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What did Benjamin Disraeli, Emmeline Pankhurst, and the Chartists have in common?

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All sought to extend the voting rights

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To keep the colonies from rebelling against British rule

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Why did the British government create the Canadian dominion

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What was the effect of the Reform Act of 1832

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It gave industrial cities representation in Parliament for the first time

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Disraeli supported women's voting rights against who's views?

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Queen Victoria

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Her rule lasted 64 years, the longest reign in British history

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Queen Victoria

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He was a conservative British prime minister who argued in support of women's voting rights

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Disreali

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This movement worked for universal manhood suffrage and had wide popular support

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Chartist

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She headed the Women's social and political union and steered its tactics away from peaceful demonstrations to militant direct action.

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Emmeline Pankhurst

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Many Irish hated these rulers in the 1800s, as they enforced policies which negatively impacted them. Most food was exported to the ruler's country, and they had to representation in their government during rule.

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Britain

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This group of people in Latin America were most likely to be revolutionaries

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Mestizos

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This revolutionary man wanted to unite all of South America into the Federation of the Andes

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Simon Bolivar

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This country achieved independence with the least bloodshed in Latin America

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Brazil

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Miguel Hidalgo and Jose Maria Morels both were

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Executed by the Spanish

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He was the first leader of the independent Brazil

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Pedro I

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Agustin de Iturbide became emperor because he...

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Brought creoles, peninsulares, royalists, and revolutionaries together

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Brazilian colonists achieved their independence from Portugal when...

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Prince Pedro declared Brazil independent

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In establishing the new government of a unified Germany, Otto Von Bismark borrowed ideas from _, and sought to lessen the influence of the _

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The United States, The Catholic Church

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What goal did Giuseppe Mazzini, Camillo di Cavour, and Giuseppe Garibaldi all have in common?

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They led the unification of Italy

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_ became Prime Minister of _ and used his influence to gain the support of _ in a war against Austria

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Cavour, Sardinia, French

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If a composer writes a symphony that celebrates the physical landfalls. of his country, his nation is most likely in what stage of nationalism?

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Cultural

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The Volkish movement in Germany focused on these two ideas

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Agricultural roots, new industrial dominance

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Russian Marxists wanted to create what form of government in Russia?

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A Socialist Republic

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Giuseppe Garbaldi's actions show that he was most committed to what?

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The Unification of Italy

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Which to areas of Italy were holdouts in the efforts for unification after the Red Shirts had taken the Kingdom of Two Sicilies

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Venitia and the Papal States

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Decisions made by the Congress of Berlin in 1878 resulted in

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Many years of ethnic conflicts in the Balkans

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If an artist creates a series of sculptures to celebrate a number of army officers who were victorious in a recent war to take over new lands, his nation is most likely in what stage of nationalism

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Triumphal

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The accomplishments of the Roman Empire would have been an example of what element of nationalism for which people

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History, Italy

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Ethnic minorities continued to seek self-government

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Nationalism remained a problem under the Dual Monarchy because

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After Prussian king Fredrick Willhelm IV promised a constitution and other reforms, what did he do?

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He went back on his prmoises

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If a nation is building up it's military and making plans to expand it's borders, it is most likely in what stage of nationalism

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Liberal

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How did the Zollverein improve unity of the German states

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It created a uniform system of government

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The Russian economy differed from the rest of Europe's because it

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Was primarily agricultural

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What were the Young Turks fighting against in 1908?

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The absolute power of the sultan

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Which of the following czars oversaw rapid industrial development in Russia

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Nicholas II

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Control of Constantinople was important Russia

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It provided access to the Mediterranean Sea

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Which of the following leaders began a program of reforms in Russia?

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Karl Marx

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What did Otto von Bismarck mean by the phrase "blood and iron"

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He would use the Prussian military as a force for German unification

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"Blood and Iron" refers to the tactics used by _ in the efforts to unify Germany

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Bismark

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If a nation is making efforts to remove a group that is holding it's people back, it is most likely in what stage of nationalism?

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None of these

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Realpolitik focuses on the reality of the world, not _

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Idealism

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Which of the following was the emperor of Ethiopia who modernized his army and defeated the Italians at the Battle of Adwa?

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Menelik II

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What was the immediate cause of the Sepoy Mutiny

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Indians must eat animal skin, despite their religious background

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Why did Britain begin exporting opium to China

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To change the balance of trade in favor of Britain

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Before 1858, British imperialism in India was carried out by the

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East India Company

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What was the result of the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-1905?

