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This was the governments selected use of its of information, both true and false, to get people to back their countries war effort
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Propaganda
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This was the leader of the Bolsheviks who planned the Communist Revlution in Russia
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Vladimir Lenin
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France, Britain, and Russia were joined in this alliance
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Triple Entente
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Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy were joined in this alliance
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Triple Alliance
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This is a slow wearing down process in which each side in a war was trying to outlast the other
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War of Attrition
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This was the more radical group of the Russian revolutionaries and they had the slogan "peace, bread, land"
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Bolsheviks
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This action sparked WWI
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated
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Which member of the triple-alliance fought on the side of the Allied powers?
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Italy
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This ship was developed to stop U-boats from sinking cargo ships
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Convoy System
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What problems cound an army encounter when using poison gas?
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The wind could change direction and blow the poison onto you
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Germany, Austria-hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria joined in this alliance
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Central powers
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Britain, Russia, France, Italy, and the US joined in this alliance
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Allied powers
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This was Russias elected legislative body and they refused to disband when the Czar told them to
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Duma
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These are political counsils in Russia and Lenin demanded that all power be turned over to them
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soviets
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How did one nationalism contribute to WWI?`
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Intense feelings of patriotism and the belief that your county is better thn another caused people to believe that their country was powerful enough tot defeat an enemy
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When A-H demanded that Serbia must fire teachers and gov oficials who spoke against A-H, must supress all goups that opposed A-H, and must allow A-H officials to participate in the trials of those accused in the assassination or else they would go to war A-H was given Serbia this
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Ultimatum
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Why did the war become a stalemate?
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Neither side could gain any ground because they were evenly matched
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As WWI continued, it became obvious that Russia had these problems
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Not enough food, guns, or roads for the troops
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Why did European countries engage in militarism?
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They believed they could get what they wanted by having a strong army
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These secret agreements between Eurpoean countris contributed to their belief that their combined military strength could beat any army
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alliances
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In the Zimmerman Telegram, Germany promised Mexico this if it would attack the USA
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Regaining Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas
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The World Coirt, created after WWI, determined cases involving
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international law
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This international body ws created after WWI to promite international cooperation and keep peace
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League of Nations
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Germany felt justified in shooting down American ships when American was officialy a neutral country because Germany believed these ships carried
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contraband
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This country withdrew from the war early
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Russia
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WHich country created the League of Nations was a permanent member of the council, but never joined the League of nations
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USA
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True or False: The Treaty of Versailles DID follow the fourteen points
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false
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True or False: In the Treaty of Versailles, Germany gained territory
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false
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Even though Germany did not start WWI, in the Treaty of Versailles it had to take all responsibility for starting the war and
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pay reparations
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What was the major downfall of the Treaty of Versailles?
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The Allies didn't have the power to enforce the treaty
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THE US strategy in the Pacific of capturing certain Japanese Islands and skipping others was known as
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island hopping
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The Free French Gov was located in
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London, England
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This was the 1928 agreement making war illegal
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Kellog-Briand Pact
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This was the Nazi progeam to dedstroy the entire Jewish population of Europe
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Final Solution
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American was slow to join the war because it was located far from Europe and it had a large number of perople who were oppoed to being involved in foreign affairs, known as
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Isolationists
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Hitler was able to annex Czechoslovakia and other nations because
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No one stopped him
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This law authorized the US president to supply war materials to Great Britain on credit
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Lend-Lease Act
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This is the nightly bombing f London in prepatation for a German land attack on Great Britain
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Battle of Britain
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This was the planned invasion of Northwest France with the purpose of moving toward Germany and defeating the Nazis
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Operation overlord
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US President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill met ona ship and issued this statement of democratic goals
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Atlantic Charter
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To keep America out of potention wars, expecially in Eurpoe, Congress passed the
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Neutrality Acts
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This American policy allowed for the sale of weapons only if the buying country paid in full and transported the weapons
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Cash and Carry
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Hitler wanted to move Germans into the Soviet union because he believed the German people needed more "living space" also known as
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Lebensraum
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Auschwitz, Treblinka, Buchenwald and Dachau were
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concentration camps
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The League of Nations responded to Hitler's move into Austria by
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doing nothing
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Germanys annexation of Austria was a violation of the
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Treaty of Versailles
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Hitler's systematic plan for killing all Jewish people in the concentration camps was outlined at the
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Wannsee conference
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The German Army suffered a severe loss against the Soviets in this battle
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Stalingrad
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Why does appeasment not work with Hitler?
