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17 Cards in this Set
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militarism
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the glorification of the military
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propaganda
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the spreading of ideas to promote a cause or to damage an opposing cause
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reparations
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payments for war damage
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Gavrilo Princip
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a conspirator that killed the archduke and his wife
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Woodrow Wilson
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-symbol of hope
-one of the tree strong personalities who dominated the Paris Peace Conference -urged "peace without victory" -wanted Fourteen Points to be the basis of peace |
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neutrality
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policy of supporting neither side in a war
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total war
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channeling of a nation's entire resources into a war effort
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Francis Ferdinand
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-archduke of Austria-Hungary
-when he was on a visit to Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, he was assassinated by Gavrilo Princip |
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ultimatum
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final set of demands
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mandates
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territories administered by western powers
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Treaty of Versailles
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-forced Germany to assume full blame for causing the war
-imposed huge reparations -limited the size of German military -returned Alsace and Larraine to France |
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Trench Warfare
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on the western front, the warring armies burrowed into a vast system of trenches stretching from the Swiss frontier to the English Channel.
-linked bunkers, communications trenches, gun emplacements -broiling hot in the summer, freezing in the winter -there were rats and lice |
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Nicholas II
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-weak and ineffectual man
-czar of Russia -relied on his secret police and other enforcers to impose his will |
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collectivism
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large farms owned and operated by peasants as a group
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Leon Trotsky
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-assisted Lenin when he returned from exile
-turned the Red Army into an effective fighting force -he had passionate speeches that roused soldiers to fight -brilliant Marxist thinker, a skillful speaker, architect of the Bulshevik Revolution -at Lenin's death, he was up against Stalin of position -urged support for a worldwide revolution against capitalism -fled the country in 1929 -in 1940, he was murdered in Mexico by a Stalinist agent because even though he was in exile he continued to speak out against Stalin |
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Karl Marx
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"The Communist Manifesto"
-believed that economics was the driving force in history -condemned the ideas of the Utopians as unrealistic idealism -put forward a new theory "scientific socialism" which he claimed was based on a scientific study of history |
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Nikita Khrushchev
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-in 1953, he emerged as the new soviet leader
-in 1956, he denounced Stalin's abuse of power -he then pursued the policy of de-stalinization |