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"Rosie the Riverter": Symbolized women, this character in the United States who built ships and planes and produced munitions
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17th Parallel: Separated Vietnam at this line.
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38th Parallel: Separated Korea at this line
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Adolph Hitler: An anti-semetic nazi who was against the jews and wanted a complete Aryan race
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African nations gaining independence: ghana, kenya, algeria, congo, and nigeria
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allied strategy in WW2: wanted the axis to fight in many fronts
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Anschluss: Union of Austria and Germany
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Apartheid: A policy of rigid segregation of non white people in the Republic of South Africa
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Appeasement: Policy of giving into an aggressors demands in order to keep peace
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Arms Race: The United States and the Soviet Union had a race to create bigger and better weapons
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Atomic Bombs in Japan: Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima killing 70,000 people and then next day they dropped another bomb on Nagasaki killing over 40,000 people. This exposed them to radiation which caused the people to live in fallout shelters
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Attack on PearL Harbor: General Tojo ordered a surprise attack to have the Japanese airplanes bomb the American Fleet at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii
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Battle at Stalingrad: Last major battle in Soviet Union, Soviet successful, Urban warfare, German plans to take oil and fuel from them, WW2
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Battle of the Bulge: Last major battle in Germany
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Black Shirts: Italy's secret police set up by Moussolini
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Blitzkreig: German method of warfare, air raid first, then land attack
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Bolsheviks: Russian people during Stalin
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Causes of WW1: Entangled alliances and Francis Ferdinand
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Causes of WW2: Hitler and Facist leaders invading Poland and appeasement
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CENTO: Central Treaty Organization, contained Britain, Turkey, Iran and Pakistan
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Cold War: No violence war between United States and Russia
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Communism: Form of socialism advocated by Karl Marx
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Concentration Camps: Detention center for civilians considered enemies of the state
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Coup: The forcible overthrow of a government
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Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Union sent nuclear missiles to Cuba, Kennedy imposed a naval blockade that prevented further Soviet shipments. Nikita Krushchev agreed to remove Soviet missiles
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Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro takes over the government and changes to communism
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Detente: Relaxation of Cold War tensions during the 1970's
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Dienbienphu: small town and former French army base in Northern Vietnam; site of the battle that ended in a Vietnamese victory, the French withdrawal from Vietnam, and the securing of North Vietnam's independence
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Domino Theory: When one country fell to communism all the other countries would fallow
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Dunkirk: Port in France in which 300000 allied troups were evacuated when their retreat were cut off by the German advance in 1940
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Entangled Alliances: alliance in WW1 that were a cause in the war
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Fascism: Glorified action, violence, discipline and blind loyalty to the the state. Fascist leaders glorified warfare as a noble struggle for survival.
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Fidel Castro: Organized an armed rebellion against the corrupt dictator who then ruled cuba. He led Guerrilla army to victory and set about transform the country (Cuban Revolution)
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Fourteen Points: List of terms for resolving World War 1 and future wars outlined by American President Woodrow Wilson in January 1918
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Francisco Franco: Conservative general that led a revolt that touched off a bloody civil war. Hitler and Mussolini sent arms and forces to help
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Franklin D. Roosevelt: American president in 1932. Argued that the government had to take an active role in combating the Great Depression
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Fronts in WW1: Trench warfare that ended up in a stalemate
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german military strategy: the blitzkrieg
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Gulag: In the Soviet Union, forced labor camps where criminals and political prisoners were held under stalin
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Hitler's "Final Solution": Organized murder of all European Jews under his control
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Ho Chi Minh: Nationalist and Communist who had fought the Japanese. His communists controlled north vietnam
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Holocaust: the systematic genocide of about six million European Jews by the Nazis during World War 2
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Indian Congress Party: pressed for self-rule within the British empire. Members were mostly in the middle-class
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Indira Ghandi: Prime minister after JawaharlaL Nehru who proved to the world that women could hold powerful positions
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Island Hopping: During WW2, allied strategy of recapturing some Japanese-held islands while by-passing others
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Joseph Stalin: communist party
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kamikaze: japanese pilot who undertook a suicide mission
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Kim 2 sung: north korea dictator, communist ally of the soviet union.
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Kristallnacht: broken glass; Nazi mobs attacked Jewish homes and business
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kulaks: Wealthy farmers; Stalin liquidate them as a class. Government confiscated their land and sent them to labor camps.
