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1
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this person:
Goal; peace
End militarism
Self-termination
Letting states determine their government

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Woodrow wilson

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2
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Old empires became new counties
Germany
War guilt clause
Land loss
Reparations
Limited military

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Treaty of Versailles

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3
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designed to undermine the Central Powers’ will to continue, and to inspire the Allies to victory

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14 points

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4
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ship that was for people but had munition on it that was sunk by a German torpedo, resulting in great loss of life

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Lusitania

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5
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Place people discuss problems before having wars

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League of Nations

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6
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the last Tsar of Russia

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Nicholas II

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Siberian-born muzhik, or peasant, who underwent a religious conversion as a teenager and proclaimed himself a healer with the ability to predict the future

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Rasputin

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8
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It granted control over former German and Ottoman territories to members of the League of Nations after World War I

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Mandate System

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9
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USSR, Bolsheviks
Industrialization
was a Soviet politician, political theorist and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union

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Josef Stalin

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10
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FDR’s __________
Socialist programs
Stronger executive (president)
Stronger national govt

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new deal

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11
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Forced industrialization - catch up to the west
Agricultural collectivization
Kulaks targeted
No supply/demand
Quotas (coal oil steel electric wheat)

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Five-year plans

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12
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the starvation of millions of Ukrainians in 1932–33 as a result of Soviet policies

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Holodomor

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13
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person
Austria/Germany
wwI
Anti-semitism
National socialist German workers party (nazis)
Beer ha;; putsch 1923
Mein Kampf

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Adolf hitler

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14
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person
presided over the invasion of China, the bombing of Pearl Harbor

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Hirohito

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15
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a system of Soviet labour camps and accompanying detention and transit camps and prisons.

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gulags

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16
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Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist.

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Vladimir Lenin

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17
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Inflated real estate
Spreads to other countries trade with the us
Worker shortage

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great depression effects

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18
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stock market crash, world trade, bank failures

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great depression causes

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19
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Fascism vs. communism

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While communism is a system based around a theory of economic equality and advocates for a classless society, fascism is a nationalistic, top-down system with rigid class roles that is ruled by an all-powerful dictator.

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20
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founder of Italian Fascism, march on rome

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Benito Mussolini

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21
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The night of broken glass

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Kristallnacht

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22
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Czechoslovakia must surrender its border regions and defenses (the so-called Sudeten region) to Nazi Germany.

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Munich Accord

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23
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treaty thing: Czechoslovakia must surrender its border regions and defenses (the so-called Sudeten region) to Nazi Germany.

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Munich Accord

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24
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Made by Hitler and means - Lightning war
Hit hard and fast as well as a takeover
Sept 3-Britain & France declare war
Sept 17 - USSR invades Poland

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Blitzkrieg

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25
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a security alliance of 30 countries from North America and Europe

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NATO

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26
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8 months
43k civilians killed
Incendiary bombs

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the blitz

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27
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Japan Germany Italy were the

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axis

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28
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a member of a Japanese air attack corps in World War II assigned to make a suicidal crash on a target (

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Kamikaze

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29
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an almost landlocked inlet of the Pacific on the S coast of the island of Oahu, Hawaii: site of a US naval base attacked by the Japanese in 1941, resulting in the US entry into World War II.

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Pearl Harbor

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30
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a day set for launching an operation. specifically : June 6, 1944, on which Allied forces began the invasion of France in World War II

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D-Day

31
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The —– were a decade of fear in Japan, characterized by the resurgence of right-wing patriotism, the weakening of democratic forces,

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1930s japan

32
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Children relocated to places that were “safer” like Narnia or Paddington Bear movies
Sleeping in subway tunnels

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Operation Pied Piper

33
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the principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or Communist insurrection.

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Truman Doctrine

34
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proposed that the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe.

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Marshall Plan

35
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Ussr nuclear in 1949
Mutually assured destruction
A cold war with hot spots and proxy (substitute) wars

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Brinkmanship

36
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Heavy artillery, machine guns, tanks, motorized transport vehicles, high explosives, chemical weapons, airplanes, field radios

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technologies of WWI

37
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Attacks three most important areas of the soviet union.
Leningrad, Moscow, Rostov

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Operation Barbarossa

38
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purpose was to reinforce communist dominance in Eastern Europe.

