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The first total war in world history was

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World War I

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Approximately how many combatants died in WWI?

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15 million

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The nationalistic aspirations of subject minorities was most threatening to a state such as

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Austria-Hungary

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What was NOT an important area of competition and conflict between England and Germany in the years leading up to WWI?

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religious differences

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The desire to ensure its "place in the sun" was a common complaint of

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Germany

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The French were deeply suspicious of German expansion because

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the Franco-Prussian War

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Plan XVII was

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a french war plan based on a continuous series of offensive attacks

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Gavrilo Princip was a member of a secret Serbian society known as

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the Black Hand

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The last tsar of Russia was

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Nicholas II

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"To make the world safe for democracy" was the motto of

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Americans

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The massive German assault on the western front in 1916 was

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Verdun

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The Somme was

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an English assault in 1916 that gained a few thousand yards

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The experience of Joseph Caillaux during WWI demonstrated that

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governments resorted to the restriction of civil liberties

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The main reason for the failure of the provisional government in Russia in 1917 was

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its inability to satisfy popular demands

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The most famous motto of the Russian Revolution was

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"Peace, Land, Bread"

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The Treaty of Brest Litovsk

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ended Russia's involvement in WWI

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In the wake of WWI, Mustapha Kemal became president of

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Turkey

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The WWI poet who considered Horace's line that, "It is sweet and proper to die for one's country" to be an 'old lie' was

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Wilfred Owen

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What German African colonies were conquered by the Allies in WWI?

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Togoland, the Cameroon's, German Southwest Africa, and German East Africa

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In 1914, Englands share of the worlds industrial output stood at

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14%

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The members of the triple alliance were

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Austria-Hungary, Germany, Italy

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The military plan that called for an invasion of France through Belgium was called the

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Schlieffen plan

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The German offensive of 1914 was halted at

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the Marne River

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The western front in WWI was

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a bloody staleamate

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What was NOT an explanation of the expansion of the WWI to Asia, Africa, and the Pacific?

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the german invasion of neutral Belgium was such a profound breech of international law

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The twenty-one demands were issued by

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Japan to China

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The Japanese fought WWI due to their

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their desire to acquire German colonies in Asia

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The Battle of Gallipoli

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led to the weakening of Britain's imperial ties with Canada, Australia, and New Zealand

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The February Revolution of 1917

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led to the establishment of a reform-minded provisional government in Russia

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The writer whose "Decline of the West" proposed that European society had entered the finial stage of its existence was

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Oswald Spengler

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In the years after WWI, the idea of progress

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was attacked (especially science and technology)

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John Maynard Keynes

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discussed the end of laissez-faire capitalisam

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The notion that space and time are relative to the person measuring them was first articulated in

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Einstein's theory of general relativity

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The uncertainty principle is associated with

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Heisenberg

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The father of psychoanalysis was

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Sigmund Freud

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The spread of photography

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led many painters to believe that the purpose of painting was not to mirror reality but to create it

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The painter who was influenced by the "primitive" art of Tahiti was

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Paul Gauguin

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One of the biggest results of the artistic experimentation of the1920s and 1930s was that

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generally accepted standards that distinguished between "good" and "bad" art disappeared

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The term Bauhaus is associated with

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architecture

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By 1929, the price of a bushel of wheat was

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at its lowest level in 400 years

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On Black Thursday, October 24 1929

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the U.S. stock market crashed

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What was not part of Roosevelt's New Deal?

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give workers the right to organize and bargain collectively

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At the lowest point in the GD, what percentage U.S. banks were out of business?

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44%

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In WWI, the eastern front was

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ultimately a spectacular German success

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What was NOT a characteristic of the new total war of WWI?

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the extension of laissez-faire capitalism to its greatest freedom

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What effect did WWI have on the status of women?

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women in many countries received the right to vote in the years after the war

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What is NOT an explanation of the expansion of WWI to Asia, Africa, and the Pacific

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the German invasion of neutral Belgium was such a profound breech of international law

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The key factor in the US's decision to enter WWI was

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Germany's resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare

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One of the major problems of the Paris peace negotiations that led to the Treaty of Versailles was

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Russia's absence from the negotiations

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Woodrow Wilson agreed to many harsh stipulations to the Treaty of Versailles because

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in return for the creation of the League of Nations

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The mandate system

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angered the Arab world because it was little more than a glorified form of imperialism

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Discoveries in physics added to the anxiety of the 20s and 30s because

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they called into question the established notions of truth

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According to Freud, the root of neurotic behavior was

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a conflict between conscious and unconscious mental processes

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Which of the following groups was not one of the new artistic movements of the 20th century?

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impressionists

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A troubling economic problem in the 1920s was the depressed state of agriculture caused by

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overproduction and falling prices

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During the Great Depression, most nations

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practiced economic nationalism

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In response to the GD, John Maynard Keynes

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urged the gov to expand the money supply and undertake public works to provide jobs

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The Russian Civil War that broke out after the revolution was between

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the Reds (communists of Lenin) and the Whites (compromising a collection of anti-communist groups)

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Lenins New Economic Policy of 1921

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implemented free market reforms

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The First Five Year Plan

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was designed to transform the Soviet Union from an agricultural nation into an industrial one

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What was NOT a step taken by Benito Mussolini to consolidate power?

