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Torah

Bible/new testiment

Koran

India

Africa and the Middle East

Jerusalem

reincarnation

karma

eightfold path

Sunni and shite

10 commandments

polytheism

Monotheism

Mecca

Siddahtha Gautama

Muhhamed

Moses

dharma

4 noble truths

caste system

Hinduism

Buddhism

Islam

Islam

Judaism

Islam

Chrisitianity

Judaism

Islam

Hinduism

Hinduism

Christianity

Buddhism

Buddhism

Wool(we need clothes), incense(rituals), gold(currency), silver(currency), dyes(textiles), animals(farm labor).

an ancient trade route that linked the Western world with the Middle East and Asia. It was a major conduit for trade between the Roman Empire and China and later between medieval European kingdoms and China

China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

130 B.C.E. until 1453 C.E.

Chinese han dynasty

The Columbian Exchange is the process by which plants, animals, diseases, people, and ideas have been introduced from Europe, Asia, and Africa to the Americas and vice versa

americas Europe and africa

Slaves, food, ideas, diseases.

1492-1800

The government subsidies the cotton industry even when it isn't profitable. The USA has the technology to grow cotton with very few people.

cheap labor costs, duty-free access to major markets, and growing pool of low skilled workers

enlgand

Underdeveloped countries like yemen

suez canal and Panama canal

Container Shipping. It lost tens of thousands of jobs because it was so easy. Invented by a truck driver named McLean. The problem is the ships have to use a lot of oil. Sound pollution has terrible impact on wild life.

France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and, to a lesser extent, China.

appeasement was the name given to Britain's policy in the 1930s of allowing Hitler to expand German territory unchecked

Germany

Italy

Japan

biggest air battle in history between Britain and Germany for air controll over the english channel. When the British air force

turned the tide of the western front of the war. Stopped the German advance in Russia.

The German tactic for taking over land. Enter very quickly and overwhelm the opposing force before they can strike back.

The prime minister before WW2 who gave the peace for our time speech.

The prime minister during WW2 who rallied the people and gave the we will fight on the beaches speech.

the biggest military retreat in history. The British forces were backed up to the beaches of Dunkirk and British civilian vessels crossed the channel to pick them up.

Eisenhower planned and supervised two of the most consequential military campaigns of World War II: Operation Torch in the North Africa campaign in 1942–1943 and the invasion of Normandy in 1944.

The plane that dropped the first atom bomb

the chancellor of Germany before Hitler rose to power.

the first intergovernmental organization established “to promote international cooperation and to achieve international peace and security”. It is often referred to as the “predecessor” of the United Nations.

the German reason for expansion. Hitler believed in the Aryan race and wanted to expand it. to do this he needed the space to do it.

the German air force

The project to build the atom bomb

The other name for D-Day

A period at the begiining of WW2 where neither the axis or the allies made and major moves.

Nazi controlled Germany.

The German government before hitler took power,

The war between Finland and Russia. Finland won.

The treaty of Versaills demoralized and embarrassed the German people that it made them very unhappy with their government which allowed for radical voices like Hitlers to become very popular.

The beer hall putsch gave Hitler the fame and recognition he needed to start a political career which ended with him becoming the German dictator.

Franklin Roosevelt/Harry Truman, Chamberlin/Churchill, Albert Lebrun, STalin, Emporer Hirohito.

Austria, the sudetanland, and chekoslovakia, and Poland.

All three held resentment from the allies after WW1. All three countries wanted to expand and felt that their people were superior. Germany wanted to do this by expanding as much as possible to increase the Aryan population. Italy wanted to rebuild the Roman Empire. Japan wanted to take over all of Asia.

Operation Sea lion was Hitler's plan to invade the Uk. It started with the Luftwaffe bombing the RAF however wen the RAF accidentally bombed Berlin Hitler got really mad and focused all of the attacks on London allowing the RAF to rebuild its forces and defeat the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain.

Opperation Barbarossa was Hitlers plan to invade the USSR. It failed because Hitler wanted to do a show of force sweeping all across Russia but this spread his forces too thin and caused the attack to fail as winter set in and Stalin brought in Siberian troops to fight in the winter.

Peral harbor was the attack mad by the Japanese of the American Naval base Peral Harbor. It happened December 7 1942 in peral harbour Hawaii. The Japanese did this as a show of force to try to keep america out of the war. The result was america joining the war.

Rossevelt helped the allies, primarily Britain, before they joined the war by lending them much needed supplies like weapons and oil through the lend lease act

the discomfort a person feels when their behavior does not align with their values or beliefs.

the tendency of people to favor information that confirms or strengthens their beliefs or values and is difficult to dislodge once affirmed

the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of ethnicity, age, sex, or disability.

Implicit bias, also known as implicit prejudice or implicit attitude, is a negative attitude, of which one is not consciously aware, against a specific social group.

veryday slights, insults, putdowns, invalidations, and offensive behaviors that people experience in daily interactions with generally well-intentioned individuals who may be unaware that they have engaged in demeaning ways

preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience.

an expectation or belief that can influence your behaviors, thus causing the belief to come true

a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.

there isn't any words that can describe a massacre. it shows that Vonnegut cant describe a massacre.

to force Germany out of the war.

POW

The tralfamadorians. It is about the inevitability of death. death will always happen. Billy pilgrim uses it after every death because he is so desensitized.

because a lot of younger men died in the war.

all the people who choose to be in the military and were trained are dead and all the conscripts are left.

because the Japanese missed all our aircraft carrier sthe USA won. this was the turning point t of the war of the Pacific. It stopped Japanese expansions.

end the way to save lives

radiation.