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1 Chapter 10 Interesting Facts and Information

2 Industrial Revolution – began GB in the 1700’s, it was a time when people used machinery and new methods to increase productivity.

3 WWI known as the Great War – machines designed for war were mass-produced. WWI - 1914-1918

4 Trench warfare in WWI

5 Nazi’s – National Socialist German Worker’s party –Germany became a dictatorship under Adolf Hitler.

6 WWII – 1939 G attacked Poland and in 1941 Japan attacked Pearl Harbor.

7 Axis Powers – Germany, Italy and Japan

8 Allied Powers – (1939)Britain, France, China, (1941) – United States and Soviet Union

9 Marshall Plan – 1948, US started a loan program to help rebuild Europe and try to stop the spread of communism.

10 Truman Doctrine – 1948, US offered military aid to countries fighting communism inside their borders. (Greece and Turkey)

11 NATO – North American Treaty Organization – 1949, formed to respond to possible attacks by the Soviet Union. (each member country agreed to treat an attack on any other member as an attack on itself.

12 BeNeLux trade union – Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg – an arrangement for free movement of money, goods, & people among these nations.

13 European Economic Community – Common Market – agreed to free trade among themselves. (became the European Union)

14 Warsaw Pact – 1955, Soviet Union formed its satellites into an anti Western military alliance.

15 Berlin Wall – (East – Communist), (West – non-communist) – split between Eastern and Western Europe.

16 Sputnik I – Soviets took lead in space race with US, in 1959, 1 st spacecraft to orbit the earth.

17 Yuri Gagarin – 1961, Soviet astronaut became 1 st human being to circle the earth.

18 Neil Armstrong – 1969, 1 st person to walk on the moon.

19 Boris Yeltsin

20 Yugoslavia – communist country- Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Macedonia, & smaller Yugoslavia made up of Serbia & Montenegro

21 Czechoslovakia – became Czech Republic & Slovakia

22 1991 Soviet Union – broke into 15 independent republics.

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