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World War One (WWI)
- Countries came together to protect their allies and fight others
- Cities were destroyed haulting the economy
- It cost lots of money to fund war yet countries became rich after the war, Germany became poor
- Factories shut down and started ceasing products/ services
- Jobs, money, everything focused on war
- More than 9 million soliders were killed
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Russian Revolution
- Ruler forced from the throne
- Soviet Union, worlds first communist state under Lenin
- Promoted a new live for Russians
- One of the first trys of communism in the world and failed
- Ended up becoming a dictatorship in the USSR and was worse economically for The Soviet Union then it ever had been
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Treaty Of Versailles
- Supposed to ensure peace and prevent another World War
- Treaty between countries
- Reparation too high for Germany, expected to create another war
- United countries together to live in peace
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Stock Market Crash
- Known as "Black Tuesday"
- Stock markets crashed and investors trying to sell stocks
- Lots of people lost money
- Entire world slowly moved
- Unemployment went through the roof, by deindustrialization
- Haulted economy as everyone in the world tried to just survive through drought and very low income
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The Great Depression
- Little economic actitivty
- Few people working
- Factories shut down (deindustrailization)
- Just found a way to survive, no one really prospered
- Economy was like nothing until world war two sparked it
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World War Two
- Germany rises as a power as they try to come out of a depression
- Even with war jobs are created to create supplies for war
- Germany killed an innocent amount of Jewish population
- Countries rose up together to stop a genocide
- Hitler and Nazi's had tried showing German ways, views of life, religiom and Germans as people were better than everyone else (tried to assimilate, then killed)
- War stimulated the economy again
- Countries came out rich and powerful after war
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UN At Bretton Woods
- 44 countries met at a conference during the end of WWll
- was to prevent future turmoil that could occur
- find ways to prevent war throughout the world again
- So far no more world wars have occured
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Rwandan Genocide
- civil war between Hutus and Tutsi, the two ethnic groups
- UN soliders deployed as peacekeers, not makers
- about one million people killed in roughly 100 days
- United Nations did not do anything to stop the force of Hutus from killing, critizied later for that
- Tutsi rebels eventually pushed out the Hutus Militia and any cilvilians fighting with them
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United Nations
- Were to promote and keep peace & security
- Countries worled together
- Promote Human Rights
- Help Refugees, fight poverty an disease
- Protect Environment
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World Trade Organization
- ensure trade and agreements went well and as planned for countries
- One country, one vote on an issue, dealt with issues evenly
- protomes fair trade
- Makes sure countries keep agreements on trade
- Created to hope to raise living standards aound the world