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When Hitler gets what he wants, it emboldens him to get mroe
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Who belonged to the Axis powers?
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Germany, Italy, and Japan
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Who belonged to the Allied Powers?
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USA, Great Britain, Soviet Union
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V-E Day means
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Victory in Europe Day
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This is the French leader and general who formed the Free French government
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Charles De Gaulle
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This was the Germany battle plan of a "lightening war"
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Blitzkrieg
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USA Gerneral Dwight D. Eisenhower led American troops who, along with British troops, trapped Nazi General Rommel's troops and retook _______ for the Allies
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North Africa
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Italy was called the ____ because it was the weakest Axis power and so American and Great Britain invaded it first among Axis Nations
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Soft Underbelly
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In some countries such as Norway, and Denmark, the Nazi's were quickly able to take control because some people acted as _____ and helped the Nazi's overthrow their own governments
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Collaborators
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The Vichy French Government
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Allied itself with Germany
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V-J means
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Victory in Japan day
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The Free French
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Fought against the Nazi's and lived in North Africa and Great Britain
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This Conference was a major act of appeasement on the part of the British and French Czechoslovakia wasnt even present to voice an opion regerding its future
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Munich conference
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These were dropped on the Japanese as a way to get them to surrender
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Atomic bombs
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Hitler and Mussolini both ____ before WWII ended
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died
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When Hitler invaded this country, Great Britain and France finally declared war against Germany
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Poland
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The German-Soviet Nonaggression pact was an agreement to
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Remain neutral
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Concentration camps were organized into thse 2 types
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Death, and Labor camps
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When the Japanese conquered the Philippines they forced 78,000 prisoners of war to maarch 55 miles and 600 US soldiers and 10,000 Filipinos died. This incident is known as the
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Bataan Death March
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The Axis powers' anti-comiturn Pact was a pledge to fight
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communism
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Appeasement to
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Give in to some demands to keep the peace
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What does the political cartoon by Dr. Seuss efer to?
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For American Industry to be most efficient, companise need to hire both black and white workers
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During the Great depression, congress passed president Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal platform, part of which profided benefits for people 65+ years and unemployed under this program
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Social Security Act
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Because America did not have a history of gov help for the needy, when the Great Depression hit, many people had to find foot and charities and wait in
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Breadlines
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Part of thr cause of the Gret Depression can be traced to people borrowing money from banks and using this money to buy stocks. The people borrowing money asumed that
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Stock prices would ocntinue to rise and they could sell the stock for a profit
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What is a tariff?
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A tax on imported goods
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Why did American practice protectionism
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The federal gov wanted to protect domestic industries and keep jobs in America
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The end of WWI hurt which American job sector and was an early economic indicator of the Great depression?
