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U8P1 Euro

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Wilhelm II   German emperor (Kaiser) whose militarism helped cause the First World War  
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Weltpolitik   refers to Germany's attempt to become a world power with its navy; means "world politics"  
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Triple Entente   World War I alliance between Great Britain, France, and Russia  
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Triple Alliance   World War I alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy  
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Franz Ferdinand   heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne assassinated in Sarajevo in June 1914  
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Gavrilo Princip   assassin of Austro-Hungarian archduke  
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Easter Rebellion   Irish nationalist rebellion of 1916 put down by the British  
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Nicholas II   Russian tsar; murdered by Bolsheviks in 1917  
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Rasputin   "holy man" who influenced Russian empress during war; murdered by Russian aristocracy  
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Alexander Kerensky   moderate liberal leader of the 1st Russian Revolution that resulted in tsar's abdication  
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Vladimir Lenin   radical Bolshevik leader of the 2nd Russian Revolution (October Revolution)  
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Leon Trotsky   Bolshevik military leader of Petrograd Soviet; later organized Red Army  
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Bolsheviks   radical socialist revolutionaries of Russian Revolution  
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Treaty of Brest Litovsk   treaty that ended WWI on eastern front between Germany and Russia  
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Franco-Russian Alliance   resulted from build up of Germany's army and its non-renewal of the Reinsurance Treaty  
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Entente Cordiale   resulted from build up of the German navy  
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Sinn Fein   political leaders of Irish rebellion; means "we ourselves"  
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Irish Republican Army   military wing of Irish independence movement  
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Ataturk   leader of Turkish nationalist group  
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mandate system   divided Middle East into territories ruled by Britain and France  
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Provisional Government   assumed control of Russia after Nicholas abdicated  
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Article 231   war guilt clause of Versailles Treaty; blamed Germany for start of war  
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Alsace   territory taken by France from Germany after World War I  
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Weimar Republic   German government from World War I until 1933  
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Lost Generation   those who fought in World War I who were physically and mentally scarred  
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Dada   art that was "anti-art"; resulted from sense of hopelessness and anxiety after World War I  
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Surrealism   represented by Salvador Dali; painted the unconscious; influenced by Freudian psychology  
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existentialism   you’re born into a life without meaning or purpose—to give your life “essence” (meaning), you must do something  
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Sartre   leading existentialist philosopher  
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