Seeking some help on some history questions, mainly WW1 definitions.

etalns

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Lol, i'm done!

Dang, I guess you were right =P

Google is my new god, never knew it was so easy to find that junk on there to be honest.
 

minendo

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No mans land was the area between opposing trenches.

And that is all the homework I will be doing for you. The rest of the answers can be found here.
 

Amused

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BTW, the "New Deal" was the US's first turn into that hell that is socialism.
 

Jzero

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Originally posted by: Amused
Can't you do your own school work? :p

Seriously...in the time you took to type all those out, you probably could have looked up most of them!

I'll give you one: Shutzataffel, and I don't think that's spelled right, was the Nazi secret police, also the SS.
 

ElFenix

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Originally posted by: Qosis
hey all, if anyone can help me out with some of thse I'd appreciate it a ton, just need short 1 line or so definitioins of each, just need it briefly summed up. Appreciate any and all help =)


briefly define/summarize
Vimy
R.B. Bennet
Arthur Currie
Laurier
Going over the top - jumping out of your trench and running into no man's land
Bloody Sunday
Harrier Tubmen - harriet tubman you mean? underground railroad conductor, right?
Triple Alliance - germany, austria/hungary, turkey
Laissez Fair - hands off approach to economics
Shutzataffel
Nellie McClung
Borden
Neville Chamberlain - birt prime minister before wwii, was in favor of appeasement
Triple Entente - france, england, russia
Somme - battle in france. tanks, i think. lots of mud.
No mans land - the land between the opposing front trenches, full of death and craters.

define and give an example of

Mein Kampf-book that Hitler wrote (the book is a classic piece of propaganda, starts out, "i liked the jews, but then..."
Lebensraum
Kristalnacht - crystal night, one of the first pogroms in the warsaw ghetto by the germans
New Deal - come on, you should know this
Head Tax - per capita
Reconnaissance - scouting
Secondary Manufacturing
Unions-u know this
Treaty of Versailles-treaty after WW1
Totalitarianism - where gov't controls all aspects of life
Trench foot

Short Answers
Describe MacDonald?s three part strategy for building a Canadian nation

btw - how do you know my answers are correct?
 

Amused

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Originally posted by: ElFenix
Originally posted by: Qosis
Kristalnacht - crystal night, one of the first pogroms in the warsaw ghetto by the germans

btw - how do you know my answers are correct?

I know this one isn't correct. The Warsaw Ghetto did not exist before Germany took Poland :p

Kristallnacht (note two Ls) was "the night of broken glass." On the nights of November 9 and 10, 1938 gangs of Nazi youth roamed through Jewish neighborhoods breaking windows of Jewish businesses and homes, burning synagogues and looting. In all 101 synagogues were destroyed and almost 7,500 Jewish businesses were destroyed. 26,000 Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps, Jews were physically attacked and beaten and 91 died