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Otto von bismarck
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German/Prussian Statesman
oversaw unification influenced international politics |
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Camillo Cavour
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PM of Italy
oversaw unification (died before complete |
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Napoleon III
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louis-napoleon bonapart - 1st pres. of the French republic, last monarch of France
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Bolsheviks
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the party of Lenin in Russia, became the communist party, seized power during the October Revolution (over threw the provisional gov't)
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Rudyard kipling
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british poet and author, 1st english to win the Nobel for literature, Controversial
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Vladivostok
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russia's biggest port on the Pacific Ocean , connected by the Trans Siberian Railway
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Suez Canal
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a canal in egypt (accesses transport between europe and asia)
Crrisis- GB FR + Isreal attack Egypt...Oct. 1956...b/c Egypt wants to nationalize the canal |
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Koran
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religious text of Islam
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Allah
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the Arabic word for God
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Vladamir Illyich Lenin
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russian revolutionary ... bolshevik leader (communist) ... leader of the October Revolution and Soviet union (1st leader)
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Neville Chamberlain
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british conservative politician and PM... foreign Policy 1. signed Munich Agreement 1938 2. con
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hitler
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nazi speaker, mein kampf, gained power through gov't, Germany=nazi state, building army fixes the economy, anti-semetic...ethnic clensing, all land needed or German is ours
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Bosnian Chrisis
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Austria and Russia joint plan to take Ottoman Empire...Aust. early ...Russia mad...almost starts WWI
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Boer War
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when the Boer's (now living in their 2 free states) fought against the oppresive English
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Mein Kampf
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written by Hitler and Hess
became like the bible of nazi Germany |
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J. Stalin
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leader after Lenin...focused only on Russia ... Power Hungary and very Ruthless... competition eliminated, 5 YEAR PLAN (detailed)
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Facism
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totalitarian, gov't control, industry=power, nationalistic - genocide, superpower by maniupulation, Classes, military Expansion, Right, Violent
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Gladston
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Liberal/Whig, businessman, orater, laissez-faire, PM 2twice, Disraeli in the middle, 2nd time gives up laizzes-faire
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Gladstone's reforms
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1st - fake reforms (unions but no strikes/meetings, schools but not mandatory
2nd- Reform Act (universal manhood sufferage) Nat'l Insurance Act |
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Beu Disraeli
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"reforming" tory (<3 by noblesm working class queen victoria), Debator, PM between gladstone
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Tony Blair
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trimmed the seatss of the house of Lord's LORDS REFORM ACT (1911)
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Socialism ????
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reforms the gov't to help commoners 1) through the gov't 2)revolution
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Dreyfus affair
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french blaim Dreyfus for Franco-Prussian War...sent to jail..."I accuse" questions this decesion...case divieds the country ...found Innocent
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Reinsurance Treaty
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secret treaty between Russia and Germany (Russia hates Austria)
short lived ... cancelled by Wilhelm II |
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Entente Cordialle
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FR, GB, Russia ... Italy joins later ... Russia gets out early... WINNERS
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Triple Alliance
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Germany and Austria + Italy ...Italy soon leaves...loosers of WWI (reporations)
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DUMA
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formed by Oct. Manifesto...Russia's Parliment
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October Manifesto
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doctment by Nicholas II- it end the rebellion and promises the DUMA
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Sepoy
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Indian soilders hired by GB to watch India...unite India...rebelled b/c forced to touch meat against religion... India becomes a colony
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Stanley
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journalist who found Livingston and continued his work...racist against natives...publishes the navigation of the Congo River
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Dr. Livingston
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missonary who went on 3 expeditions in Africa ... <3 nature and natives... got lost/hurt on 3rd trip
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Orange Free State
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one of 2 states created and occupied by boers after the "great trek"
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Cecil Rhodes
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multimillionare (from diamonds and gold who spent money on "Cape to Cairo" and RHODESIA
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"the Great Trek"
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the boer's big move from the cape to translyvania and the orange free state
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Boer
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dutch pesant farmers that settled in cape town ... taken over by GB after 150 yrs. of peace
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Cape Town
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the original town that was discovered by Poland... Dutch took over and many settlers came... GB took later ... Dominion Colony after that
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Danzig Corridor
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creater by the Treaty of Versilles WWI, was once Greman land, Poand can acces the sea... taken back by Germany in WWII
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Treaty of Versaillles
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after WWI, Germany forced to agree, Big 4: GB,FR,Russia, Italy, 1st of the century, harsh (reporations Rhineland colonies), long term (danzigm shantung, Fume)
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david lloyd george
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GB's representative @ the Treaty of Versailles, wants moderate peace, parliment disagrees (harsh)
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clemenceau
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FR representatives at the Treaty of Versailles, REVENGE
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Woodrow Wilson
