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Unit 5: Mueggenborg 1914-present

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    World War 1

    was a major war centred on Europe andIt involved all of the world's great powers, assembled in two opposing alliances: the Allies and the Central Powers.
  • treaty of Versailles

    treaty of Versailles
    The Treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers
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    Chinese Civil War

    The Chinese Civil War was a civil war fought between the Kuomintang the governing party of the Republic of China and the Communist Party of China for the control of China which eventually led to China's division into two Chinas, Republic of China and People's Republic of China.
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    Great Depression

    was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II.
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    World War 2

    which involved most of the world's nations, including all of the great powers: eventually forming two opposing military alliances, the Allies and the Axis. It was the most widespread war in history
  • Indian Independence

    Indian Independence
    Independence Day of India is celebrated on Fifteenth of August to commemorate its independence from British rule and its birth as a sovereign natio
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    Cold War

    was the continuing state of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World – primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies – and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States and its allies
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    Korean War

    was a military conflict between South Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, supported by the People's Republic of China (PRC), with military material aid from the Soviet Union
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    WarSaw pact

    The treaty was a mutual defense treaty subscribed to by eight communist states in Eastern Europe. It was established at the USSR’s initiative and realized on 14 May 1955, in Warsaw.
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    Vietnam War

    was a Cold War era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of South Vietnam, supported by the U.S. and other anti-communist nations.
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    Great Leap Forward

    was an economic and social campaign of the Communist Party of China reflected in planning decisions which aimed to use China's vast population to rapidly transform the country from an agrarian economy into a modern communist society through the process of agriculturalization, industrialization, and collectivization
  • Bay of Pigs

    Bay of Pigs
    was an unsuccessful action by a CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles to invade southern Cuba, with support and encouragement from the US government, in an attempt to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis
    was a confrontation among the Soviet Union, Cuba and the United States in October 1962
  • Helsinki Accords

    Helsinki Accords
    Thirty-five states, including the USA, Canada, and all European states except Albania and Andorra, signed the declaration in an attempt to improve relations between the Communist bloc and the West.
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    Iran-Iraq war

    was an armed conflict between the armed forces of Iraq and Iran, lasting from September 1980 to August 1988, making it the longest conventional war of the twentieth century
  • German Reunification

    German Reunification
    was the process in 1990 in which the German Democratic Republic joined the Federal Republic of Germany , and when Berlin reunited into a single city, as provided by its then Grundgesetz constitution
  • september 11, 2011

    september 11, 2011
    were a series of coordinated suicide attacks by al-Qaeda upon the United States on September 11, 2001. On that morning, 19 al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners. The hijackers intentionally crashed two of the airliners into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City