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In an effort to find allies in a hostile world, Lenin
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tried to develop temporary alliances with colonial nationalist movements in order to overthrow the imperialist colonial regimes.
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The New Culture Movement at Peking University
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advocated the study of science and democracy and virtually all "new" and largely Western ideas.
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Among the major factors leading to the outbreak of war in mid-1914 was
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badly implemented brinkmanship on the part of Europe's diplomats
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Japan's decision to seize much of Southeast Asia in the 1930s and 1940s was based primarily on
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the need to secure vital natural resources.
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In November 1917, Lenin's Bolsheviks
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took power from the Provisional Government in a coup.
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The Korean War
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was fought by a United Nations force composed mainly of South Korean and United States troops against North Korean forces and, after late 1950, Chinese "volunteers."
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The naval battle that established United States naval superiority in the Pacific was the Battle of
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Midway.
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By the mid-1930s,
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Chinese urbanites had become much more Westernized in fashions and social practices, but most rural Chinese still clung to traditional ways.
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The Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
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managed to survive a series of defeats, including the crushing losses suffered during Mao Zedong's Long March in 1934.
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The Sino-Soviet dispute
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was aggravated by the lack of Soviet support for Chinese efforts to reclaim Taiwan.
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The Turkish Republic changed its society by all of the following except
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making Islam the sole religion of the state.
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Which of the following reflected new artistic trends of the 1920s?
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James Joyce's Ulysses.
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Between the mid-1930s and the end of World War II,
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the Chinese Communists steadily increased their power in the north until, by 1945, between twenty and thirty million people were under their control.
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The Storm Troops (SA) were
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the Nazi party militia
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Soviet actions to balance Western initiatives, and unite, protect and develop its zone of influence in Europe included
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the development of the Warsaw Pact as a military balance to NATO.
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At the Yalta Conference,
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Stalin agreed to "free elections" in eastern Europe.
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The May Fourth Movement was
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a series of demonstrations by Chinese students and others in opposition to the Japanese being awarded Germany's sphere of influence in Shandong province.
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Which of the following was not part of Japanese expectations and war strategy during World War II?
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the American public's support for Franklin Roosevelt's policy of war against Japan
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Among the major results of World War II was
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the beginning of a major and world-wide decolonization movement.
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Which island was seen by United States as a crucial element in American defense strategy in the Pacific during the early Cold War?
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Taiwan
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Warfare resumed in Vietnam in 1959 because
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the United States, fearful of a Communist victory in the elections agreed to at Geneva, ignored the Geneva Accords and aided the South Vietnamese government.
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Which of the following was not a penalty imposed on Germany in the Versailles Treaty?
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the transfer of Bavaria to France as a reparations payment
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The Nuremberg Laws established the
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the legal isolation of German Jews from citizenship and legal rights.
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By the 1920s and 1930s, Japan
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was increasingly influenced by Marxists on the left and radical nationalism on the right.
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The Aryan racial state
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required the active involvement of the entire German population to achieve its destiny.
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During the Korean War, the United States
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became more determined to block Western contact with the Chinese government.
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Which of the following is an accurate statement about Japan during the early decades of the twentieth century?
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It practiced Shidehara diplomacy during the 1920s.
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Hitler intended to gain more land for Germany in
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the Soviet Union.
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Which of the following best explains the success of Japan between the late 1800s and 1930?
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The Meiji Constitution of 1890 and Japanese resiliency resulted in rapid Japanese development.
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The troops of which country turned the tide of the war in 1918?
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the United States
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The United States
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took an idealistic stance at the Paris Peace Conference.
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The Provisional Government that took power after the tsar abdicated was headed by
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Alexander Kerensky
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The British prime minister who had won a decisive electoral victory on a platform committed to making the Germans pay for the war was
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David Lloyd George
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Created at the Paris Peace Conference, the new concept of the mandate
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expanded Western imperialism in former Ottoman areas
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Which of the following is an accurate description of Middle Eastern mandates instituted after World War I?
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Britain took control of Iraq and Palestine
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As a result of the Great Depression,
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Marxism and fascism gained in popularity
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The Popular Front in France
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initiated a program of workers' rights, but its policies failed to end the Depression
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Many nationalists in European colonies from 1919 to 1939 found themselves engulfed in personal turmoil becasue they
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were often more Westernized than the countrymen whom they wanted to liberate
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The term Mahatma means
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Great Soul
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Which of the following is/are correctly paired?