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Japan's victoria over Russia celebrated all over Asia

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During the British Raj...

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India became a significant source of rubber for British tire factories

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The Treaty of Karaganda contributed to...

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The shogun's power

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Who controlled the spice trade in Southeast Asia starting in the 1600s and 1700s?

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Dutch

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The treaty of Nanjing...

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Benefited European countries at the expense of China

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Which of the following was one factor that allowed European nations to extend their control over Asia and Africa after 1800?

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Military advantages such as superior weapons

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Which of the following Mexican revolutionaries gathered support from the lowest classes and forced Porfirio Diaz to resign as president?

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Emiliano Zapata and Francisco Madero

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As the Chinese military weakened in the late 1800s, which countries rushed to claim more territory in China?

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Great Britain, France, Germany, and Russia

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Following the Civil war in the United States, Britain relied on India for which raw material

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Cotton

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Social Darwinism is most closely connected with what theory of imperialism

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Conservative

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What led the British government to take control of India from the British East India Company

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The Sepoy Mutiny

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Thee only Southeast Asian country to retain its independence in the 1800s was _

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Siam

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Why did the British occupy Egypt in 1882

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To maintain access to the Suez Canal when the Egyptian government appeared unstable

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Which best describes political motives during the new European imperialism in Africa

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Europena leaders wanted to develop industry in Aftica and reap their profits

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How did the politics of General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna change during his years in power?

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He first allied with liberal reformers but later became conservative

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Indian nationalism became more radical when the British announced plans to partition which country?

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Bengal

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One effect of the arms race was

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An ever preseamt threat of nuclear war

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With the developemtn of nuclear weapons, the soviet union and the united states based their defense strategies on

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The principle of deterrence

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Nations that refused to take sides in the rivalry between superpowers in the 1950s were called

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Nonaligned nations

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What led to the Test ban Treaty

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The cuban missile crisis

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The goal of the anti ballistic missile treaty was to

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Ensure each side remained vulnerable to the others nuclear weapons

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Why did president kennedy favor the Test ban Treaty

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To slow the development of new and more deadly weapons

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The __________ was a fusion powered weapon that was many times stronger than the atomic bomb

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Hydrogen bomb

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The soviet unions launch of __________ in 1957 shocked Americans becasue they feard Soveit military technology was superior to thier own

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Sputnik

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In 1961 communist east germany built the _____ to stop people from fleeing east germany for west germany

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Berlin wall

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U.S president richard Nixon sought _______, or a reducued tension between the superpowers

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Détente

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An ______ arms race is a strugke between nations to gain an advantage in weapons

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Arms race

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Fidel Castro alarmed the U.S government when he installed a ________ government in Cuba

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Communist

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The United States experienced a severe econimic slowdown in the 1970s becasue

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The nations debt grew sharply

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In 1957 six european nations founded the european economic community in order to

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Eliminate trade barriers and unify economic polocies

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The cold war ended when

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The Soviet Union collapsed

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The U.S -led invasion of Iraq in 2003 was based on the belief that

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The country possessed chemical and biological weapons

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What hlped the remendous growth of the U.S economy after World War 2

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Consumer spending

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One reason western europe made a rapid recovery from World War 2 was because

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The United States provided massive economic aid

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What caused the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s

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Ethnic tensions coupled with a weakening government

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One reason revolution spread across Eastern Europe in 1989 was that

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Gorbachev loosened Soviet controll

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The formation of ________ unified former rivals in Europe into a strong military alliance with the United States and Canada, and helped Western Europe remain at peace during the cold war

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NATO

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Soviet leader _________ tried to de stalinize the soviet union while at the same time maintaining a hostile stance toward the West

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Nikita Khrushev

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In Czechoslovakia, the peaceful ________ pushed the communists out of power

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Velvet revolution

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During a war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbs used a policy of ________ to try and eliminate Bosnian Muslims from society

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Ethnic cleansing

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In 1992 the nations of Europe established the ______ in order to create a single economic unit that could compete with the United States

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European nation

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In the 1990s a system of networks called the ______ emerged and connected computers around the world

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Internet

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The United States targeted the Islamist government of Afghanistan called the _______ after the attacks on September 11

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Taliban

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________ used techniques of nonviolence and civil disobedience to expose racial injustice in the United States

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Martin Luther King Jr.

