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Austria Hungary, Bulgaria, Germany, and the Ottoman Empire became known as what powers

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Central powers

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During WWII the western front was characterized by what type of warfare

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Trench warfare

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The Germans were especially unhappy with the ___________ that stated that Germany was responsible for starting the war

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War guilt clause

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Germany, Austria, and Italy were known as what alliance

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Triple

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What is NOT considered a major cause of WWI

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Impressionism

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During WWII many men entered into the military, and so new roles were created for who?

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Women

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What did they call huge German airships

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Zeppelin

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What is the complete mobilization of resources and people called

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Total war

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What are the ideas that influence public opinion

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Propaganda

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What is the aggressive preparation for war

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Militarism

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Warfare based on protected lines of ditches is called?

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Trance warfare

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What is warfare based on wearing down opponents called?

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War of attrition

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What is a government called that aims to control the political, economic, social, intellectual, and cultural lives of its citizens.

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Totalitarian

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What was the destructive Nazi rampage against Jews called

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Kristallnacht

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A period of low economic activity and rising unemployment is called

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Economic depression

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What were the laws called that excluded Jews from German citizenship and forbade marriages between Jews and Germans?

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Nuremberg Laws

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What was one of the factors that triggered the Great Depression?

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Economic downturns

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What group promised the German people peace in a time of turmoil?

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Nazis

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The Great Depression was caused primarily by economic downturns and the what?

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Stock market crash

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Hitlerʼs birthplace

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Austria

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Legislation that gave Hitler supreme power?

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Enabling act

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Hitlerʼs philosophical work?

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Mein Kampf

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What was the National Socialist German Workersʼ Party called?

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Nazi

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What term describes Hitlerʼs right of superior nations to “living space”?

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Lebensraum

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Who is Mao Zedong? What was he the leader of?
A communist leader in China
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What is the “Domino Theory?” How does that impact the US involvement of the conflicts in Vietnam and Korea?
It led to other countries getting involved because they're involved in. If one country falls to communism, they all fall
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What was the result of the Korean War?
The Korean War led to the armistice of 1953 to end the war. the U.S. Got involved to stop the spread of communism and North Korea was dived into 2 north and South Korea. ( it was never settled, north remained communist south remain capitalism
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Who were the Vietcong? What was the result of the Vietnam war
The Viet Cong were Vietnamese supporters of the communist National Liberation Front cfought for south Vietnam and it was never settled
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What policy was based on the belief that the satisfaction of reasonable demands would maintain peace in Europe?
Appeasement
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Roosevelt favored the idea of ____________________ for European states following the war.
Self determination
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The German air force?
Luftwaffe
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Hitlerʼs “lightning war,” using air­supported panzer divisions is called?
Blitzkrieg
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Series of fortifications along Franceʼs German border?
Maginot Line
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Target of Japanese attack December 7, 1941?
Pearl Harbor
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Site of Alliesʼ D­Day invasion?
Normandy
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Hitlerʼs Final Solution for the Jew
Genocide
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Had the task of administering the Final Solution?
Reinhard Heydrich
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Hitlerʼs largest extermination center in Poland?
Aushwitz
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The mass slaughter of European Jews?
Holocaust
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Crowded, designated containment or holding areas within cities for Jews?
Ghettos
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Site of Trumanʼs demands for free elections in Eastern Europe?
Postdam
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Assembling and preparing for war?
Mobilization
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“Divine wind” or suicide bombers?
Kamikaze
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British name for German air raids?
Blitz
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Postwar ideological conflict between the United States and the USSR
Cold War
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What was launched that had many americans fear that the Soviet Union was ahead of the United States in the production of missiles?
Sputnik 1
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What was it called when the U.S. attempted to overthrow the Cuban government?
Bay of pigs
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What was built in order to prevent East Germans from defecting to West Germany?
Berlin Wall
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To stop the spread of communism, the United States adopted a policy toward the Soviet Union of?
Containment
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Military alliance of Soviet allies?
Warsaw Pact
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Tactic used to overcome a Soviet blockade?
Berlin airlift
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Country with both military powers and political influence?
Superpowers
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U.S. policy of support against communism?
Truman doctrine
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U.S. effort to rebuild war­torn Europe?
Marshall plan
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What new source of energy fueled the Industrial Revolution?
Coal
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Before the Industrial Revolution, how were goods produced?
By hand in cottages
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In which country did the industrial Revolution start?
Great Britain
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What was the invention that could spin many threads at one time, saving labor and time?
Spinning Jenny
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Why did the Industrial Revolution start in Britain?
Because Britain could sell products to their colonies
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What is “capital” in the economic sense?
Means of production such as land/money/ machines
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The building of cities and the movement of people to cities is called what?
Urbanization
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What is imperialism?
Country controls the government of another country
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“An area in which an outside power claims exclusive trading privileges,” describes which of the following?
Sphere of influence

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