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Chapter 18 world history – Flashcards 37 terms
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Containment
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Cold war policy of limiting communism to areas already under soviet control
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Lend-lease Act
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The ability to sell land or lend materials to countries who are vital to the safety of the U.S.
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Appeasment
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Policy of giving in to an aggressor's demands in order to keep the peace
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Norway, Denmark
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Overran by Hitler when false war cries from Britain and France were made
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Pearl Harbor
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The attack of Japanese airplanes to American Navy ships on August 7th, 1941 in Hawaii
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Blitzkrieg
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Lightning war
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Economic resources
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Nazis viewed occupied lands and their people as suppliers to their needs and wants
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Battle of the Bulge
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Battle between Axis and Allied Forces
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Dunkirk
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The beach Germany got trapped on when attacking France
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Collaboration
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Cooperation with an enemy force occupying your country
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Hitler's support of France
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France was against democracy
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Sanctions
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Penalties
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Operation Bararossa
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Hitler's plan to conquer Soviet Union
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El Alamein
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The battle in Egypt that stopped Rommel's advance
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V-E Day
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Day European war officially ended
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Genocide
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Deliberate attempt to destroy an entire religious or ethnic group
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Allied invasion of Italy
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Hitler had another front to fight against
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Radar
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Device used to detect the flight of airplanes
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Anschluss
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Union of Austria and Germany
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Nonaggression pact / Hitler-Stalin
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Hitler wanted a free-hand in Poland, not a two-front war
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Holocost
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The genocide of Jews by Hitler and the Nazis
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Battle of Stalingrad
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Hitler's attempt to capture Stalin's namesake city
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Atlantic Charter
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Goals set to end the Nazi tyranny
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Munich Conference
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British and French gave into Hitler's demands
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Cold War
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Sense of tension and hostility among nations without hostility
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League of Nations / Japanese Aggression
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Actions taken were ineffective when Japanese went to Manchuria and League of Nations put sanctions on them
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Dress rehearsal for WWII
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Spanish civil war with Franco who won and Hitler tested out new planes
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Battle of Coral Sea
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Battle between American and Japanese warships which prevented invasion of Australia
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Berlin Capture
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Allied forces ended war in Europe by capturing Berlin
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Highest casualties of war
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Soviet Union
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Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity sphere
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Japan's self-proclaimed mission to help Asians escape western colonial rule
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Southeast Asia
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Japanese conquered much of this by 1942
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Pacifism
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Opposition to all war
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D-Day
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Allied invasion of France
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London Blitz
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Bombing by nazis every night in London
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Midway Island
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Japanese were never able to mount offensive after this battle
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Limited rights of citizens
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Allies did this as a commitment to total war
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A: the Soviets agreed to withdraw their missiles in exchange for Kennedy's pledge not to invade Cuba and his agreement to withdraw U.S. missiles from Turkey.
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Q: The Cuban missile crisis ended when
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A: weakened by rivalry between Chinese nationalists and communists.
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Q:Chinese resistance to the Japanese was (P.836)
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A: Britain and the United States would not be intimidated into abandoning Berlin.
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Q: The Berlin blockade clearly demonstrated that (P.856)
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A: capitalism and communism.
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Q: Ideologically, the two competing sides in the cold war were (P.856)
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A: All these answers are correct
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Q: A key factor in the Allied victory in the Pacific was (P.848)
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A: the attempted murder of every living Jew in Europe.
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Q: The "final solution" entailed (P.850
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A: meeting at which Stalin ensured that the Soviets would control eastern Europe.
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Q: The Yalta conference was the (P.854)
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A: Germany, Italy, and Japan.
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Q: Members of the Axis powers included: (P.836)
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A: gained a quick victory over all opponents, and occupied most of Europe.
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Q: After invading western Europe in 1940, Germany (P.840)
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A: a range of responses from willing collaboration to open resistance
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Q: What was the reaction to Japanese and German occupation of conquered lands? (P.848)
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A: outrage at the German treatment of Jewish minorities in eastern Europe.
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Q: All of the following were essential to the Soviet defense against the Nazis EXCEPT (P.840)
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A: a lightning war.
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Q: The German Blitzkrieg refers to (P.840)
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A: after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Q: The Japanese finally surrendered in 1945 (P.848)
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A: the Cuban missile crisis of 1962.
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Q: the Cuban missile crisis of 1962.
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A: Germany's forced union with Austria in 1938.
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Q: Anschluss refers to (P.840)
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A: freed Hitler to pursue a more aggressive policy in western Europe.
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Q: The Russian-German Treaty of Nonaggression of 1939 (P.840)
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A: that the Americans had broken Japanese codes and discovered Japanese planning.
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Q: The key to winning the naval victory at Midway was (P.842)
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A: deport all European Jews to concentration camps in Poland for extermination.
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Q: At the Wannsee Conference in 1942, Nazi leaders decided to (P.850)
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A: revising the peace settlements that followed the Great War, and ending their economic problems.
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Q: Japan, Germany, and Italy engaged in territorial expansion in the 1930s with the aim of (P.836)
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A: the Soviet announcement that the four-power administration of Berlin was no longer in effect.
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Q: The Berlin crisis of 1948 was caused by (P.856)
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A: the invasion of South Korea by North Korean forces.
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Q: The Korean War was precipitated by (P.856)
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A: Ethiopia
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Q: Italy conquered ________ in the 1930s to create an overseas empire. (P.840)
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A: Austria
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Q: In 1938 Germany sent troops into what country and forced its leaders to accept the Anschluss? (P.840)
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A: All these answers are correct.
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Q: As a result of the Korean War, (P.856)
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A: All these answers are correct.
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Q: As evidence of the renewed power and glory of Italy, Mussolini (P.840)
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A: a U.S. financial plan to rebuild Europe and stop Soviet expansion.
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Q: The Marshall Plan was (P.854)
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A: invading anti-Castro Cuban forces were overwhelmed by Cuban troops.
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Q: At the Bay of Pigs in 1961, (P.860)
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A: the intense Nazi bombing attacks on Great Britain in 1940 and 1941.
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Q: The Battle of Britain refers to (P.840)
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A: gain access to raw materials such as tin, rubber, and petroleum.
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Q: The Japanese invaded Indochina in 1940 in order to (P.842)
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A: the vast personnel and industrial capacity of the United States and Soviet Union
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Q: The key to Allied victory in Europe was (P.848)
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A: WAVES
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Q: Which of the following was the Naval auxiliary for women formed by the United States Navy during World War II? (P.852)
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A: a mix of installed puppet governments and direct military rule.
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Q: The Japanese controlled their conquered territories through (P.842)
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A: the Soviet Union.
