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💣European History – 1890 to 1945
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272 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your European History – 1890 to 1945 exam

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A

Absolutism
Abyssinian Crisis
Agricultural mechanization
Albert Speer
Allied Hundred Days Offensive
Alsace-Lorraine
Alsace-Lorraine Dispute
American Expeditionary Forces
Amphibious assault
Anglo-German Naval Agreement
Anglo-Japanese Alliance
Anglo-Russian Convention
Anti-Comintern Pact
Anti-fascism
Auschwitz-Birkenau
Austria
Axis Alliance

B

Babi Yar
Balilla
Battle for grain
Battle of Amiens
Battle of Cambrai
Battle of Jutland
Battle of Kursk
Battle of Passchendaele
Battle of Smolensk
Battle of the Bulge
Battle of the Marne
Battle of the Somme
Battle of Verdun
Bauhaus Movement
Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
Bilateral agreements
Bolt-action rifles
Bomb shelters

C

Cabaret Voltaire
Capitalism vs. Communism
Casablanca Conference
Cat and Mouse Act
Centralized Planning
Chemical Warfare
Chemical weapons
Chiune Sugihara
Civic nationalism
Civilian Mobilization
Colonial Governance
Combined arms
Combined arms operations
Combined arms tactics
Consumer spending power
Convoy systems
Counter-battery fire
Crisis Diplomacy
Cultural resistance
Czech Legion
Czechoslovak Legion
Czechoslovakia

D

Defensive Depth Strategy
Dreadnought
Dreadnought Battleships
Dual Alliance
Dunkirk Evacuation

E

Economic depression
Economic mobilization
Economic protectionism
Engelbert Dollfuss
Entente Cordiale
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Ethnic nationalism
Extractive economic policies

F

Fall of Paris
Fascist architecture
Fascist Expansionism
Fascist Grand Council
Ferdinand Foch