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Cairo Conference

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addressed the Allied position against Japan during World War II and made decisions about postwar Asia. The meeting was attended by President Franklin Roosevelt of the United States, Prime Minister Winston Churchill of the United Kingdom, and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek of the Republic of China.

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Casablanca conference

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held at the Anfa Hotel in Casablanca, Morocco, then a French protectorate, from January 14 to 24, 1943, to plan the European strategy of the Allies during World War II. Present were Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill.

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Overlord

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nvasion of western Europe during World War II by Allied forces. The operation began on 6 June 1944 with the Normandy Landings (commonly known as D-Day)

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Alsace-Lorraine

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contested area between france and germany

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op. barbarossa

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Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II that began on 22 June 1941

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op. unthinkable

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British plan to attack the Soviet Union. The creation of the plan was ordered by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and developed by the British Armed Forces' Joint Planning Staff at the end of World War II.

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Truman Doctrine

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name for the Cold War strategy of containment versus the Soviet Union and the expansion of communism. This doctrine was first promulgated by President Harry Truman in an address to the U.S. Congress on March 12, 1947.[1]

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gallipoli

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turkish straights that were the site of naval battles that were decisive in wwi.ook place at Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey from 25 April 1915 to 9 January 1916, during the First World War. A joint British and French operation was mounted to capture the Ottoman capital of Istanbul,[6] and secure a sea route to Russia. The attempt failed, with heavy casualties on both sides.

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Wake Island

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island attacked by japan simultaneously with pearl harbor

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NPT

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nuclear non prolieration treratyhe treaty came into force on 5 March 1970 and currently there are 189 states party to the treaty

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IAEA

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int'l atomic energy agency

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brest litovsk

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a peace treaty signed on March 3, 1918, at Brest-Litovsk (now Brest, Belarus) between the RSFSR and the Central Powers, marking Russia's exit from World War I. undermined by versailles

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Anschluss

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the 1938 de facto annexation[3] of Austria into Greater Germany by the Nazi regime.

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Untermenschen

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erm that became infamous when the Nazi racial ideology used it to describe "inferior people"

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Marshall Plan

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the primary program, 1947–51, of the United States for rebuilding and creating a stronger economic foundation for the countries of Western Europe.

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comnitern

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an international communist organization founded in Moscow in March 1919

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Last Testament

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name given to a document written by Vladimir Lenin in the last weeks of 1922 and the first week of 1923. In the testament, Lenin proposed changes to the structure of the Soviet governing bodies.

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Dunkirk

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battle in the Second World War between the Allies and Germany. A part of the Battle of France on the Western Front,

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somme

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took place during the First World War between 1 July and 18 November 1916 in the Somme department of France, on both banks of the river of the same name . The battle consisted of an offensive by the British and French armies against the German Army,

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Geneva Protocol

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Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare

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21 demands

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a set of demands made by the Empire of Japan under Prime Minister Ōkuma Shigenobu sent to the nominal government of the Republic of China on January 18, 1915, resulting in two treaties with Japan on May 25, 1915.

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Korean Provisional Government

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partially recognised government in exile of Korea, based in Shanghai, China and later in Chongqing, during the Japanese occupation of Korea.

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mukden

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early event in the Second Sino-Japanese War, although full-scale war would not start until 1937.c

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Chongqing

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temporary location of the kpg

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yalta

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the February 4–11, 1945 wartime meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union—President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and General Secretary Joseph Stalin, respectively—for the purpose of discussing Europe's postwar reorganization

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counter-value targeting

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he targeting of an opponent's cities and civilian populations. hiroshima and nagasaki bombs

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Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

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was an agreement officially titled the Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Soviet Union[1] and signed in Moscow in the early hours of 24 August 1939 (but dated 23 August).[2] It was a non-aggression pact between the two countries and pledged neutrality by either party if the other were attacked by a third party.

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operation vulture

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name of the proposed American operation that would rescue French forces at battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954 via B-29 raids based in the Philippines. The French garrison had been surrounded by the communist Viet Minh during the First Indochina War. Vulture was the sequel of the failed Operation Condor.

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Kellogg-Briand Pact

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a multinational treaty, signed in 1928, that prohibited the use of war as "an instrument of national policy" except in matters of self-defense.[1] It was the result of a determined American effort to avoid involvement in the European alliance system.

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mig alley

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name given by U.S. Air Force pilots to the northwestern portion of North Korea, where the Yalu River empties into the Yellow Sea. During the Korean War, it was the site of numerous dogfights between U.S. fighter jets and those of the Communist forces, particularly the Soviet Union.

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lateran accord

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one of the Lateran Pacts of 1929 or Lateran Accords, three agreements made in 1929 between the Kingdom of Italy and the Holy See, ratified June 7, 1929,

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Munich Conference

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agreement permitting Nazi German annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland. The Sudetenland were areas along Czech borders, mainly inhabited by ethnic Germans.

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San Francisco Conference

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etween the Allied Powers and Japan, was officially signed by 49 nations on September 8, 1951, at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco, California. It came into force on April 28, 1952.
This treaty served to officially end World War II, to formally end Japan's position as an imperial power, and to allocate compensation to Allied civilians and former prisoners of war who had suffered Japanese war crimes.

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Lytton Commission

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a report generated by a League of Nations commission in December 1931 to try to determine the causes of the Manchurian Incident which led to the Empire of Japan’s seizure of Manchuria.

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Bao Dinh Square

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name of a famous square in Ha Noi where president Ho Chi Minh read the Proclamation of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam on September 2, 1945.

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Operation Fortitude

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the deception operations used by the Allied forces during World War II in connection with the Normandy landings (Operation Overlord

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May Fourth Movement

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an anti-imperialist, cultural, and political movement growing out of student demonstrations in Beijing on May 4, 1919 protesting the Chinese government's weak response to the Treaty of Versailles, especially the Shandong Problem.

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weimar

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nazi germani

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verdun

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was one of the major battles during the First World War on the Western Front. It was fought between the German and French armies, from 21 February to 18 December 1916

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Zaibatsu

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a Japanese term referring to industrial and financial business conglomerates in the Empire of Japan, whose influence and size allowed for control over significant parts of the Japanese economy from the Meiji period until the end of World War II.

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Passchendaele

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one of the major battles of the First World War. The battle consisted of a series of operations starting in June 1917 and finally dissipating in November 1917 in which Entente troops under British command attacked the Imperial German Army

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Luftwaffe

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german air force

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satyagraha

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a philosophy and practice of nonviolent resistance developed by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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NEP

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economic policy proposed by Vladimir Lenin to prevent the Russian economy from collapsing. Allowing some private ventures, the NEP allowed small businesses or shops, for instance, to reopen for private profit while the state continued to control banks, foreign trade, and large industries.[

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Balfour Declaration

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stated that the british favored a zionist homeland

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Bolimov

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first battle where germans used poison gas. the battle was fought between the germans and the russians