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USA's representatives @ the Treaty of Versialles, personal:14 points League of Nations Congress: disagrees
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D Day
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"Operation Overload"; in Norway; sucessful; leaders: montgomery and eisenhower after 3 weeks 95% complete
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Sudetenland
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land in checkosylvakia (seized by Hitler after Austria)
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Midway Island
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where the USA started to win against Japan... learn to Island hop
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Battle of Britian
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a mainly airforce battle, a response to Operation Sealion(germans bombing GB)
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38th Parallel
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the dividing line between North and South Korea... a DMZ
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Fidel Castro
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the communist dictator of Cuba that overthrew Baptista
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Berlin Blockade
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USSR's blockade around Berlin (starts the air lift), lasted 1 year...also cut of east Germany
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Helmuth Knol
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the chancellor during Germany's reunification (conservative), 1st to discusse the Holacaust openly, manages w/ much difficulty the process of reunification
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THATCHER
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1st FEMALE PM of Gb, conservative, helped the economy, cut taxes, thacherism (hard line on unions)-> cuts inflation, this raised unemloyment, looses popularity and removed
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EEC
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European Economic Community goals: 1 no tariffs between members 2 free flow of labor and capital 3 same benifits to all member nations... became the EUROPEAN UNION
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Vladamir Putin
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current PM former Pres. of Russia
VERY popular |
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Angela Merkel
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current pres. of GERMANY
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Nicholas Sarkozy
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current pres. of FR
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Hiroshima
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city in Japan where a USA atomic bomb hit AUG. 6th...78,000 dead instantly ... don't surrender
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Pearl Harbor
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Japanese attack on USA naval base ... USA gets involved in the war
<3ed by Hitler |
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Stalingrad
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city in the Soviet union that Hitler was obsessed with invading (named after Stalin and large resources)
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Harry S. Truman
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vice pres. took over after roosevelts death
doesn't know about the war, hates stalin, pulled the trigger on Hiroshima |
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Bay of Pigs
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where USA invaded in Cuba (attempt to stop communism) failure=humiliation, builds tension in the cold war, castro asks the soviet union for aid ...gets nuclear weapons
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Nikita kruschev
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soviet leader during the Iorn Curtain period and when the Cold War began... built the Berlin Wall
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iron curtain
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named by Churchhill...a group of eastern european countries controlled by the USSR ...had no contact w/ the west...communist
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J. Chirac
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pres. of FR in 1987 during the "cohabilitation" period; PM @ tha t time F. Meitterrand
no accoplishments |
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John Major
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conservative PM that replaced Thatcher, boring ,lost majority soon
@ the end of the cold war |
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Maastricht
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the treaty that changed the EEC to the EU and committed Europe to the Euro. unifies @ a higher level
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Gerhard Schroeder
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chancellor that replaced Kohl...Socalist Democratic Party... can't solve problems...merged w/ the Green Party
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Dmirty? Medvedev
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is the current pres. of Russia
putin's Puppet |
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Benito Mussolini
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the fascist leader of Italy
made a Pact of Steel w/ Germany expanded rapidly using fear and propaganda |
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Bantu Education Acts ???
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in 1972 part of the aparthied...afrikaners and blacks are forced to learn the afrikaners language that mocks black people and teachs them they are inferior
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politoburg
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Poitical Bureau of a communist country
the executive commitee of a gov't |
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Islam
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monothiestic relgion... originated w/ Muhammad...popular in the arab world/ the middle east
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the Indian National Congress
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was a political party in india focused of obtaining a dominion status in India ... lots of help from GANDI
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Fourteen Points
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Pres. Wilson's goals for postWWI peace -> but the peace was harsh
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Verdun
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was the bloodiest battle place in WWI...Germany wants to break through (don't move)...700,000 men on each side dead
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Weimar Republic
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was the name of Germany's nazi state
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Liberalism
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broad category of political philosophies that all wish for liberty and equality and stress individuality
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Paris Commune
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the provisional goverment after the split between the anarchist and socialist
1st assumption of power to the working class 1871 |
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Louis Phillipe de Orleans
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King of the FR 1830-48... "crowned pear"... ppl revolt start a provisional gov't (elections in june)... Terrible June Days (violence) - Louis Neapolean elected (the 2nd empire)
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Sarajevo
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where the Serbian nationalist assasignated FR's Ferdinand, the heir to the Austrian thrown.
In Bosnia (owned by Austria) |
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Von Schieffen Plan
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Germany's plan for a two front war (put into action when they declare war on Russia) says to beat the weaker country (FR), via belgium, 1st then fight the bigger NOT SUCESSFUL
writter is still alive during execution of plan |
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Francis/Franz Fredinand
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the arch duce assasinated @ Serajevo cause of WWI
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