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| 347155252 | Kemal Ataturk | The founder of modern Turkey. An army officer, he distinguished himself in the defense of Gallipoli in WW1 and expelled a Greek expeditionary army from Anatolia in 1921-1922. He abolished the sultanate and replaced the Ottoman Empire with the Turkish Republic in 1923. As president until his death in 1938, he pushed through a radical Westernization and reform of Turkish republic. | 0 | |
| 347155253 | Balfour Declaration | Statement issued by British's Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour in 1917 favoring the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. | 1 | |
| 347155254 | Chaing Kai-shek | Chinese military and political leader. Succeeded Sun Yatsen as head of the Guomindang in 1925; headed the Chinese gov. from 1928-1948; fought against the Chinese Communists & Japanese invaders. After 1949 he headed the Chinese Nationalist gov. in Taiwan. | 2 | |
| 347155255 | Albert Einstein | German physicist who developed the theory of relativity, which states that time, space and mass are relative to each other and not fixed. | 3 | |
| 347155256 | Sigmund Freud | Austrian psychiatrist, founder of psychoanalysis. He argued that psychological problems were caused by traumas, especially sexual experiences in early childhood, that were repressed in later life. His ideas caused considerable controversy among psychologists and in the general public. Although his views on repressed sexuality are no longer widely accepted, his psychoanalytic are still very influential. | 4 | |
| 347155257 | Guomindang | Nationalist political party founded on democratic principles by Sun Yat-sen in 1912. After 1925, the party was headed by Chiang Kai-Shek, who turned it into an increasingly authoritarian movement. | 5 | |
| 347155258 | League of Nations | international organization founded in 1919 to promote world peace and cooperation but greatly weakened by the refusal of the US to join. It proved ineffectual in stopping aggression by Italy, Japan and Germany in the 1930s, and it was superseded by the United Nations in 1945. | 6 | |
| 347155259 | Fourteen Points | peace program presented to the US congress by Wilson in January 1918. Called for evacuation of german occupied lands, drawing borders and the settling of territorial disputes by the self-determination of the affected populations and the founding of an association of nations to preserve the peace and guarantee their territorial integrity. It was rejected by Germany, but made Wilson the moral leader of Allies in the last year of WW1. | 7 | |
| 347155260 | Vladimir Lenin | Leader of the Bolshevik Party. He lived in exile in Switzerland until 1917, then returned to Russia to lead the Bolsheviks to victory during the Russian Revolution and the civil war that followed. | 8 | |
| 347155261 | mandate system | Allocation of former German colonies & Ottoman possessions to the victorious powers after WW1, to be administered under League of Nations supervision | 9 | |
| 347155262 | Joseph Stalin | Bolshevik revolutionary, head of the Soviet Communist Party after 1924, and dictator of the Soviet Union from 1928 to 1953. led the Soviet Union with an iron-fist using 5 year plans to increase industrial production & terror to crush all opposition. | 10 | |
| 347155263 | Sun Yat-sen | Chinese nationalist revolutionary, founder and leader of the Guomindang until his death. He attempted to create a liberal democratic political movement in China but was thwarted by military leaders. | 11 | |
| 347155264 | Treaty of Versailles | treaty imposed on Germany by France, Great Britain, and the US, and other allied Powers after WW1. It demanded that Germany dismantle its military and give up some lands to Poland. It was resented by many Germans. | 12 | |
| 347155265 | Western Front | a line of trenches and fortifications in WW1 that stretched without a break from Switzerland to the North Sea. Scene of most of the fighting between Germany, on the one hand, and France and Britain, on the other. | 13 | |
| 347155266 | Woodrow Wilson | President off the US and the leading figure at the Paris Peace Conference to 1919. He was unable to persuade the US Congress to ratify the Treaty of Versailles or join the League of Nations. | 14 | |
| 347155267 | long term causes of ww1 | Nationalism, imperialism, militarism, and the alliance systems ( Triple Entente and Triple Alliance) | 15 | |
| 347155268 | why did america enter ww1? | Germany was sinking the US's ships | 16 | |
| 347155269 | armistice was signed on what day, hour month year? | 11 hr, 11 day, 11 month 1918 | 17 | |
| 347155270 | Ziabatsu | a Japanese term referring to industrial and financial business conglomerates in the Empire of Japan, whose influence and size allowed for control over significant parts of the Japanese economy from the Meiji period until the end of World War II | 18 | |
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| 347155272 | Smoot- Hawley Tariff | a tariff passed by the US that caused a decrease in international as other nations followed suits | 20 | |
| 347155273 | Adolf Hitler | Born in Austria, Hitler became a radical German nationalist during WW1. He led the National Socialist German Workers' Party-the nazis- in the 1920s and became dictator of Germany in 1933. He led Europe unto WW2. | 21 | |
| 347155274 | Long March | 6000 mile flight of Chinese Communist from southeastern to northwestern China. The communists, led by Mao Zedong, were pursued by the Chinese army under orders from Chiang Kai-shek. The 4 thousand survivors of the march formed the nucleus of a revived Communist movement that defeated the Guomindang after WW2. | 22 | |
| 347155275 | Mao Zedong | leader of the Chinese party. He led the Communists on the long march and rebuilt the Communist party and red army during the Japanese occupation of China. After WW2, he led the communists to victory over the Guomindang. He ordered Cultural Revolution in 1966. | 23 | |
| 347155276 | Benito Mussolini | fascist dictator of Italy. Led Italy to conquer Ethiopia, joined Germany in the Axis pact, and allied Italy with Germany in WW2. He was overthrown in 1943 when the Allies invaded Italy. | 24 | |
| 347155277 | Nazi Party | Political party founder by Hitler, emphasizing nationalism, racism, and war. WHen Hitler became chancellor of Germany in 1933, the Nazis became the only legal party and an instrument of Hitler's absolute rule. The party's formal name was the National Socialist German Workers' party. | 25 | |
| 347155278 | Pearl Harbor | naval base attacked by Japan's aircraft on Dec. 7, 1941. The sinking of much of the US Pacific Fleet brought the US into WW2. | 26 | |
| 347155279 | blitzkrieg | the German's airstrike | 27 | |
| 347155280 | appeasement | policy followed by European nations in relation to the buildup and aggression of Germany and Italy before WW2. they hoped to avoid another war by giving concessions | 28 | |
| 347155281 | when did WW2 begin? | When Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939 | 29 |