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dhoti-- simple garment of coarse homespun cotton
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Gandhi
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used his march to the sea to try to convince Indians to ignore the increased British salt tax.
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How did the Bolshevik victory in Russia alter Asian ideas about Marxism
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Nationalist leaders became receptive because they saw their "pre-modern" societies as like that of "backward Russia," thus making Russia developments relevant.
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The Treaty of Locarno
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guaranteed the new German boarders with Belgium and France in the West.
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An alliance between communist and nationalist parties in the 1920s took place in
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China
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To avoid eradication by Chiang Kai-shek's army, Mao Zedong led his PLA from South China to the North China town in Yan'an. This journey is known as the
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Long March
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Which of the following was not correct regarding Ciang Kai-shek's programs in China?
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He was able to solve China's economic and social problems.
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By the 1920s, the United States
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was seen as an imperialist power by many Latin Americans, particularly becasue of the activities of the United Fruit Company in Central American
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Adolf Hitler wrote Mein Kampf
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while in jail after the failed Beer Hall Putsch.
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Stalin's first two Five-year Plans
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resulted in large increases in the nation's heavy industry and oil production.
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Major German initiatives in moving toward control of Europe before 1939 included all of the following except the
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German seizure of Libya in 1935
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The Blitzkrieg was
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a coordinated sudden attack by land and air forces.
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Which of the following military news items was welcomed by Hitler?
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the results of the Blitzkrieg against Denmark, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, and France
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The commander of the Afrika Korps was
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Erwin Rommel
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Hitler's New Order included all of the following except
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Latins and Aryans were equal in status and far superior to Slavic peoples.
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The Holocaust included all of the following except
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the establishment of execution camps in France.
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World War II in East Asia began with
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Japan's invasion of Manchuria.
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All of the following were aspects of Japan's "New Order" in Asia except that
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the Japanese government and military sincerely intended to liberate their fellow Asians from the burdens of Western colonialism and grant them complete independence.
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Which of the following is NOT true concerning the Japanese code of bushido
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It was modified by Hitler and integrated into the German military
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Aerial bombing of Japan during World War Ii
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included the first use of an atomic bomb
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Soon after World War II, the United States had
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sent general Marshall to China to arrange a Guomindong-Communist coalition
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Which events made Stalin uneasy about the United States' intentions between 1945 and 1950?
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Plans to merge the American, British and French occupation zones in Germany into a West German republic
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The treaty of 1949 between the United States, Canada, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Britain, the Netherlands, Italy, Denmark, Norway, Portugal, and Iceland created the military alliance known as
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NATO
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The Chinese Civil War
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became a factor in United States domestic politics after Mao's victory over the Nationalists
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The conflict in Indochina between 1946 and 1953
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saw France agree to a negotiated peace after French public option tired of the "dirty war."
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The term "peaceful coexistence" was coined by
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Nikita Khrushchev
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The Cuban Missile Crisis
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brought the world to the brink of nuclear war, but eventually produced a lessening of Cold War tension between the superpowers.
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In the Cuban Missile Crisis,
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the Soviet Union decided to send nuclear weapons to Cuba in 1962
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Warfare resumed in Vietnam in 1959 becasue
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the United States, fearful of a Communist victory in the elections agreed to at Geneva, ignored the Geneva Accords and aided the South Vietnamese government
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Which of the following was not true about the Ronald Reagan administration?
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A naval blockade was set in place around Cuba.
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At the Munich Conference of 1938,
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the British and French representatives allowed Hitler to take over the Sudetenland.
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The "Kitchen Debate"
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Was between Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev and in the Soviet Union during a cultural exchange event
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China's long isolation form the West began to end with the opening to the United States that was accomplished by
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Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger
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The United States firm that dominated the economies and governments in most Central American countries in the early 1900s was
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The United Fruit Company
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The New Deal was an attempt by the Roosevelt administration to
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Have the federal government participate more actively in the economy
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Governments in Latin America after 1920
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Differed widely in policies, as Argentina's move toward middle-class representation faded with the accession of Juan Peron, while Mexican peasants gained from land reform under Lazaro Cardenas
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All of the following occurred during the 1960s and 1970s except
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A major war broke out in Afghanistan between India and Pakistan
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In Japan after 1929,
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Right-wing extremists began to terrorize and at times murder opponents
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As a result of the United States opening to China,
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The two sides agreed to set aside their differences of Taiwan
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Japanese foreign relations during the 1919-1939 period included all except
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Maintaining a policy of permanent peace with its Asian neighbors
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The crossing of which latitudinal parallel boundary and which boundary river were central to the outbreak and prolongation of the Korean War?