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Kurds: Ethnic group that lives in northern Middle east who faced discrimination
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Leadership in north of the 17th parallel: Ho Chi Mihn
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Leadership in north of the 38th parallel: Kim Il Sung
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Leadership in south of the 17th parallel: Dihn Diem
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Leadership in south of the 38th parallel: Sungman Rhee
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League of Nations: based on the idea of collective security, a system in which a group of nations acts as one to preserve the peace of all. Wilson felt sure that it could correct any mistakes made in Paris
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Lend-Lease Act: An act passed by the united states that allowed the president to sell or lend war supplies to any country whose defense was considered vital to the united states
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Luftwaffe: german airforce
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Lusitania: British liner torpedoed by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland
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Maginot Line: massive fortifications built by the French along the French border of Germany to protect against future invasions
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Marshall Plan: packages offered by the united states to europe to help countries rebuild after WW2
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Militarism: glorification of the military
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Mussolini: he believed in nationalism, he organized veterans and other discontented italians into the fascist party. symbolized unity and authority
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nato: north atlantic treaty organization, u.s canada and 10 countries pledge to help one another if anyone of them were attacked
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nazi goals: exterminate all the jews and take over europe
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nazi-soviet pact: treaty signed with germaNY AND russia before ww2, hitler attacked russia and broke the pact because he did want the spread of communism
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nazism: people who followed the nazi regime
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nehru: first president of india, wanted to strengthen indias economy but rapid population hurt it
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neutrality: policy of supporting neither side in a war
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neutrality Acts: a series of acts passed by the us congress that aimed to keep the us involved in ww2
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new deal: massive package to help americans during the great deprssion
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ngo dinh diem: president of democratic south vietnam, supported by us
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Nikita khrushchev: leader of russia after stalin
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nuremburg laws: laws approved by the nazi party depriving jews of german citizen ship and taking some rights away from them
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nuremburg trials: first war trials in war history after ww2
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opec: blocked oil shipments to the us to protest us support for israel
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operation sea lion: plan to bomb britain, bombed for many days straight, not successful for germans
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pacifism: oppositiont to all war
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palestine vs isreal: jews went to palestine caused problems, un divides palestine into 2 parts, half jews called israel, half arab called palestine
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partition: a division into pieces
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propaganda: ww2, spreading or damaging ideas
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Red Scare: Fear of communism/radicals and the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia set it off in 1919 and 1920
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russian revolution: after soviet union pulls out of ww1 , civil war breaks out in russia, vladimir lenin takes over, communists
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russification: stalin idea, make everything russian
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salt: stategic arms limiting treaty, stop making nuclear weapons
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schlieffen plan: plan to avoid a 2 front war-attack france first, then take care of russia
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seato: south east asia treaty, allies formed it with asian countries
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sikh rebellion: a religion in India that wanted change that stormed the golden temple. Ghandi sent troops there and her body guard killed her for doing that because he was a sikh
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socialism: system in which people as a whole own all property and operate all business and the government controls parts of the economy
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stalemate on the western front: trench warfare between france and germany during WW1
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Stalin's purges: killed groups of people in Russia, especially the Kulaks
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Stalingrad: city named after stalin where there was a major battle during WW2. Costliest
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Suburbanization: the movement to build up areas outside central cities
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Syngman Rhee: leader of south korea
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Tet Offensive: massive and bloody offensive by communism guerillas by south vietnamese and american forces on tet, the vietnamese new year, helped turned american public opinion against military involvement in vietnam
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Total War: Channeling of a nations entire resources into a war effort
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Totalitarianism: government in which a one party dictatorship regulates ever aspect of citizens lives
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Treaty of Versailles: treaty after ww1 that made the germans pay reparations for the damage they started. Hitler opposed this treaty
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Trench Warfare: Type of warfare during WW1 on the Western front
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Triple Alliance: Germany-Austria, Hungary, Italy
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Triple Entente: France, Russia, Britain
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Truman Doctrine: rooted in the idea of containment, limiting communism to the areas already Soviet control
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U Boats: German submarines that destroyed ships during WW2
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U.S. Containment: try not to let communism spread throughout the world
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United Nations: Countries that set up a way to keep the peace
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Urbanization: movement of people from rural areas to cities
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US in the middle east: supported the israelis
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US Prohibitation: making alcohol illegal; people who continued to do it were called bootleggers. 18th ammendment
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V-E Day: the day germany surrender
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V-J Day: day japan surrendered in WW2
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Vichy France: the germans set up a puppet state
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viet cong: Communist rebels in south vietnam who sought to overthrow south vietnam government. they received assistance from north vietnem
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vietnam war: war between north and south vietnam. north is communist supported by russia. south is democratic supported by US
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War Reparations: money that was paid by countries, especially germany for there actions in WW1
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Warsaw Pact: mutual defense alliance between the Soviet Union and seven satellites in eastern europe
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Yalta Conference: meeting between FRD, Churchill, and Stalin where the three leaders made agreements regarding the end of WW2
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Zeppelin: large gas filled balloons to bomb the english coast
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Zimmermann Note: a note that US intercepted from Germany that was suppossed to be sent to Mexico asking them to attack the US