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Farmers
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"My candly burns at both ends
It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends- It gives a lovely light" What does this poem say about the culture of thsi time? |
People lived life to its fullest and spent every momeny busy doing somethin
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This style of art glorified comunism and the USSR forced artists to create art in this style to prove their loyalty
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Socialist realism
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To keep Russians from coninuing to worship, which was banned under communism, the Soviet Union
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Imprisoned or executed ministers, priests, and rabbis
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This was the group of writers who wrote after WWI and expressed the disillusionment of the era
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lost generation
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This is an art form that features geometric designs and shows an object from different viewpoints at the same time
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cubism
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these were the modern young women who started wearing short hair and short dresses
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flappers
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This is the writing style of bringing conscious and unconscious ideas together in a dreamlike way
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surrealism
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This is when a building is designed for its specific use instead of in particular style
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Functionalism
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This is the writing technique that attempts to record everything that comes into a character's mind
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stream of consciousness
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When people borrowed money to invest in artifically high stocks, they were participating in
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market speculation
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Created by President Franklin. D. Roosevelt, these were a number of programs aimed at relif recovery, and reform of the American economy
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New Deal
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This was the practice of placing high tariffs on imported goods in the belief that this woudl protect domestic industries
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Protectionism
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Benito Mussolini created fascism in this country
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Italy
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THis is the time period lasting from 1929 to 1941 when prices and wages fell, business activity slowed, and unemployment rose, all in a very brief period of time
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Great depression
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What is a bank run
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When banks loan out too much mo ney and when people try to withdraw their investments, there is no money left
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Black tuesday is the day
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the Stock Market Crashed
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Why did protectionism make the Great Depression worse?
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When countries put up high tarrifs, they basically eliminated fireign markets for selling their goods
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This style of nusic originated among the African American community in New Orleans and was the first distinct American musical form
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Jazz
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Under Lenin's new econic policy
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Some free enterprise was allowed
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Under communism, the Soviet union established this type of economy where the government controls all economic decisions
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Command economy
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Stalin's paranoia led to the lerge-scale elimination of so-called "traitors" in the
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Purges
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True or fales: religion was encouraged and people worshiped freely in the Soviet union
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False
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Under totalitaian governments, art and the news are always
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Censored
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This is a form of government where the military needs, values, and goals shape a nation's civil lifestyles and its domestic and international policies
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Militarism
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This government was strongly nationalistic and militaristic, opposed communism, and democracy, and it relied on dictorial rule to maintain rigid control of the peopl through force and censorship
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Fascism
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This government was nationalistic, militaristic, opposed to fascism and democrazy, and its economical and political system had somplete control over the means of production and economic planning
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communism
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This government was extremely nationalistic, anti-semetic, and anticommunist, and it rose to power in germany in the 1920s
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Nazism
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When the government controls all aspects of a nation-the economy, laws, and personal lives of its citizens- this type of gov is known as
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totalitarian
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This was the leader of the Nazi Party
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Adolf Hitler
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At the Nuremberg tials
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Nazi leadesr were tried for crimes against humanity
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The war if ideas between the US and the Soviet union was the
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cold war
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The soviet unions response to the NATO treaty was to
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adopt the warsaw pact
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East germany trie to keep people from escapion to the west by
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buildint the berlin wall
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the US policy of restricting the spread of communism was called
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containment
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At the time of independence the pople of India were divided by
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religion
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the marshall plan helped eurpoe recover
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economically
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The truman doctrine stated that the US would
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help prevent the spreead of communism
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The west believed that Stalins "buffer nations" were a prelude to
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the expansion of communism
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True or False: According to containment policy if an easter eurpoean country tried to overthrow communism, the US would proved monetary and military ade
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false
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The distribution of food and materials to west berlin when east germany cut it off from west germany was the
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berlin airlift
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India's policy against alliance with the US or USSR was called
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nonalignment
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A combination of nationalized and private industry is called a
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mixed economy
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this international organization was created to maintiain international peace and security after WWII
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United Nations
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At this converence the USA, Great Britain, and Soviet Union, agreed upon Germany's post-war future
