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suez canal
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connects the red sea and the mediterranian
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sepoy rebellion
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indian soldiers rebelled against british imperialism
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opium war
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chinese goverment fights with european imperialists, looses which opens trade ports
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boxer rebellion
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chinese rebellion trying to push out imperialism
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boer war
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boers are dutch south africans and they fought for control of south africa
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meiji
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japenese emporers that indurtrialised japan..becomes conquors not conqoured, NOT TO INDIA
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gandhi
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non violent independence movement to india
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mandela
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south african presedent, tryed to unite it, ended arpitied
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rhodes
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british imprerialist, made himself rich off of the riches in africa
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axis
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WWII gremany italy and japan
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central powers
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WWI germany, austria hungary, and turkey
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allied powers
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USA Britain, france, russia...WWI and WWII
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schlieffen
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WWI german battle plan, take over france quickly
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triple entente
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pre WWI alliance of france, russia, and england
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league of nations
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failed world peace keeping organization of WWI
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nuremberg laws
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anti-jewish laws by the natzis
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maginot line
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WWII fighting line between france and germany
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fascism
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limits indevidual rights...beleif of putting your country before yourself, giving up personal freedom and wealth for the betterment of your country
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reichstag
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german goverment building before hitler
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black shirts
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mussolinis followers
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brown shirts
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hitlers followers
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treaty of versailles
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ends WWI....june 28 1919, weima republic sighned treaty un utter defeat...germanys has to pay reparations, war guilt, demiliterization
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swing music
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type of very dance oriented jazz music
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mein kamph
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hitlers book that includes ideas of lebensraum against jews
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hitler
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followers(brown shirts)
fasciest dictator of germany |
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mussolini
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followers(black shirts)
fasciest dictator of italy |
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ferdinand
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helped cause WWI, because he was assasinated because he was apart of black hand to free black slaves
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nationalism
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to have pride in ones country
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militerism
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build up of military
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anschluss
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hitlers taking over of austria
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lebenstraum
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living room, hitler wants to expand his country
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sudetenland
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portion os checulslavakia hitler got in the munich pact
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rhineland
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demiliterized zone between germany and france
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radar
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helps british in the battle of british
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battle of britain
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battle nazis bombing england...british use radar
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united nations
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WWII peace keeping organization, potsdam conference
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potsdam
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WWII conference of allied powers
stalin promises to give back europe united nations is formed |
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yalta
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russians agreed to fight with america against the japan after germanys defeat
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nuremburg trials
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trials of nazi war criminals
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munich conference
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league of nations, gives hitler the sudetenland
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de gaulle
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painted ballerinas
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yamamoto
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planned pearl harbor
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erwin rommel
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desert fox, penzer tank general in africa
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hirohito
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emporer of japan
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battle of bulge
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hitlers last ditch effort to beat allied forces
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stalingrad
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turing point for the soviet union/europe
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el alimein
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turning point battle in north africa during WWII
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D-Day
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allied invasion of france to defeat hitler...june 6th 1944
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V-E day
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victory over europe day
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V-J day
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victory over japan day, ends WWII
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causes of WWII
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hitler invades poland
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blitzkreig
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german battle plan
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japanese imperialism
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meiji emporers take over countries, pasific islands, parts of east asia
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marshal plan
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USAs plan to rebuild europe, so they dont turn communist...gave money to countries theatned by communism
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atlantic charter
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meeting between US and great britain
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truman doctrain
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americcas plan to contain communusm, also known as containment
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tripartite pact
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agreement between germany italy and japan
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iron curtain
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divides communist from uncommunist europe
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berlin wall
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symbol of the cold war
when it comes down it symbolizes the end of the cold war but it splits germany so communist and uncommunist citezins dont move |
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cultural revolution
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maos attempt to keep revolutionary spirt by destroying old stuff
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perestrokia
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gorbatroves plan to introduce capitalism and democracy
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cuban missle crisis
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first serious threat of nuclear warfare, closest we come to total nuclear destruction
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camp david accords
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peace treaty between eqypt and isreal, signed in america...america makes peace between egypt and isreal
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OPEC
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orgainzation of petroleum exporting countries, controls oil supply and prices
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great leap forward
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maos plan to industrialize china
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deterrence
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idea of muturaly assued destruction... "if you blow me up, ill blow you up"
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ICBM
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ability to diliver bombs over long distances, allows countried to point nucs at cities
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Detente
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cooling down of the cold war
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containment policy
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stopping the spread of communism
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tiananmen square
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chinese students protest for democracy
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bessemer
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creates process for steel
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colony
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dirctly ruled country by imperialist country
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western way
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beleif that european way to do things was the best
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protectorate
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area military protected by stronger nation, left to be independent
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white mans burden
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poem saying its the white mans job to "fix" other countries
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sphere of influence
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area that a country controls trade
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east india company
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british company that trades
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causes of imperialism
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new materials, prestege, raw materials, natural resources
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