Chapter 27-An Age of Catastrophes
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| The Great Depression | show 🗑
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| show | The steep fall in the prices of stocks due to widespread financial panic. Caused by stock brokers who called in the loans they had made to stock investors. This caused stock prices to fall, and people lost their entire life savings as banks went bankrupt
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| show | A tax levied on imports of goods as they cross the border
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| show | The leader of the movement toward Indian independence from Britain who advocated nonviolent methods to effect social change.
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| show | Deliberate, open, and peaceful violation of laws, decrees, regulations, military or police orders, or other governmental directives.
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| show | (1881-1938) Nationalist leader of Turkey who is responsible for modernizing and westernizing his country after World War I. This enabled Turkey to resist imperialist attempts at takeover by various European powers.
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| show | (1890-1969) Vietnamese leader who is responsible for ousting first the French, then the United States from his country. Supported by both communist China and the Soviet Union, he guided Vietnam through decades long warfare to emerge as a communist nation.
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| Totalitarianism | show 🗑
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| Joseph Stalin | show 🗑
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| show | were a series of nation-wide centralized exercises in rapid economic development in the Soviet Union. the plans were created by the Gosplan based on the general guidelines of the Communist Party for economical development
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| show | an organizational unit in agriculture in which peasants are not paid wages, but rather receive a share of the farm's net output.
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| show | campaigns of repression organized by Stalin in the Soviet Union during the late 1930s amidst fears of treason within the civilian population and armed forces
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| show | a type of public trial in which the judicial authorities have already determined the guilt of the accused. Tends to be retributive rather than correctional justice.
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| Gulags | show 🗑
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| show | Political ideology promoting Germanic racial aspirations and a strong and centrally governed state. From 1933 to 1945 (the "Third Reich") ruled Germany and led her through WWII.
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| Adolph Hitler | show 🗑
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| Paul von Hindenburg | show 🗑
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| show | passed by the Reichstag on March 23, 1933. Allowed the Nazis to establish Nazi Germany by providing the government with legislative powers, effectively handing dictatorial powers to the Chancellor Adolf Hitler.
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| show | was an attempt by the German Nazi Party to establish a national community. It could only be achieved by gaining control of all aspects of cultural and social life. Theatre, literature, the press and children's activities were all controlled by the Nazis.
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| show | In Nazi racial theory, a person of pure German "blood." The term "non-Aryan" was used to designate Jews, part-Jews and others of supposedly inferior racial stock.
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| Nuremberg Laws, 1935 | show 🗑
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| show | 32nd President of the United States; elected four times; instituted New Deal to counter the great depression and led country during World War II (1882-1945)
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| Herbert Hoover | show 🗑
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| Hoovervilles | show 🗑
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| The New Deal | show 🗑
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| Leon Blum | show 🗑
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| Popular Front | show 🗑
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| show | was a British author and feminist. Between the world wars, was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group.
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| George Orwell | show 🗑
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| show | refers to what many historians recognize as widespread atrocities committed by the Japanese army in and around Nanking (now Nanjing), China, after the capital's fall to Japanese in 1937.
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| Lebensraum | show 🗑
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| show | The European Powers whom in World War II opposed the Allies.
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| show | lasted from July 17, 1936 to April 1, 1939, was a conflict in which the Francoists or Nationalists, led by General Francisco Franco, defeated the Republicans or Loyalists of the Second Spanish Republic
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| show | Generalísimo Francisco Franco, was dictator of Spain from 1939 until his death in 1975
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| show | The annexation of Austria to Germany
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| show | Giving in to the demands of aggressive powers to avoid war, as long as those demands appear reasonable. Such a policy was pursued by Britain and France in dealing with Germany in the latter half of the 1930s.
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| show | a strategically important region of Czechoslovakia. The Skoda Works, a huge armament facility, were situated there. It had over 2.5 million speaking German inhabitants, and according to the Versailles treaty’s rule of National Self Determination, should b
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| Neville Chamberlain | show 🗑
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| show | was an agreement regarding the Sudetenland Crisis between the major powers of Europe after a conference held in Munich in Germany in 1938 and concluded on September 29.
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| show | pact between the two, agreeing to avoid war or armed conflict between them even if they find themselves fighting third countries, or even if one is fighting allies of the other.
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| Vichy France | show 🗑
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| show | was a French soldier and leader of Vichy France. He became a French hero because of his military leadership in World War I, yet he was tried and imprisoned for treason in his old age because of his collaboration with the Germans in World War II.
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| show | French general and statesman who became very popular during World War II as the leader of the Free French forces in exile (1890-1970)
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| Luftwaffe | show 🗑
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| Ultra | show 🗑
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| show | A system for detecting the direction, range, or prescence of aircraft, ships, and other objects, by sending out pulses of high frequency electromagnetic waves
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| show | the prolonged bombardment of British cities by the German Luftwaffe during World War II and the aerial combat that accompanied it
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| Operation Sealion | show 🗑
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| show | A style of combat used by German panzer division "armored division". Concentrated and massed formation of tanks moved into country with amazing speed and destructive power.
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| Operation Barbarossa | show 🗑
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| Bombing of Pearl Harbour | show 🗑
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| Battle of Midway | show 🗑
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| Island hopping | show 🗑
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| SS | show 🗑
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| show | Genocide of European Jews by Nazi Germany in the 1930s and 40s; about six million Jewish men, women, and children were put to death in Nazi concentration camps.
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| show | The Nazi plan for the physical destruction of all of Europe's Jewish population.
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| Stalingrad | show 🗑
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| show | The Codename for the D-Day Battle of Normandy, was fought in 1944 between the German forces occupying Western Europe and the invading Allied forces. Remains the largest sea borne invasion in history
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| show | American soldier and politician, was the 34th President of the United States (1953–1961) and supreme commander of the Allied forces in Europe during World War II, with the rank of General of the Army.
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| Guadalcanal | show 🗑
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| show | The "Divine Wind" which saved Japan from the Mongol invaders . During World War II the name was applied to Japan's suicide bombers.
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