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The Turn-of-the-Century World
This colonial school was located in Dar Es Salaam, the center of German East Africa. Notice the
pictures of the German Emperor Wilhelm II and Empress Augusta Victoria on the wall.
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The Turn-of-the-Century World
The siege at Port Arthur was the longest and most violent land battle of the
Russo-Japanese War. The battle and the war ended with a Japanese victory.
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Chinese nationalists wanted foreigners out of their country. During
the Boxer Rebellion of 1900, peasants targeted Christians and
Western missionaries in an effort to drive them out of China.
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Empires in Europe
This cartoon from 1888 shows the members of the Triple Alliance as the three daughters of the Greek
god Zeus who control human destiny—in this case the fate of Europe.
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Empires in Europe
By the early 1900s, the Ottoman Empire was in serious trouble on all sides. This image from
1905 shows an assassination attempt made against Sultan Abdul Hamid in Constantinople.
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Empires in Europe
The borders, interests, and ambitions of the Russian, Austro-Hungarian, and
Ottoman empires came together on Europe’s Balkan Peninsula.
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World War I and Its Consequences
British soldiers go over the top in the trenches during the first Battle of the Somme in 1916. On the
first day of the battle, more than 20,000 British soldiers died and some 40,000 were injured.
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World War I and Its Consequences
These German delegates to the Paris Peace Conference were unable to prevent the Treaty of
Versailles from punishing Germany with massive reparations and territorial losses.
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Italy and Germany adopted extreme solutions to their problems after World War I. Both countries
became ruled by dictators. Here, we see Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini in a 1938 parade in
Germany.
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Chiang Kaishek began a military campaign to unite China. He defeated the warlords and expelled the
communists from the Nationalist government that he led from 1928 to 1949.
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A Second World War
On September 1, 1939, Hitler sent German forces along with columns of tanks to invade and occupy
Poland.
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A Second World War
The East End of London was a smoldering ruin after the German bombing campaign known
as the Blitz. German pilots dropped bombs on London almost nightly in an attempt to destroy
morale.
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A British pilot stenciled another swastika on his aircraft to add to his tally of German planes shot
down.
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The Postwar World
Leaders of the Allies met at the Yalta Conference in 1945. Seated, from left to right, are British Prime
Minister Winston Churchill, United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Soviet Premier Joseph
Stalin.
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Jewish immigrants from Europe raised the Israeli flag in their cooperative
farming community in northern Israel in 1949.
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