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42 Cards in this Set
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offered Mexico land for attacking America
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Zimmerman Note
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Stalin's reign of terror
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Great Purge
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Communist terrorists in Russia
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Bolsheviks
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600-mile battle line during World War I
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western front
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Victor Emmanual II became the first king of a united Italy in 1861
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True/False
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Trotsky led the Communist takeover of Russia
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True/False
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Whose assassination sparked World War I?
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Francis Ferdinand
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What date, known as Armistice Day, ended World War I?
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November 11, 1918
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Which country was not a part of the "Big Four"?
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Germany
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What was the most important naval battle of World War I?
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Jutland
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What country used the submarine extensively during World War I?
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Germany
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Name the only victor of World War I to reject the League of Nations.
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United States
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List two Central Powers of World War I.
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Germany, Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire
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Adolf Hitler called his dictatorship of Germany the First Reich.
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True/ False
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V-E and V-J day both took place in 1944.
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True/False
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The Vietnam War ended in a stalemate, with neither side gaining from the war.
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True/False
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The Axis Powers included Japan, Germany, and Russia.
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True/False
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Hiroshima was the first city bombed with an atomic weapon.
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True/False
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Operation Airlift was an attempt to provide the city of West Berlin with much needed supplies.
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True/False
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NATO was formed to stop fascist aggression.
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True/False
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What was the first battle in which the enemy ships never saw each other?
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Battle of Coral Sea
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Who was the brave prime minister of Great Britain during the dark hours of World War II?
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Winstead Churchill
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Chiang Kai-shek wasthe Nationalist leader of?
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China
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What American President proposed the New Deal to help end the Great Depression?
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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What battle was the last great German offensive of World War II?
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Battle of the Bulge
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The Marshall Plan said that the ?_would help European nations recover from World War II.
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United States
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The lessening of hospilities between nations is called.
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detente
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British general who fought in North Africa
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Sir Bernard Montgomery
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instituted a "restructuring" of the Soviet Union
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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Soviet leader throughout World War II
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Joseph Stalin
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led the Free French forces
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Charles de Gaulle
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American President at the start of the Great Depression
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Herbert Hoover
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Fascist dictator of Italy
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Benito Mussolini
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great American general in the Pacific
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Douglas MacArthur
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Japanese pilot who became a Christian
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Mitsuo Fuchida
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emperor of Ethiopia
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Haile Selassie
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leader of Nazi Germany
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Adolf Hitler
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What term is given tot he slaughter of millions od Jews by the Nazis?
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Holocaust
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Waht was built to keep East Berliners from escaping to West Berlin?
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Berlin Wall
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Who was chosen to head up theD-Day invasion of Europe?
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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On What date was Pearl Harbor attacked
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December 7, 1941
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What great American general led American and U.N. forces in the Korean War?
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Douglas MacArthur
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