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instituting a communist system of government

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The 1935 Nuremberg Laws

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deprived German Jews of their citizenship

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The Kristallnacht was

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a Nazi arranged attack on thousands of Jewish stores

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The leader of the fascist movement in Germany was

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Adolf Hitler

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Who believed in philosophy of promoting communism primarily in the Soviet Union rather than trying to export the revolution to other nations?

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Trotsky

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Approximately how many combatants died in WWI? (COMBATANTS)

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15 million

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In Jose Ortega y Gasset's "Revolt of the Masses", he points out that

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the masses were destined to destroy the highest achievements of western society

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The official goal of the Nazi regime toward Jews in the period before WWI was

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to pressure them to emigrate

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The most influential organization dedicated to the end of British rule in India was

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the Indian National Congress

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What was NOT one of the foundations of Gandhi's philosophy?

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heavy industrialization

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Satyagraha was

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Gandhi's philosophy of passive resistance

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Muhammad Ali Jinnah called for the creation of

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Pakistan

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Bal Gangadhar Tilak was

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an Indian nationalist that garnered great support for the Indian independence movement

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The former teacher and librarian that became the leader of the Chinese communist movement was

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Mao Zedong

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The May Fourth Movement

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galvanized the Chinese against foreign interference

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Mao Zedong's main rival afer 1925 was

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Jiang Jieshi

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The Long March

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greatly strengthened Mao Zedong's leadership position

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Manchukuo was the

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Japanese puppet state in the former Manchuria

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The Mukden incident

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provided Japan with the excuse to send troops into Manchuria

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Which African colony was NOT compelled by European colonial powers to participate in WWI?

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Spanish colonies

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One of the greatest proponents of Pan-Africanism was

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Marcus Garvey

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Which US policies are towards Latin America?

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Dollar Diplomacy and Good Neighbor Policy

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WWII began with

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Japanese attacks on China

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the height of Japanese atrocity in China was reached at

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the Rape of Nanjing

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The Tripartite Pact (AXIS Powers) brought together

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Germany, Italy, and Japan

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The German and Italian fascists used which war as an excuse to intervene and gain valuable military experience?

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Spanish Civil War

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The weakness of the League of Nations was revealed in its inability to take any substantial action in response to the Italian invasion of

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Ethiopia

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The highpoint in appeasement was

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the Munich Conference

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What leader proposed that the Munich Conference had ensured "peace in our time"?

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Neville Chamberlain

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The European part of WWII began with the

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German invasion of Poland

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German blitzkrieg refers to

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lightening war

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Operation Barbarossa was

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the German plan for an invasion of the Soviet Union

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Hitlers comment "You only have to kick in the door, and the whole rotten structure will come down" was a reference to?

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the Soviet Union

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"Asia for Asians" was the slogan of the

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Japanese

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The first large scale defeat for German forces in WWII was

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Stalingrad

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The US victory in the Pacific that turned the tide against the Japanese was

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Midway

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The US secret weapon in the Pacific campaign was

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a code-breaking operation known as Magic

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During the battle of Okinawa

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over 100,000 Okinawa civilians died refusing surrender

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The Vichy gov

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were Nazi collaborators

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The term "genocide" was coined to refer to the systematic killings of who?

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Nazi Germany

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The largest of the Nazi camps were

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Auschwitz

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80% of the comfort women in WWII were

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American

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The Indian Act of 1937

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gave the institutions of self-governing state to India, but the British still exercised overall control

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The GD aggravated the tense situation between Muslims and Hindus in India because

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Muslims perceived that they were economically controlled by the Hindu majority of India

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Maoism was

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a political ideology that held that peasants were the foundation for a successful communist revolution

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The GD led Japan to

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turn toward a militarized government whose goal was the domination of east Asia

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Pan-Africanism is an idea that advocated

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the unification of all people of African descent around the globe into one African state

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The Guomindang during WWII was

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the resistance government of Korea vs Japans invasion of Korea

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Hitler often spoke of the "November Crime" which was

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signing of the 1918 armistice

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The secret stipulation of the Nazi-Soviet Pact spelled out

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the division of Poland

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After the fall of France in 1940, the only country left to fight Germany was

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Britain

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In the Battle of Britain the Germans hoped to defeat the English

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almost solely through air attacks led by the Luftwaffe

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The Japanese goal in the bombing of Pearl Harbor was

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to weaken the US and establish a defensive Japanese perimeter in the Pacific

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They key to the Allied victories in Europe and Asia was

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industrial capacity

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The Normandy Invasion

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led to the end of German resistance in western Europe

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In the Battle of Okinawa the Japanese

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introduced Kamikaze pilots

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At the Wannsee Conference

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the Nazis put in place the Finial Solution

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Comfort women were

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Koren and Chinese women forced into prostitution by the Japanese

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About how many people perished during WWII?

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60 million

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The Marshall Plan was

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a US financial plan to rebuild Europe and stop Soviet expansions

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NATO was designed to

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be a regional military alliance against Soviet agression

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At a meeting of 50 nations at San Francisco in 1945

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the United Nations Charter was signed

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COMECON was

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the Soviet alternative to the Marshall Plan

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