Final Test Flashcards
(129 cards)
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What is the Focal Point of All History
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Jesus Christ’s first advent to earth
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Who was a descendant of Ham; his name means “mighty hunter.” The builder of the FIRST world empire.
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Nimrod
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What is Greek for “Between the rivers.”
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Mesopotamia
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What was the Sumerian Writing
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Cuneiform
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What is the way of life of a group of people
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Culture
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Who was one of the most remarkable men in world history; began ruler of obscure Persian province; Empire stretched from Egypt to india
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Cyrus the Great
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Who led Israel out of Egypt into the Promised Land
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Moses
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Who was the first king of Israel
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Saul
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Who was “A man after God’s own Heart” and was the second king of Israel
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David
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Who was an Arab mystic who combined elements of judaism and christianity to form a new legalistic religion.
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Mohammed
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What is the holy book of Islam
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Koran
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What is the highest place on earth, and 29,035 feet (about 5 1/2 miles) above sea level
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Mt. Everest
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What is the world’s oldest civilization
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China
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What is the world’s longest river
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Nile
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Who was a french scholar who worked for 14 years to decipher the language (the Rosetta Stone)
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Jean François Champollion
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Who was “Father of History”; Greek Explorer; Gave Egypt the name “the Gift of the Nile”
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Herodotus
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Who united the two kingdoms and became THE FIRST PHARAOH OF ALL EGYPT; Created the capital city of Memphis in the middle of Egypt; Kingdom of Two Lands
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Menes
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Who was an early church leader, who said, “The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.” Was martyred for his faith.
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Tertullian
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Whose writings influenced the Greek religious beliefs & mythology and Wrote Iliad (Troy) & Odyssey (Odysseus)
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Homer
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Who was the battle of Thermopylae between
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Spartans and Greeks
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What was the greatest naval battle in the Greco-Persian War
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Battle of Salamis
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- What is rule by one (usually a king)
- What is rule by “the best”
- What is rule by the few (rich)
- What is rule by one man who has seized power by rebellion and insurrection
- What is rule by the many
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- Monarchy
- Aristocracy
- Oligarchy
- Tyranny
- Democracy
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Who brought democracy to its fullest measure; Paid public officials; Direct Democracy vs. representative democracy; Greatest influence among political leaders; started the GOLDEN AGE OF GREECE
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Pericles
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Philip II, his father, was murdered in 336 B.C.; Became king at the age of 20; Fearless, Valiant, Clever; Extreme Love of Greek Culture; He was taught by Aristotle to spread Hellenic (Greek) culture in his empire; The Hellenic Culture lasted from his empire to the time of the Romans; Most lasting contribution to world history; Prepared the world for Christ; Died of mysterious causes on 323 B.C. on his way home from india
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Alexander the Great
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The wars in which Rome acquired Iberia, and conquered all of it.
Punic Wars
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What was the river that Julius Caesar crossed that was the turning point of Rome's second civil war.
Crossing the Rubicon
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Who was mentally deranged and morally depraved; set Rome on fire, blamed christians; and did the first great outbreak of persecution against the Church
Nero
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Who was the first “Christian Emperor” and united Rome again and made a new capital at Byzantium (Constantinople)
Constantine I
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Who was sent by Spain to find a new route to the East Indies, discovered the new world and sparked Spain’s “Golden Century”
Christopher Columbus
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What was the most important civilization in South America
The Incas
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What was the most powerful empire in the western hemisphere at the beginning of the age of exploration
Aztecs
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Who was the greatest of the Carolingian kings? French for Charles the Great.
Charlemagne
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What divided Charlemagne's empire into 3 parts?
