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Historical Terms Flashcards

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Balfour Declaration

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Great Britain’s 1917 proclamation supporting the establishment of a separate homeland for Jews in Palestine

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Code of Hammurabi

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Babylonian legal code that established government responsibility for criminal justice

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Communist Manifesto

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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engel

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Constitution

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ratified in 1789

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Cultural Revolution

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Campaign carried out by Chinese Red Guards to revitalize the Communist Party and consolidate Mao Zedong’s leadership. (1966-1976)

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cuneiform

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Sumerian system of writing

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Cyrillic alphabet

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Russian alphabet (and other Slavic languages)

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détente

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A cooling of Cold War tensions initiated during Nixon and Brezhnev

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domino theory

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the idea that if one nation fell to Communism, neighboring nations would likewise fall

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Five-Year-Plans

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Economic plans to increase industrial and agricultural productivity in the Soviet Union, China, and India.

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Fourteen Points

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Post WWI peace plan proposed by Woodrow Wilson.

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Geneva Convention

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Conference held in 1954 that divided Vietnam at the 17th parallel.

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glasnost

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A Soviet policy introduced in 1985 by Gorbachev emphasizing “openness” in the sharing of info and ideas.

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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

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Congress’ resolution authorizing President Johnson to send troops to Vietnam

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Huns

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A nomadic group from central Asia who undertook a mass migration to the Roman Empire in the 400s

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Lend-Lease Act

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Congress passed in 1941 allowing Roosevelt to give arms and other supplies to any nation considered vital to the security of the US

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Magna Carta

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1215- basis of English common law

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Marshall Plan

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Put forth by US Secretary of State George Marshall describing how to rebuild Europe after the conclusion of WWII

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NATO

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A 1949 defense alliance initiated by the US, Canada, and 10 Western European nations

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Prussia

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Old name for current day Germany. Frederick the Great ruled at height of its power

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totalitarianism

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One party political system with the goal of supporting the welfare of the state above all else.

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Versailles

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Palace near Paris that was the seat of power for many French kings, including Louis XIV. Treaty of Versailles marked the conclusion of WWI.

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Warsaw Pact

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A 1955 defense alliance organized by the Soviet Union and several Eastern European nations

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Waterloo

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Napoleon’s greatest defeat

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Yalta

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Island where Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin met to discuss the partitioning of Europe at the conclusion of WWII.

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