Final History Study Guide

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The social came brought about by the industrial revolution was evident in the...

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Emergence of the middle class and working class

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The factory created a new labor system in which. ..

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Workers had work all the time to keep the machines working at a steady rate

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By 1830, two-thirds of the British cotton industry's workforce were

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Women and children

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Conditions faced by the industrial workers included all of the following EXCEPT

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A guaranteed minumum wage

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The most important dev. Of the American transportation system during the early Industrial Rev. was the _____

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Railroad

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Which resource has been the primary source of energy over the last 200 years?

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Coal

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The imperialism of the late nineteenth century was different in that European states wanted

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Complete control over the world's resource

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Urban populations grew quickly because of the vast migration to cities from...

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Rural areas

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According to Karl Marx, the _____, or working class, was oppressed by the middle class

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Proletariat

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What was the suffrage movement

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Votes for women

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During the age of Imperialism, Africa

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Was carved up by the strong European countries and came under their rule.

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Which European nation colonized and ruled in India all the way up until 1947

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Britain

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Miguel Hidalgo, a hero of Mexican indépendance after 1810, had studied

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The French Revolution

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Jose de San Martin and Simon Bolivar led South American indépendance movements against. .

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Spain

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What was the white man's burden

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The belief that Europeans had a moral responsibility to civilize primitive people's

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Colonial powers in Africa were looking mostly for which two resources?

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Diamonds and gold

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_________ invented the light bulb

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Thomas Edison

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Under the military pressure of Commodore Matthew Perry's fleet, Japan

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Signed the treaty of Kanagawa, opening up trade relations with the United states

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The samurai lived by a strict code known as Bushido, which. .

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Was based on unconditional loyalty to the samurai's lord and Emperor

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What was the result of Japan's victory in the war with Russia

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A stunned world was forced to recognize Japan as one of the great powers

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The Japanese commission under Ito Hirobumi was designed to do what?

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Learn about foreign Societies and their inventions

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What was NOT considered a major cause of World War 1

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Impressionism

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The "spark" that ignited WWI occurred in 1914 when

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Australian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated

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The two major alliances that fought during WWI were the Central Powers and the. .

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Allied powers

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To inspire high morale and maintain support for WWI,...

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Both sides used propaganda

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Under the terms of the treaty of Versailles, Germany was NOT forced to

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Run Italy as a mandate

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World war 1 was a _______, meaning that it involved a complete mobilization of resources and people.

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Trench war

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The United States entered the war largely over the issue of...

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Unrestricted submarine warfare/ Zimmerman Note

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The League of Nations was ineffective and eventually failed because. ..

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President Wilson did not support the idea

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Adolf Hitler was rejected from ______ school and then joined the Nazi party

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Art

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A ________ state is government that aims to control the political, economic, social, intellectual, and cultural lives of its citizens

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Communist

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Stalin's Five Year Plan's were intended to transform Russia into. .

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An industrial society

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Hitler's goal was to create a

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Third Reich, or German Empire

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In an effort to maintain peace and stability, the leaders of Britain, Italy and France agreed to give Hitler part of Czechoslovakia. This type of policy is known as __________.

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Appeasement

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Two days after Hitler's invasion of ______, Britain and France declared war on Germany

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Poland

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Hitler's blitzkrieg, or lightning war was,

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A form of attack that used tank divisions supported by the air attacks to take over countries very quickly

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On December 7,1941 the Japanese

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Launched a surprise attack on the U.S Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor

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The Battle of Stalingrad was a arising defeat for Germany because

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The entire German Sixth Army, considered the best of the German troops, was lost and Germany never won another major battle.

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The Kristallnacht, which happened on November 9, 1938 was

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A destructive rampage against German Jews led by Nazis, known as "The Night of Broken Glass"

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What were the "Nuremberg Laws"

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They excluded jews from German citizenship and forbade marriages between Jews and Germans

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What was the Nazi's Final Solution?

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Strategic plan to eliminate all Jews in Europe

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The slaughter of European civilians comma included European Jews comma homosexuals comma the handicap, mentally disabled, gypsies, Italians, Jehovah's Witnesses and millions of others by the Nazis became known as what?

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The Holocaust

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Anatomic bomb kills the majority of its victims through ________

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Radiation

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Churchill called post-war Soviet policy in Eastern Europe the

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Iron Curtain

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To stop the spread of Communism, the United States adopted a policy toward the Soviet Union of

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Foreign aid

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The military Alliance of Soviet allies was called the

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Warsaw Pact

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The Cold War was an ideological war between the capitalist West and the east

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Communist East (U.S.S.R.)

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The goal of the Marshall Plan was to a European countries and their recovery after WWII and to prevent them from becoming ________.

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Communist

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Who was Che Guevara

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An Argentinian who supported the Cuban Revolution

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Revolutionaries under the leadership of ________ took control of Cuba in 1959

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Fidel Castro

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The Korean War started when _________ invaded South Korea

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North Korea

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_________ was the leader of the Vietnamese in their quest for Independence

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Ho Chi Minh

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After the withdrawal of French troops from Vietnam, the United States ________

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Provided Aid to South Vietnam

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Chinese leaders took steps to improve relations with the United States during the 1970s, in part, because

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They face a serious security threat from the Soviet Union

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China became involved in the Korean War because

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China and the U.S. were Allied against the Soviet Union

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The conditions in the Soviet Union that led to the appointment of Mikhail Gorbachev did not include

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The acceptance of North Korea in the Soviet Union

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The main reason why the Soviet Union disintegrated was

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The multi-ethnic nature of the Soviet Union

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______ is a result of the conversion from a socialist to a free market economy in the new Russia

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The resignation of Mikhail Gorbachev

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What country did the Soviet Union invade in the 1980s

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Afghanistan

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What symbol of the East-West divide was smashed on November 9th 1989

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The Berlin Wall

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Neil Armstrong was the first person to do what

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walk on the moon

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Who was sheltered in Afghanistan during the early 2000s

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Osama bin Laden

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What famous event is Mohandas Gandhi known for

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The independence of India

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What is Sputnik?

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The first satellite

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________ did not lead to the collapse of the Soviet Union

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The European Union