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Zulu
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The most powerful country of S. Africa. Created by Shaka.
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Recaptive
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Slaves taken from captured vessels to freetown
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Jaja of Opobo
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founded palm as trading. Founded his own ports
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Nawab
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A Muslim princes allied to British India; technically a semi-autonomous deputy of Mughal emperor
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Sepoy Rebellion
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Rebellion of Hindu soldiers who refused to open their ammunition with their teeth because of the animal fat on the edge
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Durbar
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pageants
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Afrikaners
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decedents of Dutch settlers on the cape of good hope.
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Treaty Ports
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ports opened to all foreign residents
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Opium War
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Drug war between China and Britian
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Taiping Rebellion
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Hong Xuquan was the leader. Due to social unhappiness. The bloodiest cival war in China.
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Bengal
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Eastern India
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Capetown
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South Africa
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Freetown
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West border of Africa
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Hong Kong
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China
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telegraph cables
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laid on the ocean floor
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steel
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iron that is hard and elastic. steel revolution lead by william kelly
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chemicals
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Germany/explosives
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Victorian Age
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English speaking countries. Men and women in separate spheres
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Socialism
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ideology developed by radical thinkers
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Karl Marx
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socialist. German
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Nationalism
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most influential idea; drawing states together
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Giuseppe Garibaldi
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revolution in Sicily to create democracy
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Otto Con Bismark
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Chancellor of Prussia, created a democratic republic
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Empress Dowager Cixi
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China; opposed foreign technology
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Meiji restoration
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civil war in Japan; embraced all foreign ideas
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Sicily
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Italy; small island off Italys boot
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Japan's empire in 1910
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Japan, Taiwan, and Korea
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Korea
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directly across from Japan
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Which nation was the leading chemical manufacturer, producing dyes, drugs, fertilizers, and explosives in the 19th century.
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Germany
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Which urban conditions did not improve in teh 19th centurey
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air quality
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Politicians, both democratic and authoritarian, were greatly aided by what in getting popular support for their national programs?
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churches
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Karl Marx defined :surplus value" the source of industrial financial gains, as the:
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difference between a commodity's sale price and the low wages paid to workers to produce it.
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Marxism claimed to explain the great gap between business wealth and worker poverty and hoped the workers who were larger in number, would rise up and defeat their bosses, and thus create a classless society. It failed as a worker movement largely because:
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workers found workable options in participatory democracy and labor unions instead
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The Victorian Age is not associated with
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the decline of family values
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Why was teaching considered an appropriate career for single women?
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It could be seen as part of a woman's nurturing role as mother
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How did labor legislation, which had been passed to protect women from harsh working conditions, actually harm women's interests?
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women were kept out of many higher paying jobs that some considered dangerous
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In the Victorian Age women were largely
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Kept out of higher education
involved in raising their children the ones who spent the money expected to quit a job once married |
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Most working class girls in the late 19th century found work as
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domestic servants and textile workers
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Who had a child with his own maid Helene Demuth and while she was not put out of the house as was common, the child was forced to live elsewhere
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Karl Marx
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The fact that this language was the most widely spoken in Europe had great consequences in the 20th century
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German
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In addition to the decline in epidemic diseases through sanitation, what is the primary explanation for why European populations grew so rapidly in the late 19th century
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more food in greater varieties
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Why did Britain fail to recognize Germany's rise as the new great power in Europe
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they focused on France and Russia, who threatened their oversea colonies
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Russia like China and Turkey, was an empire, not a nation. The following groups resisted attempts by Russia to impose its language and culture except
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Muscovites
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Japan, a new nation, defeated Russai, a new empire, in 1905 because the
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Japanese were better trained and equipped
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New Imperialism
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exercise of power
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Scramble for Africa
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before 1879, 90 percent of Africa was owned by Africans
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Battle of Omduman
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in Sudan, British guns vs Sudanese spears
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Berlin Conference
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called by chancellor Bismark for dividing Africa
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Cecil Rhodes
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British invasion of S. Africa "annex the stars: machine guns and diamonds
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Emilio Aguinaldo
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Philippines resistance leader against Spain and the the US after being purchased
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free trade imperialism
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economic dominance of a weaker country by a more powerful one by maintaining independence
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Nigeria
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Southern curve of Africa
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Philippines
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North of Australia and East of Italy. Islands
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Panama Canal
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Central America
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Vladimir Lenin
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leader of Bolsheviks. "land to the people" then seized their land and implemented a secret police
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Bolsheviks
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tightly disciplined group of radicals in Russia
