| A | B |
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| Archduke Ferdinand | heir to the Austro Hungarian throne assassinated by a Serbian nationalist |
| Western front | known for its trench warfare |
| Armenian genocide | claimed as many as a million lives and caused Armenians to flee to Russia and the middle east |
| Adolf Hitler | Nazi leader who wanted to take over the world |
| Georges Clemenceau | French premier, pushed for peace at the end of WWI |
| League of Nations | created as a result of the treaty, it was made by Wilson and wasn’t strong enough |
| National Congress party | led the Indians to independence and governed through most of the early decades of the postcolonial era |
| Great Depression | depression that was centered in the West but had global roots and impact, really began in 1929 |
| Popluar Front | liberal, socialist, and communist parties form in 1936 to win the election |
| New Deal | created by FDR, programs to combat economic depression enacted a number of social insurance measures and used government spending to stimulate the economy; increased power of the state and the state’s intervention in U.S social and economic life |
| totalitarian state | new kind of government that would exercise massive, direct control over virtually all the activites of its subjects |
| Gestapo | Hitler's secret police that arrested thousands of polical opponents |
| five-year plans | Stalin's plans for industrial development |
| National Socialists (Nazis) | promised to put the German people back to work and to restore political stability; led by Hitler |
| Winston Churchill | warned that war was inevitable; leader in Britain |
| blitzkrieg | the rapid penetration of enemy territory by a combination of tanks, soldiers on foot, and aircraft; "lightning war" |
| Battle of Britain | British airforce with stands the German attempts to bomb London |
| Holocaust | 12 million people murdered in a genocidal orgy; led by the Nazi party |
| Battle of the Bulge | Hitlers last attempt to repel the Allied armies |
| Pearl Harbor | sneak attack on American naval base in Hawaii; December 7, 1941 |
| Midway Island | turning point of WWII in the pacific; America defeats the Japanese |
| United Nations | international organization to represent the worlds peoples in all nations |