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Q: The ultimate German target of invasion in World War II was (P.840)
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A: Germany, Italy, and Japan.
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Q: The Tripartite Pact brought together (P.836)
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A: the United States would support free people resisting subjugation by insurrection or outside interference.
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Q: The Truman Doctrine pledged that (P.854)
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A: direct combat.
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Q: Women in the United States and Britain performed all the following wartime activities EXCEPT (P.852)
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A: a direct clash in Berlin between Soviet and U.S. troops in 1948
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Q: Which of the following events and processes did NOT occur as a result of the cold war? (P.856)
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A: The Warsaw Pact
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Q: Which of the following is NOT an example of the U.S. policy of containment? (P.856)
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A: the Bay of Pigs.
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Q: The United States tentatively supported a failed invasion of Cuba at (P.860)
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A: Thailand.
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Q: At the height of their expansion, the Japanese had established either direct or indirect control over all of the following EXCEPT (P.848)
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A: centuries of anti-Semitism in Europe.
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Q: The Nazi destruction of Europe's Jewish population was preceded by (P.850)
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A: the German invasion of the Soviet Union.
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Q: Operation Barbarossa in 1941 was code for (P.840)
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A: Nanjing.
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Q: The height of Japanese atrocity in China was reached in what was called the rape of (P.836)
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A: an American-led oil embargo against Japan.
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Q: The immediate provocation for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was (P.842)
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A: China
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Q: The first nation to experience the nature of World War II brutality aimed at civilians was (P.836)
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A: All these answers are correct.
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Q: What role did women play in World War II? (P.852)
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A: Germany and Italy declared war on the United States four days later.
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Q: As a result of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, (P.842)
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A: agreed that Hitler could keep lands already taken in exchange for a pledge to end German expansion.
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Q: At the Munich Conference, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain (P.840)
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Chapter 14 Medieval Europe – Flashcards
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Europe ranks this size in relation to other continents:
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2nd smallest continent
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This land form separates Europe from Asia:
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Ural Mountains
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In these two regions one would find most of Europe's farms:
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North European Plain, and Alpine Mountain System
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This is Europe's longest river:
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The Volga River
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This river is the backbone of busiest inland system of waterways:
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The Rhine River
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In the Middle Ages, Europe's land forms influenced people in this ways:
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The people had to cut down forests (deforestation)
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This climate is found across most of Europe:
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Temperate climate
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The winds warmed by the Gulf Stream affect most of Europe for this reason:
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Nothing blocks the warm wind
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The Doomsday Book did this:
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Kept track of people and established a tax system
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This ruler was crowned emperor by Pope Leo II:
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Charlemagne
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The nobles during Charlemagne's rule were responsible for this:
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maintaining roads, bridges, and defense walls
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These were the fierce warriors and pirates from Scandanavia
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The Vikings
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The Vikings first raided and stole goods, and then they did this:
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Established trade routes and trading centers
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In the early 900s the Normans settled here:
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Northern France
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After Charlemagne's death, this happened:
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His kingdom fell apart
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King John demanded this of his people:
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more military service and greater amounts of money.
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The Magna Carta contained this:
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63 Clauses
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These were the three main religions of Europe:
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Christianity, Muslim, and Jewish
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This was the major focus of people's lives during the Medieval life:
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building cathedrals
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Men who devoted their lives to monasteries were called this:
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Monks
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Women who devoted their lives to religious were called this.
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Nuns
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Nuns lived in these:
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Convents
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Feudalism is this:
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Politcal, social, and economic system that began in 800s
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Under feudalism, these people farmed the land:
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serfs
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This is the social ranking (heirarchy of feudalism[top to bottom])
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Monarch, Knights, Lords, Clergy, Serfs
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Feudalism affected the lives of the nobility in this way:
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the nobility had to pledge land and military support in exchange for land
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This is the knight's code:
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Chivalry
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The decline of feudalism was caused by this:
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The Lords built up their own military power and became independent of their king
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The manor system is this:
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A new way to manage feudal farms
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This was the affect of the manor system on cities and towns:
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serfs could sell their surplus in town, which allowed the town to grow
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This comprises the three field rotation process:
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two fields are planted, one is not, and this rotates each year.
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These are the three purposes and objectives of guilds:
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to buy large quantities of goods, control the market, and guarantee a fair price for goods.
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This event marked the decline of Byzantine control over Asia Minor:
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The Muslim Seljuk Turks defeated the Byzantine army
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The Christians were upset when the Turks conquered this piece of land and for this reason:
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Palestine because it is The Holy Land
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The emperor Alexius Comemnus asked Pope Urban II for help for this reason:
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He wanted Christian Knights to fight against the Turks
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These were the Christian expeditions to win back The Holy Land:
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The Crusades
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The effects of the Crusades were these:
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Increased contacts and trade between the East and the West.
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The Silk Road influenced Chinese culture in this way:
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Caravans brought Chinese goods to other areas, and Buddhism came to China.
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The Bubonic Plague is this:
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A very aggressive disease epidemic
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Three locations believed to be the birthplace of the plague, according to historians:
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Central Asia, China, Italy
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Europe's four land regions:
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Northwest Mountains, North European Plain, Central Uplands, Alpine Mountain System
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Castro IB History Paper 2 – Flashcards 52 terms
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Castro IB History Paper 2 – Flashcards
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Fulgencio Batista
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Dictator before Castro; oppressive to opposition; corrupt
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Fidel Castro
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dictator; nationalist and later communist; anti-US
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Moncada Barracks (1953)
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failed attack led by Fidel, Raul and Abel Santamaria to get ammunition; all three were captured; birth of the 26th of July Movement
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26th of July Movement
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Castro's political group to overthrow Batista
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Jose Marti
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"father of the revolution"; hero of war for independence from Spain
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Platt Amendment
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piece of Cuba's constitution allowing the US to "stop third parties from interfering in Cuba" (aka protect US interests)
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Granma Expedition
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Fidel returned with Raul and Guevera on a boat; second failed attempt to overthrow Batista; group fled to Sierra Maestra Mts.
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"History will absolve me"
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speech given by Castro to defend himself after his arrest and was published secretly, making him famous for the first time
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Ernesto "Che" Guevera
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Communist revolutionary who worked with Castro and wished to "export" the revolution; helped guide Castro toward the left
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Sierra Maestra
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Mountains where Castro hid with other rebels and conducted guerrilla warfare after his second failed attempt to overthrow Batista
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Orthodox Party
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party Castro was a part of before the creation of the 26th of July Movement
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Raul Castro
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Fidel's brother and right hand man; participated in Moncada and Granma; president in 2005 after Fidel's resignation
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Federacion de Mujeres Cubanos
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org. made by Vilma Espin, Raul's wife trained women for jobs with minimal success few women in high positions -- just want workforce? campaigned against illiteracy and for health programs
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Camilo Cienfuegos
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a leader of the 26th Movement; disappeared in a plane "accident" -- dislike left? too popular?