Treaty of Verdun
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What enshrined a third characteristic of Roman law that is the concept of equity, the principle that laws should be sufficiently flexible to fit a large number of particular cases and is Rome’s greatest heritage in the realm of law
Justinian Code
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Who was the first great Byzantine leader, who established Justinian code
Justinian I
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What is the belief that apostolic authority could be passed on from leader to leader
Apostolic Succession
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Who translated the Bible from Latin to English
John Wycliffe
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What forbade anyone except a clergyman to possess a copy of the Bible, except for the Psalms and the lessons of Scripture contained in the breviary, the service and worship book of the church in 1229
Council of Toulouse
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Who was chosen by nobles to be king and only controlled a tiny patch of land: Ile-de-France (paris)
Hugh Capet
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Who is the most famous Mayor of the Palace
Charles Martel
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Who was determined to subdue the dukes, was appointed the clergy (church officials); defeated the Magyars; conquered Italy; crowned Emperor of the Romans; start of the Holy Roman Empire
Otto the Great
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What is a way of life based upon the ownership and use of land
Feudalism
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What is the code of conduct for nobility and the knights
Chivalry
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Who made the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper
Leonardo da Vinci
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Who may be the greatest of all time; Sculptor, painter, architect, poet; painted the Sistine Chapel; and sculpted David and Moses
Michelangelo
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Who inventor of the movable-type printing press around 1440
Johann Gutenberg
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Who started the Protestant Reformation
Martin Luther
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Who made “A Mighty Fortress is our God”
Martin Luther
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who were the earliest known inhabitants of the British Isles
Celts
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What was a "Great Charter" that is one of the most important documents in the history of the world. It clearly defined the ancient rights and privileges of the people. (1.) No taxation without representation (2.) Habeas Corpus: the right of an arrested person to appear before a court. (3.) Due Process of Law. And set up a constitution: a written plan which sets up a form of government and establishes its basic government principles. Was signed by King John
Magna Carta
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When did Israel become a nation
1948
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When was the Bible finished
A.D. 100
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What are the 2 biggest characteristics of India
Cast System and Hinduism
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What was the clash between England and France. Lasted from 1337 to 1353. After 100 years England lost the war and all land in France except the port of calais.
100 years war
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Who was the conservative author of 1984 and animal farm
George Orwell
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What was the war between the lancasters and the yorks and the Lancasters won
War of Roses
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Who rounded the cape of Good Hope, first to reach the Far east by Sea (1498)
Vasco da Gama
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Who was the outstanding leader of the Scottish reformation
John Knox
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Who was the French protestant who wrote “The Institutes of the Christian Religion”
John Calvin
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Who did not agree with Luther earning the title “Defender of the Faith” Had 3 wives: Catherine of Aragon: first wife, mother of Mary (Divorce), Anne Boleyn: Second wife, mother of Elizabeth, Jane Seymour: Third Wife, mother of Edward
Henry VIII
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Who was Good Queen Bess
Remarkable character and known for her extraordinary ruler
Queen Elizabeth
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Who were French calvinist protestants
Huguenots
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Who was the English Philosopher who wrote Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. Discovered Universal Law of Gravitation and Three Laws of Motion.
Remembered as the “Father of Modern Science." Wrote Opticks, a book about the nature of light
Isaac Newton
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Who was a child prodigy during the 18th century.
Mozart
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Who had Cardinal Mazarin: Ruled in place of; Known for pomp and splendor. Epitome of an absolute ruler, who said “L’etat, c’est moi”
Louis XIV
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To suppress anti revolutionary movements, the Committee of Public Safety, under Robespierre’s leadership, instituted what was soon called the "_____ __ ______." Thousands of known and suspected “enemies of the Republic” were suppressed, and many politically influential people were guillotined, including the queen, Marie Antoinette. Altogether, some 40,000 people died, and hundreds of thousands were arrested during the _____ __ ______.
Reign of Terror
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Who was the greatest naval hero the world has ever known
Lord Horatio Nelson
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What was Napoleon's final defeat
Battle of Waterloo
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Who had very definite ideas about the “Divine Right of Kings”
James I
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Who were parliament supporters
Roundheads
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Who were king supporters
Cavaliers
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Who was the commander of the Parliament’s Army (Roundheads)
Oliver Cromwell
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When was the US Constitution
1789
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Who invented the steel plow
John Deere
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Who invented the coal-burning steam engine
James Watt
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Who invented the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
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Who introduced the use of antiseptics to fight germs following surgery, greatly reducing the number of deaths caused by infection of wounds and incisions
Joseph Lister
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What is an economic system of Free enterprise
Capitalism
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Who was England’s longest reigning monarch and changed the people’s view of the Monarchy from disdain to respect and pride
Queen Victoria
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Who used military means to unify the states in Germany and was the chancellor of Prussia
Otto Von Bismarck
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Who was the first emperor of a united Germany
Wilhelm I
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Who was the heir to the Austrian Throne, assassinated on June 28, 1914 by a Serbian revolutionary (Start of WWI)
Archduke Francis Ferdinand
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Who were the Allies
Triple Entente (France, Great Britain, Russia) + Serbia, Montenegro, Greece, Romania, Portugal, and Japan
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Who were the Central Powers
Triple Alliance (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy) + Bulgaria and Turkey
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Who won WWI
Allies
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What promised Mexico territory if they attacked the U.S. from Germany and gain Japan’s support in 1917
Zimmerman Note
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What was a international body that promise “to guarantee international cooperation to achieve international peace and security”
League of Nations
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Who formulated the basic ideas of communism
Karl Marx
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Who was the first to put communism into practice
Vladimir Lenin
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What was Russia's longest dynasty, lasting for over 300 years
Romanovs
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What is the desire to be free from absolute standards and morals, especially those of the Scriptures
Modern Liberalism
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Who advocated for “progressive education” allowing students to “follow their animal instincts” and practice “self-expression”
John Dewey
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Who said “take a ‘leap of faith’ into the darkness of the ‘great unknown’ in hope of achieving some kind of reality.”
