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The main cause of the Arab israeli conflicts from 1948 to 1973 was the clash between

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Arab nationalism and Jewish nationalism

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In 1979 the signing of the camp David accords by Egypt and Israeli indicated that

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Former enemies were able to negotiate

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A major factor that continues to contribute to terrorist activities in the Middle East is

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The Palestine effort to establish a homeland

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The actions of most Islamic fundamentalists show that they support

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Traditional Muslim teachings

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In Iran, the Revolution of 1979 and the rise of Islamic Fundamentalism resulted in

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A return to many traditional customs

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During the 1980s, the economic development of Iran and Iraq was disrupted because of

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The war fought between these nations

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The ground war during Operation Desert Shield lasted

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100 hours

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The Iran Iraq war was caused by

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Border disputes

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How was the US involved in the Iran revolution in 1979

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  • put Pahlavi in charge of Iran and he became a dictator
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Which country is trying to get independence from China?

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Tibet

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A place where the conflict is mostly about government issues is known as a

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Political hotspot

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12
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An issue between two or more groups in a culture- sometimes with violence

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Conflict

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13
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True or False: the treaty of Versailles contributed to unrest throughout Europe

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True

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14
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This nation was formerly known as East Pakistan

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Bangladesh

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This congress party leader was independent India’s first prime minister

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Jawaharlal Nehru

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This politician was twice elected prime minister of Pakistan but was remover from office in 1996

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Benazor Bhutto

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The civil war between the Tamils and others in this Buddhist dominated country began in the early 1980s

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Sri Lanka

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This Muslim league leader died shortly after becoming the first Governor General of independent Pakistan

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Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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This former prime minister of India was assassinated by Sikh extremists in retaliation for ordering the attack on the golden temple

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Indira Gandhi

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A cease fire line established by the UN in 1949 left a third of this territory under Pakistani control and the rest under Indian control

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Kashmir

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Which social scientists focus their studies on scarcity, resources, and profit motives

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Economists

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A geographer attempts to understand and interpret patterns and processes primarily by

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Analyzing spatial data at different scales

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23
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In a parliamentary system with multiple political parties in which no single party gains a majority, elections usually result in

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Coalition governments (coalition: to bring together)

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Which factor most influenced the construction of semipermanent settlements during the Neolithic period?

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Production of surplus food

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Which geologic feature was central in helping the Romans unify their empire?

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Mediterranean Sea

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26
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Which region was the birthplace of Confucianism, Buddhism and Hinduism

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Asia

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27
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Which area served as a cultural bridge between early China and Japan

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Korea

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28
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The role of Muslim religious leaders in Africa was to

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Introduce the teachings of the Koran (Qur’an)

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29
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The Abbasid and Ummayad empires are most closely associated with

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Creating an Islamic golden age

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30
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The European system of manorialism is most closely associated with

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Maintaining economic self-sufficiently

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31
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The kingdoms of Ghana and Mali became prosperous and powerful because of

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Their participation in the gold and salt trade

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32
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The Chinese belief that China was the Middle Kingdom is an example of

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ethnocentrism

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33
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The Ottoman Turks viewed Constantinople as being strategically important because it

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Was a crossroads between Europe and Asia

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34
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One way in which the voyages of Zheng He authorized by Emperor Yongle of China and the explorations funded by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain are similar is that these voyages and explorations resulted in

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Trade and cultural diffusion

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35
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Which geopolitical region is Argentina in

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Latin America

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36
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Which situation was an unintended consequence of Spain’s colonization of the Americas?

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Transmission of communicable diseases

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37
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One way in which Suleiman the Magnificent and Louis XIV are similar is that they both

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Strengthened the authority of the nobility

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38
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In the 16th and 17th centuries, the heliocentric theory became the centerpiece for the debate between

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Science and religion

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39
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In which way did the ideas of the enlightenment influence the French Revolution

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The divine right theory of kings was challenged

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40
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In which way did the geographic diversity of Latin America affect newly independent countries?

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Making political unity difficult

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41
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The Haitian Revolution and the Sepoy Rebellion happened in response to

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European colonial policies

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42
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Which circumstance contributed to the breakdown of the alliance between the US and the Soviet Union

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Stalin’s unfulfilled promise of free elections

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43
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Which of the following worked together to produce similar goals

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Truman Doctrine and containment

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44
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What were the long term effects of the Cultural Revolution

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Widespread chaos that closed down factories and threatened farm production

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45
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How did the “Bay of Pigs” failure lead to the Cuban missile crisis?

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Khrushchev believed the United States was too weak to oppose Soviet expansion into Cuba

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46
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Which country became divided due to Cold War tensions

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Germany

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47
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Why was an airlift needed to overcome the Soviet blockade of West Berlin

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Because it was located well within the iron curtain

48
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What did the pogroms that occurred in the late 19th century Russia do?

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Kill all the kulaks

49
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Who were the Bolsheviks?

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Radical Russian Marxist revolutionaries

50
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Who did China’s peasants align themselves with in the 1920s

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Communists

51
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What were soviets under Russia’s provisional government?

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Local councils

52
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What was the purpose of the soviet states Five-Year Plans

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Economic development

53
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Who seized power from Persia’s Shah and changed the name of his country to Iran

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Reza Shah Pahlavi

54
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What did Sun Yixian’s Revolutionary Alliance accomplish?

