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The Winter War begun in November 30, 1939 and lasted until March 13, 1940, the Soviet Union lost a tremendous amount of troops compared to the Finnish. Finland lost ~70,000 Troops while the Soviet Union lost ~381,000 Troops. A continuation of this war occurred on June 25, 1941- September 19, 1944, this time the Finnish fought alongside the Germans, the Finnish lost ~225,000 troops and the Soviets lost ~750,000 troops, the Germans lost ~64,000 in this campaign in the Baltics. The Soviets won the continuation war and gained territory from the Finnish as a result.

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Consisted of Great Britain, France, US, Soviet Union, China, Yugoslavia, Poland, Belgium, Netherlands, Greece, Norway, Luxembourg, and other colonies.

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Consisted of Nazi Germany, Empire of Japan, Italy, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, and Bulgaria

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Consisted of Great Britain, France, US, Italy, Russia, and their colonies

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Consisted of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria, and their colonies

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Influenza exploded  in between 1918-1919 and killed 50 Million- 100 Million people, this was due to the conditions of the war which were unsanitary.

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Armenian Genocide- An extermination of Armenians from the Ottoman Empire that resulted in the death of ~1.5 Million Armenians, this was due to an attempt to get rid of foreigners from Turkish ethnic groups.Armenians were Christians and the Turkish were Muslims, this was a great divide.

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The United Nations was an organization which was a worldwide organization of nations. This was meant to protect members and keep peace, opposing war. A general assembly and Security council was made to then discuss issues. The Marshall plan was a program which aided food machinery and building materials to rebuild Western Europe because of the Aftermath of the war. This was different than the treaty of Versailles because the Germany had to take responsibility of everything and had to aid because it was mandatory however, the US aided Western Europe because they still thrived and had the ability to do so. The US wasn't forced to help.

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Russian Empire- 1.7 Million
Germany Empire- 1.7 Million
France- 1.3 Million
Austria-Hungary- 1.2 Million
British Empire- 908,000
Italy- 650,000
Romania- 335,000
Ottoman Empire- 325,000
USA- 125,000
Bulgaria- 87,000
Serbia- 45,000
Belgium- 13,800
Portugal- 7,222
Greece- 500
Japan- 300

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60-80 million total deaths
Soviet Union- 27 million dead
10-20 million Chinese dead
6 million Jews dead
6-8 million Germans dead
3 million poles dead
2 and a half million Japanese dead
1 and a half million Yugoslavians dead
Britain- half a million
United states- Half a million
Austria-250,000 dead
Italy - 250,000 dead

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Total war means war without any restrictions or rules anything is allowed there are no restrictions to what extent the nation would go through to gain victory. This was used in both WWI and WWII

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Blitzkrieg (Lightning Warfare) is what caused the Germans to gain territory and quickly by attacking with a large amount of manpower all at once to overwhelm the enemy, Atomic Bombs (The Bomb), Panzer Tanks had more armor than regular tanks and had greater speed compared to allied tanks, V2 (First Rockets) these rockets would later be used to send humans to space, Radar which helped the allies win the war, Combined Arms as in both sides used air superiority and tanks alongside troops to strengthen their attacks and have a higher chance of success, Island Hopping (US), Automatic Rifles (StG-44), Enigma code which was deciphered later on by the British

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Tanks were introduced to the battlefield (Land ships at that time), chemical warfare was also introduced and was later outlawed due to their extremely hazardous behavior. U-Boats/submarine, trench warfare which was mostly a defensive tactic,airships/blimps, machine guns which could mow down enemies from medium range if a mass assault was taking place.

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June 28, 1914

Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria angered the Austro-Hungarians and in seek of revenged attacked Serbia.
United States enters the war on April 6 1917 after Germany sunk an American merchant ship and the Zimmerman telegram which was alliance request from Germany to Mexico to go against the United States.

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Asia Theater
July 7, 1937 Second Sino-Japanese War, A war between China and Japan that was due to an increase of Chinese influence in China.
European Theater
September 1, 1939 Invasion of Poland, the British and French were appeasing Germany by giving Austria and parts of Czechoslovakia to keep peace but this was violated by the Germans after the Invasion of Poland.

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Over 70 Million civilians and soldiers died, Germany was divided into districts,

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The treaty that ended World War 1 and blamed Germany for the war forcing them to shrink their military, give up land, and pay for reparations.
This treaty would punish Germany and be harsh on them. As a result Germany would later go against these strict restrictions.

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See the changing front lines of World War I every day from Austria-Hungary's declaration of war to the armistice of November 11, 1918. This video also includes the changing front lines in Africa and the Pacific. The war started 100 years ago and today we live as the result of its legacy.

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Militarism- a policy of keeping an army prepared and enhancing their power. Previous to WW1, every great power except Great Britain contained a very strong military with plans and generals prepared to organize and mobilize.
Alliances- A system to bring peace, however it brought war. The upsides was that peace was able to be expressed within those who had an alliance, however alliances were motivated to exterminate other countries as they were threatening peace. Such as seeing France as a threat to peace therefore an alliance was made by Germany and Austria Hungary, then Italy which created the triple alliance. Therefore isolating France.
Imperialism- Process of expanding a country's territory by using military power. Such as having a competition for materials as well as just for territory. For example Austria Hungary and Russia expanding into southeast Europe which more specifically was the region of Balkans.
Nationalism- a patriotic feeling which grows the interests of a nation. Nationalism was a factor in causing the war because it has the potential of making a nation together however can also increase the possibility of competition of nations initiating in order to see which overpowers which. As a result rivalry was made between Europe great powers such as Italy and France.

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Militarism- a policy of keeping an army prepared and enhancing their power.  Previous to WW2 Japan was taken over by military leaders which sought to have traditional control over the power of the military instead of new government power.
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Alliances- A system to bring peace, however it brought war. The upsides was that peace was able to be expressed within those who had an alliance, however alliances would support each other and this could lead to the support for each other to motivate war. Such as the Axis powers which was formed by Japan, Germany and Italy because of the growing strength they had of expanding and creating a colonial empire, such as Mussolini expanding into Africa.
Imperialism- process of expanding a country's territory by using military power. For example Japan expanding their country by invading Manchuria which had a heavy amount of coal and iron which lead to the invasion of North China. Additionally, Mussolini lead the invasion of Ethiopia in order to expand Italy's colonial empire in Africa.

Nationalism- a patriotic feeling which grows the interests of a nation. Nationalism had the potential of making a nation together however can also increase the possibility of competition of nations initiating in order to see which overpowers which. Nationalism played a factor in the war because there was economic problems which needed to be solved with facing the needs of the nation such as Japan invading Manchuria in order to build mines and factories to provide goods to Japan. As well as Germany breaking away from the league of nation's orders and seizing territory instead to expand territory.