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In the 1960s young people in the ________, or rebellion against mainstream American societ, adopted new styles of clothing and behavior and questioned the governments actions in the Vietnam war,

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Counterculture

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Under communism, the Soviet Union had a ______ economy, a system in which the government makes aka economic decisions

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Command

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Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of ______ sought to restructure the Soviet economic and political system

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Perestroika

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What was the significance of the battle of coral sea

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It was the first time the Allies had stopped the relentless Japanese advance

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The siege of Leningrad resulted in

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The starvation of one million Russian civilians

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Before entering world war 2 the United States

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Provided military aid to Great Britain

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Hitlers declaration that "surrender is forbidden" to his commanders and the Battle of Stalingrad led to

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The capture of 90,000 Axis survivors and a crushing defeat for Hitler

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The soviets most likely responded to the Allied invasion of western North Africa with

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Disappointment that the allies chose to delay invading Europe

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For the Soviet Union, what was the turning point in the war with Europe?

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Their victory at Stalingrad

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Which group was treated most harshly by the U.S government during World War 2

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Japanese Americans

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The Americans had a huge advantage at the Battle of Midway because

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They had cracked the Japanese code used to send secret military communications

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The Bataan March came after defeat in

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The Philippines

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Control of North Africa was vital for the Allies because

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The needed to control the Suez Canal in order to obtain oil from the Middle East

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Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill issued the Atlantic Charter, a document

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Which affirmed that nations should chose theri governments

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The Nazi campaign to imprison inferior people included which of the following targets

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Jews, homosexuals, disabled people, poles, Slavs, and gypsies

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Why did Amerixan and British forces plan a massive invasion of Western Europe

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To open a second front and put the Axis forces on the defensive

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The liberation of Paris by the Allies led Hitler to

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Order a counterattack in Belgium

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What was the goal of the Yalta conference

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To reach an agreement on what to do with postwar Europe

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The difficulties Allied leaders had in reaching agreement at the Postdam conference were due to

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Growing ill-will between the Soviet Union and other Allies

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The D-day invasion of Normandy was launched from

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The a United Kingdom

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Hitlers final solution included

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Concentration camps, death camps, and Einsatzgruppen

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How did Hitler respond to the successful invasion of France by the Allies

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He ordered a counterattack in Belgium

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What problem did the Nazi use of mobile killings squads oose

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They left behind evidence of Nazi atrocities

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Why were Japanese casualties in the final battles of the war so much higher than those for U.S forces

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Japanese supply lines were strained, weakening their fighting abilities

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Before World War 2, Hitlers Natzi government

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Passed restrictive laws limiting The rights of Jews

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The United States established the ______ in 1944, which helped rescue as many as 200,000 Jews in Europe

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War Refuge Board

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On June 6, 1944 known as _______, allied forces invaded France

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D-Day

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The Japanese emperor surrendered on August 15, 1945, a day that became known as

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U-J day

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The _______ was formed after World Wars 2 to encourage international cooperation and prevent future wars

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United Nations

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__________ became president after the death of Franklin Roosevelt

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Harry S Truman

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Soviets blocked land, rail, and water routes into West Berlin in 1948 in order to

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Force the West to leave Berlin

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Which of the following did Winston Churchill use as an image to describe the division of Europe

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An iron curtain

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The United States was alarmed by Soviet control of Eastern Europe at the end of World War 2 because

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Officials believed Soviet expansion would not stop at Eastern Europe

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As a result of the Truman Doctrine, the U.S congress agreed to send hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to

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Greece and Turkey

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Which Allied country received the largest share of German reparations after World War 2

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The Soviet Union

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Soviet leaders wanted to Control Eastern Europe after world war 2 because

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They wanted a buffer zone of friendly governments to protect against the attack

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What was the goal of the United States when it went to war in Korea

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To contain Communist expansion

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The Soviet Union and the communist nations of Eastern Europe formed the _______ in response to the formation of NATO

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Warsaw Pact

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The ________ was a pledge announced by the United States in 1947 to provide economic and military aid to oppose the spread of communism

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Truman Document

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The era of tension and hostility between the United States and the Soviet Union following World War 2 became known as the _____

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Cold War

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In the ____________ Allied military courts tried more than 200 hundred Nazi and military officials, sentencing several dozen to death

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Nuremberg Trials

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