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the Ottoman Empire was founded in Anatolia
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Became a larger empire after the conquest of Constantinople
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Taken over by the Ottomans
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sought to isolate
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Hitler was born
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began a movement based on the fictional narrative that Germans
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takeover Ultra nationalist group
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the Monroe Doctrine is shown as a protective shield
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Young Turks join WWI on the side of Germany and are defeated
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War involving over 30 different countries
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Germany told Americans to stay off British ships, as they could and would sink them.
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1,000,000 Armenians dies
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2+ million Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire
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250 Armenian community, political, religious, educational, leaders were rounded up in the middle of the night in Istanbul, shot and killed
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HMS Renown seen from another British warship
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United States
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Russia left the war after its communist revolution
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Espionage Act
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announcing the declaration of war
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Sedition Act
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Hitler helped form the National Socialist German Workers’ Party
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helped sustain worldwide trade.
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The failure of peace efforts such as the Kellogg Briand Treaty
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nearly the entire population of Armenians in Turkey had been extinguished
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only about 200,000 could be officially accounted
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Beer Hall Putsch (‘pooch’)
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Hitler wrote Mein Kampf
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The book sold/distributed 10 million copies
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stock market crash in the U.S. and the resulting Great Depression spread throughout the world. U.S.
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saw the rise of many totalitarian regimes
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The U.S. was in a major depression
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Japan invaded Manchuria for raw materials.
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the Nazi Party was the biggest political party and held 230 seats.
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the Reichstag (parliament) was burned to the ground.
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Hitler proposed the Enabling Act, which would essentially give him a dictatorship – and it passed!
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Hitler exploited people’s fear of a communist takeover in Germany
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Hitler’s cabinet passed a law proclaiming the presidency to him
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they had over five million members in the organization.
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Japan began to attack China
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Hitler demanded that Czechoslovakia cede the Sudetenland to germany.
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war broke out between Japan and the Soviet Union
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Germany started experimenting with Nuclear Fission
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“Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?”
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the German armies defeated France in 6 weeks and forced the British to evacuate their troops
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German air attacks in British air bases
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a million homes in Britain were damaged by bombs and rockets
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Hitler’s plan for defeating Russia
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Germans invaded Russia
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Japan attacks various Pacific locations
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murdered over 1 million Jews, communist party members and other “undesirables” in Russia
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The U.S. joined World War II
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the Nazis employed their knowledge of poison gas to speed up the murder of some 5 million Jews
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Japanese were gaining land all over Pacific Ocean.
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Americans win first major LAND victory on the island of Guadalcanal.
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atomic-bomb project was controlled by War Department's Army Corps of Engineers.
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was beheaded on
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Red Army approached, Polish
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American returned to the Philippines
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The war ended in Europe
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US played major part in occupying Germany
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meeting was held with Stimson
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US “containment” policy is the key strategy in the Cold War
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Soviet Union declined