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56 Cards in this Set
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Lenin's NEP was designed to...
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control banks, foreign trade, and large industries while allowing small businesses to reopen to help the economy
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Effects of Stalin's 5 Year Plans
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low standards of living, better agriculture
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Russia gave up a huge chunk of its territory and population to Germany to gain peace
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The Treaty of Brest-Litovisk
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Date the Russian Revolution began
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March 1917 and November
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Central Powers during WWI
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Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire
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Allied Powers during WWI
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Britain, France, Russia, Italy, and later the U.S.
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Set up in 1899 so countries could discuss problems so they didnt lead to war; not successful
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Purpose of the Hague Tribunal
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Members of Triple Alliance
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Germany Italy Austria Hungary
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What country gained independence after WWI in Europe after 100 years of rule
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Hungary
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Powder Keg in Europe
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Greece and areas surrounding it
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Axis Powers
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Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary
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Purpose of the Kellogg Briand Pact
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No hidden alliances
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Economic problem that plagued Germany during 1920s
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inflation
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Democratic govt. set up in Germany after WWI
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Weimar republic
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Name of the package of programs introduced by FDR
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14 Points
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Significance of the Battles Coral Sea and Midway
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turning point battles
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Campaign to re-capture Japense held islands
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island hopping
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2 bloodiest battles of WWII
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Irogema, Okinawa
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to limit communism to areas already under Soviet control
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Purpose of Truman Doctrine
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invadors came ashore in Cuba
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Bay of Pigs
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Plan to send economic aid to countries affected by WWII
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Marshall Plan
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Year Berlin Wall came down
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November 9th 1989
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Parallel that divided North and South Korea
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38th Parallel
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NATO
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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mutual- defense alliance between S.U. and 7 satellites
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Warsaw Pact
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Internal organization established after WWII to maintain peace
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UN
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First communist leader of China
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Mao
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China leader who introduced the four modernizations
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Deng Xiaoping
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President during Cuban Missle Crisis
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Kennedy
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Result of US withdrawing its troops during Vietnam war
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North vietnamese won
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large farm owned and operated by peasants as a group
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collective
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council of workers and soldiers set up by Russian revolutionaries in 1917
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Soviet
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Wealthy peasants in S.U. in 1930s
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Kulak
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Artistic style whose goal was to promote socialism by showing Soviet life in a positive light
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Socialist realism
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glorification of the military
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militarism
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prepare military forced for war
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mobilize
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final set of demands
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ultimatum
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agreement to end fighting
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armistice
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after WWI a territory adminstered by a western power
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mandate
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created 14 points; helped create league of nations
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Woodrow Wilson
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led DDay
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Dwight Eisenhower
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relaxation of cold war tensions during the 1970s
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Detente
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Emperor who wanted to expand German navy and win oversea empires
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Kaisar Willian II
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New Prime minister, leader of England during WWII
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Winston Churchell
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fought Rommel at Battle of El Alamein
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Bernard Montgomery
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Introduced New Deal, of the of the Big 3 Leaders
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Roosevelt
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Invented dynamite
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Alfred Nobel
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any centralized authoritarian govt. that is not communist whose policies glorify the state of the the individual
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facism
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created Truman doctrine;dropped atom bomb on Japan ending WWII
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Harry Truman
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Leader of the free French
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Charles de Gaulle
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soviet policy of greater freedom of expression introducted by gorbaches
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glastnost
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liberal politician
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David Lloyd George
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became chancellor of England; used policy of "blood and iron" to unite German States under Prussian rule
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Otto von Bismark
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accepted help from Hitler and Mussolini and later became a fascist dictator in spain
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Fransisco Franco
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created theries of relativity; helped make atom bomb
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Albert Einstein
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Went to North Africa and fought Montgomery at Battle of El Alamein
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Rommel
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