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Lessons 43-63 Flashcards

1
Q

Who led the Discovery Expedition within 575 miles of the South Pole?

A

Robert Scott.

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2
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When ? became president in 1932, he pledged to make a ? for the American people

A

Franklin D. Roosevelt, “new deal”

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3
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To help “contain” Communism, U.S. President Truman created the Air Force, the CIA, and the Department of Defense.

A

Cold War

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4
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When was the Great Depression?

A

1929

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5
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After a significant loss in the Battle of Vittorio Veneto, Austria-Hungary signed a truce with Italy and stepped out of the war

A

world war 1

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6
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Canadian forces under Arthur William Currie won great respect for a victory at the Battle of the Vimy Ridge

A

world war 1

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7
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On Tuesday, ?, 1929, the bottom gel out, so to speak, and we say the stock market ?

A

October 29, “crashed”

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8
Q

Who lost the race to the South Pole and froze to death in Antarctica?

A

Roald Amundsen

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9
Q

In agriculture (in the US), farmers suffered from and imbalance in ? and ?

A

supply, demand

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10
Q

My crew and I made it to the South Pole on December 14, 1911.

A

Roald Amundsen

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11
Q

“With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire”

A

Mohandas Ghandi

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12
Q

But, as quickly as the US received these funds, it loaned them back out to ? which was to broke to pay the Allies the reparations assigned them

A

Germany

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13
Q

“All these fifty years of pondering have not brought me any closer to answering, what are light quanta?”

A

Albert Einstein

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14
Q

In the First Battle of the Marne, the Allies stopped the Germans just 15 miles outside Paris.

A

World War 1

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15
Q

The Germans introduced poison gas to the battlefield at the Second Battle of Ypres.

A

World War 1

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16
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At least 10,000 American and Filipino troops died on the Bataan Death March

A

world war 2

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17
Q

What were Jews identified by during the Holocaust?

A

yellow stars

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18
Q

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

A

Albert Einstein

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19
Q

What was the largest and worst camp?

A

Auschwitz 2

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20
Q

When was World War 2?

A

September 3, 1939-September 2, 1945

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21
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Soviets formed the German Democratic Republic, but most people called it East Germany

A

world war 1

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22
Q

“Newton, forgive me!”

A

Albert Einstein

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23
Q

What do the Jews prefer to call the Holocaust that means “calamity” in Hebrew?

A

Shoah

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24
Q

“My national service is part of my training for freeing my soul from the bondage of flesh.”

A

Mohandas Ghandi

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25
Q

In the 1920s, shrewd and unscrupulous traders were seeking to get rich by ? the market with ? stock.

A

inflating, overpriced

26
Q

In my old age, I rode a modern airplane with famed Howard Hughes.

A

Orville Wright

27
Q

I was the older ‘Wright brother” and the caretaker of my mother.

A

Wilbur Wright

28
Q

“When one reads hurriedly and nervously, having in min written tests and examinations, one’s brain becomes encumbered with a lot of choice bric-a-brac for which there seems to be little use.”

A

Helen Keller

29
Q

Under the WASP unit, 1,074 American women served as paramilitary pilots, covering the 60 million miles

A

world war 2

30
Q

The Marshall Plan was designed to pour billions of U.S. dollars into the recovery of Europe

A

cold war

31
Q

Following a great loss at the Battle of Okinawa, General Mitsuru Ushijima killed himself in the style of the samurai

A

world war 1

32
Q

The Big Three, represented by Stalin, Truman, Churchill (and Clement Attlee) met at Potsdam to divide Germany.

A

World War 2

33
Q

Senator Joseph McCarthy saw to the questioning of thousands of Americans during the Red Scare to weed out suspected spies in the U.S. government.

A

cold war

34
Q

In 1942, nine years into the Third Reich, Hitler allowed ? to begin the construction of extermination camps

A

Heinrich Himmler

35
Q

How many Polish people were killed during the Holocaust?

A

2 million

36
Q

The Zimmerman Note, which offered U.S. lands to Mexico, lured Americans into war under Woodrow Wilson.

A

Cold War

37
Q

How many people were killed during the Holocaust?

A

11-17 million

38
Q

The Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis described a long-distance relationship of three allies that formed after the Japanese invasion of China

A

world war 2

39
Q

How many Jews were killed during the Holocaust?

A

6 million

40
Q

In the mid 1930s a severe ? hit the midwest and southwest

A

drought

41
Q

How many disabled Germans were killed?

A

250,000

42
Q

How many Romani (Gypsies) were killed during the Holocaust?

A

500,000

43
Q

The first stock markets originated in Europe in the ?

A

1300s

44
Q

In the Katyn Massacre, Soviets marched 5,000 Polish officers into the Katyn forest for execution.

A

World War 2

45
Q

“The beautiful truth burst upon my mind - I felt that there were invisible lines stretched between my spirit and the spirits of others.”

A

Helen Keller

46
Q

The US was prosperous enough during the Great War to grant ? to its European Allies

A

loans

47
Q

Ultimately, the Ottoman Turks won a number of battles known as the Gallipoli Campaign

A

world war 1

48
Q

“The public must learn that the blind man is neither genius nor a freak nor an idiot.”

A

Helen Keller

49
Q

The US tried to recoup money during the depression by raising ?

A

tariffs

50
Q

“I am every moment of my life trying to live up to my professions.”

A

Mohandas Ghandi

51
Q

Who piloted the first liftoff of the Wright Flyer on December 17, 1903?

A

Orville Wright

52
Q

The Holocaust, by broad definition, was the mass extermination of ? to ? million people under Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime

A

11 to 17 million

53
Q

Who died from typhoid fever at age 45, leaving my brother to run their business?

A

Wilbur Wright

54
Q

Southern France, also called Vichy France, remained unoccupied and a “free zone” until it fell to the Nazis.

A

world war 2

55
Q

Who crossed the Drake Passage to launch a rescue team to Elephant Island?

A

Ernest Shackleton

56
Q

How many Soviet prisoners-of-war were killed during the Holocaust?

A

2-3 million

57
Q

Nations around the world formed the United Nations to keep peace in the war-weary world and provide arbitration.

A

World War 2

58
Q

My ship froze in the ice and sank during my exploration of Antarctica.

A

Ernest Shackleton

59
Q

When was World War 1?

A

1914-1918

60
Q

Some nations turned to lowering the value of their ?

A

currency

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