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Theodore Herzi
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lead the group of people to return to their homeland in Palestine
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Balfour Declaration
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a jewish national homeland in Palestine created by Britain
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Albert Einstein
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German physicist; theory of relativity
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League of Nations
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world organization to safeguard peace. Wilson involved, US did not join
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Guomindange
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Nationalist political party founded on democracy by Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-sheck
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Chiang kai-sheck
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Chinese military and political leader/ fought communism
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Turkey
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north of Syria
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Syria
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north of Palestine
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Palestine
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north of Egypt
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Egypt
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North Africa
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Whichy of the following was not an underlying cause of WW1:
inflexible military planning alliances the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand nationalism |
the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand
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The evolution of technology during the Great War (WW1)
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imposed a long stalemate
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In France and Britian due to the need to ration food during the war the:
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diets of the poorer classes improved
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In 1921 with the economy in horrible straits due to the war and the Russian Revolution Lenin
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allowed farmers and marchants to own land and sell good in open markets
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What or who financed Russias industrialization
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the peasants
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During the 1920s women in Europe and America benefited from all the following except:
the vote increased personal freedoms relaxed fashions improved prospects for marriage |
improved prospects for marriage
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Woodrow WIlson's original idea of self-determination involved the:
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principle of self determination in which borders would be drawn along ethnic and linguistic lines
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Which of the nations rapidly Westernized under the leadership of a popular general including using the Latin alphabet, forbidding polygamy, granting women teh vote, and the mandatory of surnames
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Turkey
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During WW1, African-Americans in the United States
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migrated to the North of the country in large numbers
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The Zionist movement led by Theodore Herzi sought primarily to
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create a Jewish homeland in Palestine
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All of the follwing were scientific developments of the early 20th centruy except:
cultureal relativism the theory of relativity subatomic particles Brownian motion |
Brownian motion
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Many found the new social sciences of the 1920s unsettling because the new scholars
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challenged the traditional ideas of reasona nd progress
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Automobiles, which transformed the landscape in this period were:
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thought to be an enviromental improvement over horse manure and urine
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Which of hte following was the major cause of war in the late 18th and early 19th century in the west
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nationalism
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The Boxer Rebellion in 1900 in China represented whose interests?
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the Qing government and the empress
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In 1918-19 the flu killed
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more people than any disease in history in so short a time
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Joseph Stalin
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dictator of the societ society
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Collectivization
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consolidating small private farms into vast collectives and making farmers work together in commonly owned farms
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Kulak
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better of peasants resisting the giving up of their property
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Gulag
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labor camps in the soviet union
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Benito Mussolini
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leader of the fascist pary. Romes Prime minister
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Fascist Part
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Italian part, aggressive nationalism and dictatorship
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Depression
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Oct. 24 1929 Black Tuesday
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Mao Zedong
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leader of the chineese communist party. Led the "long march". Led teh communists to victory over Guomindang
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Long March
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6000 mille fight of chineese communist from SE to NW China
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Margaret Sanger
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American nurse and author, birth control clinics
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Manchuria
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Eastern edge of the Soviet Union
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Stalingrad
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Soviet Union
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Midway
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Middle of the Pacific Ocean; island
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Hiroshima
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Western Japan
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Mohandas Gandhi
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Indian National Congress. India, refused violence, highly educated
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ahimsa
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nonviolence, hindu
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satyagraha
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search for truth
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salt march (walk to the sea)
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demostration lead by Gahdhi. Millions were killed
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Porfirio Diaz
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Ruler of mexico "liberty, order, progress" huge disregard for mexican culture
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Emiliano Zapata
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revolutional leader in the mexican revolution/ assassinated
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Getulio Vargas
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Dictator of Brazil; emphasized industrialization
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Lazaro Gardenas
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President of Mexico; land to the peasants; nationalizing oil
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Import substitution
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an economic system aimed at building a countrys industry by restricting foreign trade. popular in latin countries sucessful but couldn't keep up with Europe or N. America
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Juan Peron
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President of Argentina, championed rights of labor, built up industry, popular among the urban poor
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In the first half of the 20th century under European control some African farmers benefited from land reform and;
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others were forced to work like slaves with little or no pay
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How did urban migration of africans damage families
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often only men migrated leaving women behind to raise families alone
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which of the following was a major attraction for African to associate themselves with Christianity
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mission schools
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what explains the popularity of Islam in Africa
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it was less destructive of African culture than Christianity
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Haile Selassie the emperor of Ethiopia was among the first to achieve independence for an African nation creating and example of hope to the rest of Africa. WHo did he expel from his capital, Addis Ababa?