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Overthrowing the last emperor

55
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Which group was know for taking a 6,000 mile journey known as the “Long March” ?

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Chinese communists, fleeing the nationalists

56
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Who led the famous protest known as the Salt March

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Mohandis K Gandhi

57
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Which territories were lost under the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

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Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland

58
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Giving in to the demands of an aggressor in order to keep the peace

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Appeasement

59
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Opposition to all war

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Pacifism

60
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Lightning war

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Blitzkreig

61
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Mass executions of people due to religion, race, ethnicity etc

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Genocide

62
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The purpose of the Kellogg-Briand Pact was to

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end war forever

63
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One effect of the Great Depression was

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High unemployment

64
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Why were Italians attracted to fascism in the 1920s

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It promised order in a time of uncertainty

65
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Which of the following describes fascism

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It glorified blind loyalty to the state

66
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What was a dress rehearsal for WWII by demonstrating the destructive power of modern warfare?

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The Spanish Civil War

67
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“Operation Barbarossa” refers to Hitler’s plan to conquer

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the Soviet Union

68
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The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

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Brought the United States into the war

69
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In response to Axis aggression in the 1930s, western democracies followed a policy of

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Appeasement

70
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What was the result of Germany’s invasion of Poland

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Britain and France declared war on Germany

71
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What was the allies plan for victory over the Nazis?

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The allies would fight Germany on two fronts to weaken it

72
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Why were thousands of US citizens put in internment camps during the war

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They were of Japanese descent and falsely labeled as enemies

73
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Which of the following weapons contributed most to the stalemate on the western front during WWI

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The automatic machine gun

74
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WWI was more destructive than earlier wars because

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Modern weapons were more deadly

75
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Which of the following statements is true regarding the Ottoman Empire in WWI

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It joined the central powers

76
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Which of the following helped Allies to achieve the breakthrough they sought in WWI

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The involvement of the US

77
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Which of the following was an effect of militarism in Europe in the late 1800s

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Nations made political and military alliances

78
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Why was it difficult to gain an advantage over the enemy in trench warfare

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The machine gun made it nearly impossible for troops to advance

79
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Which of the following helped turn WWI into a global war

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The submarine

80
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Which of the following statements is true regarding the role of women during WWI

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They kept their nations economies going during the war

81
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Which of the following ended Russia’s involvement in WWI

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The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

82
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In 1918 Europe was

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In ruins

83
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A final set of demands are

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Mandates

84
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To prepare military forces for war they will

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Mobilize

85
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Ideas that are spread in order to promote a cause or to damage an opposing cause

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Propaganda

86
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For much of WWI the United States followed a policy of ______

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Neutrality

87
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In waging a _____, a nation channels all of its resources into the war effort

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Ultimatum

88
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Which of the following social items might seen by some people as justified by Charles Darwin’s ideas about evolution

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Only the strongest in business will survive

89
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The 19th century term “white mans burden” reflects the idea that

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Europeans had a responsibility to improve the lives of their colonial peoples

90
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The phrase “Scramble for Africa” is most associated with

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European imperialism

91
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Which of the following was true concerning imperialism in India

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India was run by the British East India Company for awhile

92
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Which of the following was the main reason why Europeans imperialists areas like Africa

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To get raw materials and establish new markets for their goods

93
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Which of the following would be a political reason why Europeans imperialized other areas

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To establish military bases overseas

94
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What best describes the position the Japanese took towards foreigners before the Meiji Restoration

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They had chosen a policy of isolationism

95
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A main effect of the Meiji Restoration was that

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Japan became more westernized

96
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Imperialist powers were initially interested in Iran largely because of its

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Oil

97
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At the Berlin Conference, it was agreed that a European power could not claim any part of Africa unless

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It had set up a government office in the area

98
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The industrial revolution encouraged imperialism by creating a need for

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Raw materials and new markets

99
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Through the 1700s, Europeans did not travel to the interior of Africa because

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It’s difficult geography and disease

100
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What threatened the Ottoman Empire in the early 1800s

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Nationalism and European powers eager to seize ottoman lands

101
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Why did Russia scheme to gain control of Bosporus and the Dardanelles during the decline of the Ottoman Empire?

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To gain access to the Mediterranean Sea

102
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What was a result of the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857?

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Britain began to rule India as a colony

103
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What was one result of the Opium war?

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Britain gained the island of Hong Kong

104
Q

Identical components that speeded both assembly and repair because they could be used in place of one another

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Interchangeable parts

105
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_____ was an artistic movement that attempted to represent the world as it was

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Realism

106
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The right to vote

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Suffrage

107
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Why does Darwin’s theory of evolution cause controversy?

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It disagrees with the biblical account of creation

108
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What was a direct result of the discovery that germs caused disease

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Improved sanitation

109
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In the 19th century the poor lived

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In tenements near the factories

110
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What new feature of city life in the late 1800s had the greatest impact on the poor?

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Sewage systems

111
Q

In cities the poor helped each other out through

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Mutual aid societies

112
Q

A realist English writer who portrayed the lives of slum dwellers

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Charles Dickens

113
Q

Invented dynamite

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Alfred Nobel

114
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British nurse who improved sanitation and survival rates in the British military

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Florence Nightingale

115
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Henry Ford used these to mass produce automobiles

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Assembly line

116
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This person invented the code used with telegraphs

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F B Morse

117
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The Salvation Army began in what country?

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Great Britain

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