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Haydee Santamaria
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she distributed Castro's speech and founded the Casa de las Americas; one of few women at Moncada
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Casa de las Americas
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organization to advocate literature and culture; refuge for artists and writers persecuted in their homelands for their advocacy of social justice and opposition to military dictatorship
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Rebel Army
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Castro's military force that was liked by the peasants/farmers because they paid for food, respected women, helped educate rural areas and advocated Agrarian Reform
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Rebel Radio
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radio station put out by 26th Movement telling about the revolution and life in the Sierra
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Pact of Caracas
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coalition of all main anti-Batista political parties
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Manuel Urrutia
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president during provisional gov't (controlled by Castro)
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Cuban Communist Party (PCC)
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the only party allowed to participate in elections under Castro (even now)
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Huber Matos
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26th leader who disliked cmst turn of the new gov't and threatened to resign as Military Chief of Camaguey; arrested by Cienfuegos under Castro's orders
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Agrarian Reform Acts
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laws redistributing land, creating progressively smaller estates; tried to decrease dependence on sugar
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Bay of Pigs Invasion (1961)
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JFK used Eisenhower's plan to train Cuban exiles to overthrow Castro at Playa Giron; failed and gave Castro an enemy/nationalism
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Cuban Revolutionary Council
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anti-Castro group led by ex PM Miro Cardona to act as provisional gov't after Bay of Pigs
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Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
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Soviets placed nuclear weapons on Cuba creating nuclear alert; agreed to remove them if US removed them from Turkey and agreed not to invade Cuba; Cuba loses USSR protection
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Moral Incentive and Voluntarism
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Guevera's economic plan to give rewards for good work and promote self-sacrifice; fails causing lack of production and absenteeism
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Revolutionary Offensive (1968)
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this movement expropriated all private businesses (e.g. restaurants, farmers markets)
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The Year of Ten Million (1970)
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try to break the sugar output record to pay debt to USSR and use extra money to invest in diversification uses "militarization" of labor canceled holidays, closed theaters
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Results of the 10M Campaign
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Didn't hit quota and neglected other crops/fishing, Demoralized, Castro volunteered resignation (to a crowd of supporters cheering) abandon Che's economic ideas
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Mariel Exodus
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many opponents allowed to leave Cuba for US; (some forced to leave)
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Rectification Campaign (1986)
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bad economy (re)increased Cmst ideas banned farmers markets, no extra pay, land reform productivity down, absenteeism up
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"Special Period in Peacetime" (1991)
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USSR dissolution lead to this period open to internat business (tourism), reintro farmers markets and self-employment (basic capitalism)
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"Family Code"
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men obliged to help in house and with children
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Illiteracy Campaign
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educational mission while in Sierra Maestra Mts.
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Year of Education
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goal to end illiteracy in a year (dropped to 4%); build many (rural) schools and train teachers
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Union de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba (UNEAC)
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artist group whose goal is to help the revolution
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PM
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film of Afro-Cubans dancing censored as unrevolutionary
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"Words to the intellectuals" speech
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Castro speech during the First Congress of Cuban Writers and Artists saying artists' jobs are to inspire support of the revolution
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Padilla affair
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this man was awarded a poetry prize by UNEAC for his poem Fuera del Fuego which was critical after the revolution; arrested and tortured; artists break away from rev in protest
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grey period
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art period after the Padilla affair when artists were watched closely and scared to write anything anti-rev
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Pope John Paul II
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this man visited Cuba and denounced the cmsm and lack of freedom but also opposed the US embargo
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Constitution of 1976
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this made Cuba explicitly communist, including free edu and healthcare, regulate religious insts. and no independently owned media cos
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National Assembly
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elected legislative body made by the 1976 Constitution
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Comites de Defensa de la Revolucion (CDR)
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group that encouraged peer surveillance and reporting of counter rev activity
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UMAP
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group that made reeducation labor camps for dissenters, homosexuals, and others
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Propaganda messages
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engaged/mythical leader who fights/works alongside his people, nationalism against US, united
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Historiography (Why Castro kept power)
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Kapcia: good politician internationally and domestically, charisma, turning defeat (10M campaign) into victory Balfour: stress independence vs. colonial rule and conviction of morality and success of rev Perez-Stable: popular support, social justice and equality, poor feared a return to a disregard of welfare
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Cubiana
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19th century Cuban rebel term referring to "Cuba for the Cubans"; anti-foreign investment
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US Embargo
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US refused to trade with Cuba
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John F. Kennedy
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US president during Cuban Missile Crisis
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Nkita Khrushchev
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Soviet leader humiliated during Cuban Missile Crisis
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cold war
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A conflict that was between the US and the Soviet Union. The nations never directly confronted each other on the battlefield but deadly threats went on for years.,
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contaiment
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U.S. foreign policy that was supposed to keep communism from spreading
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iron curtain
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A political barrier that isolated the peoples of Eastern Europe after WWII, restricting their ability to travel outside the region
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truman doctrine
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President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology
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berlin airlift
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airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin
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marshall plan
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A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe
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NATO
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization; an alliance made to defend one another if they were attacked by any other country especially against the Soviets
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Warsaw pact
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An alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations. This was in response to the NATO
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satellite nations
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Countries dependent upon and dominated by the Soviet Union
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united nations
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An international organization formed after WWII to promote international peace, security, and cooperation.
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brinkmanship
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..., A policy of threatening to go to war in response to any enemy aggression.
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arms race
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Cold war competition between the U.S. and Soviet Union to build up their respective armed forces and weapons
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korean war
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..., Conflict that began with North Korea's invasion of South Korea and came to involve the United Nations (primarily the United States) allying with South Korea and the People's Republic of China allying with North Korea.
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38th parallel
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Dividing line between North and South Korea
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domino theory
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A theory that if one nation comes under communist control, then neighboring nations will also come under communist control.
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bay of pigs
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..., In April 1961, a group of Cuban exiles organized and supported by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency landed on the southern coast of Cuba in an effort to overthrow Fidel Castro. When the invasion ended in disaster, President Kennedy took full responsibility for the failure.
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berlin wall
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A wall separating East and West Berlin built by East Germany in 1961 to keep citizens from escaping to the West
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cuban missle crisis
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..., The Soviet Union was secretly building nuclear missile launch sites in Cuba, which could have been used for a sneak-attack on the U.S. The U.S. blockaded Cuba until the U.S.S.R. agreed to dismantle the missile silos.
