Last Push Flashcards

(22 cards)

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Tsar Nichols II

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Stepped down because of White Revolution, created Duma

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Battle of Somme

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Deadliest battle in Britain

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Petain

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General in Battle of Verdun, controlled French mutinies

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3
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Kerensky

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Led Duma in its rise to Provisional Government

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4
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Trotsky

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Red Army leader, allied with Lenin

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5
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John Pershing

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Led Allied counter-attack, turning the tide of WW1

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6
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Who did the Great Purges?

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Stalin

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Black Shirt March

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Caused Fascist overthrow of Italy

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8
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Nuremberg Laws

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Stripped Jews of citizenship and rights

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Battle of Stalingrad

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Deadliest battle in the history of the world

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10
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Operation Overlord

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Led by Eisenhower, liberation of France

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Munich Conferenve

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Gave Sudetenland to Germany

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12
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Soviet bloc

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Stalin’s satellite regions

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13
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Marshall Plan

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US plan to give financial aid to all of Europe to contain Communism

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Kennan

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Advocate of the containment policy

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15
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John Foster Dulles

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Mutually assured destruction (MAD)

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11 of the republics of Soviet Union formed this

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Commonwealth of Independent States

17
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Boris Yeltsin

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Rescued Gornachev from coup

18
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Warsaw Pact

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Communist alliance of Soviet Union and Eastern Europe

19
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Gorbachev

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Instituted perestroika, private property, free speech

20
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Perestroika

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Economic restructuring

21
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Glasnost

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Free speech, political openness