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The 38th parallel and the Yalu River
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Tibet
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Was occupied by China in 1950
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The concept of a new "Monroe Doctrine for Asia" meant that
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Japan would play the role of guiding Asia to prosperity and development
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King Faisal of Syria led which nation in the years following the First World War?
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Iraq
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Nationalist movements in Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America from 1919 to 1939
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Were usually led by people with extensive knowledge of Western ideas and values.
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**The postwar diplomacy of the 1920s
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Was superficial, as reflected by the overly optimistic response to the Locarno Treaty and other diplomatic agreements but which failed to deal the issue of military disarmament
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Which of the following is not true concerning the Japanese code of bushido?
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The term means "Way of the Warrior" *It was modified by Hitler and integrated into the German military* It was originally the moral code of the samurai It was particularly suited to the Japanese nationalistic fervor of the 1930s.
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All of the following were aspects of Japan's "New Order" is Asia except that
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*The Japanese government and military sincerely intended to liberate their fellow Asians from the burden of Western colonialism and grant them complete independence.* (check) By the war's end, the Japanese were held in very low regard by the conquered people of Asia Japanese treatment of conquered Asian peoples became intensely brutal Asian nationalists made efforts to aid the allies in the fight against the Japanese.
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The Greater East-Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere was
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The United Nations' attempt to rebuild Japan after World War II The promise by Great Britain that India would be given its independence *Japan's declaration that East Asia would become a self-sufficient economic community* China's attempt to replace capitalism with communism
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What foreign policy did George Kennan advocate in a 1947 Foreign Affairs article?
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*Containment* Isolationism Passive aggression Synergetic harmonization
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At the Tehran Conference,
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Roosevelt and Churchill agreed to let Stalin take control of eastern Europe *The Allies decided to partition postwar Germany* It was agreed to use the atomic bomb against Japan Churchill strongly advocated an American-only invasion of France
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Josip Tito
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Was an ally of Joseph Stalin in the latter's attempt to crush the Serbs had attended Peking University with Mao Zedong *Devised a decentralized variety of Communism, different from "Stalinism"* Was part of the government-in-exile during the war
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Among the major illusions held by civilians and military leaders early in World War I was
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That the Americans would enter the war in order to insure a quick victory *The belief of most military leaders that the use of still larger numbers of troops would allow them to get their troops beyond the enemy trenches and gain a quick victory*** The belief that it would never be over Poison gas would end the war by Christmas
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Major Germans initiatives in moving toward control of Europe before 1939 included all of the following except the
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Union with Austria Occupation of the Rhineland in 1935 Two-stage takeover of Czechoslovakia in 1938-1989 *German seizure of Libya in 1935*
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During the Russian Civil War
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Rasputin proved to be an effective war commissar The Red Terror was designed to kill all Bolshevik supporters Nicholas II and his family escaped to Great Britain *The White armies almost captured the country, but proved unable to develop unified political plans or adequately coordinate their military activities*
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How did the Bolshevik victory in Russia alter Asian ideas about Manchuria?
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Arab nationalists were much more receptive as Islamic Marxism became known Nationalists from Asia rejected it because of Russia's imperialistic past It had no impact in China during the 1920s and 1930s *Nationalist leaders became receptive becasue they saw their "pre-modern" societies as like that of "backward Russia" than making Russian developments relevant* (check)
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Factors weakening Chiang Kai-shek during the Chinese Civil War included
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Peasant enthusiasm to Mao's promises to give land to the peasants
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The soviets were
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*Councils of workers' and soldiers' deputies* Primarily composed of disgruntled civil servants Made up of the conservative factions of the middle classes Composed entirely of Bolsheviks
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In 1953, the first expression of popular discontent against Stalin's "proletarian internationalism" occurred in
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Poland Hungary Romania (Lettuce) *East Berlin*
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The Truman Doctrine
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Was the basis for substantial United States aid to India and Iran Tolerated a limited expansion of Communist control over areas of the Middle East *Stated that the United States would provide aid for any nation that was being threatened by communist subversion* Involved direct Soviet economic aid to Greece and Turkey
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All of the following are true about the Second Indochinese (Vietnam) War except that
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The role of nationalism was highly significant in the conflict *The war was the second American victory on the Asian mainland since 1942* The United States failed to achieve its objectives in the war Lyndon Johnson significantly increased American involvement in the conflict
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All of the following were true about the Berlin Airlift except
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It provided Berlin with daily supplies *It was accompanied by a publicly stated American threat to use atomic weapons on Moscow if Soviet planes attacked allied aircraft* It was a result of Stalin's effort to prevent the creation of a separate West German state It resulted in an increase of tension between the superpowers.
