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What are the Nuremburg Laws pass in 1935?

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If you were jewish you had to have a pass with you at all times. There were also a lot of other unfair laws

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Under mussolini’s rule in Italy what happened?

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He attacked Ethiopia

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Why did hitler decide to invade the soviet union?

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It had good resources and land to expand his empire

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What was the great depression

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It was a time where the economy fell. The stock market was one of the things that fell.

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Communism and fascism are?

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Communism works for the state and so is fascism

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who invades ethiopia in 1935

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Musollini invaded ethiopia

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what influenced japan’s decision to invade pearl harbor in 1941

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USA was giving supplies to the ally powers

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Who were the Kamikaze

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They were Japanese people who sacrificed there lives, by crashing into opposing buildings

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What are conservations and liberals

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Holding to traditional attitudes and values and cautious about change or innovation, typically in politics or religion.
Holding to traditional attitudes and values and cautious about change or innovation, typically in politics or religion.
Holding to traditional attitudes and values and cautious about change or innovation, typically in politics or religion. Open to new behavior or opinions.

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What is nationalism

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Patriotic feeling, principles, or efforts.

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Why do revolutions occur in Europe and Latin America

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Because Latin America is trying to get free from Europe’s rule

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Who was father Miguel Hildago

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A Mexican priest and leader in the Mexican war of independence

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Who was jose de san martin

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He was an Argentine general and the prime leader of the southern part of South America’s successful struggle for independence from the Spanish Empire.

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Who was Simon Bolivar

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He was a Venezuelan military and political leader.

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Who was Toussaint L’ouverture

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He was the leader of the Haitian Revolution.

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How did life change during the industrial revolution/

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Life was centered around work in the factories- It took up most of your week. It was cosidered a goal in life to have a good position in a factory.

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What does the Cotton Jin do?

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It separates the cotton from the seeds

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What are Luddites?

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Someone who does not want technological advancement

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Why did Thomas Malthus want to do away with vaccinations?

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He believed the only checks on population growth were nature’s “natural” methods of war, disease, and famine

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What were the Iron Law of Wages

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The Iron Law of Wages is a proposed law of economics that asserts that real wages always tend, in the long run, toward the minimum wage necessary to sustain the life of the worker.

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What did Karl Marx believe capitalism would do?

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Marx believed that capitalism would become worse and worse until the workers would no longer tolerate conditions forced on them by management

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What do land encloses result in?

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It resluted in people having to move to the city because they were getting there land taken away

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What was Abraham Darby’s iron process?

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He used different thing to melt his iron that worked quicker.

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How did the slave trade affect Britain?

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By trading slave, Britain made huge profits. British people used to buy slaves from tribes in Africa for a very low price and sell them to rich people in their own country or outside for triple or four fold of the actual price.

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What were the working conditions for the working class?
The conditions were not good at all
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What was the purpose of the factory acts?
The Factory Act 1833 was an attempt to establish a regular working day in the textile industry. It was to limit the work that people had to do.
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Why were most of the early factory workers women?
They were women because people the men were out fighting in the war
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Who was Jeremy Bentham?
Jeremy Bentham was a British philosopher, jurist, and social reformer.
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What did socialist believe?
They reject private ownership of any property, stating that everything should be owned collectively, no matter who produces a product or a service everyone has an ownership right over that.
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Define Imperialism
A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.
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What are the motives for european powers building political empires?
Economic, Political, Religious, Exploratory
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What was accomplished at the Berlin conference?
European nations decided that any colonial power would have to inform all other nations of their intention to begin a colony.
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What is social Darwinism?
The theory, now largely discredited, that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection
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Who was Stephen Biko?
Stephen Bantu Biko was an anti-apartheid activist in South Africa
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How did bantu african american's live before 1994?
They did not live well. They were treated very poorly.
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Who did the boers clash with as they migrated north.
They clashed with the Zula's
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Define westernization
the social process of becoming familiar with or converting to the customs and practices of Western people
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how did world war 1 begin?
World War 1 began after the Archduke (Franz Ferdinand) of the decaying Austro-Hungarian empire was assassinated in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914 by a group of Serbian nationalists.
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What were the effects of nationalism in Europe in the early 1900's?
Increased nationalism in Europe was a major cause of the First World War. Pride in one's country was a main form of European nationalism in the early 1900s.
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Why was the ottoman empire important to the war effort?
It was a good location and was able to control trade
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Why did a stalemate exist early in the war along the western front.
There were people hiding in bunkers
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Why did the US enter the war
They entered the war because people started to involve them and they had no choice
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Who was involved in the triple alliance?
US, Britian and France
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How did nationalism increase tension in pre war europe?
The Germans weren't losing interest, tensions were caused because they wanted more land in Africa
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How did the allies protect themselves against german submarines?
They traveled in merchants
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How did british blockade violate international law
They took food and other suff, but not only supplies.
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Who were the Bolsheviks ?
They were the successful party of the Russian revolution
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Who were the serfs
Serfs were a step higher than slaves
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What was bloody sunday?
Bloody Sunday, also known as Red Sunday, was January 22, 1905. On that day a young Russian Orthodox priest, Georgi Gapon (1870–1906), led what was intended to be a peaceful workers' demonstration in front of the Winter Palace
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What is duma?
A legislative body in the ruling assembly of Russia and of some other republics of the former USSR.
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Why did people want the Czar to abdicate his throne?
because russia believed he lacked the qualities of a leader, and many of the people were poor and hungry and blamed him.
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Who were lenin and stalin?
Both were both two very important leaders
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What is communism?
communism is a system of government, like democracy or dictatorship. the main point about it is that (in theory) everyone is equal, there is no single person of small groupd of people who rule the others.
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How is Karl Marx
He created communism
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Who is Georges Clemenceau?
He was a French leader who hated Germany
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V.I Lenin was the leader of which political organization
The U.S.S.R
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Who is the white army?
White Russians, name given to members and supporters of the counterrevolutionary White armies
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What causes Stalin's great purge?
The purge was motivated by the desire on the part of the leadership to remove dissident elements from the Party
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Drawbacks of being among the soviet elite under Stalin?
Well, as soon as he got bored of them, they were killed or deported to Siberia.
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How many five year plans did stalin have?
3
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Who was John F. Kennedy
He was president during the cold war
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What was the bay of pigs?
The Bay of Pigs was the invasion of Cuba in April, 1961 by anti-Castro forces trained in the US. The purpose of the invasion was to overthrow Castro.
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Cold War- who are the superpowers?
U.S, Russia and ?
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What is the Truman Doctrine?
The truman doctorine was a doctorine to keep the U.S out of the war
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What is NATO?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
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What is propaganda?
Information, esp. of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.
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What is the mexican constitution of 1917?
Promised land reform, limited foreign ownership of key resources, guaranteed the rights of workers,
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Who is Gandhi?
indian leader who fought against laws in south africa.
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What is an asram?
A hermitage, monastic community, or other place of religious retreat for Hindus.
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In south Africa, Gandhi experienced what kind of treatment?
bad, harsh treatment
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An eye for an eye leads to-
no good
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what is civil disobedience?
not obeying unjust laws
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what was the salt march?
When ghandi and some of his followers walked to the sea and made salt which they are not allowed to do
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In 1931 japan seized what Chinese province?
Starting in1931 japan invaded the North Eastern part of China including Manchuria and bordered by the USSR.
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What was the Treaty of serves?
Treaty of Svres was a Pact at the end of World War I between the Allied Powers and the government of Ottoman Turkey
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what is an apartheid?
A policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race.

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