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100 Cards in this Set
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Hoovervilles?
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Whole communities of tarpaper shacks. (USA)
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Who introduced the New Deal in the U.S.?
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Roosevelt
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Who was John Meynard Keynes?
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British Economist, radical solutions. Defecit Financing
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What is the WCTU?
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Womens Christian Temperance Union
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When was the notion of collective security first brought up?
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Treat of Versailles, League of Nations
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What was one main failure of the League of Nations?
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Lack of military enforcement
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What are some of the successes of the League of Nations?
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Administered the Saar Valley, settled many small quarrels
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What are two examples of the failure of collect security?
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Japanese conquest of Manchuria, Italian invasion of Ethiopia
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What was the Maginot Line?
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Line of concrete forts and tunnels along France's common border with Germany
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What are the proletariat?
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Common workers
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What is the meaning of a bolshevik?
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Majority party
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What does Mensheviks mean?
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Minority
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What was bloody sunday?
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Tsarist troops opened fire on a group of protesters who were begging for the Tsar for help, 130 were killed.
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Who used the slogan of 'Peace,Bread, and land'?
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Lenin
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What did War Communism involve?
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Nationalization of industry, Compulsory labour, Private trade supressed
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Who was in struggle for power after the death of Lenin?
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Stalin and Trotsky
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What were the Gulags?
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Forced labour camps
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What is collectivization?
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Forcing peasents to give up their own land and become workers on the collective farms
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What is a Kulak?
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Peasnt who was a cut above poverty stricken
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What is Italia Irredenta?
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regions with ethnic Italian populations living outside of Italy
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Leader of Italy during the Second World War?
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Benito Mussolini
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What were the blackshirts?
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Groups of ex-servicemen, middle class youths and anti-communist, under Mussolini
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What does Il Duce mean?
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The Leader
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What was the march on rome?
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Mussolini threatened to march on Rome with 26,000 troops and seize power, he did so without any fighting
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What does Putsch mean in German?
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Attempt to overthrow the Government
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What is lebensraum?
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Living Space
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What was the Luftwaffe?
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German Airforce
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Who was Dr. Josef Goebbels?
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Minister of propagando under Hitler
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Who was Herman Goering?
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Minister for Air and organizer of the Luftwaffe
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What were the Nuremburg Laws?
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Package of Anti-Jewish laws
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What were the Gestapo?
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German Secret Police
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What is Anti-Semitism?
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Hatred of Jews
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What was Kristallnacht?
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Jewish shops, homes, etc. Were ramshacked and many Jews Imprisoned(Glass Night)
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Who formed the SS?
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Himmler in 1929
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Balfour Declaration?
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Agreement in principle to the creation of a national homeland for the jews
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What is Manifest destiny?
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Idea that the newly formed United States had a god-given right to the continent
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What was the Klu Klux Klans main beliefs?
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Racials Superiority of white people and anti-communism
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What were some consequences of the Great Depression?
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Unemployment, Banking Failures, Political Consequences and a change in the role of government
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What is the lend lease act?
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Authorized the American president to give credit to
"Any country whose defence President deems vital to the defence of the USA" |
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What method of war did the Germans use during the Second World War?
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Blitzkrieg
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What were the basic principles of Nazi Foreign Policy?
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Repudation of Versailles, Uniting Germans with Father land, Lebensraum
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Where was the Sudetenland?
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Far western boundary of Czechoslovakia
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What were the aspects of the Nazi-Soviet Pact?
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Agreed not to fight eachother, secretly agreed to carve up Poland, Gain of time
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What is a Panzer?
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German Tank
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Where did the French and British extract from the German forces?
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Port of Dunkirk
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Who organized the French troops?
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General Charles De Gaulle
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What was Operation Sealion?
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Control of air and channel to get at Great Britain
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What was the Enigma?
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German Cipher machine
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What was the Winter War?
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Red Army attacked Finland
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Who led the Americans in the battle of the Second World War?
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General Eisenhower
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What was the Suez Canal?
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Shipping connect, originally the British shipping lane
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What are the U-Boats?
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German Submarines
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Where were the Atom Bombs dropped on Japan?
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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What were Kamikaze attacks?
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Suicide attacks, Japanese planes would crash into the American ships
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What was discussed at the Newfoundland Conference?
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Roosevelt and Churchill met to discuss common war aims
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What was discussed at the Casablanca Conference?
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Roosevelt and Churchill agreed that Germany should be forced to surrender unconditionally.
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What is the Domino Theory?
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European countries would one by one fall to the Soviets
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Satellite States?
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Soviet Union controlled the affairs of the six Eastern Block countries
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What is the National Security Council?
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High level group was formed to advise the President upon matters concerning the defence of the U.S.A.
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What was the Truman Doctrine?
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Economic and Military aid too Turkey and Greece
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What is NATO?
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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What was involved with McCarthyism?
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Fear of widespread communism
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"Socialism with a human face"?
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Dubcek
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What was the the American Response to Kruschevs statement?
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Eisenhower Doctrine
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Who launched Sputnik?
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The USSR in April of 1957
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What was the Bay of Pigs?
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1400 Cuban Patriots were embarassed by the Cuban Forces, USA let them use Guatemala as a marshalling ground.
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What is MAD?
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Mutually Assured Destruction
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What is a Pre-emptive strike?
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A surpise nuclear attack meant to disable the enemy
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What is an ICBM?
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Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile
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Who began to resist Japanese occupation in Vietnam?
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Ho Chi Minh and his Communists
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Where was a major French Garrison surrendered in Vietnam?
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Dien Bien Phu
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Who was Mohandas Ghandi?
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Nationalist,believed in Non-violent or passive resistance to the British Masters, Hindu
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Who called India in the post war years?
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Nehru
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WHo became Prime Minister during the Egyptian Rev.?
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Gamal Nasser
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What is OPEC?
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Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
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What is Islamic Fundamentalism?
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Return to the basic tenets of the Islamic religion
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Who did Islamic Fundamentalism threaten?
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USA and USSR
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What did Sadam Hussein fear of the fundamentalist revolution?
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Spread to his country(Iraq)
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What was the Long March?
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Mao's Red Army retreated 9,000 km and lost 3/4 of there infantry
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Who was Mao Zedong?
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Communist Leader of China
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Who was Chiange Kai-Shek
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Under control of the Kuomintang
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What were the goals of the cultural rev.?
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Introduce a more 'pure' form of communism
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Who gained control after the death of Mao in China?
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Deng Xiaoping
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What did Xiaoping announce?
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Open door policy, and created special economic zones
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What is Detente?
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Relaxation of Tension
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What does the German word Ostpolitik mean?
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East Politics
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What was SDI?
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Strategic Defence Initiative
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What was the nickname for SDI?
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STAR WARS
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What was the Velvet Rev.?
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Huge demonstration in Prague was put down
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When did Leonid Brezhnev lead the Soviet Union?
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Between
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Mikal Gorbachev?
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Last communist ruler of the USSR before collapse
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What did Martin Luther King fight for?
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Black Rights
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What was the parallel line in Vietnam seperating the north and south?
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17th Parallel
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What was the Parallel line seperating north and south korea?
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38th Parallel
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What year was the peoples republic of China admitted to the United Nations
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1971
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When did relations begin to warm between China and the West?
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In the late 1960's, Nixon publicized China
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When was D-Day?
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June 6th,1944
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What was the Canadian beach on D-Day?
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Juno Beach
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How many beaches were the Americans given on D-Day?
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2
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Who took the other two beaches on D-Day?
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Great Britain
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