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limited test ban treaty
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..., 1963 treaty in which the United States and the Soviet Union agreed not to test nuclear weapons above the ground
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harry truman
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Became president when FDR died; gave the order to drop the atomic bomb
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Fidel Castro
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..., Cuban revolutionary leader who overthrew the corrupt regime of the dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1959 and soon after established a Communist state. He was prime minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and has been president of the government and First Secretary of the Communist Party since 1976.
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Nikita Khrushchev
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For the first few years after Stalin's death in 1953, a group of leaders shared power. As time went by, however, one man did gain power. Like Stalin, he believed that communism would take over the world, but he thought it could triumph peacefully. He favored a policy of peaceful coexistence in which two powers would compete economically and scientifically.
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Pol Pot
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Leader of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, who terrorized the people of Cambodia throughout the 1970's
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Ho Chi Minh
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1950s and 60s; communist leader of North Vietnam; used geurilla warfare to fight anti-comunist, American-funded attacks under the Truman Doctrine; brilliant strategy drew out war and made it unwinnable
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Vietnam War
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(LBJ), France tried to keep control of SE Asia, but Vietminh (Ho Chi Minh), North was Vietminh govt, South was anti communist, US helped them with military troops
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Mao Zedong
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(1893-1976) Leader of the Communist Party in China that overthrew Jiang Jieshi and the Nationalists. Established China as the People's Republic of China and ruled from 1949 until 1976.
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Cultural Revolution
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(1966-1976) The Cultural Revolution resulted in beatings, terror, mass jailings, and the deaths of thousands.
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The Long March
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6,000 mile journey made by Chinese Communists fleeing from Nationalist forces
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Domino Theory
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A theory that if one nation comes under Communist control, then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control.
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No Burst of Literary Energy after...
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WWII
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Begininning of historical barbarisms that would graduallly change literature...
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WWII
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WWII was
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1939-1945
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The atomic bomb was detonated over Hiroshima on...
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August 6, 1945
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A new reality so unimaginable that words like 'crisis' and 'alienation' seem inadequate understatements to the...
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Postwar Era
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Cold War Era- Soviet Communism took...
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1) Hungary 2) Romania 3) Poland 4) Czechoslovakia 5) and East Germany between 1947 and 1949
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Cold War Era
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decades of build up of nuclear weapons between the United States and Soviet Union.
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Historical Influences-
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Development of Atomic Bomb
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Continuing inflation underscored...
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American Poverty
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Automation urbanized...
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landscape
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Civil Rights Movement of...
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1950s and 1960s
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Cuban Missile Crisis of...
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1962
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Assassination of JFK in...
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November 1963
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Assassination of JFK's brother Bobby in...
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1968
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Assassination of MLK in...
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1968
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Korean War
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1950-1953
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Vietnam War
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1964-1973
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Violence in ghettos after..... and ....... laws passed.
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1) Civil Rights 2) Voting Rights
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Increased violence in...
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inner cities
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Resignation of Richard Nixon
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1974
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Postwar fiction was more than ever characterized by...
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feelings of doom.
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Postwar fiction has a view of the world as...
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violent, vulgar, and spiritually empty.
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Postwar Fiction had a loss of faith in...
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life itself.
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Postwar Ficiton had a cynacism about...
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human values.
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Postwar fiction characters fail to achieve...
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personal identity.
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Postwar fiction- Indiviuality dwarfed by massive power of...
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nonhuman things.
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Postwar fiction scarred...
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humanity.
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Reflection of themes and methods before War.
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Unconventional Literary appearances -No punctuation -Endless sentences -Obscure phrasing
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Literary modernism continued to be pervasive...
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(began after WWI as writers felt need to break with past, to find new ways of saying)
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Reflection of themes and methods before War...
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-Realistic detachment of author -attention to detail -naturalistic dterminism -fragmentation -psychological problems
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Literary Traditionalism continued...
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combined modernist techniques with traditional American themes.
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American Literature (1945-1960)- Distinct Groups
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1- Southern Writers 2- New York writers
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Southern writers...
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-Faulkner -Katherine Anne Porter - Eudora Welty
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Some displayed absorbtion in the...
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-grotesque -fascination with the extreme and perverse incongruitues of character and scene -cultivation of verbal effects -- Flannery O'Connor, Pete Taylor, Walker Percy
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New York Writers
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- Bernard Malamud - Delmore Schwartz
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New york writers- Host of critics who contirbuted to...
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major periodicals that reviewed literature.
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1950s- Writers often focused on tranquilized US that didn't recognize problems as majority of Americans were...
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- employed - paid better - using household labor saving devices -- extremity increased over decade
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J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye
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1951 -- protagonist exposes phoniness of society
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Ellison's Invisible Man
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1952
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knew thier region thoroughly and conveyed its surface with the skill of a trained photographer; shimmering beneath that surface, however, there are almost always the deeper waters where objective reality merges with symbol and myth.
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Eudora Welty
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"It seems plain that the art that speaks most clearly, explicitly, directly, and passionately from its place of origin will remain the longest understood.
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Eudora Welty
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not a protest writer or an advocate of causes, and like him, though never so spectacularly she was always an experimenter in the modes of fictional presentation.
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Eudora Welty
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a retrospective collection establishes a mastery of delicate renderings of family tensions and individual spiritual crises that has seldom been surpassed.
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John Cheever
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writing was always so close to his experience that is tempting to view it as thinly disguised autobiography. Aware of this, he was careful to remind readers of the unfathomable depths of art. "It seems to me," he said, "that any confusion between autobiography and fiction debases fiction. The role autobiography plays in fiction is precisely the role that reality plays in a dream. As you dream your ship, you perhaps know the boat, but you're going towards a coast that is quire strange; you're wearing strange clothes, the language that is being spoken around you is a language you don't understand, but the woman on your left is your wife. It seems to me that this is not capricious but quire mysterious union of fact and imagination one also finds in fiction?
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John Cheever
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novel Invisible Man (1952) was the most distinguished work of fiction to appear in the post World War II period. That poll may be taken as a tribute not only to the power of the novel but to the continuing literary reputation of a man who in the intervening years had published only one other volume, a collection of essays called Shadow and Act... ...(H)e was a a slow, painstaking author, who, after some success with short stories in his twenties, directed his attention to the completion of Invisible Man, which was published when he was thirty-eight.
