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20th century

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Depression/Great Depression   The economic decline that began in the 1929 and was the worst in the worlds history.  
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New deal   Franklin D. Roosevelts's plan for getting the United States out of the Great Depression.  
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Treaty of Versailles   The treaty that was signed in 1919 to end WWI.One of the causes of WWII.  
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Fourteen Points   President Woodrow Wilsons ideas to end all future world wars.  
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Russian Revolution   The action led by Lenin that replaced Czarist Russia with a communist goverment.  
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Communism   All property and all means of production belong to the people as a group, private property does not exist and all goods are shared eqally.  
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Democracy   Rule by the people.  
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Dictators   A ruler with absolute power and authority(Hitler and Mussolini in WWII.)  
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Blitzrieg   "Lighting war", German tactic used in World War Two Based on speed and surprised and needed a Mulitary force to be based around light tank units supported by planes and infantry (foot soliders.)  
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Alliances   When a country aligns with another country against a 3rd country.  
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Isolationism   Americas policy of noninvolvment in European wars and avoidance of "entangling allances."  
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Appeasement   Policy of giving into the demands of countries in the hopes of avoiding a war.  
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Allies   Great Britain, United States and Russia during WWII.  
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Axiz powers   Germany,Italy and Japans alliance during WWII.  
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Theaters of Conflict   Different fornts where a country is fighting. (For example in WWII the US fought in both Europe and the Pacific Theaters.)  
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Atomic Bomb (Manhattan Project)   A weapon of mass destruction 1st used by america against Japan WWII(US code name for making the 1st atom bomb).  
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Holocaust   The killing of an entire group of people planned by a government.(German's plan for getting rid of all the Jewish people).  
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Holocaust   The name now used for the mass killing of Jewish people by Nazi Germany.  
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United Nations   An international peace keeping organization that came into use at the end of WWII that would help prevent future wars.  
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Cold War   A conflict of words and ideas between nations rather then armies.  
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Containment   American policy to keep the soviets from gaining control of weak countries.  
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Arms Race   A competition among nations to get the most weapons. (especially nuclear weapons)  
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Domino Theory   20th century foreign policy that believed if one country came under the influence of Communists, then more countries would follow.  
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Israel Palestine   Country set up for the HJewish people after WWI. Country was split to make Israel.  
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Detente   The policy to relax tensions between the communists and the free world.  
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Cuban Missile Crisis   A very tense confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States over the Soviet deployment of nucleur missiles in Cuba.  
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Space Race   An informal but serious competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to be the first to explore outer space.  
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NATO   North Atlantic Treaty Organization- an organization of America and most European countries for collective security establised in 1949.  
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