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What contribution did G. Mazzini make to Italian history
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He worked at unifying the Italian peninsula into a country.
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Be able to explain how alliances helped lead to a worldwide war in 1914....
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...because it's one of your essay questions
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To which country did Mazzini go when the Italian government exiled him.....
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France
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After living in France, Mazzini moved off the European continent to this country....
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England
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This group tried to organize Italians to unite into one country....
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Young Italy
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In 1852 this man wanted to combine his Sardinia with Italy...
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Count di Cavour
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It was a revolution in this country that inspired a revolution in Germany......
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France
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Before becoming the capital of Germany, Berlin was the capital of.....
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Prussia
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Name the German student who wrote so much about a unified Germany....
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Carl Shurz
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Otto von Bismarck favored a government baased on this....
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powerful military strength
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Which of these is credited with unifying Germany:
Carl Shurz Count di Cavour Otto von Bismarck Franz Ferdinand |
Otto von Bismarck
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand was from....
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Austria-Hungary
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The year WWI began....
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1914
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The other name(s) for German submarines....
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U-Boats or Unterseeboots
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This British passenger liner was sunk by the Germans....
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Lusitania
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These countries were Allies or Central Powers...
England, FRance, Russia |
Allies
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Name the 2 most powerful Central Powers...
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Germany and Austria-Hungary
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It was this weapon that actually killed Franz Ferdinand....
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pistol
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This is the term for when countries agree to help each other in time of war....
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alliance
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The U.S. joined which side in WWI.....
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Allies
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This was the U.S. president at the time of WWI...
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Woodrow Wilson
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WWI soldiers fought much of the war in these....
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trenches
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Which of these weapons was not new to WWI:
airplane tank flame thrower land mine |
land mine
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This term means an agreement to stop fighting....
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armistice
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True or False....after WWI the Austro-Hungarian empire was broken up....
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True
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This was the Fascist leader of Italy...
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Benito Mussolini
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Hilter rose to power by exploiting Germany's ____________ problems.
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economic
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Mussolini and Hitler came to power in these 2 decades....
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1920's and 1930's
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Hitler wanted to control:
Western Europe Eastern Europe All of Europe |
All
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Hitler was actually from this country...
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Austria
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Hitler's book..
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Mein Kampf
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England declared war on Germany after the invasion of....
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Poland
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Lightninig war....
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Blitzkrieg
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It was this group that Hitler mostly blamed for
Germany's problems... |
Jews
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Which of these countries did Hitler's Germany not conquer:
Switzerland France Berlgium Netherlands |
Switzerland
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One of Hitler's big mistakes was his invasion of ......
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Russia (Soviet Union)
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Japan first attacked the U.S. at....
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Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
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This organization was created to prevent war after WWI....
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League of Nations
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This organization was created after WWI to prevent further wars...
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United Nations
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Be able to describe the Nazi policy of genocide during WWII..
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...because it's on the test
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Hitler wanted to set aside this WWI Peace Treaty....
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Treaty of Versailles
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World War II started when Germany invaded:
Austria Poland Czechoslovakia |
Poland
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This body of water separates England from the European continent....
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English Channel
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Name the 2 legendary Russian generals who turned back the German invasion of Russia....
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Generals January and February
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This term means the planned killing of an entire group of people....
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genocide
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The names of the two opposing sides in WWII....
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Axis Powers and Allied Powers
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The 2 Japanese cities destroyed with U.S. atomic bombs...
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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This was the cause of Hitler's death....
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suicide
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Most of the fighting in WWII took place on these three continents...
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Africa, Europe,Asia
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Although the United Nations is located in New York City, the plans for it were drawn up in this American city....
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San Francisco
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After WWII, Germany was divided among 4 nations...name them
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France, England, Soviet Union, United States
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One of the main reasons the U.S. became an enemy of the Soviet Union was because of this type of government in the Soviet Union....
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communism
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Loyalty and devotion to one's country is called....
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nationalism
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Sardinia and Sicily both fall into this geographic category....
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islands
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In order for Allied forces to get from North Africa to Italy, they had to cross this sea....
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Mediterranean
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Count CamilloBenso di Cavour and Giuseppe Mazzini were both from this country....
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Italy
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In 1914, this was the capital of Bosnia....
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Sarajevo
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The Versailles Treaty blamed this country for starting WWI.....
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Germany
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Hitler led the Nazis, Mussolini led this group....
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Fascists
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The term for a Jewish house of worship.....
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synagogue
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The year WWII started, and the year it ended..
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1939 and 1945
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