World Wars
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- extending one's country's rule over many lands
- imperialism
- who was fighting for independance from spain?
- cuba
- why does the U.S. declare war in the spanish american war?
- spain sank the U.S ship the Maine
- who led the rough riders
- theodore roosevelt
- what did theodore roosevelt issue so that the U.S could go through the Panama Canal instead of going around
- big stick diplomacy
- who did theodore roosevelt give money to so that he could build the panama canal
- columbia
- germany-austria hungary-great britain-russia-italy-france
- the great powers
- germany-austria hungary-italy
- triple alliance
- france-russia-britain
- triple entente
- who supported serbia
- russia
- why was austria-hungary fighting
- for the slavic state
- who feared there was a connection between russia and serbia
- austria-hungary
- who did austria-hungary ask to back them
- germany
- germany gave a blank check-what does that mean
- full support
- what was germanys schlieffen plan
- 2 front war
- the western from ended in a
- stalemate
- the end of the western front started _____
- trench warfare
- eastern front-austria hungary is defeated by who
- russia
- who betrayed germany and joined the allies
- italy
- why did the U.S enter the eastern front
- germany sank the U.S ship Lusitania
- who wanted to control an army but didnt know how
- czar nicholas II
- who led the bolsheviks into a communist revoltion by promising peace and land
- linen
- who led the reds to the a civil war and was victorious (red victory)
- leon trotsky
- why did the whites lose in the red victory
- they had no common goal
- end of WWI-what war did germans push back
- 2nd battle of marne
- an agreement to end fighting
- armistice
- who made 14 points
- woodrow wilson
- us-france-britain
- big 3
- what conference was held at the end of WWI
- Paris Peace Conference
- open peace agreements-reducing arms-self determination
- some of woodrow wilsons 14 points
- who had to deal with guilt, pay reparations, & reduce their army
- germany
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-germans had to deal with guilt of the war
-pay reparations
-reduce their army
-alsacel lorraine returned
-parts of eastern germany were lost
-both side of the rhine river were demilitarized - treaty of versailles
- what halted the german advance
- an early winter and fierce soviet resistance
- when did japanese aircraft attack the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor
- dec. 7, 1941
- when did hitler declare war on the U.S
- 4 days after pearl harbor
- when did hitler commit suicide
- april 30, 1945
- who landed on the Normandy beaches
- U.S general Dwight D. Eisenhower
- what decision did president harry s. truman make
- to use atomic weapons against japan
- what did hitler have that used panzar divisions supported by airplanes
- blitzkrieg
- what does blitzkrieg mean
- "lightning war"
- the mass slaughter of european civilians-especially jews
- holocaust
- in japan 15,ooo children were evacuatedfrom where before its destruction
- hiroshima
- what was a total war in which fighting was much more widespread and covered most of the world
- world war II
- young japanese were encouraged to volunteer to serve as what in suicide missions against U.S. fighting ships at sea
- pilots or kamikaze
- who declared that an iron curtain had descended across the continent of europe
- the former british prime minister Winston Churchill