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Vladimir Lenin |
A communist Russian dictator in the early 1900s, Lenin successfully adapted Marxism to Russia. He promised peace, food, and land to those who would support him. However, he was quick to kill counter-revolutionists and had to fight a civil war. Although being communist he did allow small-scale private trade. |
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Joseph Stalin |
Replaced Lenin in Russia after Lenin's death, quickly made Russia completely communist seizing property. Stalin successfully quickly industrialized Russia by paying very low wages to workers allowing Russia to become an industrial power. However, during this time he also sent millions to concentration camps. Mid 1900s. |
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Treaty of Versailles |
A humiliating treaty signed by Germany in the early 1900s after their defeat in WWI. Severely limited Germany's ability to become a global power/threat by limiting their army size, making them pay huge fines for WWI and taking their colonies away. Hitler slowly broke more rules of the Versailles Treaty as WWII neared. |
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Adolph Hitler |
Hitler managed to assume totalitarian power over Germany in the early 1900s after being elected from the Nazi Party. Hitler thought that all of Germany's problems were due to Jews and that Germany had to conquer more land if they didn't want to be affected by the global economy weakening. This led to WWII and concentration camps. |
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Nuremberg Laws |
A set of racist laws pronounced by the Nazi party and Hitler in the early/mid 1900s. It made Jews no longer citizens and it illegal for Jews to marry German citizens. |
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Kuomintang |
The Chinese Nationalist Party, the Kuomintang, were able to unify China for parts of the early 1900s under mostly a dictatorship rule. Their primary enemies were the Chinese Communist Party, which led to civil war. |
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Mao Tse-Tung |
A founding member of the Chinese Communist Party, Tse-Tung created the People's Republic of China. He was for the most part able to unify China, although like Lenin and Stalin was to quick to execute any counter-revolutionaries. |
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Chiang Kai-Shek |
A nationalistic military leader of China during the 1900s he ruled the Republic of China until the mid 1900s where he lost to the CCP in the civil war and was forced to retreat to Taiwan, where he ruled for the rest of his life. |
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Long March |
After being driven from south and east China, the CCP was forced on a brutal 6000 mile retreat to the north of China, led by Mao Zedong the communist force was barely able to survive, crowning Mao as their leader after the retreat. |
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Manchurian Incident |
A staged incident in the early/mid 1900s designed by rogue Japanese military personnel that gave Japan an excuse to invade Manchuria. A bomb was set on train tracks and then set off, the Japanese accused China of setting the bomb and Japan quickly invaded Manchuria after. |
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League of Nations |
A peace keeping organization that was founded in the early 1900s after WWI. The league's goal was to maintain world peace through sanctions and mustering a combined army from all the members of the league. This, however, did not succeed and WWII quickly ensued. |
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Appeasement |
A political strategy used by Britain in the early 1900s with Germany, Britain would concede to what Germany wanted in order to prevent another World War. |
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Blitzkreig |
A tactic used by Germany in the beginning of WWII in the early 1900s, allowed Germany to quickly gain land in the early years of the war. Tanks would group up along with planes and bombard the enemy's trenches until they were able to create a hole in the front lines, the infantry would then quickly follow. |
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"Asia for the Asians" |
A slogan used by Japan in the 1900s when Japan was taking over another Asian country. In reality Japan was not helping them, but just taking over that country. |
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Nanjing Massacre |
An episode in the mid 1900s during WWII when Japan and China were engaged in war. Japanese troops in the then capital of China, Nanjing, murdered innocent civilians in inhuman ways and raped Chinese women. |
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Unit 731 |
A human experimentation unit during WWII in the mid 1900s. Unit 731 tested new biological and chemical weapons on test subjects and then would operate on them without anesthesia. |
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Yalta Conference |
A post WWII conference in the mid 1900s. The leaders of America, Britain and the USSR attended the conference to discuss post WWII Europe. There they discovered their difference leading to the Cold War. |
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Nuclear Deterrence |
The nuclear deterrence theory states that nuclear weapons are intended to deter other countries from using their nuclear weapons. This theory was used by the US in the cold war. |
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Mohandas Gandhi |
The leader of the Indian independence movement in the mid 1900s. Gandhi preached non-violence and peaceful protests. Gandhi also wanted India to remain one country despite religious differences. |
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Muslim League |
One of the main Muslim political parties in India and later on in Pakistan. Formed in the early 1900s the League asked for an independent Muslim state from India in the mid 1900s. Their wish was granted forming Pakistan. |
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Balfour Declaration |
A declaration in the early 1900s from Britain to the Zionist Federation formally allowing Jews to emigrate to Palestine. |
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Gamal Abdul Nasser |
The second Egyptian president, he served during the mid 1900s. Nasser helped overthrow the monarchy that had ruled Egypt and cracked down on the Muslim Brotherhood. |
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Six Day War |
A war in the mid/late 1900s between Israel and their surrounding Muslim countries. Israel found great success in the war quickly expanding their empire. |
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Saddam Hussein |
The president of Iraq in the late 1900s, Hussein used military force to gain power and acted as a dictator. On the bright side Hussein used oil to help cement the Iraq economy. |
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Mikhail Gorbachev |
Leader of the Soviet Union in the late 1900s, he began reforming the Soviet Union making it more democratic and giving freedom of speech. His changes allowed citizens of countries ruled by the USSR to protest communism. Shortly the Soviet Union ended and Gorbachev resigned leading to the creation of democratic Russia. |
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Cultural Revolution |
A revolution started by Mao Tse-Tung, the communist leader of China to get rid of old cultural values because the old values supported the rich upper class staying dominant over the lower class which went against communism. |
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Deng Xiaoping |
Replaced Mao Tse-Tung as the ruler of communist China. Xiaoping opened China to Western investment and technologies in the late 1900s. Also harshly dealt with protesters. |
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Tiananmen Square Massacre |
During a protest against communism in China, protesters were brutally cracked down on by the Chinese army. |
