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75 Cards in this Set
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Opium War |
Conflict between china and Great Britain over trade |
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White Mans burden |
Belief that Europeans had a moral responsibility to civilize primitive people |
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Monroe Doctrine |
US policy that warned Europeans not to colonize the Americas/West |
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Open Door Policy |
US formulated this trade agreement with China |
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Stanley and Livingstone |
Explored Africa |
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Sepoy Mutiny |
Uprising of native people in India against Britain |
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MAIN causes of WW1 |
Militarism, alliances, imperialism, nationalism |
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Black hand |
Serbian group in Serbia, planned to kill Frans Ferdinand because it wanted Bosnia to join Serbia and leave Austria-Hungarian Empire |
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Tactics used during WW1 |
Trenchs, subs, poisonous gas, convoys attacking civilian ships |
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Western Front (characteristics) |
Trench warfare that kept both sides in the same spot |
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1917 changes in WW1 |
Russia left, US joined |
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Reasons why the U.S. entered WW1 |
Boat and the note, German propaganda |
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No Mans land |
Area in between trenches |
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Treaty of versallies |
Treaty signed that Germany thought was hard |
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Failure of the League of Nations |
U.S. Didn't join, not all nations were members, didn't use force against aggression |
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Capitalism |
Economic system in which businesses are privately owned |
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Causes of the Great Depression |
US stock market crash |
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Maginot Line |
Series or fortifications along French-German border |
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Methods of totalitarian governments |
Control education, censorship of media, dictatorship |
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How hitler came to power |
Belief that Hitler ended Germany's depression |
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Mein Kampf |
Anti-semitism, anti-communism, Aryan race book by Adolf Hitler |
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Stalin's 5 year plans |
transform from agriculture to industrial |
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Nuremberg Laws |
excluded Jews from German citizenship |
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Kristallnacht |
destructive Nazi rampage against Jews |
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Appeasement |
Policy of giving into demands to avoid war |
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Blitzkreig |
Germany's military technique |
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Nazi Soviet Pact |
agreement not to attack eachother in the upcoming war |
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Battle of Britain |
Ariel battle (Britain vs. Germany) |
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Pearl Harbor (date) |
12-7-1941 |
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Battle of Stalingrad |
turning point in the war in Europe |
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D-Day |
Succesfull because of Eisenhower Massive invasion force, deception by Patton |
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Battle of the Bulge |
Last German offensive |
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Manhattan project |
development of the atomic weapon |
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Iwo Jima and Okinawa |
Gave US bases close enough to attack Japan |
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Holocaust vs. Genocide |
Synonyms |
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How did World War II end? |
Bombing of Japan |
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Final solution |
plan to exterminate Jews |
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Buffer zones |
Stalin created these using pro-soviet satellite countries |
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Berlin Wall |
Built to stop East Germans from leaving |
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Sputnik |
First space satellite |
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Containment |
US policy to stop spread of communism |
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Truman Doctrine |
provide economic aid to Europe |
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Berlin after WWII |
Divided into 4 zones |
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Berlin Airlift |
Western allies response to the Soviet blockade of Berlin |
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US response to the Cuban Missile Crisis |
Naval blockade |
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De-stalinization |
Ease up on Stalin's policies |
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Great leap forward |
combine collective farms into communes |
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Chaing Kai Shek- |
Set up a government in Taiwan after being defeated |
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Tiananmen Square |
Students looking for greater freedoms |
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38th Parallel |
division between North and South Korea |
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Ho Chi Minh |
President of communist Vietnam |
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Result of Vietnam War |
Vietnam still divided along 17th parrallel |
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Domino theory |
If one country fell to communism, they all would |
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Detente |
Improved relations between US and USSR |
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Symbolism behind tearing down the Berlin Wall |
Last symbol of war |
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Aids |
1/3 of Africa infected with the disease |
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Problems faced by Africa today |
Famine, debt, civil wars (not colonialism) |
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Mandela |
27 years in jail Became president of South Africa |
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Apartheid |
Strict racial separation in South Africa |
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Life for non whites in South Africa under Apartheid |
extremely restrictive |
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Religious groups in India and Pakistan |
Hindus and Muslims |
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Ghandi |
Used passive resistance to gain independence and protest salt |
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Effect of the prohibition of Japanese military |
increase production of goods |
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drugs in Latin America |
dominated the area |
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Why were these countries attracted to communism |
better living standards |
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Event that caused the Gulf War |
Iraq invaded Kuwait |
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PLO |
group designed to establish homeland for Palestinians |
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Fundamentalism |
Rigid adherence to basic religious laws |
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Result of Camp Davids Accords |
Arab states broke ties with Egypt |
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Intifada |
militant Palestinians led this uprising |
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USSR invasion of Afghanistan |
in 1979 and occupied it for 10 years |
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Al Qaeda |
attacked World Trade center |
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9-11 |
After the U.S. launched an attack on Afghanistan |
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NAFTA |
Sought to remove trade barriers between Canada, US, and Mexico |
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UN |
uses neutral nations to end disputes |
