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Misleading information used to change opinions typically used by a governing power.
Propaganda->Great Purge
Propaganda->Treaty of Versailles
Propaganda->Kristallnacht
Propaganda->Treaty of Versailles
Propaganda->Manchuria
Propaganda->Reichstag Fire -
-Spread of Ideas
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-Revolution
-Reason/Logic
-Individualism
-Non-Traditionalism
-Liberty
-Equal rights for all
-Respect (All people treated the same)
-Freedom
-The idea that everyone belongs to themselves
-No enslavement, or ownership of others
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1756-1778
"Let do" A way of governing that the government let the people do as they please without interferance -
Adam Smith(Wealth of Nations)-self interest etc.>Capitalism
Capitalism-an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state. -
Law of Self-interest-People work for themselves.
Law of Competition-Competition causes better focus.
Law of Supply and Demand-Enough goods, lowest possible price to meet demand in market economy
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Late 1700s
the doctrine that an action is right as long as it promotes happiness, and that the greatest happiness of the greatest number should be the guiding principle of conduct.
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Ideas of Enlightenment caused African slaves to revolt.
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Enlightenment caused many revolts leading to the abolition slavery.
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19th Century
Urbanization>European Urbanization>Child Labour>Factory Act
Urbanization-the process of making an area more urban.
European Urbanization described the move of the people from the country and small villages to towns and larger cities.
Child Labour-the use of children in industry or business, especially when illegal or considered inhumane. -
Restricted working age and work time. Children under age 9 could not work, and children 9-16 could only work for 12 hours a day. Children were not permitted to work at night.
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Written by Karl Marx to widespread communism
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a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
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late 19th and early 20th
the theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals. Now largely discredited, social Darwinism was advocated by Herbert Spencer and others in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was used to justify political conservatism, imperialism, and racism and to discourage intervention and reform.
Darwinism->Racism
Darwinism->Kristallnacht
Darwinism-> Paternalism and Assimilation -
European Nations met to discuss the division of Africa while not including an African representative
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19th Century
The "dad" policy
the policy or practice on the part of people in positions of authority of restricting the freedom and responsibilities of those subordinate to them in the subordinates' supposed best interest. -
The Fourteen Points was a statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I. The principles were outlined in a speech on war aims and peace terms to the United States Congress by President Woodrow Wilson.
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the belief or desire of a government or people that a country should maintain a strong military capability and be prepared to use it aggressively to defend or promote national interests.
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An authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization.
Fascism->Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy -
Brought WWI to an end.
A flawed peace
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a government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state
Totalitarianism-> Great Purge
totalitarianism = Command economy
Totalitarianism->Annexation of Austria
Totalitarianism->Remilitarization of Rhineland by Germany -
an economy in which production, investment, prices, and incomes are controlled by a government.
Command economy = Totalitarianism
Command Economy->Collective Farms -
a jointly operated amalgamation of several small farms, especially one owned by the government.
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The Wall Street Crash was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States that led to the economic crash of the majority of the world due to their dependence on the U.S
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The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place during the 1930s.
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Series of programs, including, most notably, Social Security, that were enacted in the United States
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The political principles of the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
Nazism->Hitler becomes Chancellor
Nazism->Hitler becomes Fuhrer
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The Reichstag fire was an arson attack on the Reichstag building in Berlin on 27 February 1933. The fire was used as evidence by the Nazis that the Communists were plotting against the German government and the event is seen as pivotal in the establishment of Nazi Germany. As a consequence there were mass communist arrests. With the biggest rivals, the communists gone, the Nazis now had full control and no competition.
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The Great Purge or the Great Terror was a campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union
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The Munich Agreement is signed by Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and Italy. The agreement allows Germany to take over the Czechoslovak Sudetenland area in exchange for peace in an attempt to appease Hitler.
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The Kristallnacht was a series of co-ordianted against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and parts of Austria on 9–10 November 1938, carried out by SA paramilitary forces and non-Jewish civilians. German authorities looked on without intervening.The name Kristallnacht comes from the shards of broken glass that littered the streets after Jewish-owned stores, buildings, and synagogues had their windows smashed
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WWII
Prime Minister Chamberlain continuously gave Germany Leeway -
the state of political hostility that existed between the Soviet bloc countries and the US-led Western powers
No battle-like happenstances typical of a war -
The Iron Curtain was the name for the boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II
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With the Truman Doctrine, President Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.
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Apartheid was a system of institutionalised racial segregation and discrimination in South Africa
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the theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries, like a falling domino causing an entire row of upended dominoes to fall.
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The Warsaw Pact, formally the Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation, and Mutual Assistance, was a collective defence treaty among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War.