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All of the following statements were correct about the Great Depression except
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Economic depressions were a new phenomena in the European experience
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Which of the following is an accurate description of Middle Eastern mandates instituted after WWI ?
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Britain took control of Iraq and Palestine
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Leon Trotsky
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Led the Left group in the Politburo after Lenin's death
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Most of the early Iranian oil profits went into the hands of
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British investors
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The writings of most early twentieth-century Chinese authors
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Showed contempt for the traditional Chinese past
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The major exports produced by Latin America from 1919-1939 included
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Beef and wheat from Argentina
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It is clear that the First World War
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helped to produce structural crises which toppled the Russian, Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian, and German governments.
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All of the following occurred at the Yalta Conference except that
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the leaders of the three Allied nations were deeply divided over the future of Japan.
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Many nationalists in European colonies from 1919 to 1939 found themselves engulfed in personal turmoil because they
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were often more Westernized than the countrymen whom they wanted to liberate.
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After Germany occupied most of France in 1940, the remainder of the country became
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Vichy France under Marshal Henri Petain.
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The Weimar Republic
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faced great economic challenges such as runaway inflation and later the Great Depression.
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The Kitchen Debate
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Was between Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev and in the Soviet Union during a cultural exchange event
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China's long isolation from the West began to end with the opening to the United States that was accomplished by
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Dwight Eisenhower and Dean Rusk John F. Kennedy and John Foster Dulles *Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger* Hubert Humphrey and Lyndon Johnson
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The earliest originator of the concept and practice of fascism was
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Benito Mussolini
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As a result of the United States opening to China,
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The two sides agreed to set aside their differences over Taiwan
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The leading exponents and practitioners of Dadaism and Surrealism, respectively, were
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Hannah Hoch and Salvador Dail
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In a failed effort to open a Balkan front, in 1915 the British launched an attack on
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Gallipoli
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The Great Depression
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Developed after the New York stock market collapsed
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The German invasion of Poland in September 1939 was facilitated by its Nonaggression Pact with
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The Soviet Union
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All of the following were true of Japan's experience in World War II except that
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Women actively participated in all aspects of the war effort, including combat
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The two goals that anti-imperialist nationalists in Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America from 1919 to 1939 were forced to choose between were
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Modernization or indpendence
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Lyndon Johnson sent more American troops to South Vietnam becasue
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He wanted to prevent the combined forces of the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Army form taking over all of Vitname
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The Hindu-dominated nationalist group that was formed in India in 1885 was the
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Indian National Congress
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During the Korean War, the United States government
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Became more determined to block Western contact with the Chinese government
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During the Korean War, the United States government
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Decided to isolate China from contact with other powers, forcing China to rely on the Soviet Union for support after 1950
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The term "Evil Empire" referred to the
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The Soviet Union
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Between 1911 and the early 1920's in China
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The Chinese Communist Party was established in 1921
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The purpose of the SS was to
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Use terror to enforce the policies of the Nazi Party
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Th Turkish Republic changed its society by all of the following except
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Making Islam the sole religion of the state
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Stalin's program of forcibly collectivizing Russian agriculture
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resulted in government-made famine in 1932 and 1933
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Under Shah Reza Khan,
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The bureaucracies of Iran;s government, both civilian and military, were modernized
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Post-Great Depression full employment was achieved in the United States only as a result of
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The high armaments production levels of World War II
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All of the following were true about conventional aerial bombing during World War II except
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Britain was the only belligerent nation whose citizens were not exposed to significant bomb attacks
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The British Government
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Sharply limited free speech when it implemented the Defense of the Realm Act
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All of the following developments occurred during the first year of World War I except
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Russia badly defeated the Germans at the Battle of Tannenburg and the Masurian Lakes
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The Soviet Union's reaction to the Marshall Plan included
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The view that the plan was an effort by the United States at an imperialist domination of Europe
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The Indian National Congress
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Had leaders who represented both the secular, educated elite, such as nehru and those who rejected many Western traditions such as Gandhi
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Under Ronald Reagan, the United States was able to help sustain a Vietnam-like war that long embroiled Soviet forces in
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Afghanistan
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Gandhi used the spinning wheel as a symbol of his protest against
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Textile imports from Britain
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In March 1938, Hitler successfully united Germany with
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Austria
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Adolf Hitler was
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A German nationalist and a native of Austria who used political propaganda and terror
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During the Great Depression
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Exports from Latin America dropped to about half those of the late 1920's
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Which political leader told military leaders in 1933 that he wanted to remove the "cancer of democracy" from their society?
