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One of the biggest results of the artistic experimentaation of the 1920's and 1930's was that
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generally accepted standards that distinguished between "good" and "bad" art disappeared.
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The work of Walter Gropius
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embodied the architectural principle that form should follow function.
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The term Bauhaus is associated with
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architecture.
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A troubling economic problem in the 1920's was the depressed state of agriculture caused by
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overproduction and falling prices.
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By 1929 the price of a bushel of wheat was
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at its lowest level in four hundred years.
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On Black Thursday, 24 October 1929,
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the US stock Market crashed.
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At the lowest point of the Great Depression_____________% of US banks were out of business.
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Forty-four
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During the Great Depression most nations
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practiced economic nationalism.
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In response to the Great Depression, economist John Maynard Keynes
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urged the government to expand the money supply and undertake public works to provide jobs.
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Which of the following was not one of the chief actions of Roosevelt's New Deal?
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tighten money supply
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The Russian Civil War that broke out after the revolution was between
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Reds and Whites
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War Communism
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was an unplanned course of nationalization.
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Lenin's New Economic Policy of 1921
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implemented free market reforms.
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"Socialism in One Country" was the philoshpy of
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Stalin
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The First Five-Year Plan was initiated by
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Stalin
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The term fascism was first used by
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Mussolini
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The author of Mein Kampf was
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Adolf Hitler
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The 1935 Nuremberg Laws
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deprived German Jews of their citizenship.
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The Kristallnacht was
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a Nazi arranged attack on thousands of Jewish stores.
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Satyagraha was
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Gandhi's philosphy of passive resistence.
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Which of the following was not one of the foundations of Gandhi's philosphy?
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heavy industrialization.
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Muhammed Ali Jinnah called for the creations of
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Pakistan.
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The May Fourth Movement
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galvanized the Chinese against foreign interference
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The Three Principles of the People was the political philosphy of
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Sun Yatsen
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Mao Zedong's main rival after 1925 was
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Jiang Jieshi
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The Long March
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greatly streghtened Mao Zedong's leadership position
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The Mukden incident
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provided Japan with the excuse to send troops to Manchuria
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The height of Japanese atrocity in China was reached at the Rape of
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Nanjing
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The weakness of the League of Nations was revealed in its inabiltiy to take any substantial action in response to the Italian invasion of
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Ethiopia
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In 1938, Germany sent troops into ___________ and forced its leaders to accept the Anschluss
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Austria
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Adolf Hitler always spoke of the "November Crime" which was the
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signing of the 1918 armistice.
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The high point of appeasement was
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the Munich Conference
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The European part of WWII began with the
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German invasion of Poland
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The German blitzrieg referred to
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a lightning war
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The key to the Allied victories in Europe and Asia was
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industrial capacity
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The Japanese goal in the bombing of Pearl Harbor was
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to weaken the US and establish a defensive Japanese perimeter in the Pacific
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The Normandy invasion
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crushed German resistance in Europe
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The US interventionist plan for containing communism was known as the
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Marshall Plan
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The Marshall Plan
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was a US plan to rebuild Europe and stop Soviet expansion
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NATO was designed to
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be a regional military alliance against Soviet aggression
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At a meeting of fifty nations at San Francisco in 1945
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the United Nations Charter was signed.
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Ideology, the two competing sides in the Cold war were
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capitialism and communism
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During the Cold War the US policy toward the Soviet Union was one of
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containment
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The Warsaw Treaty Organization
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was formed in response to NATO
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The Korean War resulted in
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such a terrible loss of life that the Soviets and Americans were force to reconcile their differences
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In the Battle of Okinawa the Japanese introduced
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kamikaze pilots
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The Japanese finally surrendered in August 1945
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after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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After the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich
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the Nazis eliminated the entire village of Lidice
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"Comfort women" were
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Korean and Chinese women forced into prostitution by the Japanese
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During WWII around ___________ million people perished.
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sixty
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The Japanese goal in the bombing of Pearl Harbor was
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to weaken the US and establish a defensive Japanese perimeter in teh Pacific
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The Normandy invasion
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crushed German resistance in Europe
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The US interventionist plan for containing communism was known as the
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Marshall Plan
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The Marshall Plan
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was a US plan to rebuild Europe and stop Soviet expansion
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NATO was designed to
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be a regional military alliance against Soviet aggression
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At a meeting of fifty nations at San Francisco in 1945
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the United Nations Charter was signed.
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Ideology, the two competing sides in the Cold war were
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capitialism and communism
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During the Cold War the US policy toward the Soviet Union was one of
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containment
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The Warsaw Treaty Organization
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was formed in response to NATO
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The Korean War resulted in
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such a terrible loss of life that the Soviets and Americans were force to reconcile their differences
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Senator Joseph McCarthy is known for
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his attempt to expose communists in the US government
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Betty Friedan, in her book The Feminine Mystique, wrote about
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how unhappy many American women were
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In 1954 segregation in US schools was declared illegal in
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Brown versus Board of Education
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Charles de Gaulle's vision of a Europe free from superpower domination
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lived on in the formation of the European Community
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By the mid-1960's the Chinese were accusing the Soviets of being
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Revisionists
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The term Vietnamization
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was supposed to mean turning Vietnam War over to the South Vietnamese.
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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never intended to abolish the existing Soviet political and economic system
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When Mikhail Gorgachev discussed the opening of Soviet society to public criticism and admission of past mistakes he used the term
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uskorenie
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Mikhail Gorbachev was rescued from an unsuccessful coup by
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Boris Yeltsin and some loyal Red Army units
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It was ________who finally dismantled the Soviet Communist party and pused the country towards free market reforms
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Boris Yeltsin
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