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Postdam Conference
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This UN body had 10 rotating members and five perment members and the permanent members had the veto power
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Security council
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This UN body included all memeber nations and each nation had one vote, regardless of size
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General assembly
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This is the power to defeat a measure in a single vote
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Veto
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After WWII, Great Britain became a welfare state, which means
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the gov. took primary responsibbility for the social welfare citizens
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After WWII, the French gov could be characterized as
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unstable
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Agfter Josef Stalin's death, the new communist leader condemmed Stalin for crimes against the Soviet people, freed political prisioners, and lifter restrictions on artists, these policies are known as
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destalinization
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Eastern european countries and the soviet union had this econic system
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communism
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Western European countries and the USA had this ecomonic system
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capitalism
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both USSR and the USA had this
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nuclear bombs
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This American Senator accused people of communist activites without any real evidence and provoked a national scare
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Joseph McCarthy
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This US Supreme court case started the modern civil rights moement by declaring that separate schools for black and white children were inherently unequal
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
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This man was the most famous civil rights leader of the 1950s and 1060s and won the nobel peace prize in 1964
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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The Soviet union built nuclear missle sites in Suba and when the US demanded tht the USSR remove the missles or face nuclear war, the world waited in what is now known as the most dangeroud moment of the cold war
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Cuban Missle Crisis
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One major issue for Canada was that many of the French Speaking people of Quebec watned
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to create a separate nation of Quebec
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This group within India watned a separate country for Muslims
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Muslim League
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THis movement started by Mohandas Gandhi wanted Great Britain to leave India immediately
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Quit India
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India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh have all ha this in common
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Female Prime Ministers
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This political party was outlawed in Germany after WWII
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Nazi
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The soviet union used Eastern Eurpoe as a____ to western eurpoe
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buffer zone
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True of false: The US and USSR never directly fought one another during thre cold war
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true
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At the beginning of the Industrical revolution, Great Britain jhad entrepreneurship, technology, land, labor, and capital conditions called the
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factors of production
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National and state governments share power in this system of government
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federal
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This man represented the ideological center of the revolution and led the reigh of terror
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Robespierre
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This is when people give up their own culture completely and adopt another culture
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assimilation
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The soviet union used Eastern Eurpoe as a ___ to westen Eurpoe
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buffer zone
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This is the American who invented the telegraph and a syustem for encoding the alphabet
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Morse
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As Russia retreated, Russian soldiers burned and destroyed everything Napoleon's Army might ned, known as the _____ policy
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scorched earth
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This allowed farmers to produc more crops using the same amount of land
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crop rotation
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Infia, Pakistan, and Bangladesh have all had this in common, ____ Prime Ministers
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Female
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Only white males who owned propwety were guarenteed the right to ___ when America was founded
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vote
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This is the ownership of several companies that make the same product
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horizontal integreation
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This elected officials job is to enforce laws
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president
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In thei manufaturing system, each item is made at a differnet location in the factory and then all the pieces are prought together in one room to assmeblt them
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division of labor
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Congress is partof this branch of governmetn
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legislative
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This philosopher believed that the peopel make a social contract where they give a leaader aosolute poweer and their only right was to protect their own lives
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hobbes
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This is the ocncept of the peopel of a country electing and controllin a government
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popular soverignty
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this si when a nation has a special interest in a part of colony and other nations agree to respect those interests
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spheres of influences
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This philosopher believed that when a social contract is amde, people don't give up their individual rights and if the ruler does nto uphold undividuals rightsd, then the peopel ahaev the right to overthrow the ruler
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locke
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thsi branch of gov interprests the laws
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judicial
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a violent overthrow of the gov
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coup de tat
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thers are colnies in which a small number of eurpoean officials rule the non-european people
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dependent
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this is a businessthat allows people to buy stock int he company
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corporation
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This is ownership of business involved in each step of th manufacturing process
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vertical integration
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Adam smith described this economic concept when he said "every individual is contunalyy exerting himself to find out the msot advantage, indeed, and not that of the society, which he has in view. But the study of hsi own advantage, naturally or rather necessarily, leads him to prefer that employment which is most advantageous to society."