Soren Kierkegaard
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Who developed behavioral Psychology
Ivan Pavlov
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What is the principle or practice of conserving (preserving) established traditions or institutions and opposing changes in them
Conservatism
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Who was England’s first Lord of the Admiralty and started the Gallipoli Campaign
Winston Churchill
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Who was the first female prime minister in England (the Iron Lady) in 1979
Margaret Thatcher
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Who was elected President of the U.S. in 1980; emphasized budgets should be balanced, and trade and business should be free from government interference
Ronald Reagan
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What was established to replace the failed League of Nations
UN (United Nations)
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Who was the Socialist who created the “National Socialist German Workers’ Party” or “Nazis”
Adolf Hitler
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Who was the socialist who organize “The Blackshirts” aka Fascist Party in Italy
Benito Mussolini
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Who led the militarists in the thirties, using military to fix economic and social problems in Japan during WWII
General Hideki Tojo
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What was the home base for America’s Pacific fleet that the Japanese attacked, destroying 18 ships, 170 airplanes, and killed over 3,500 serviceman; brought America into WWII
Pearl Harbor
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What was the invasion that, thousands of Allied troops hit the beaches of Normandy, France in the largest amphibious assault in History (Normandy Invasion)
D-Day
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Who said, "I shall return" and only had half of the time he needed to prepare the Philippines before the Japanese attacked
Douglas MacArthur
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The Manhattan Project- the largest research and scientific effort of its day. Created the ______ ____
Atomic Bomb
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What was the murdering of 6 million Jews—as well as numerous Germans, Poles, Russians, Slavs, intellectuals, Communists, and Christians (who had protested the atrocities)
Holocaust
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What was a war fought not with military weapons but with words, diplomacy, and ideology
Cold War
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Who was the first dictator of communist China
Mao Tse Tung
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What were the dates of the Korean War
1950-1953
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Where was Korea divided
38th parallel
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Where was Vietnam divided
17th parallel
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What were the dates of the Vietnam War
1957-1975
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Who is the founder of the Indochinese Communist Party
Ho Chi Minh
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Who was the New Communist Dictator of Cuba
Fidel Castro
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In 1917, the British government issued the _______ ___________, which supported a national Jewish homeland in Palestine for the Jewish Zionists (those who advocated a Jewish national state) in Europe
Balfour Declaration
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What was a French word meaning the reducing of tension or hostility between nations
Detente
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Who was the first democratically elected leader in Chinese history
Lee Teng-Hui
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What was the shortest U.S. war
Persian Gulf war
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Who was the first female Canadian prime minister
Kim Campbell
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What was a Ukraine nuclear reactor plant meltdown in 1986
Chernobyl
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Who came to power as the leader of the Soviet Union in
1985
Mikhail Gorbachev
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On November 3, 1979, Iranian rebels under the Ayatolla ________ _________, Iran’s new, totalitarian Muslim leader, captured the U.S. embassy in Tehran, the Iranian capital, and took 63 Americans hostage
Ruhollah Khomeini
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What is a violent act committed by a person or group that is meant to make others cower in fear, usually for political or religious purposes
Terrorism
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Who was the leader of al-Qaeda
Osama Bin Laden
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Who was the 2009 Dictator of North Korea; son of Kim Jong-Il;
Kim Jong-un
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Where was Euthanasia first legal
Holland
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Who was the Punics Wars between
Rome and Carthage
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How many Punic Wars were there
3