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the Italians
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British rule in India in about 1900 was mostly
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lax
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Mohandas K Gandhi can be associated with all of the following except
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promoting industry
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During WW1 the mjority of the people of India
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supported Britain enthusiastically
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What accompanied India's independence in 1947
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internal violence and partition
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All of the following describe Mexicos condition before the revolution began in 1910 excpet
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violence and polical instability
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Which of the following is not a trend or process of late 19th century Mexico
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rapid growth of a radical industrial working class
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the phrase"Poor Mexico: so far from God so close to the United States" refers to what reality
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the number of times the US invaded and intervened in Mexico
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What did Emiliano Zapata an Indian farmer do with the lands he seized in warfare
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gave it back to the control of Indian villages
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Who built most of Brazils and Argentines railroads, prts, and public utilities
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Britain
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Alberto Santos-Durmon the second person to design build and fly an airplane did most of his work in Paris but was born and raised where
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Brazil
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Which of the following models was developed by Brazils President Getulio Vargas and copied by other Latin American nations in order to break their dependency on foreigners for industrial goods
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import substitution
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iron curtain
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Winston Churchills term for the Cold War. Soviet East/ US West
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Cold War
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1945-1991 ideological struggle between communism and capitalism
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United Nations
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replaced the league of Nation in 1945. World Peace
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Truman Doctrine
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Foreign policy offering military aid to help Turkey and Greece resist Soviet military pressure
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Korean War
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N Koreas invasion of S. Korea. United Nation ally with S. Korea/ China with N. Korea
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Vietnam War
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N. Vietnam vs A. Vietnam 1954-1975. S, Vietnam was aided by the US
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Ho Chi Minh
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communist party in France; took over N. Vietnam
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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Brink of war confrontation between the US and Soviet Union over the latter placement of nuvlear-armed missiles in Cuba
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Nonaligned nations
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developing countires that announced their neutrality in the cold war
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orginization of petroleum exporting countries (OPEC)
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formed in 1960 by oil producing states to promote their collective interest in generating revenue from oil
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Korea
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East of the Soviet Union
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Kenya
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Africa
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Guatemala
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Central America
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Cuba
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South of Florida
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demographic transition
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a change in the rates of population growth to lower
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proxy wars
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during the cold war local or regional wars in which the super powers armed, trained, and financed the combatants
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Salvador Allende
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Pres of Chile in 1970; socialist; overthrown in 1973
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Dirty War
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war waged by Argentine military agianst leftist groups; illegal imprisionment, torture, and execution
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Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
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shite philosopher who led the overthrow of the shan of Iran and created teh Islamic Republic
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Newly Industrailized Economies
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rapidly growing new industrial nations of the late 20th centruy including the Asian Tigers
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Asian Tigers
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collective name for S. Korea. Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore nations that became economic powers in 1970s and 1980s
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Tiananmen Square
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site in Beijing wehre chineese students and workers gather to demand greater political openness in 1989. was crushed by chineese military
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perestroika
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policy of opennes that was centerpiece of Mikhail efforts to liberalize communism in the Soviet Union
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Proxy wars were
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wars in which the superpowers funded one or both sides
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Which event set off leftist revolutions and conservation backlashes across much of Latin Amercan, ecouragin the US to back even brutal dictators if they were staunchy anti-communist
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the cuban revolution
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both world superpowers lost influence in the middle east when which two nations experienced radical islamic revolutions
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iran and afghanistan
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what did not contribue to asias newly industrialized economic sucess
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minimum government melding in buisness
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in 1989 China responded to the Tiananmen Square protests for democracy
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with violent force
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In addition to economic problems what casued the final breakup in 1991 of the Soviet Unions empire
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nationalism
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The demographic revolution was characterized by high birth rates and declining death rates. What characterizes the demographic transition to slower population growth
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declining birth rates and low death rates
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What two nations have employed ruthless policies to reduce birthrates
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China and India
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what is replacement fertility?
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2.1 births
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in the latter half of the 20th century poor rural people who moved to the cities of the underdeveloped world
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generally found city life better than living on the farm
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How have most Europenas defined citizenship
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by narrow cultural and ethnic characteristics
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Why did the US lag behind both Japan and Europe in introducing robots into its factories
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human labor costs were lower
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Which nation may have had the worst enviromental record
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Soviet Union
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As the number of cars in the US increased by 80 percent from 1970 to 2000 smog levels
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declined by almost 33 percent
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Some enviromental issues such as global warming, have become global and require international cooperation. What 1997 global warming treaty has been ratified by nearly every industrial nation but the US
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Kyoto Treaty
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Few technologies have been as transformative as the personal computer. Who introduced the first mass-market home computer in 1977
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apple
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