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36 Cards in this Set
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1870 Franco Prussian War
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German unification. started arms race
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Concert of Europe
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Post Napoleon developed to create a balance of power and prevent uprisings. Works until Crimean War.
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Ziabatsu
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business conglomerates (monopoly) in Japan
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Tsar
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Rusian leader
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Crimean War (1854-6)
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In Russia's back door. Russia was pushed out of region by Ottoman empire
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"Great Gain"
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Between Br and Ru. was a spy game to try and get a leg up on the other
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Great Reforms (russia)
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Imposed by alexander II when he freed the surfs in 1861. THere were also great economic reforms: railroads
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Jingoism
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nationalist sentiment where there is a war-like desire
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Pan-slavism
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nationalism beyond state boarders
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Spanish flu (1918)
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Flu that killed 10x more people in America than during WWI
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Crimean War
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1854-1856
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Freedom of the Surfs
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1861
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Franko-Prussian War
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1870
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German Unification
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1871
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Emperor's League
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1872 (Gr. A-H, Ru.)
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Sino-Japanese War
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1897-1899
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Hague Conference
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1899
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Boxer Rebellion
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1899-1901
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Anglo-Japanese Alliance
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1902
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Russo-Japanese War
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1904-1905
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Russian Revolution
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1905
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Triple Entrete
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Br. Fr. Ru. 1907
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Triple Alliance
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Gr. It. A-H 1907
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WWI starts
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1914
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Trench Warfare Starts
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September 14, 1914
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Spanish Flu
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1918
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WWII Starts
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September 1, 1939
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Pearl Harbor
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December 7, 1941
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D-Day
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June 6, 1944
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A-Bomb Dropped
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August 6 and 9 1945
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zemstvoes
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local political councils, that had a voice in local matters but not on national policy. In Russia.
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bolsheviks
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A Russian group that formed unions and conducted strikes and had firm political ideas in mind
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Duma
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national parliament created to ease unrest in Russia
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Kulaks
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aggressive entrepreneurs who began to increase agricultural production and buy additional land
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Falange
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Explicitly fascist party- Franco
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American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA)
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Socialism and nationalism, as well as on some aspects of Mussolini’s Fascism this party aimed at being an international organization through out the hemisphere
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