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17 Cards in this Set
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Central Powers
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triple alliance; Germany, Austria-Hungary (Dual Alliance a defensive pact that ensured reciprocal protection from a Russian attack and neutrality incase of an attack from any other power.) Italy.
Triple Entente:French did not forgive the defeat during the Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871. Agreement between British and Russia. |
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Total War
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The Great War became a conflict of attrition in which the organization of material and human resources was of paramount importance. but war created a military front and a home front. the outcome of the war hinged on how effectively each nation mobilized its economy and activated its noncombatant citizens to support the war effort
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Western Front, Eastern Front
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Western Front: German thrust toward Paris August 1914. ""race to the sea"". Battle stayed stationary. Trenches. From English Channel to Switzerland. Italy left the Triple Alliance for neutrality. Entered the war with Allies.
Eastern Front: German and Austrian forces overan Serbia, Albania, and Romania. Russia took Prussia 1914. 1915 Combined forces drove Russian out and established defensive line from Baltic to Ukraine. |
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Trench Warfare
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Battles were virtually stationary. The development of new technology to kill such as poison gas. Tanks and Plane. attrition warfare, for stalemate in conflict, with a slow wearing down of opposing forces. Trench were major part of World War I
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The Home Front
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the defeat of a nation would not be acknowledged until the whole strength of its people was broken. a conflict of attriction in which the organization of material and human resouraces was of paramount imporatnce. The term homefront expressed the important reality that the outcome of thwar hinged on how effively the economy and noncambantant citizens suppor the war effort. Militarized industries to support war goods. Laissez Faire. Unemployment vanished.
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Women and World War I
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women worked since men are off to war. most crucial was the making of shells. voting rights came after the war1918(britain)
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Propaganda
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RESTRICTION ON CIVIL LIBERTIES, CENSORSHIP BAD NEWS, AND VILIFICATION OF THE ENEMY THROUGH PROPAGANDA CAMPAINGS. FALSEHOOD. PUBLIC DISBELIEF OF WARTIME PROPAGANDA LED TO AN INABLITY TO DISBELIEF IN THE ABOMINATIONS PERPETRATED DURING during the subsequent wars.
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Fascism
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Grew in Italy after Great War. Widespread disillusionnment with uninspired political leadership and ineffective government, extensive economic turmoil and social discontent. growing fear of socialism. BENITO MUSSOLINI. Fasci Italiani di Combattimento (Italian Combat Veteran League.) Used of violence (blackshirts). one party party. curb the freedom of press, outlaw speech and association.
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Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Germany
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Chairman of natinal Socialist German Workers' Party (NAZI). attempted to overthrown the Weimar Republic 1923. Blame German democracy and other people for losing the war. Took over corrupted government and rebuilt Germany.
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Allied Powers and Axis Power
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Allied: France, Great Britain, United States, Soviet Unions, and its allies.
Axis: Germany, Japan, and Italy. Territorial expension due to the policies. overthrew the terms. |
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Anti-Semitism
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Prejudice against the Jew. became a key element in the designs to achieve a new racial order and became the hallmark of Natinonal Socialist RUle. Blame Jews for Germany lost. Biological racial theories. fuk this. we just did an essay about it
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Rape of Nanjing
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Japanese forces took over Nanjing and raped, killed (including unarmed citizens and surrendered soldiers) 7000 women. hundres of thousands of soldiers and civilian. 400,000 Chinese to practice.
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Blitzkrieg
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suprised, stealth, swiftness. Lightning War. worked for the first have of the war.
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Holocaust and Final Solution
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annihilated millions of JEws, Slavs, Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, communites, POW, and others targeted as undesirables. Became a problem. massive killings. FUK THIS TOO WE JUST DID AN ESSAY ON THIS
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Island Hopping
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CAPTURING ISLANDS THAT ARE NECCESSARY TO CARRY OUT THE ATTACK ON JAPAN. The idea was to bypass heavily fortified Japanese positions and instead concentrate the limited Allied resources on strategically important islands that were not well defended but capable of supporting the drive to the main islands of Japan.
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Atomic Bomb: Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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AUGUST 6/9 1945 THE BOMB INSTANTANEOUSLY VAPORIZED OR SLOWLY KILLED BY RADIATION POISONING UPWARD OF TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND PEOPLE. JAPS FINALLY SURRENDER. SOVIET UNION DECLARED WAR ON JAPAN.
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GAINED INDEPENDENCE AND CONFIDENCE PREVIOUSLY DENIED TO THEM. TOOK JOBS.
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GAINED INDEPENDENCE AND CONFIDENCE PREVIOUSLY DENIED TO THEM. TOOK JOBS.
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