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The Trans-Siberian Railway is a network of railways connecting Moscow with the Russian Far East and the Sea of Japan.
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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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resented the domination of Chinese affairs by western powers
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collective term for a series of revolutions in Russia
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a peace treaty between the new Bolshevik government of Russia
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China declared war against Germany
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named after Weimar, the city where the constitutional assembly took place
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founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War
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Deemed necessary after the Russian Civil War of 1917 to 1922, to foster the economy of the country, which was almost ruined.
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military conference called by President Warren G. Harding and held in Washington
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He ruled constitutionally until 1925, when he dropped all pretense of democracy and set up a legal dictatorship.
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a Russian communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist
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The Dawes Plan was an attempt following World War I for the Triple Entente to compromise and collect war reparations debt from Germany.
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Jiang Jieshi Became the leader of the KMT after Sun died in 1925.
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Hitler began dictating the book to his deputy Rudolf Hess while imprisoned
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China fought between forces loyal to the government of the Republic of China led by the Kuomintang
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first person in history to be in New York one day and Paris the next
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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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Stalin entered into a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany that divided their influence and territory within Eastern Europe
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most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States
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The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II.
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Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria
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series of domestic programs enacted in the United States
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There was not one Long March, but a series of marches
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campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union orchestrated by Joseph Stalin
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The Treaty of Versailles limited the Germany army to 100,000 and Hitler increased the size to 500,000 by 1935. He increased the navy well above the maximum allowed by the treaty. He established the Luftwaffe or German Air Force in defiance of the treaty, and he re-militarized the Rhineland in 1936. He again broke the treaty with his action in 1938 of forcing Austria to join Germany.
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episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against Nanking
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the occupation and annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany
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itler Granted the Sudentenland by Britain, France and Italy
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At least 91 Jews were killed in the attacks, and 30,000 were arrested and incarcerated in concentration camps
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epresentatives from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union met and signed the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pac
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invasion of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingent that marked the beginning of World War II in Europe.
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officially the French State
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air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom
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program under which the United States supplied Great Britain and allies with materiel
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code name for Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union
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spurred by the growth in isolationism and non-interventionism in the US following its costly involvement in World War I
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U.S declared war on Japan after the suprise bombing of Pearl Harbor the day before.
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At a very minimum 152,000 people were killed in the camp
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destruction of Jewish communities in continental Europe
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orcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war
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irst day of the first modern naval engagement in history
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Japan's first naval defeat since the Battle of Shimonoseki Straits
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Battles occurred in North Africa in Egypt
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research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs
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The Guadalcanal Campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal and codenamed Operation Watchtower by Allied forces, was a military campaign fought between 7 August 1942 and 9 February 1943 on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theatre of World War II.
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the British-American invasion of French North Africa during the North African Campaign
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plan the Allied European strategy for the next phase of World War II
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major World War II campaign, in which the Allies took Sicily from the Axis Powers
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held in the Soviet Embassy in Tehran, Iran
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operation that launched the invasion of German-occupied western Europe
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urpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization
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82-day-long battle
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Benito Mussolini, and his mistress, Clara Petacci, are shot by Italian partisans who had captured the couple as they attempted to flee to Switzerland.
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hitlers corpse was burned
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signed by representatives of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht
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second atom bomb is dropped on Japan by the United States, at Nagasaki, resulting finally in Japan's unconditional surrender.
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Victory over Japan Day
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series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II
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book by British historian Elizabeth Wiskemann
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