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100 Cards in this Set
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Which of the following pairs, naming the European power and its African holding, is not correct?
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Germany- Congo
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A rising non-western nation that avoided colonial subjugation by pursuing a concerted strategy of political
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Japan
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The great trek
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Was the northeastward advance of the Boers after the Br take over the cape colony
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The capital under the Meiji republic was moved from
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Kyoto to Tokyo
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Muhammad Ali
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Modernized Egypt and extended its hegemony over neighboring regions
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The treaty of Brest-Litovsk Russia gave up all of the following except
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Siberia
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The Boer War
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Result of the discovery of gold and diamonds in the Boer Transvaal
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Sun Yat-sen
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Created the Tongmenghui
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Lenin new secret police was known as the
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Cheka
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Quinine was used by Europeans to provide partial immunity from
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Malaria
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One of first br. colonies in w. Africa
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Gold Coast
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Berlin conference of 1884
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Established guidelines to ease the frictions created by European ambitions in Africa
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Not a feature of treaty of Nanjing
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The Br. agreed to stop exporting opium to china
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US secretary of state who proposed open door policy
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Hay
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Hong Xiuquan
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Christian leader of Taiping rebellion
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Response to Guangxu reforms except
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Democracy took root in china
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Medical doctor who formed revive china society
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Sun Yat-sen
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Schlieffen plan
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Ger invaded Fr by way of Belgium
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Created by Paris peace conference
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Czechoslovakia and Poland
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John Maynard Keynes economic views
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Government public works spending would cut unemployment and revive an economy
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Led peasant revolt in Burma against colonial rule
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Saya San
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Popular front in Fr
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Initiated a program of workers rights but failed to end the Great Depression
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China’s last emperor
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Puyi
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Three C’s
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Livingstone
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Livingstone
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Obtained great fame from his African missionary work
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Taiping rebellion
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Peaked with rebel capture of old Ming dynasty capital of Nanjiing
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Failed Balkan front Br have battle at
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Gallipoli
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“my ruling propose is the extension of the Br empire”
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Cecil Rhodes
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Br did this to increase trade profits in china
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Shipped large amounts of opium into china
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The Chinese revolution of 1911
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Left a power vacuum in the country due to the collapse of the Qing Dynasty
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Qing dynasty went to war with Japan over
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Korea
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Sino-Japanese war
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forced china to cede Taiwan and the Liaodong peninsula to Japan
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The Russian Provisional Gov’t that took power after the tsar abdicated was headed by
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Alexander Kerensky
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Leon Trotsky
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Led the left group in the Politburo after Lenin’s death
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Left massive estate to create worldwide Br empire to civilize the world was
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Cecil Rhodes
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Japanese const was molded by gov’t of
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Germany
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Thailand
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Was able to remain independent because France and Britain preferred that it remain so in order to serve as a buffer between their colonial territories
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Treaty of Shimonoseki Japan obtained all except
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Beijing’s Forbidden City
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Remote location and mountainous terrain spared which of the following countries from colonial rule
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Ethiopia and Afghanistan
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Treaty of Tianjin
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Made Chinese opium trade legal
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On June 28, 1914, the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian throne, was assassinated in the Bosnian city of
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Sarajevo
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Weimar republic
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Faced great economic challenges such as runaway inflation
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Battle of the Somme
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Included deaths of more than 21,000 Br soldiers in a single day
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Boers were predominantly
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Dutch
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Treaty of Locarno
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New ger borders with Belgium and fr
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Versailles Treaty
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Established the league of nations (desired by Pres Wilson)
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Opium War
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Gave br control of Hong Kong
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Lenin’s NEP
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Individuals Own small retail sores and peasants are allowed to sell produce
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Manchu general pres of china
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Yuan Shikai
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Philippine leader failed to thwart US conquest
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Aguinaldo
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PM won cuz of war reparations
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David Lloyd George
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Tsar Nicolas II lost throne because of
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Women staged food march in Petrograd
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Ger offensive was stopped at
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Second battle of Marne
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Boxer rebellion
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Uprising against foreigners by secret society opposed to foreign imperialism
