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the invention of...made newspapers cheap for most people to afford
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the rotary press
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name two of europes major sources for food
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N.A.,S.A.
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name two inventions that led to the production of cheaper clothing
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sewing machine, power looms
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the steam ingines most import source of fuel was..., it was quickly put to use in...
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coal, textiles
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in 18800...of europe grew food. by 1900 it shrank to ..., in ... it was only 8%.
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75%, 50%, England
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mass-circulated newspapers played an important role in provoking all but one of the following
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napoleans invasion of Italy in the 1790s
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name an invention that made it possible to produce images cheaper
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photography
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during the 19th cen. european agriculture
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suffered no widespread famines
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by the end of the 19th cen. paris and london had
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replaced coal with less polluting fuels
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by the end of 19th cen. european naval forces were
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using radar
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in the course of the 19th cen.
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poland won its independance
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among the achievements of the positivists and saint simonians were
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the organization of mass labor unions
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which of the following countries did not experience revolution from 1900-1914
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austria-hungry
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france did not fight with ..., prussia did not fight with...
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prussia, france
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in 1800 ... of worlds pop. lived in europe. ... of worlds pop wonsisted of europeans
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20%, 30%
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in ... universal male sufrage came before social legislature. in ... social legislation was passed on gov. own intervention
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France, Germany
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the romantics
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repudiated such eighteenth century thinkers as rousseau
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germany was able to influence ..., Italy aquired colonies in areas like ...
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turkey, africa
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political leaders such as ... in france and ... in germany enacted programs of social legislature as a way of defusing radical demands
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napolean III, Bismark
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Marxism
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became europes most influential doctrine of social reform by the mid 19th cen.
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the following industries made important contributions to the development of the first airplane except
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the electronics industry
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the public schools that developed in the last third of the nineteenth century were
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open to both males and females
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darwins theory on the ecolution of species by means of natural selection
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argues that evolution proceeds towars a purposeful goal.
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socail darwinism
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was supported by the generally high standards of fitness and health in the industrialized nations.
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name two sports that the british spread throughout europe
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soccer, rugby
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the theory of the nation state assumed that
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the roman catholic church was the one true religion
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peasants became reconciled to schooling because
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literate children were miore likely to remain in the countryside to help parents
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the migration of great numbers if peasants to work in factories
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was slowed by the improvement of education in the countryside
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in the second half of the century, the increasing, amount of liesure time avaliable to the working class
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sharpened the differences between city and countryside
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in the last third of the 19th cen., organized sports were
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thought to be good for burning up energy that might have been spent in violence and crime.
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which of the following fought on the side of the victores in WWI
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Italy
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in 1917, lenin and bolshevik were winning popular support by promissing
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to honor czarist war debts
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the league of nations
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was principally concieved by an american statesman
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in 1939, england and france went to war over germanys invasion of
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poland
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fighting did not begin till 1940
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but england and france were still unprepared for hitlers armor attack
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in 1920s, the savings of the german middle classes were wiped out by
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inflation
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once war had broken out in 1939, hitler
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gave orders for the extermination of the terminally ill and chronically insane
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hitlers racial theories
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were based on the idea that the weaker ought to be destroyed in the struggle for life
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germany was finnaly defeated by
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the overwhelming numbers of allied manpower and material
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hitler enjoyed striking early successes ub the
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counterattack against the allied invasion of Normandy
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the european coal and steel community which included ...and... was a forerunner of ... which established a common market in western europe
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germany, france, european economic community
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europe and north america account for less tha .. of the worlds pop. but produce ... of its income
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30,80
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among the economic problems faced by developing nations
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is that the greatest amount of trading takes place between industrialized nations and develoing nations
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at the end of WWII... and... were two countries divided between communist and non communist regimes
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germany, korea
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which was not part of the US strategy to consolidate or protect its power in europe
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guarantees of protection to hungary and czechoslovakia
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the truman doctrine
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developed plans for the economic recovery of western europe
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to preserve their strenght in western europe, the us and its allies
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have insisted that germany remain unarmed
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many of the achievements of the nineteenth century are now in serious danger
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minority cultures are vanishing
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population growth in the third world
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had not been matched by a proportionate increase in agricultural productivity
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the massive buildup of armaments after WWII
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has created a balance of terror between the soviet union and the US
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in the history of aviation
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the germans made the first military use of airplanes
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each of the following men pioneered the production of low priced cars in his country
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william morris in england
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guglielmo marconi was responsable for all but one of the following achievments
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the invention of the phonograph
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mark the correct choice
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by the mid 1950s an effective vaccine had been developed against polio
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all but this one made contributions to the unleassing of atomic energy
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watson and crick
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the 20th cen. has seen great progress in the control of disease
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through improved transportation, which can halt the spread of disease
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all but one of the following politicians used the radio as an effective political tool
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woodrow wilson
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all but this one were considered exceptional luxeries in western europe until after WWI
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Regualar postal service
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all but one of the following are important signs of the amancipation of women in the 20th cen.
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the fact that women now earn as much per capita as men.
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all but one of the following developments have created anxieties among the general public about the dangers of scientific investigation
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the use of sulfa drugs
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