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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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