulted in a radioactive wasteland and people having to abandon their homes
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Western Europe
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moving towards interdependence and union (unlike Eastern Europe which is fragmenting into smaller national states)
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European Union
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an organization that countries such as France, Germany, UK, etc. are involved in as they slowly become a supranational organization as they share economic and political systems
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European states
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mostly have democratic governments and republics or parliamentary governments and most have a Socialist economy that has a wide variety of services (ie heath care, transportation, housing, etc.)
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Euro
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main currency used by most European States
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Soccer
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very popular in Europe and wealthiest sport in the world
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Declining Birth Rates/Shrinking Populations
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a problem in Europe today that results in Negative Population growth; Germany has encouraged immigration in the past while France and Russia now offer money to women for having more than one child
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Legacy of Industrialization
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chemical air and water pollution which can reslt in more acid rain
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Economic crisis
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many European countries could not pay loans as their economies collapsed by the 2010s
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PIGS
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an organization consisting of Portugal, Ireland, Greece, and Spain that is mostly for poor countries
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Austerity policies
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the policies that wealthier nations put on PIGS nations when they loaned them money that consist of deep cuts in socialist programs, selling off land, etc.)
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Devolution
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to allow some independence of a region wihtin a country (own legislature, taxes, leaders))
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Fragmentation
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when countries break up and become smaller states
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Balkanized
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wars fought over ethnic territory
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Caucasus region
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place where the Russian Federation continues to deal with non-Russian seperatists and many groups have to turned to terrorism as a weapon
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