Mr. Brown AP World ECHHS
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| 375017846 | internationalization | the idea that peoples should unite across national boundaries; gained popularity during the 19th century; led to the establishment of organizations like the International Red Cross | 0 | |
| 375017847 | World Court | permanent arbitration court established at the Hague in 1899; failed to resolve problems of international conflict | 1 | |
| 375017848 | eastern front | war zone from the Baltic to the Balkans where Germans, Austro-Hungarians, Russians, and Balkan nations fought | 2 | |
| 375017849 | Balfour Declaration (1917) | British promise of support for the establishment of Jewish settlement in Palestine | 3 | |
| 375017850 | Brest-Litovsk Treaty (1918) | Russia and Germany agreement; Russia withdrew from World War I and lost territory to Germany in return for peace | 4 | |
| 375017851 | Treaty of Versailles | ended World War I; punished Germany with loss of territory and payment of reparations; did not satisfy any of the signatories | 5 | |
| 375017852 | League of Nations | international organization of nations created after World War I: designed to preserve world peace; United States never a member | 6 | |
| 375017853 | anschluss | union between Germany and Austria under Hitler in 1938 | 7 | |
| 375017854 | Munich Conference | meeting caused by German occupation of part of Czechoslovakia in 1938; Western leaders afreed to the action after Germany promised future peace | 8 | |
| 375017855 | appeasement | name given to the policy of British leader Neville Chamberlain because of his acceptance at the Munich Conference of German aggression | 9 | |
| 375017856 | Tripartite Pact | 1940 alliance between Japan, Germany, and Italy | 10 | |
| 375017857 | Munich Conference | 1938 meeting between German, French, and British leaders; allowed Czechoslovakia to be dismembered by Germany in return for promises of future peace | 11 | |
| 375017858 | Vichy | collaborationist French government established at Vichy in 1940 following defeat by Germany | 12 | |
| 375017859 | Holocaust | Germany's attempted extermination of European Jews; resulted in six million deaths | 13 | |
| 375017860 | Teheran Conference (1943) | meeting between the leaders of the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union; decided to open a new front against Germany in France; gave the Russians a free hand in eastern Europe | 14 | |
| 375017861 | Yalta Conference (1945) | agreed upon Soviet entry into war against Japan, organization of the United Nations; left eastern Europe to Soviet Union | 15 | |
| 375017862 | Postdam Conference (1945) | meeting between the leaders of the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union in 1945; the allies accepted Soviet control of eastern Europe; Germany and Austria were divided among the voctors | 16 | |
| 375017863 | iron curtain | term coined by Churchill for the division between the Western and Soviet spheres | 17 | |
| 375017864 | Marshall Plan | United States program begun in 1947 to help Western European nations recover from the devastation of World War II | 18 | |
| 375017865 | NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization; formed in 1949 to counter the threat of Soviet Union; included western European democracies, Canada, and the United States | 19 |
