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WWI AND WWII VOCAB Flashcards

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Pan-Slavism

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idea that called for all Slavs to support one another

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Dreadnoughts

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A new class of battleship first introduced by the British

Had powerful guns and firing range twice of other ships

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Tripe alliance

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A defensive alliance between Germany, Italy, and Austria Hungary

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Triple entente

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A defensive alliance between Russia, Great Britain, and France

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Conscription

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Compulsory military service

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Schlieffen plan

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Germany military plan for fighting a two front war against France and Russia

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War of attrition

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Type of war designed to kill as many soldiers on other side as possible

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Total war

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When a country or countries devote all of their resources and population to war

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Home front

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Major part of total war effort by civilians

Recycling, rationing, morales and efficient farming

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TNT poisoning

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Medical condition that many women working in munitions factories developed

Bright orange hair, yellow hands, nausea, fever

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Self determination

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People with the same ethnic origins, language, and political ideals have the right to form their own independent countries

In Woodrow wilson’s 14 points

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Versailles treaty

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Diplomatic agreement that formally ended the war between the allies and Germany

Primary guilt to Germany

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Mandate system

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To divide German and ottoman territories outside of Europe

Allowed France and Great Britain to expand their colonial empires

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League of Nations

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International organization that was created to keep world peace after WWI

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Collective security

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A large number of countries are willing and able to band together to discourage aggression or other behaviors on the part of countries looking to acquire some type of advantage at the expense of a less powerful state

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Twenty one demands

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Japanese list of demands given to China after WWI

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Gallipoli

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Battle on the peninsula and prevented allies from bringing supplies to Russia through the straits

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Nicholas II

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last Russian czar

Chose to back Serbia after the assassination of franz Ferdinand

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Vladimir Lenin

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Marxist leader who founded the Bolshevik party and led communist revolution in Russia

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Treaty of Brest-litovsk

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Agreement between communist Russia and Germany that ended total hostilities

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Lusitania

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German u boat sunk this British ship that was carrying civilians, including the US

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Import substitution industrialization

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Economic policy followed by many Latin American countries during the depression in which governments focused on developing their own industries to replace the income that exporting goods to Europe and the us previously provided

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Democratic socialism

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Economic policies implemented in great British, France, Norway, and Sweden during the depression which established greater government control over the economy and a more equal distribution of wealth

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John Maynard Keynes

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British economist who urged governments to be active in economy in order to maintain healthy growth and avoid recessions or depressions

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Axis

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Countries that opposed the allies in wwii

Germany, italy,Japan

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Fascism

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Aggressive nationalism with a dictator developed by Mussolini

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Weimar Republic

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Government that took over Germany after Kaiser Wilhelmina was forced to give up power after WWI
Founded on democratic principles, became unpopular

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Nazi party

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Political organization in Germany that established a fascist government led by hitler

Extreme nationalism, racial superiority, anti-semitism, opposition to communism, criticism of Versailles treaty

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Nuremburg laws

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Stripped German Jews of citizenship and outlawed marriage and sex between German Jews and other Germans

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Kristallnacht

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Destruction of synagogues and stores owned by Jews, muffed if 100 jews by nazis

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Radical nationalism

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Political movement job Japan hat supported aggressive view of nationalism, condemned parliamentary democracy, and praised rule of Japanese emperor

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Mukden incident

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Japanese soldiers faked an attack on a Japanese railway to justify taking over a region
Used this incident to expand control in northern China

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Lebenstraum

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Hitlers term that called for Germany to have more territory

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Munich conference

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Meeting where European politicians met to discuss impending German occupation, gave hitler what he wanted

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Appeasement

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Showed hitler that most countries were afraid to stand up to him and no one wanted military confrontation

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Blitzkrieg

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Germany’s technique of suing tanks, planes, railroads, paratroopers, and planning to win rapid victories
“Lightning war”

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Frandz Ferdinand

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Archduke and heir to the throne of Austria Hungary

His assassination by gavrilo princip led to the outbreak of WWI

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Rape of Nanking

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Japanese forces raped more than 7000 women and killed 400,000 people

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Hiroshima

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First atomic bomb dropped by US and killed 130,000 people

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Stalingrad

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Russian city attacked by German troops, Russians stopped German advance in the USSR

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Island hopping

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This strategy bypassed many islands held by the Japanese in the interest of eventually stacking Japan directly

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Kamikaze

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Japanese pilots equipped with explosives

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Auschwitz

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Largest of all nazi concentration camps

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Comfort houses

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Houses of prostitution set up by Japanese government where women of conquered territories were require to have sex with 20-30 men a day

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Yalta

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Resort that served as a setting for the second wartime conference of leaders of the Soviet Union, US, and Great Britain

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United Nations

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International organization to maintain world peace through diplomatic negotiation and collective security

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World bank

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A United Nations financial institution that was established to provide loans for recovery after WWII

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International Monetary Fund

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International organization of 188 countries working to foster global monetary cooperation, facilitate international trade, promote high employment, economic growth, reduce poverty

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The Marshall plan

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Rebuild European economies through cooperation and capitalism program after WWII

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NATO

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North Atlantic treaty organization served as a military counterweight to soviet forces in Europe

An attack on one = an attack on all

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Containment

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US foreign policy that opposed the spread of communist governments

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