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4	"Communications networks made possible by..." Communications networks made possible by the telegraph, telephone, and undersea cable. Transportation networks made possible by the railway, steamship, and (soon to come) airplane. Trade and financial networks. Diplomatic relations and alliances. Relations between imperial powers and the colonial peoples they ruled.
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7	"In Big Era Seven," In Big Era Seven, western European countries achieved greater economic power than most other countries as a result of industrialization. Many European governments and businesses wanted more overseas markets and raw materials. Western European military forces had big world leads in military technology.
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14	World War I was fought in several parts of the world, though the longest and biggest battles took place in Europe. The war killed both soldiers and civilians, and it devastated both towns and countryside.
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18	The war caused death and destruction in the Middle East and Africa—wherever fighting took place. It caused economic and social stress in all the European colonial empires.
19	Societies all over the world contributed resources or soldiers to the war effort, gaining experience and a firmer voice on the global stage.
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22	Women everywhere took on new responsibilities outside the home as part of the Total War effort.
23	In 1917, the Bolshevik Party led a successful Communist revolution in Russia. The Bolsheviks overthrew the monarchy of the Tsar, which had been in power for centuries. Russia had been an ally of Britain, France, and the US. But Lenin, the Bolshevik leader, took Russia out of World War I.
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25	The 1920s saw silent film, tango, flappers, and jazz gain global popularity.
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30	By the mid-1930s, there was a three-way struggle for control of modern world’s future.
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32	Leaders of capitalist democracies believed that they could meet the challenges of Communism and Fascism…
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34	As they recovered from the Depression, both Germany and Japan became increasingly aggressive. When Hitler invaded Poland in 1939, Britain and France went to war against Germany. World War II was underway. At first, Fascist Germany and Communist Russia had a tense alliance. But when Hitler invaded Russia in June 1941, Stalin allied Russia with Britain and the United States. The US entered the war after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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38	New weapons and tactics of war made World War II even more destructive and deadly than World War I.
39	Both sides in the war targeted civilians.
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44	The USSR also emerged from the war stronger than ever. It rebuilt its economy without Western aid. It created an empire in Eastern Europe. It worked to spread Communist ideas and revolutions. It became the USA’s main rival for power in the modern world.
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