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Adolf Hilter
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The Japanese term for the industrial and financial conglomerates that controlled much of the nations industry was
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Zaibatus
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In Mexico,
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The government of Lazaro Cardenas nationalized the foreign oil companies' holdings and provided millions of acres of land to landless peasants
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Ho Chi Minh
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Led a multiparty coalition in an anti-colonialist struggle against the French in the 1940's and early 1950's
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By 1917, the progress of World War I had
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Forced the Germans into waging unrestricted submarine warfare against Great Britain
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Changes in middle class attitudes during the 1920s included
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the popularity of short skirts, short hair, and the use of previously risque cosmetics
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Major political changes in Japan during the early twentieth century included the
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Extension of voting rights to all men in 1925
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During the 1970s
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the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was followed by the promulgation of the Carter Doctrine, which stated that United States military power would be used to insure Western access to Middle Eastern oil reserves.
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As a result of the Great Depression
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Marxism and fascism gained in popularity
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Which of the following nations were created by the 1919 Paris Peace Conference?
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Czechoslovakia and Poland
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Using the Schlieffen Plan
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Germany invaded France by way of Belgium
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The nationalist Kita Ikki demanded that Japan
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Establish a system much like national Socialism in Germany
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The 1975 accord that recognized all central and eastern European borders that had been established since the end of World War II, and committed by the signers to the human rights of its citizens was/were the
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Helsinki Accords
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Between 1919 and 1939, Latin American Culture
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Adopted a number of current and avant-grade European art forms
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The novel by Mao Dun focused on the changing social mores of Shanghai
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Midnight
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On the Eastern Front during World War II.
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Germany lost 300,000 men at Stalingrad.
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All of the following were true about the Dawes Plan was except it
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Permanently solved all of Germany's economic problems
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The treaty of 1949 between the United States, Canada, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Britain, the Netherlands, Italy, Denmark, Portugal, and Iceland created the military alliance known as
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NATO
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All of the following brought Hitler support in Germany except
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His promise to uphold the Versailles Treaty in spite of the unpopularity
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All of the following are correct about Iraq except
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The British ruled through the minority urban Shi'ite population
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Which of the following statements best characterizes the totalitarian state in the 1930s?
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It was an all-compassing, authoritarian dictatorship that subordinated individual needs, and employed police power and mass propaganda to achieve total control
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The Brezhnev Doctrine
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Was a warning to other communist states to follow the path of Marxist-Leninist orthodoxy
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Which of the following was a manifestation of American Isolationism?
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The failure of the United States to join the League of Nations
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The programs of Joseph Stalin during the 1930s included
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Massive purges of old Bolsheviks, army officers, party members, and many others
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According to the Balfour Declaration,
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A Jewish homeland was to be founded in Palestine
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Turning point on the Eastern Front was the Battle of
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Stalingrad
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The term "peaceful coexistence"
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Was treated with suspicion by United States leaders, especially after the Soviet Union's crushing of the unrest in Hungary in 1956
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The first threat of a United States-soviet Union confrontation during the Cold War took place in
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Iran
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The commander of the Arika Korps was
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Erwin Rommel
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Mustapha Kemal Ataturk
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Created a secular Turkish state that embraced many aspects of a modern Western nation
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In 1918, Lenin signed the Treaty of Brest Litovsk, in which Russia gave up all of the following except
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Muscovy
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The European Recovery Program was better known as the
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Marshall Plan
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The policy of equivalence referred to
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Maintaining a rough military parity on the part of the superpowers to avoid a catastrophic nuclear confrontation
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The Nazi Party
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Had 800,000 members by 1932
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Lenin's new secret police were known as the
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Cheka
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The economic views of John Maynad Keynes held that
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Government public works spending would cut unemployment and revive an economy
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Under Lenin's New Economic Policy,
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Individuals were permitted to own small retail stores and peasants to sell their produce
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By the end of the 1920s, the Comintern
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had achieved its greatest, if limited, success in China.