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Ralph Ellison
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The effect of Invisible Man is due in large measure to the successful amalgamation of so many diverse elements in its structure. It is a folk novel strong in the rhythms of jazz and blues, powerful in its projection of the dual consciousness of the American black. It is also highly literary, and literate, novel, its epigraphs taken from Melville and T.S. Eliot, its prose polished, its episodes constructed with a care reminiscent of the practice of the greatest American and English novelists. Although the accomplishment is difficult to represent by a selection, something of the flavor of the book may be seen in the first chapter, which was originally published separately as a short story.
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Ralph Ellison
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lived the first thirteen years of her life in costal Savannah, Georgia, her birthplace, but the family's move inland to a farm in Milledgeville gave the writer both her emotional and fictional home.
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Flannery O'Connor
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Diagnosed as suffering from disseminated lupus in December 1950, O'Connor returned to her mother's farm, where she lived out the rest of her life, dying of lupus at the age of thirty-nine.
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Flannery O'Connor
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Her family had been Roman Catholic on both sides for several generations, and when her health permitted, she was a daily communicant. Her writing is filled with the themes and symbols of Christianity, and she explained her use of grotesque characters and situations as a technique for making her spiritual "vision apparent by shock - to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind you draw large and startling figures."
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Flannery O'Connor
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serious about her craft, genuinely concerned with the enigmatic, subconscious levels of human experience. For her the role of the fiction writer was to "present mystery through manners, grace through nature, but when he finishes, there always has to be left over that sense of Mystery which cannot be accounted for by any human formula."
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Flannery O'Connor
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continually aware as he writes of the nature of fiction as artifice; his works abound with reminders of their imagined and therefore artificial reality.
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John Barth
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comic vision and verbal fecundity, which together push his works at times beyond the edges of farce and tedium, make linear plots and traditionally realistic modes of presentation increasingly irrelevant to him. "I admire writers who can make complicated things simple," he has said, "but my own talent has been to make simple things complicated"
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John Barth
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Updike has been able to achieve a versatility that ranges from practice absurdity to irony sharpened and refined by acute observation. A writer who has an accurate eye for the small wonders of the commonplace, Updike has a gift for using banal phrases of domestic joy and discord to give dimension to familial situations, which he seems to absorb from the storms and brief moments of quiet modern life.
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John Updike
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Wrote Rabbit, Run
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John Updike
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"Actuality is a running impoverishment of possibility" runs a sentence from the short story "The Bulgarian Poetess."
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John Updike
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Time's tyranny, as theme, is the focal point for most of thier work.
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John Updike
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Mos of thier fiction has been carefully wrought from his experience and observation.
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John Updike
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1950's- Most publicized disastisfaction made by "beat" writers.
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-Read accompanied by jazz; often influenced by beer and drugs -In favor of spontaniety and against constricting forces ---Comic touches of thier work prove most endeering - In search of exotic physical appearance and spiritual enlightenment.
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1. Postmodern sensibility in American literature associated heavily with decade; national dilemmas rendered writers unable to deal with world in realistic modes of portrayal
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1960's
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1960s- Denial of order, fragmented universes
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1.)Unrealistic and surrealistic works result 2.)"Black" comedy or "novel of the absurd" a.)Heroes in socially outrageous situations (often antihero); authors use elements of shock and cruelty to make audience see awful, ugly, and "sick"
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Postmodernists insist that words and texts have no stable meanings...
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driven by sense of uncertain relationships in the world
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Narrative strategies devised to undermine reader's traditional expectations of ...
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order, coherence, and mimetic reflexivity
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Pluralism has become more prevalent since WWII--many points of view that show the existence of distinctive groups
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1.Females 2.African Americans 3.Hispanics 4.Native Americans 5.Creoles and Cajuns 6.Masses of immigrants
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Multiculturalism once marginalized, now part of mainstream
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Rule of exclusion has ceased to operate, regularly allowing non-white males into the canon of American literature
Cuban Missile Crisis
Foreign Policy
Indian Ocean Basin
International Relations
Real Gross Domestic Product
International Politics quiz 1 – Flashcards 29 terms
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International Politics quiz 1 – Flashcards
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Asia's New Balance of Power-Rajan Menon
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China is set to overtake the United States in many aspects -This has caused Japan to increase their military action in China's presence -India is also a very strong presence in Asia *when Barack Obama announced a 5 billion dollar deal defense fund, Pakistan and Russia increased their military ties -Though China is rising, the United States won't be backing down anytime soon
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Two largest constraints of the security dilemma
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1. The inability to distinguish between the offensive and defensive 2. The inability of one state to trust the other
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Anarchy in International Politics
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-Absence of an anarchic power is the anarchic element -Force is the Ultima ratio (the arbitrator between states) -States are more concerned w/relative advantages than absolute gains
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Legitimacy in International Politics-Ian Huard
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There are three generic reason why an actor might obey a rule 1.Because the actor fears the punishment of the enforcer 2. Because the actors sees the rule in its own self-interest 3. Because the actor feels the rule is legitmate and ought to be obeyed -Power is involved in making something "legitimate" -Legitimacy=a belief held by the actor that an institution should be obeyed, defined by the actors perception
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Six Principles of Political Realism-Hans J. Morgenthau
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1. Political Realsim is governed by objective laws that have their roots in human nature *Develop a rational theory that reflects objective alws *Ascertaining facts and giving them reason through meaning 2. The concept of interest defined in terms of power *The statesmen thinks and acts in terms of interest defined as power *Requires a sharp distinction between the desirable and the possible *Considers rational foreign policy to be good foreign policy 3. Interest defined as power is universally valid but does not endow that concept w/ a meeting that is fixed once and for all (?) *There will be different interest associated w/ different parts of history *Doesnt assume that contemporary conditions cannot be changed 4. Political realism is aware of the moral significance of political action *Realism considers prudence--the weighing og consequences of alternative political actions--to be supreme in politics 5. Refuses to identify the moral aspirations of a particular nation with moral laws that govern the universe *You cannot know the certainty of good/evil within a nation 6. Political realist maintains the autonomy of the political sphere* Also the difference between political realism and schools of thought are real and profound
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Critique of Morgenthau's principles-J Ann Ticker