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Warsaw Pact

39
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an unprecedented, top-secret World War II government program in which the United States rushed to develop and deploy the world’s first atomic weapons before Nazi Germany.

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Manhattan Project

40
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an attempt in 1948 by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of the United States, Great Britain and France to travel to their respective sectors of the city of Berlin

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Berlin Blockade

41
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a goodwill mission to drop candy to German children during the Berlin Airlift of 1948-1949

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Operation Little Vittles

42
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a U.S. air raid during World War II that targeted major cities in Japan.

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Doolittle Raid

43
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The impact of the _____ was that it divided Germany and Berlin into four allied zones. These later became West and East German States. It also allowed to Poland fall under Soviet communist power

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Yalta Conference

44
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a treaty between two or more states/countries that includes a promise by the signatories not to engage in military action against each other

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Nonaggression Pact

45
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soldier and statesman who was prime minister of Japan (1941–44) during most of the Pacific theatre portion of World War II and who was subsequently tried and executed for war crimes.

A

gen Tojo

46
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combing air, land, and sea forces to navigate the challenging geography and distances

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Island Hopping

47
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Easter Parade - April 15-16. 1949
Pilots drop as much coal as they can in a day and it drops Russian morale.

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Operation Vittles

48
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the job is to make sure people don’t sneak people across the wall

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stasi

49
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a Chinese communist revolutionary who was the founder of the People’s Republic of China (PRC),

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Mao Zedong

50
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there is only one sovereign state under the name ____, with the PRC serving as the sole legitimate government of that ____

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One-China Policy

51
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Chinese politician who has served as the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party

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Xi Jinping

52
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Turkic nomads living north of the Gobi Desert, ruled over a powerful empire between 744 and 840. Its capital was Karabalghasun on the upper Orhon River in Mongolia

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Uighurs

53
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AOS 2ND FIVE-YEAR PLAN
INDUSTRY AND AGRICULTURE 1958-63
COLLECTIVIZATION
Backyard steel furnaces
Grain and cotton production

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Great Leap Forward

54
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Cult of Mao - the little red book
End to elitism
Red guards

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Cultural Revolution

55
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Outside China, the ______ ________ is best known for the 1989 protests and massacre that ended with a military crackdown

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Tiananmen Square

56
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was a Korean politician and the founder of North Korea

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Kim Il Sung

57
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North Korean politician who has been the Supreme Leader of North Korea

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Kim Jong-Un

58
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a convenient borderline for their divided military occupation of the Korean peninsula

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38th Parallel

59
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led a long and ultimately successful campaign to make Vietnam independent.

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Ho Chi Minh

60
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suggested a communist government in one nation would quickly lead to communist takeovers in neighboring states, each falling like a row of dominos

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Domino Theory

61
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1,400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion

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Bay of Pigs

62
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a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War

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Missile Crisis

63
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a formal system to coordinate repression among the countries of the Southern Cone that operated from the mid-1970s until the early eighties

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Operation Condor

64
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Ussr premier 68-64
De Stalinization reforms
Tried to compete with us
We will bury you

A

Nikita Khrushchev

65
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ost soviet leader
Glasnost openness
Perestroika = economic restructuring
“The old system collapsed before the new one had time to begin working”

A

Mikhail Gorbachev

66
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In 1990, he was elected chair of the Russian Supreme Soviet and in 1991 was elected president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

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.Boris Yeltsin

67
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a former Russian intelligence officer and a politician who has served as president of Russia from 1999 to 2008

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Vladimir Putin

68
Q

this Sunni Iraqi militant organization that first gained international attention in late 2004. The group is vehemently anti-American and seeks to overthrow the Iraqi government, which it views as an American and Iranian puppet.

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Mujahideen

69
Q

process by which colonies become independent of the colonizing country.

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Decolonization

70
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the most religious site in the world for the Jewish people

A

Western Wall

71
Q

Jewish homeland
Ca 1900
Return to Israel
1948 Israel

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Zionism

72
Q

Tried to do but failed
Israel for Jews Palestine for Muslims
Separate countries
Complete sovereignty for both
problems/questions
Borders
Jerusalem
Refuges
Security for Israel

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Two-state Solution

73
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An Islamic terrorist and the head of the Al Qaeda network of terrorists

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Osama bin Laden

74
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a radical Sunni Muslim organization dedicated to the elimination of a Western presence in Arab countries and militantly opposed to Western foreign policy:

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al-Qaeda

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