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Alsace-Lorraine
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Border provinces in France, Part of Germany after the Franco Prussian War
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Leon Trotsky
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Communist leader who led the Red Army
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Lusitania
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British passenger liner that was struck by a German torpedo
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Nicholas II
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Ignored German demand to cancel mobilization
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The Somme
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The British, French, and Germans fought a battle here. It was terrible and inconclusive. British introduced the tanks here.
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Kellogg-Biand
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Treaty between America and France that denounced war as a means of settling disputes
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Benito Mussolini
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"Il Duce" dictator of Italy
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Maginot Line
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France built a series of fortifications that were 200 miles long to prevent against German invasion
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Third Reich
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What Hitler called his government; the Third Empire
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Siberia
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Region around Russia where Stalin's labor camps were
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Mohandas Gandhi
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Protested racial discrimination based on civil disobedience
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Salvador Dali
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Artist who used surrealism
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Neville Chamberlain
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Resigned after Norway and Denmark fell
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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-Allied commander
-Assembled force for D-Day (Operation Overlord) |
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Vichy
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In southern France, the Nazis set up a puppet government here under Henri Petain
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Harry S Truman
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Ordered atomic bomb to be dropped
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Haile Selassie
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Condemned Italian aggression in his country
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Francisco Franco
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Led the Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War
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Midway
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In this battle, the American defeated the Japanese navy and ended Japanese naval superiority in the Pacific
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Nuremberg
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Sit of trials for Nazi leaders after the war
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Germany's 1839 treaty about neutrality
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Signed with Great Britain, Russia, and France, and guarunteed the neutrality of Belgium
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Fascists, like communists, advocated what?
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gave the state total authority
authoritarianism and totalitarianism |
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Where were Indians fired upon?
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Armritsar
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Gandhi's spinning wheel
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symbol of independence movement and symbol of the National congress
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Colapse of France helped Japan achieve what?
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indochina
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Stalin's agreement about Hitler
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Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression pact
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WWII began with the invasion of what?
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Poland
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QWhat is kristallnacht?
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the night when the Nazis carried out attacks on jews in Austria
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Allied Pacific campaign
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Included island hopping, leapfrogging, bypassing some islands and attacking others
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World's major manufacturer in the 1920s
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U.S.
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What was the American's neutrality policy in the 1940s while supplying Britain?
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Cash and carry
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Who were allied with Austria Hungary in WWI?
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Central Powers
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Who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor
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Isoroku Yamamoto
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Who assassinated Francis Ferdinand?
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Nationalists groups from Serbia
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Where were the postwar talks with Roosebelt, Churchill, and Stalin held?
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Yalta
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What was the major turning point in WWII?
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Stalingrad
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HOw did the French insure Germany would pay its war debts in 1923?
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They invaded Ruhr Valley and took control of coal mines and steel mills
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What is the treaty of Brest-Litocsk?
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Russing signed this with Germany. They lost most western territory and a third of the population.
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Who developed the theory of relativity?
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Albert Einstein
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What agreement between Italy and Germany made them declare war on the U.S.?
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Tripartite Pact
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Who was the first to use poison gas?
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German troops
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Russia sided with Serbia in 1914 after what diplomatic agreement?
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Austrai-Hungary declared war on Serbia and France said they would support Russia
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The newly formed USSR was controlled by whom?
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Communist party leaders
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What are the commonwealth of nations?
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A voluntary assocation linking Great Britian and its former colonies on an equal basis
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Who became the fascist leader of the black shirts?
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Mussolini
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