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1. Objectivity is culturally associated with masculinity 2. National interest is multi-dimensional and contextually contingent, therefore it cannot be solely defined in terms of power 3. Power cannot be infused w/meaning that is universally valid 4. The feminist perspective rejects the separation of moral command from political action 5. Governments should seek to find common moral elements which could be used as forms of de-escalation 6. The feminist perspective denies the autonomy of the political; the narrowly defined political realm excludes the concerns and contributions of women -Few women have risen in the ranks of the International Politics world -The reason why men have an upper hand is bc it is primarily men who are creating the theories of International Politics -Women have different modes of thinking that would change Moreganthau's principles
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What is the Power in Global Affairs- Joseph S. Nye
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Three different aspects of relational power 1. Command power --Uses threats or rewards to change B's behavior against B's initial preferences and strategies. B knows this and feels the effect of A's power 2. Controlling Agendas --A controls the agenda of actions in a way that limits B's choices of strategy. 3. Establishing resources --A helps to create and shape B's basic beliefs, perceptions, and preferences. B is unlikely to be aware or this or to realize the effect of A's power on B. ***The Ultima ratio is the use of force Military force as their ultimate instrument ***Smart power the ability to combine hard and soft power
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The Anarchic structure of World Politics-Kenneth N. Waltz
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Political Structure 1. Ordering principles -Parts of the domestic political system stand in relation of super and subordination -compare to economic markets -motivations of actors is assumed rather than realistically described survival motive 2. The Character of the Units -States are the inits whose interactions form the structure of international politics -states are alike in the tasks they face, though not their abilities to perform 3. Distribution of capabilities -power is estimated by comparing capabilities across a number of units -defining international political structures and grouping them Anarchic Structures and Balances of Power 1. Violence at home and abroad -all states must be prepared to use force 2. Structures and Strategies -Tyranny of small decisions 3. Virtues of anarchy -self-help; mans of control become an object of struggle; states are insecure in proportion to the extent of freedom 4. Anarchy and Hierarchy -world politics falls short of complete chaos, lessening of anarchy
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Waltz and Structural Realism broken down
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1. International systems ordering principle is anarchy -there is no supreme governing international system -Self-help system=states are just undifferentiated, autonomous systems that are always fending for themselves 2. Distribution of capabilities between systems -Capabilities of a state varies by how much power the state has -Though states are undifferentiated, they are differentiated by their capabilities for states with more power can do more, and states with less power have less influence (structural constraints) 3. Fundamental for every state is survival Ex:The Cold War greatly changed the balance of world power
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Anarchy and the struggle for power-John Mearsheimer
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Anarchy is what states make of it-Alexander Wendt
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Self-help system -states cannot rely on others, states faced with threats to security of aggression can't call the police abc there is non Constructivist social theory -people act towards objects, including other actors, on the basis of the meanings that the objects have for them Self-help -required for the coexistence of the anarchic system; forms of defense against attack 1.Competitive self-help -identifies negatively w/other security -concerned with relative 2. Individualistic self-help -indifferent between own and other states security 3. Cooperative collective self -identify positively with others security -concerned with international
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Rationalist Explanation for War-James Fearon
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1. leaders know things about the military capabilities sand willingness that other states don't know so they have incentives to misrepresent information in order to gain a better deal 2. Treaties fail (trust issues) -ex: Germany unable to come to an agreement w/Russia on Balkan states during WWII 3. Issues indivisbilities -States might not be able to locate a peace settlement bc they simply will not ciompromise Summary 1. combination of private information about resolve or capability and incentives to misrepresent these 2. state's' inability, in specific circumstances, to commit to uphold a deal 3. Prewar bargaining may fail to locate an outcome because of strategic incentives
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Offense, Defense, and the Security Dilemma - Robert Jervis
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-An increase in one states security decreases the security of others *men have created geography buffer zones *Cannot defend from nuclear weapons *Security rests on the belief that each side would rather risk MAD than sacrifice its vital interests *what? so dumn) -When offense has advantage it is easier to destroy then defend, when defense has advantage it is easier to protect than destroy
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Cooperation Under the Security Dilemma - Robert Jervis
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1. Change in leadership makes so that therein no status quo bc there is no guarantee that the successor will follow the same path 2. On orde rot protect their possessions, states often seek to control land or resources outside of their own 3. Security dilemma: by of the means by which the states tries to increase its security, decreases the security of other states Cooperation -Fearif being exploited is most strong when u cooperate Exploitation -When A cooperates and B exploits, B avoids being exploited and gains advantages from exploiting
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Alliances: Balancing and Bandwagoning - Stephen M. Walt
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Balancing -aligning with others against external threat when the threat grows in power *more secure/sronger states can work together against aggressor *As a state grows in power, the more likely it will gain opponents Bandwagoning -joining with the proposed threat *less secure/weaker states tend to bandwagob *states facing eternal threat allies with opposite power
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The Future of Diplomacy - Hans J. Morgenthau
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Four Tasks of Diplomacy 1. Diplomacy must determine its objectives in the light of the power actually and potentially available for the pursuit of these objectives 2. Diplomacy must assess the objectives of other nations and the power actually and potentially available for the pursuit of these objectives 3. Diplomacy must determine to what extent these different objectives are compatible with each other 4. Diplomacy must employ the means suited to the pursuit of its objectives. Failure in any one of these tasks may jeopardize the success of foreign policy and with it the peace of the world
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Perception and Misperception in International Politics-Jervis (week 1)
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-To avoid war, a state must display the ability to wage and win a war Spiral Model -States exaggerate one another's hostility when their differences are, in fact. States will rely on threats to prevent war -States seek security may believe the best value to self-protection is to expand and attack *Both the US And Soviet only made the Cold War worse by both increasing their security (led to more proxy wars) Deterrence Theory: Weapons are intended to deter other states from attacking with their nuclear weapons, through the promise of retaliation and MAD -Firmness can check aggression
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Jervis, Perception and Misperception, pp. 13-31 (week 2)
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Psychological milieu= the world as the actor sees it Operational milieu=the world in which policy is carried out Levels of Analysis in a situation 1. The level of decision making (The individual) 2. The level of the bureaucracy (The state) 3. The International Environment *changes in external situation not leadership alters the behavior of a state *A states internal system determines its foreign policy *states of the same type behave in the same type of way
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Grasping Democratic Peace-Alonzo Hamby
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Politics in Democracy is seen as a zero-sum enterprise -by cooperating, all can gain something to a varying degree Why don't democracies fight? -Transnational institutions make peace -Distance prevents war -Alliances make peace -Wealth/political stability make peace -Political culture prefers diplomacy over fighting
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American Imperialism-Ernest May
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In 1898-99, the United States became a colonial power which was very odd due to our anti-colonil tradition Conditions that led to lasting popular movement for imperialism 1. Manifest destiny 2.Juliet Pratt and Social Darwinism *Expansion is necessary for advantage (Argued that we would be at a disadvantage if we didn't have a coal station in the phillipines) 3. Economic Forces *Politicians but business interests above all ad thought the public would do the same 4. Psychic crisis *a brief escape from domestic turmoil
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McGeorge Bundy, Danger and Survival, ch. 9, "Cuban Missile Crisis."
