The Dreyfus Affair
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The Schlieffen Plan
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The Bolshevik Revolution
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The Great Depression
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What: banks invested heaviliy into stocks
- losses led to cash shortages
- loans called in
- debtors (other banks, businesses)
When: Began in 1929 with US Stock Market Crash
- Black Thursday October 24
- Black Tuesday October 29
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Operation Barbarossa
Who: 3 Army Groups:
- Army Group North aimed at Lenigrad
- Army Group Center aimed at Moscow
- Army Group South aimed at the caucasus
What: Invasion of Soviet Union begins June 22, 1941 (Germany & its allies)
Russian defenses collapse
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The Iron Curtain
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The Triple Entente
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The Battle of Verdun
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The Treaty of Versailles
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Appeasement
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The Holocaust
Who: adolf eichmen – responsible for transporting jews
What: Mass murder of up to 6 million jews, up to 16 million total
Wanted to relocate jews to Madagascar
Germans loved efficiency
Gas Chambers/Death camps
Aushuitz – Berkenar death camp/labor camp
When: 1939 Poland – jews located to ghettos
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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