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The Twentieth Century and Contemporary World Cultures Flashcards

(1914-present)

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164195224World War 1(1914-1918) known as the "Great War"0
164195225nationalismthe doctrine that your national culture and interests are superior to any other1
164195226Western FrontIn WWI, the region of Northern France where the forces of the Allies and the Central Powers battled each other.2
164195227Germanystuck with the Bill from WWI3
164195228Schlieffen PlanGermany's military plan at the outbreak of World War I, according to which German troops would rapidly defeat France and then move east to attack Russia.4
164195229Armenian genocideAssault carried out by mainly Turkish military forces against Armenian population in Anatolia in 1915; over a million Armenians perished and thousands fled to Russia and the Middle East.5
164195230decolonizationThe acquisition, by colonized peoples, of control over their own territory.6
164195231League of NationsAn organization of nations formed after World War I to promote cooperation and peace.7
164195232Treaty of Versaillesthe treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans8
164195233Great Depressionthe economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s9
164195234totolitarianismdictatorship in its most extreme form.10
164206679LeninRussian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR (1870-1924)11
164206680StalinRussian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition12
164206681TrotskyWas a Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist. He was one of the leaders of the Russian October Revolution, second only to Lenin.13

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