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invisible hand
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This act protected individuals from unfiar arrest and imprisonment
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habeas corpus
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According to karl marx, this is the name for the factory owners that oppress the workers
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bourgeiosie
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this ia love for ones country rather then ones native region
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nationalism
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this was the isolated event of violence when crowds broke into a paris prson wnd stole weapons, released prisoners, and destroyed the prison
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storming of the bastille
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in the form of gov, a nation still has a king or queen, but the king/queen does not have absolute control and most power is held by an elected gov
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limited constitutional monarchy
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this philosopher believed that people are naturally good, but are corrupted by environment, education, and laws. The only way for people to stay good is to ewlet their own gov's based on popular sovereignty
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rousseau
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these are colonies in whicn local rulers keep their titles, but a foreign power really controls the area
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protectorate
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this is the time period during the french revolution where terror and execution were used to control the people of france
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reign of terror
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these are colonies where large groups of people from one county are living togeter in a new place
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settlement
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these are identical parts that can replace eachother
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intercahngeable parts
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this is the east african nation that was not under imperial control
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ethiopia
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this is the term for the belief that the gov should not interfere with the operation of business
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laizzes-faire
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This is the term used to describe: banks loan out too much money, and when people try to withdraw their investments, there is no money left
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bankrun
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This style of art glorified communism and the USSR forced artists to create art in this style to prove their loyalty
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socialist realism
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This is when a building is designed for its specific use insted of aparticular style
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functionalism
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Benito Mussolini created fascism in this country
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Italy
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Under communism, the Soviet Union established this type of economy where the gov. controls all economic decisions
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command economy
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This is the name for the day that the Stock Market crashed
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Black Tuesday
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This is the tiem peirod lasting from 1929-1941 when prices and wages fell, business activity slowed, and unemployment rose
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the great depression
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under totalitarian gov, art and the news are always
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censored
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Stalin's paranoia led to the large-scale elimination of so-called "traitors" in the...
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purges
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When people borrowed money to invest in artificially high stocks, they were participating in
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market speculation
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During the 1920s and 1930s, the federal gov wanted to protect domestic industries an dkeep jobs in america and so it practiced
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surrealism
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During the great depression, congress passed president Roosevelt's New Deal platform, part of which provded benefits for people 65+ years and unemployment under this program
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Social Security Act
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This American senator accused people of communist activities without any evidence and provoked a national scare
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McCarthy
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After WWI, the French gov could be characterized as...
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unstable
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Western European countries and the USA had this economic system
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capitalism
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After Joseph stalin's death, the new communist leader condemned Stalin for crimes against the Soviet people, freed political prisoners, and lifted restrictions on artists. These policies are known as
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destalinization
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This man was the most famous civil rights leader of teh 1950s and 1960s and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964
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Martin Luther King jr.
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The League of nations responded to Hitler's move into Austria by doing
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Nothing
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This si the name for a government that takes primary responsibility for the social welface of its citizens
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welfare state
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This international organization was created to maintain international peace and security after WWII
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United Nations
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Italy was called the ____ because it was the weakest Axis power and so America and Great Britain invaded ti first among the Axis nations
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soft underbelly
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This french gov fought against the Nazis and lived in North Africa and Great Britain
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Free French
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Hitler's systematic plan for killing all Jewish peple int he concentration camps was outlined in the ______ conference
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Wannsee
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Germany's annexation of Austria was a violation of the Treaty of---
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Versailles
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This is the power to defeat a measure in a single vote
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veto
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USA Gerneal Dwight S. Eisenhower led American troops who along wih British troops, trapped Nazi General Rommel's troops and retook ____ for the alies
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North Africa
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This UN body had 10 rotating members and 5 permanent members and the permenenet members had veto powers
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secutiry council
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This UN body included all member nations and each nation had 1 vote, regardless of size
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general assembly
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This Frehnch gov allied itself with Germany
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Vichy
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A combination of nationalized and private industry is called a
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mixed economy
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Amreica was slow to join the war because it was located far away from Europe and it had a large number of people who were opposed to being involved in foreign afairs known as
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isolationists
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East Germany tried to keep people from excaping to the west by building this
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the berlin wall
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The West believed that Stalin's "buffer nations" were a prelude to the _____ of communism
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expansion
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