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Militarism
def.-glorification of the military.

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Pacifism
def.- opposition to all war.

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Ultimatum
def.- final set of demands

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Stalemate
def.-deadlock in which neither side is able to defeat the other.

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reparations
def.- payment for war damages or damages caused by imprisonment.

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proletariat
def.- working class

sent.- Marxists tried to ignite revolution among the proletariat
Bolshevik
def.- elite group to lead the worker's Revolution

sent.- The bolsheviks over threw the government leading to the workers being in charge.
Collective
def.- large farm owned and operated by peasants as a group.

sent.-Stalin forced peasants to give up their private plots and live on either state owned farms or collectives.
Command economy
def.- system in which government officials made all basic economic decisions.

sent.- The Soviet Union created the command economy.
atheism
def.- the belief that there is no god.

sent.- In accordance with the ideas of Marx, atheism became an official state policy.
appeasement
def.- the policy of giving inot an aggressor's demands in order to keep the peace.

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neutrality
def.-policy of supporting neither side in war.

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anschluss
def.-Union of Austria and Germany

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blitzkrieg
def.- lightning war

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genocide
def.-deliberate attempt to destroy an entire religious or ethnic group

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dissident
def.- someone who speaks out against the government.

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glasnost
def.-policy of openness instituted by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in the 1980s.

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perestroika
def.-restructing of the Soviet government and economy in the 1980s.

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ethnic cleansing
def.-policy of killing or forcibly removing people of certain ethnic groups

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war crime
def.- act that violates international rules of war.

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What are the MAIN causes of the war (WWI)?
Militarism
Alliances
Imperalism
Nationalism
Tangle of Alliances before the war (WWI)- why?
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How did the Assassination of Francis Ferdinand start the war? Why/ How did the countries declare war on each other?
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What was the trench warfare? Describe how it contributed to the stalemate on the western front?
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How did the war (WWI) goals of Japan and the Ottoman Empire, and Europe's overseas colonies.
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What was the women's role in the war effort for WWI? Concept of total war (also know this for WWII)
•took over jobs
•forces and suppliers
•nurses- worked in war industry
•food shortages= grew nation's food
•gave pride and confidence
•had to give jobs back after war and got rights later
Why did the US enter the war (WWI)?
1917:
•Germany- unrestricted submarine warfare- Lusitania sunk (cruise ship)
•cultural ties to Great Britian- US wanted to help them
•Zimmerman note- Mexico (close to US) might enter war on Germany's side
Treaty of Versailles- How was Germany "punished"? Why was the treaty a source of dissatisfaction for the Central powers?
Germany-
•had to cede the region Alsace-Loraine back to France, Sudentenland to Czechoslovakia, and the "Polish Corridor" to Poland
•demilitariazation of the Rhineland
•saar coal region was placed under international control for 15 years
•disarment: limited to only 100,000 army troops: no reserves, tanks, aircraft, warships, or subs were permitted
•had to pay $5 billion in immediate reparations, with future reparations to be determined by May 1921

Central Powers-
What were the problems in Russia before the revolutions: absolute monarchy (Nicholas, Alexandra, Rasputin)? What was the impact of WWI?
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For the March Revolution of 1905, what were the moderate goals?
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What did Marxism (power to the have-nots) mean to do? What were the goals of Lenin and the Bolsheviks?
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What was the November Revolution of 1917? What were its goals? Why were the radicals in power?
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For Stalin (also Hitler and Mussolini), what were the characteristics of totalitarian regime?
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What is the definition of fascism?
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Compare and contrast: fascism and communism?
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Why and how did Hitler rise to power?
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How did Germans have aggression without war? In the western policy of appeasement, why did they give into Hitler?
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What is the Munich conference?
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What is the Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact?
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Early in the war what were the Axis advances and victories?
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Why were the USA entering the war, D-Day, El-Alamein, and the invasion of Italy turning points in WWII/
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What was the Allies strategy to defeat the Axis, how was meeting in Berlin and the Elbe River involved?
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After the war: how did Europe divide ( communism vs. capitalism)? Why did the cold war start?
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What were the reforms by Gorbachev? What were the glasnosts and perestroika?
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Why did the Soviet Union collapse?
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How did the Soviets dominate in Eastern Europe: Hungary Czechoslovakia, Poland? How did these countries try to resist and break away?
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Why did civil war in Yugoslavia break out? How did it end?
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