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-The SU installed nuclear missile in Cuba -Bundy wants to make a clear assessment of what Kennedy and the Americans were thinking -Key: Bundy wanted to give the president time and secrecy to make his decision *Two choices of action: Air strike or naval quarantine on weapons -The Quarantine was a good step bc it was a sign of detterence and and the airstrike would have been a blatant acttak and could have caused a major war -Soviet responded by turning around their ship and demanding that the US take our their nuclear weapons from cuba which they ended up doing
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"Memorandum of Conversation [between Kennedy and Khrushchev],"
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This conversation demonstartes the security dilemma -They establish their goals (capitaism and communism) and that neither of them actyally want to go to war =
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Discussion section #1 notes
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State=ruling a defined piece of territory Nation states-they rile over borders and aren't affiliated w/an official government (The Kurds)
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Discussion section #1 notes: International system as Anarchic?
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There is no supra-national force in International politics -There is a still a structure though *this comes from the distribution of power; the most powerful states set the rules for the least *order=anarchy; actor=states -all states under the system are pursuing their self-interest (all states are the same)
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Discussion section #2 notes: Why is it called the Cold War?
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-It is called the Cold War bc there wasn't full on military action/aggression from both sides -A rivalry that never manifested into a full on direct combat
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Discussion section #1 notes: 3 levels of analysis
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1. Individual 2. Domestic 3. International
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Zero sum
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When one party wins, another loses (part of the security dilemma)
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Soviet wants to spread communism and the US wants to stop it....
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This is an implicit suggestion on an domestic level w/international components -
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Key words for deterrence and spiral
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Deterrence=appeasement Spiral=Punisnment and security
American Government
Cuban Missile Crisis
Lee Harvey Oswald
American history comprehension – Flashcards 65 terms
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American history comprehension – Flashcards
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On what memorable day in history does this story take place?
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November 22,1963 the day president Kennedy was assassinated
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How does the narrator 1st become aware of Eugene?
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She sees him from her fire escape, where she likes to read
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Why does the narrator like Eugene even before she meets him?
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She sees that he spends a lot of time reading and she feels as though he is also the perfect example of a typical normal American kid should be. She wants so bad to feel normal
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According to mother,how does Elena seem to feel about Eugene?
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She is infatuated with his life. Mom says she is being unrealistic,forgetting that they live in different parts of society and is only setting herself up for humiliation and pain
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How does eugenes mother react to Elenas visit?
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She is very disrespectful. She thinks Elena is nothing but trouble for Eugene. Tells her to go away
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Author?
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Judith Ortiz cofer
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Fiction or non fiction?
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Fiction
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Where does Elena live?
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Patterson,New Jersey
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El building was always a what?
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Monstrous jukebox (always playing music)
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What is a tenement?
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Run down and often over crowded apartment
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What was the Puerto Rican tenement known as?
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El building
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The day Kennedy was shot, what was el building?
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Silent
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What was the sacred heart in the story?
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Image "of the heart of Christ" many women kept this on their wall by Jesus in there homes
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What was a spiritist?
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Belief that the dead could communicate with the living
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What grade was Elena in?
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9th
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Where did she go to school?
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Public school number 13
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Who was Elenas PE teacher?
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Mr. DePalma
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What month could you employ story written? And what month?
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Winter and November
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What would the girls at school tell Elena?
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Hey skinny bones
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Who was Gail?
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One of the biggest black girls that was bullying her
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Why does the author reference hot and cold in the story?
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Cause she is emphasizing that Elena is the only one complaining about it
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What did Elena say was the only source of beauty and light for her that school year?
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Seeing Eugene
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When did Eugene and his family move in?
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August
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Where did Eugene and his family move into?
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2 story house that had yard and trees
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How could Elena see eugenes house?
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From her window
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Where would she sit to watch Eugene?
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Fire escape
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Where was Elenas favorite place to read?
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Fire escape
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She only liked to sit outside on fire escape when?
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In summer
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Who was the 2 story house occupied by before Eugene?
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An old Jewish couple
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Until when was the 2 story building occupied?
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August
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What did Elena have a view of in the 2 story house when Jewish couple lived there?
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Their kitchen and their backyard
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When did the old man die?
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June
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What did Eugene's mother look like?
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She was a redheaded tall woman who wore a white uniform and nurses probably
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What are some things about Eugene's father?
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He was gone before she got up in the morning and he was never at the dinner table for supper
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When did Elenas see Eugene's father?
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Only on the weekends when they sometimes sat in the lawn chairs under the oak tree.
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What did Eugene look like?
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He was a tall blonde and more glasses
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Her school was what?
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Overpopulated and huge
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At her school what classes were Eugene in?
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Honors
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Why weren't the honors classes open to Elena?
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They weren't open her because English was not her first language but she was in A student
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When Elena first met Eugene what was he to her?
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Nice
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What was Elena expecting from Eugene?
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To reject her like evryone else does
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What does El building do?
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Blocked the sun
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What did elenas mother tell her about how she was acting?
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She was being moony and enamored (lovesick)
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How old was Elena?
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14
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Elenas dad worked where?
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Blue jean factory
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What did elenas family do every Sunday?
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Drove out to the suburbs of patterson
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What were elenas parents dreams spoken in?
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Spanish
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Where did elenas family once live?
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Puerto Rico
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What did elenas mom constantly talking about living?
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On a beach
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What was Elena going to college to be?
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Teacher (want better life)
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What book did she start reading?
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Gone with the wind
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Where did Eugenes family come from?
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Georgia
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Why did they move to Patterson? (Eugenes family)
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Because his father worked for a company that transferred him there
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Eugene said his mother was what?
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Unhappy
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What did the kids at school call him?
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The hick
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What did the kids make fun of him for?
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The way he talked
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Who was mr depalma?
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Short muscular man Pe coach Disciplinarian and science teacher
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Why would kids go to me depalma?
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If they were trouble makers
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Why was mr depalma crying in class?
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Because the president die
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What did elenas mom think she was being when she said she was going to friends house on day the president died?
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Disrespectful
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What did he mom say was going to happen to Elena because she was talking to Eugene?
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She was heading for humiliation and pain
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Who answered door when Elena went see Eugene?
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His mother
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What do eugenes mother do to her?
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Rejected her
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When Elena arrived home where was her mother?
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With other people Grieving about the death of there president
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Why did the immmigrante mainly cry of the death of Kennedy?
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He fought for them
Cold War
Cuban Missile Crisis
Revolution
United States History-Other
World History B Final Exam – Flashcards 86 terms
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World History B Final Exam – Flashcards
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Who led the Cuban communist revolution?
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Fidel Castro
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This movement began in Poland by Lech Walesea
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Solidarity
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What country was West Berlin surrounded by?
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East Germany
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Who was the first prime minister of Pakistan?
