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1941 United States military base on Hawaii that was bombed by Japan, bringing the United States into World War II. Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941.
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US drops two atomic bombs on Japan, one in Hiroshima, and the other was Nagasaki. forcing Japanese surrender
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start of WW II in Europe
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over a million troops stormed the beaches at Normandy and began the process of re-taking France. The turning point of World War II.
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Germany's Policy of sinking ships with their U-boats, enemy or neutral, that carry war material. Reason US entered WW I
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Archduke of Austria-Hungary assassinated by a Serbian nationalist. A major catalyst for WWI start.
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the economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s
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Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.
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A formal agreement between two or more nations or powers to cooperate and come to one another's defense Led to WW I
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control, power, trade, money, cheap labor, help for other countries, access to raw materials, spread democracy, diversity, expansion
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A period of rapid growth in the use of machines in manufacturing , inventions, went from farms to city
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"rebirth"; following the Middle Ages, a movement that centered on the revival of interest in the classical learning of Greece and Rome
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A movement for religious reform
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A philosophical movement. leading to many political revolutions like the American and French. Emphasized natural rights and limited government, with documents like the Rights of Man
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Meeting at which Europeans agreed on rules for colonizing Africa
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The series of events that led to the birth of modern science using many of the ideas of the enlightenment
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a society in which people make a living from farming
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Movement of people from rural areas to cities
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________of Labor Focusing work effort on a particular product or a single task
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A model of the solar system in which Earth and the other planets revolve around the sun
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Aztec farming technique
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Empire in Peru. conquered by Pizarro, who began an empire for the Spanish in 1535
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powerful Indian empire founded on Lake Texcoco (Mexico)
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Peaking from about 250-900 C.E., the Maya empire, centered on the Yucatan Peninsula of modern-day Mexico,
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A political system in which nobles are granted the use of lands that legally belong to their king, in exchange for their loyalty, military service, and protection of the people who live on the land
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land granted by a lord to a vassal in exchange for loyalty and service during feudalism
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Economic system during the Middle Ages that revolved around self-sufficient farming estates where lords and peasants shared the land.