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Major colonial manufacturing center
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Batavia
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British Raj
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Established a new school system to educate children of the elite
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Combining old cape colony and Natal with Boer republic the British created the
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Union of South Africa
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Siberian peasant who had great influence on Russia tsarina
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Rasputin
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Open Door Policy
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Calmed the increasingly frantic panic of Western imperialism in china
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Turned tied of WWI
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United States
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Gandhi
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Used his march to the sea to try to convince Indians to ignore the increase British salt tax
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The earliest originator of the concept and practice of fascism was
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Benito Mussolini
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Under Shah Reza Khan
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The bureaucracies of Iran’s government, both civilian and military, were modernized
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The Young Turks
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Were the victims of bad timing, as minority unrest in the Balkans caused the army to step in as well as the desire for ethnic Turks for a Turkish state
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Gandhi used the spinning wheel as a symbol of his protest against
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Imposed textile import from Britain
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The May Fourth Movement
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Was a series of demonstrations by Chinese students and others in opposition to the Japanese being awarded Germany’s sphere of influence in Shandong Province
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To avoid eradication by Chiang Kai-Shek’s army, Mao Zedong led his People’s Liberation Army (PLA) from South China to the North China town of Yan’an. This journey has come to be called the
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Long March
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After Hitler occupied most of France, the remainder of the country became
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Vichy France under Marshal Henri Petain
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The Turkish Republic changed Turkish society by accomplishing all of the following except
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Making Islam the sole religion of the state
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The Beer Hall Putsch of 1923
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Gave Hitler and the Nazis prominence in Germany
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To whip up popular support for his totalitarian regime, Hitler organized gigantic mass rallies in the 1930’s in the city of
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Nuremberg
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The Nuremberg Laws established the
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Legal isolation of German Jews from citizenship and legal rights
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The term Mahatma means
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Great Soul
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Stalin’s first two Five-Year Plans
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Resulted in large increase in the nation’s heavy industrial output and oil production
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The Blizkrieg
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Coordinated a sudden attack led by tanks
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Adolf Hitler was
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A German nationalist and a native of Austria who used political propaganda and terror
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In March 1938, Hitler successfully united Germany with
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Austria
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What political leader told military leaders in 1933 that he wanted to remove the “cancer of democracy” from their society?
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Hitler
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The turning point on the Eastern Front was the battle of
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Stalingrad
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At the Munich Conference of 1938
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The British and the French representatives allowed Hitler to take over the Sudetenland
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Arab Nationalism
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All of the above
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The commander of the Afrika Korps was
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Erwin Rommel
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The Japanese term for the industrial and financial conglomerates that controlled much of the nation’s industry was
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Zaibatsu
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According to the Balfour Declaration
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A Jewish homeland was to be founded in Palestine
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The Indian congress party
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Had leaders who represented both the secular, educated elite, such as Nehru, and also those who rejected many western traditions, such as Gandhi
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The New Life Movement was an effort to
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Promote Confucian social ethics, while simultaneously rejecting western capitalist values of excessive greed and individualism
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The New Culture Movement at Peking University
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Advocated the study of science and democracy among other Western ideas
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The Hindu-dominated nationalist group that was formed in India in 1885 was the
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Indian National Congress
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An alliance between communist and nationalist parties in the 1920s took place in this Asian country
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China
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In evaluating Mustapha Kemal Ataturk, one can say that
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He created a secular Turkish state that embraced many aspect of a modern Western nation
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Hitler wrote Mein Kampf
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While in jail after the failed Beer Hall Putsch
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Which of the following is/are correctly paired?
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Dhoti- a simple garment of coarse home-spun cotton
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Hitler intended to gain more land for Germany in
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The Soviet Union
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The purpose of the SS was to
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Use terror to enforce the policies of Nazi Germany
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The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere was
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Japan’s declaration that East Asia would become a self-sufficient economic community
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The German invasion of Poland in September in 1939 was facilitated by Hitler’s nonaggression pact with
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The Soviet Union
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By the end of the 1920s, the Cominterm
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Had achieved its greatest success in China
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The naval battle that established the US naval superiority in the Pacific was the Battle of
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Midway
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The SA, also known as the Storm Troopers, were
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the Nazi party militia
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The US firm that dominated the economies and governments in most Central American countries in the early 1900s was
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The United Fruit Company
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