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Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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Who was the first prime minister of India?
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Jaw Nehru
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During the cold war, what was America's basic policy toward communism?
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containment
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What was the name given by Winston Churchill for the division of Europe?
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le Iron Curtain
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What is the name for the idea that if one country goes communist the next country will also?
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Domino Theory
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What was the method used by Gandhi to gain independence for India?
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non-violence resistance UH DUH
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The division of India and Pakistan is known as the...
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partition
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Which country initially gained control of Kashmir?
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India
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The majority of people in Kashmir are what religion?
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Muslim
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When was the closest the world has come to nuclear war?
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The cuban missile crisis
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Why did the west air lift supplies to Berlin?
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The Soviets put up a blockade
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What United States cold war policy is an example of containment?
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Truman Doctrine
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What was the purpose of the cultural revolution in China?
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Remake society with young people with proper ideology.
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What was the purpose of the Red Guard?
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Attack the black categories
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What was the result of the great leap forward?
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A famine that killed 50 million people
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What event led to the Raj?
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Sepoy Mutiny
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What did the revolt in Hungary and Czechoslovakia during the Cold War have in common?
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They were crushed by the soviet union with force.
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What were the internal causes?
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Disparity of wealth, Nationalism
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What were the external causes?
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Arms race, imperialism, rivalries
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Who was the last Czar of Russia?
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Nicolas II
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What questionable fellow dispensed advice to the Royal family during the Word War I era?
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Rasputin
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What event was the murder of workers demanding reform in the czarist government?
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Bloody Sunday
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Who led the october revolution of 1917?
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Austin Roth. Jk Lenin
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What group took power following the october/november revolution of 1917?
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Bolsheviks
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Who was assassinated to start world war I?
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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What type of warfare was fought during world war I?
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Trench
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What battle was the turning point of WWII in europe?
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Stalingrad
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What advantage did Mao and the communists gain over the nationalists during the 1930s?
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They had the support of the people who were treated fairly by the communists.
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Which of the following is not a feature of a facists state?
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Free elections
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What was the appeal of Fascism in Italy and Germany that make people want to support it?
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They promised order and strength in chaotic times
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Which of the following was a part of Hitler's belief system
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Jews and communists were responsible for the loss of WWI All german people must unite germany needed lebensraum, living space
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What was hitler's goal for the night of the long knives?
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To consolidate power and take revenge on his enemies
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What was unusual about the japanese invasion of manchuria?
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The move was made by members of the army without orders from the government
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What group became a dominate power in the japanese political system?
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the military
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What country invaded the soviet union in world war II
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Germany
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what was the long march?
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the journey taken by mao and the communists to get away from jiang
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The policy followed by western leaders towards hitler before the world was known as:
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appeasement
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Which country was not taken over by nazi germany during WWII
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great britain
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which of the following was not new technology used in WWI?
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cannon
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What was the war guilt clause
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germany admitted they started the war
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Hitler told the soldiers they didn't loose WWI because they were:
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stabbed in the back
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According to Karl Marx who were the factory workers?
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Proletariat
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The industrial revolution began in:
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England
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What led to large labor force needed during the industrial revolution?
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Agricultural advances
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Which of the following was not an impact of the Industrial Revolution: A. Rapid Urbanization B. Labor Unions C. Growth of middle class D. Cottage industry ***
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D. Cottage industry ***
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Events that overthrew the english king without violence:
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Glorious revolution
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Which of the following is not one of the key conditions for industrialization:
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.
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Before the industrial revolution manufacturing was known as:
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Cottage industry
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What french leader led the reign of terror?
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Robespierre
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Who was the king of france during the French revolution?
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Louis XVI
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What is the name for the period of Radical control, noted for executions?
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The Reign of Terror
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What did Louis XVI and Robespierre have in common?
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Both ended up on the guillotine
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Led a successful revolt on Haiti
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Toussiant Al-overture
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Leads a successful uprising in Venezuela Ecuador and Peru:
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Simon Bolivar
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Many of the leaders of the independence movements in Latin America, such as Bolivar and San Martin, were from what social class?
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Mulattoes
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During the 1880s the western powers divided up China into:
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Spheres of Influence
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The political spectrum
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Communists-Socialism-Moderate-Utilitarianism-Fascism
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Where would a liberal be located?
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Between socialism and moderate
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Owner of the congo who called for the berlin conference?
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King Leopold II
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What event opened up japan to other countries?
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The visit of matthew perry
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Japan becamet the dominate asian power after defeating which 2 countries in war?
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Russia and China
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Which is not an effect of colonialism on Africa?
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Equality of African people
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What muslims group fought the soviet invaders in Afghanistan?
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Mujahedin
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What is the group founded by Osama Bin Laden?
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Al-Qaeda
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Which leader was known for his panarab approach?
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Gamal Nasser
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Which of the following was not captured in the 1967 war by Israel?
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Southern Lebanon
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Who aws not resent at the Camp David accords?
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Gamal Nasser
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What organization created the partition plan of Palestine following World War II?
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United Nations
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Which war gained Israel the occupied territories?
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6 Day War
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The idea the Arabs should unite culturally and politically?
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Pan-Arabism
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Why did Osama Bin Laden hate the United States?
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The U.S. supports the Saudi royal family. U.S. army has bases in the Islamic Holy Land The U.S. supports Israel
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Who was responsible for the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993?
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Ramzi Yousef
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What event drew the modern map of the middle east?
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Cairo Conference
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What group won the afghanistan civil war in 1996 and granted asylum to Al-Qaeda?
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Taliban
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Islamic fundamentalism does not appeal to which group?
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The poor
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Which of the follwing was not an Al-Qaeda operation before 9/11?
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Iranian hostage crisis
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Who were the victims and the perpetrator in the Bosnia Genocide?
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Perpetrator = Bosnian Serbs Victims = Bosnian citizens
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Who were the victims and the perpetrator in the Cambodian Genocide?
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Perpetrator = Pol Pot Victims = Educated citizens (teachers, city workers)
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Who were the victims and the perpetrator in the Nanking Genocide?
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Perpetrators = Japanese Army Victims = Nanking citizens (Chinese)
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Who were the victims and the perpetrator in the Rwanda Genocide?
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perpetrators = Hutus victims = Tutsis
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Who were the victims and the perpetrator in the Holocaust?
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Perpatrators = Nazis Victims = Jews
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Who were the victims and the perpetrator in the Armenian Genocide?
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Perpetrators: "Young Turk" government of the Ottoman Empire Victims: Armenians
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Who were the victims and the perpetrator in the Ukraine genocide?
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Perpetrators: Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union Victims: Ukraine people seeking independence from his rule
