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network of railways connecting Moscow with the Russia far East Vladivostok
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he sought to preserve in an era desperate for change
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Both groups were enthusiasts for the destruction of capitalism and the overthrow of the Tsarist regime
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first great war of the 20th century
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unarmed demonstrators marching to present a petition to Tsar Nicholas II were fired upon by soldiers of the Imperial Guard
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encompasses two theories by Albert Einstein: special relativity and general relativity
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founding father of the Republic of China
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collective term for a series of revolutions in Russia in 1917
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dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Russian SFSR
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His reign saw Imperial Russia go from being one of the foremost great powers of the world to economic and military collapse
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a seizure of state power instrumental in the larger Russian Revolution
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multi-party war in the former Russian Empire fought between the Bolshevik Red Army and the White Army
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a peace treaty between the new Bolshevik government of Russia
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an anti-imperialist, cultural, and political movement growing out of student demonstrations in Beijing
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named after Weimar, the city where the constitutional assembly took place
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the ruling political party in Republic of China
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first international organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace
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represented a more capatilism-oriented economic policy
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Adolf Hitler was introduced as Führer of the Nazi Party, marking the first time that title was publicly used to address him
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The four power pact signed by the United States, Great Britain, Japan, and France
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governed as a single-party state by the Communist Party with Moscow as its capital
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made an alliance with Hitler. After the alliance he recklessly spent Italy's money.
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his theoretical contributions to Marxist thought are known as Leninism
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an attempt following World War 1 for the Triple Entente to compromise and collect war reparations debt from Germany.
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was a 20th-century Chinese political and military leader.
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an autobiographical manifesto by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, in which he outlines his political ideology and future plans for Germany.
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the 124th Emperor of Japan
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a civil war in China fought between forces loyal to the government of the Republic of China led by the Kuomintang
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Lindbergh was just 25 years old when he completed the trip
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a radical attempt to bring the Soviet Union into the industrial age
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international agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve "disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them"
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banned all private businesses, eliminated opposition, and started an over twenty year’s long campaign of killing fellow countrymen by the millions
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U.S. stock market underwent rapid expansion
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after nearly a decade of optimism and prsoperity, America was thrown into depression
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passed in response to the growing turmoil in Europe and Asia
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the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident
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President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler, leader or fÜhrer of the National Socialist German Workers Party as chancellor of Germany.
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the only president ever to serve more than eight years
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persecution and planned slaughter of the Jewish people
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eries of domestic programs enacted in the United States
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was a military retreat undertaken by the Red army of the Communist Party of China
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defied the treaty by building up his army, and taking back Rhineland
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The war resulted in the military occupation of Ethiopia
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Adolf Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact by sending German military forces into the Rhineland
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revolt by right-wing Spanish military officers in Spanish Morocco and spreads to mainland Spain
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a campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union
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China fought Japan with some economic help from Germany
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was an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against Nanking
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Austria and Germany united as one country
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settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia
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was a pogrom against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and parts of Austria
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experienced a rate of war deaths higher than most other German speaking areas of Austria-Hungary and exceeded only by German South Moravia and Carinthia
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representatives from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union met and signed
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France and United Kingdom had pacts with Polan and therfore declared war on Germany
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phase early in World War II that was marked by a lack of major military operations by the Western Allies against the German Reich
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called to replace Neville Chamberlain as British prime minister following the latter's resignation after losing a confidence vote in the House of Commons.
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the evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk
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first major campaign to be fought entirely by air forces
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was France during the regime of Marshal Philippe Pétain
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established the Axis Powers of World War II
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a program in which the United States supplied Great Britain and other allied nations with materiel
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code name for Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union
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defined the Allied goals for the post-war world
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was first constructed to hold Polish political prisoners
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The attack was intended as a preventive action in order to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from interfering with military actions
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The attack on Pearl Harbor happened before the U.S. declared war
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aiming for complete "Germinization"
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was Nazi Germany's plan during World War II to systematically exterminate the Jewish people
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a research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs during World War II
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Japanese American internment was the World War II internment in "War Relocation Camps" of over 110,000 people of Japanese heritage who lived on the Pacific coast of the United States
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the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war
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air raid by the United States on the Japanese capital Tokyo and other places on Honshu island
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military strategy employed by the Allies in the Pacific War against Japan and the Axis powers
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between the Imperial Japanese Navy and naval and air forces from the United States and Australia
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The Japenese plan was to lure the United States aircraft carriers into a trap.
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attle of the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War
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allied forces, pedominantly American, landed on Guadalcanal
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major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad
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the British-American invasion of French North Africa
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held to plan the Allied European strategy for the next phase of World War II
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codenamed Operation Husky, was a major World War II campaign
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strategy meeting held between Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill
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A 12,000-plane airborne assault preceeded an amphibious assault involving almost 7,000 vessels and nearly 160,000 troops
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Their most devastating attacks occurred during the battle for Okinawa where the suicide pilots inflicted the heaviest losses the US Navy ever suffered in a single battle
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more than 100,000 American soldiers land on Leyte Island, in the Philippines, as preparation for the major invasion
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a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region
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purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization
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major battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima
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marked the end of World War II in Europe
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mainland Japan lost 77,166 soldiers, who were either killed or committed suicide
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shot by Italian partisans who had captured the couple as they attempted to flee to Switzerland.
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his remains were set on fire
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signed by representatives of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht
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gathered to decide how to administer punishment to the defeated Nazi Germany
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United States becomes the first and only nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime when it drops an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima
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just days after the bombing of Nagasaki and the Soviet Union's declaration of war, Japan announced its surrender to the Allies
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name chosen for the day on which Japan surrendered
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brought the hostilities of World War II to a close
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series of military tribunals
