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What happened to the reforms instituted by Kemal after his death? |
Most of Kemal's reforms were kept after his death. |
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What was the Balfour Declaration? |
Supported the Jews house. |
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How did Gandhi protest British Laws? |
by using nonviolent civil disobedience. |
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In Japan, what were large companies that controlled major segments of the industrial economy called? |
Zaibatsu |
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Who led the People's Liberation Army on the Long March? |
Mao Zedong led the People's Liberation Army on the Long March. |
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What was Roosevelt's Good Neighbor Policy? |
The US wouldn't interfere in Latin America with military force. |
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What is the name of the Mexican national Oil Company? |
Pemex |
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What individual established the modern state of Iran in 1935? |
Reza Shah Pahlavi |
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What was the Salt March? |
Gandhi's march to the sea to protest New British taxes and restrictions on salt.
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What individual ordered the killing of thousands of communists in the Shanhai Massacre? |
Chiang Kai Shek |
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According to Mao, who would be the driving force behind the revolution? |
the peasants |
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What is an oligarchy? |
is a government in which a selected few exercise control. |
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What individual sought to create a national art for Mexico that would depict the nation's past, festivals, and folk customs? |
Diego Rivera |
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What was the Marshall Plan designed to accomplish? |
Marshall Plan was to accomplish the rebuilding of the prosperity of torn up Europe. |
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US fears about the spread of communism were increased when what country became communist in 1949? |
China |
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What nation were member of the Warsaw Pact? |
Albania Bulgaria Czechoslovakia East Germany Hungary Poland Romania Soviet Union |
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Why were Americans worried when the Soviets launched Sputnik 1? |
Americans were worried when the Soviet launched Sputnik 1 because they were scared of the internal nuclear warhead cause it could be attached to the chrome basketball (Sputnik 1). |
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What was the Bay of Pigs? |
Where many Cubans had us military weapons to attack the Communist Cubans. Didn’t work out since the US didn’t send out the Air Force to help so leading them to get slaughtered on the Bay of Pigs. |
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What communist leader initiated the Prague Spring? |
Alexander Dubcek |
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What US senator was responsible for the anti-communist movement known as the Red Scare? |
Senator Joseph McCarthy |
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At what US university did four students get killed by the Ohio National Guard? |
Kent State University by the Ohio National Guard. |
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What was the Truman Doctrine, and what did it state? |
The Truman Doctrine was that the US will supply money and assistants to countries resisting communism. It stated that “the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.” |
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What was the purpose of the Warsaw Pact? |
Warsaw Pact was an alliance of the Soviet Union and its allies were the Soviet Union and its Satellite states. |
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Why did the Soviets build the Berlin Wall? |
all the people with money and brains were leaving and the Soviets wanted to keep them. |
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What communist nations remained independent of the Soviet Union? |
Albania and Yugoslavia |
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What country experienced an “economic miracle” after WWII? |
West Germany |
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How did French President Charles de Gaulle attempt to return France to the status of a world power? |
Gaulle |
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What US president signed the Civil Rights Act into law? |
President Johnson |
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Why is it that modern weapons do not need to be fired to be a threat? |
they are so scaring just knowing the fact that they are there is scary as **** and they can kill many people. |
