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9378457556blitzkrieg"Lighting war", typed of fast-moving warfare used by German forces against Poland n 19390
9378457557European Economic Communityaka EEC. Aka The Common Market. Established in 1957 to reduce trade barriers in Western Europe1
9378457558European UnionA family of democratic countries committed to working together for peace and prosperity in Europe.2
9378457559fascisman authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization.3
9378457560flappersYoung women in the 1920s who challenged social traditions with their dress and behavior4
9378457561Fourteen PointsPresident Woodrow Wilson's plan for organizing post-World War I Europe and for avoiding future wars5
9378457562Franco-Prussian WarGerman war with France that ended with the defeat of France and unification of Germany into a single state under Prussian rule.6
9378457563Franz Ferdinand, ArchdukeHeir to the Austrian throne whose assassination by a Serbian nationalist on June 28, 1914, was the spark that ignited World War 1.7
9378457564Great Depressionthe economic crisis in the US beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s8
9378457565Great WarName originally given to the First World War9
9378457566Hitler, AdolfAustrian-born chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and dictator of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 194510
9378457567Holocaustthe mass murder of 6 million Jews by Germany's Nazi regime during World War II11
9378457568Kristallnacht"Night of Broken Glass," when Nazis attacked Jews throughout Germany12
9378457569League of Nationsan international organization formed in 1920 to promote cooperation and peace among nations13
9378457570ManchukuoJapanese puppet state (1932-1945) formed in Manchuria and eastern Inner Mongolia14
9378457571Marshall PlanA U.S. program of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after World War II15
9378457572Mussolini, Benitohead of the Italian Fascist party; began creating an Italian empire by taking over land in Africa16
9378472221Nanjing, Rape ofThe Japanese army's systematic killing, mutilation, and rape of the Chinese civilian population of Nanjing in 1983.17
9378472222NATOThe North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a military and political alliance founded in 1949 that committed the United States to the defense of Europe in the event of Soviet aggression.18
9378472223Nazi GermanyGermany as ruled by Hitler and the Nazi Party from 1933-1945, a fascist state dedicated to extreme nationalism, territorial expansion, and the purification of the German state.19
9378472224Nazi PartyNational Socialist German Workers' Party led by Hitler in 1921 slowly started to gain power.20
9378472225New DealFranklin Roosevelt's economic reform program designed to solve the problems of the Great Depression21
9378472226Nuremberg Laws1935 laws defining the status of Jews and withdrawing citizenship from persons of non-German blood.22
9378472227Revolutionary Right (Japan)Movement in Japanese political life marked by extreme nationalism and foreign expansion23
9378472228total warA conflict in which the participating countries devote all their resources to the war effort24
9378472229Treaty of VersaillesTreaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.25
9378472230Triple AllianceAn alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy in the years before WWI.26
9378472231Triple EntenteA military alliance between Great Britain, France, and Russia in the years preceding World War I.27
9378472232United Nationsan organization of independent states formed in 1945 to promote international peace and security28
9378472233Weimar RepublicGerman republic founded after the WWI and the downfall of the German Empire's monarchy.29
9378472234Wilson, WoodrowPresident of the United States from 1912 to 1921 who was especially noted for his idealistic approach to the end of World War 1, which included advocacy of his Fourteen Points.30
9378472235World War IThe "Great War" in essence a European civil war with global implications that was marked by massive casualties. 1914-191831
9378472236World War II in AsiaSet to end Japanese imperial expansion, Japan fights against mainly the Chinese and Americans.32
9378472237World War II in EuropeA struggle essentially to halt German imperial expansion in Europe, fought by a coalition of allies that included Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States.33
9378472238zaibatsuin the Japanese economy, a large financial and industrial corporation34

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