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network of railways connecting Moscow with the Russian Far East and the Sea of Japan
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was the last Emperor of Russia
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The party's leader since 1921, Adolf Hitler, was appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg in 1933
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ollowing the Russian rejection of a Japanese plan to divide Manchuria and Korea into spheres of influence, Japan launches a surprise naval attack against Port Arthur, a Russian naval base in China
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where unarmed demonstrators marching to present a petition to Tsar Nicholas II were fired upon by soldiers of the Imperial Guard, approaching the city center and the Winter Palace from several gathering points.
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a Chinese revolutionary, first president and founding father of the Republic of China
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current ruling political party in Republic of China
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The Emperor was forced to abdicate and the old regime was replaced by a provisional government during the first revolution
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The Russian Civil War was a civil war fought from 1918 to c.1921 between several groups in Russia.
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The League of Nations was an international organization, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, created after the First World War to provide a forum for resolving international disputes.
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name given by historians to the federal republic and semipresidential representative democracy established in 1919 in Germany to replace the imperial form of government.
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The New Economic Policy (NEP) was introduced to replace the failed policy of War Communism.
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meeting between representatives of 9 nations with interests in the Pacific
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Among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who took part in the Russian Revolution of 1917, Stalin was appointed general secretary of the party's Central Committee
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After elections were held, Mussolini controlled enough seats in parliament to appoint himself Il Duce (the leader) of Italy.
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The Dawes Plan was an attempt following World War I for the Triple Entente to compromise and collect war reparations debt from Germany.
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Took Sun's place as leader when Sun died.
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Hitler never actually sat down and pecked at a typewriter or wrote longhand
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fought between forces loyal to the government of the Republic of China led by the Kuomintang (KMT) and forces of the Communist Party of China
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international agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve problems
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tragedy that placed millions of Americans out of work
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During this time, Jews in Europe were subjected to progressively harsher persecution
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was a military retreat undertaken by the Red Army
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he put the leaders of the Communist Party into concentration camps
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was started under the NKVD chief Genrikh Yagoda
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formed between italy and Germany
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refer to those northern
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An invasion of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingent that marked the beginning of World War II in Europe
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the name given to the Second World War air campaign
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formally titled An Act to Further Promote the Defense of the United States
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On this day, as Americans Pacific fleet lay in ruins at Pearl Harbor President Roosevelt request, recieves a declaration of war against Japan.
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was a Nazi German extermination camp
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was an air raid by the United States on the Japanese capital Tokyo and other places on Honshu island during World War II, the first air raid to strike the Japanese Home Islands.
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research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs during World War II
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most important naval battles of World War II
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Series of World War II land and sea clashes between allied japanese forces on and around Guadalcanal
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a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad
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occurred in North Africa in Egypt in and around an area named after a railway stop called El Alamein
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British-American invasion of French North Africa during the North African Campaign of the Second World War
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to plan the Allied European strategy for the next phase of World War II
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when some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region.
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The Battle of the Bulge was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe
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committed suicide by gunshot
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