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The original objective of the Allied division in Korea in 1945 was to
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establish a reunified, independent nation on the peninsula after reestablishing order.
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Lu Xun's "Diary of a Madman"
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attacked the negative aspects of the traditional Chinese family.
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The expression "New World Order" refers to the optimistic hopes and expectations that resulted from the end of
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the Cold War
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The Germans disliked the Versailles Treaty because
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Article 231 said that Germany (and Austria) bore sole responsibility for starting the war.
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Benito Mussolini became prime minister of Italy
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when King Victor Emmanuel, reacting to Fascist intimidation, appointed him.
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Which of the following was not true about Mussolini's Fascist rule in Italy?
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It gave him total control over all aspects of Italian life.
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The Versailles Treaty
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established the League of Nations.
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After World War I,
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Ibn Saud established the kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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In March 1917, Tsar Nicholas II abdicated his throne as a result of strikes that broke out
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after working class women staged a massive food march in Petrograd.
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To whip up popular support for his totalitarian regime, Hitler organized gigantic mass rallies in the city of
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Nuremberg.
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After a peace treaty was signed in Paris in 1973 to end the Second Indochinese (Vietnam) War
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North Vietnam could not reach a political accord with South Vietnam, so North Vietnam attacked and defeated South Vietnam two years later.
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All of the following took place in the nations of Europe during World War I except
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Italy joined the Central Powers in early 1918.
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During the 1920s,
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acting on Comintern advice, the Chinese Communist Party allied itself with the Nationalists (KMT) in 1923.
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Winston Churchill's March 1946 speech stated that
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an "Iron Curtain" had descended across Europe.
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After Lenin's death,
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the Politburo split into a Left group, wishing to pursue of rapid industrialization and world revolution, and a Right group, desiring to construct a socialist state in Russia.
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The Battle of the Somme
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killed more than 21,000 British soldiers in a single day.
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The final German offensive was stopped on July 18, 1918 at the
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Second Battle of the Marne.
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The Beer Hall Putsch of 1923
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gave Hitler and the Nazis publicity in Germany.
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Hitler solved the economic problems facing Germany in the Great Depression by all of the following means except
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pursuing a laissez-faire economic policy
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In Russia during World War I
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Tsar Nicholas II permitted Grigorii Rasputin to intrude into policy making.
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The crisis stemming from Germany's non-payment of its 1922 reparations installment
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led to severe hyperinflation, as Germany's "passive resistance" made the mark worthless.
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The Cold War
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was the result of the agreements reached at the Allied war conferences that took place in 1939 and 1940. *was a major factor in world affairs for several decades after World War II.* (double check) resulted from the significant differences between Germany and the Soviet Union. began during the Battle of Stalingrad.
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The Young Turks
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were the victims of bad timing, as minority unrest in the Balkans caused the army to step in as well as the desire for ethnic Turks for a Turkish state.
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The eastern European nation that defied Stalin's attempt to occupy it after the World War II was
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Yugoslavia under Tito
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The general attitude towards the prospect of a Europe wide war among the people of Europe in 1914 was on of
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naively romantic enthusiasm for the adventure of war.
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In the 1950s and 1960s, the relationship between the Soviet Union and China
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remained unchanged. was altered by the Soviet Union's increased interest in increasing world tensions, especially with the militarily dangerous United Nations. *was weakened by Mao Zedong's belief that after Stalin's death, Mao's status as the most experienced Marxist ruler should make him the leading communist.* was destroyed by Mao's threat to occupy southeastern Siberia if the Soviet government continued to make, test, and store nuclear weapons there.
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What foreign policy strategy did George Kennan advocate in a 1947 Foreign Affairs article?
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*containment* (George Kennan was best known as the "Father of Containment") synergetic harmonization passive aggression isolationism
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As a result of the Unites States opening to China,
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the Chinese and Americans officially broke relations with the Soviet Union. *the two sides agreed to set aside their differences over Taiwan.* the United States rejected the concept of the reunification of Taiwan with the mainland. joint pressure was applied to ease Indian troops out of Sri Lanka.
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In the Middle East during the period from 1919 to 1939,
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a massive oil discovery at Dhahran in 1938 moved Saudi Arabia from being an area of chronic poverty to one of unexpected national affluence.
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In reviewing the origins of the cold war, the textbook authors
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State that both nations were working within a framework conditioned by the past.
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stop adding terms!!!!
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