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Sepoy Mutiny
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1858; led to direct British control of India.
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Ram Mohan Roy
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Father of Modern India
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2 reforms suggested by the "Father of Modern India" to modernize India
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1. Get rid of child marriage
2. Get rid of widow suicide |
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2 National Parties in India that both wanted to kick the British out of India (1900)
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1. Indian National Congress
2. Muslim League |
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3 countries a part of French Indochina
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1. Vietnam
2. Laos 3. Cambodia |
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Nationalist that fought for Filipino independence from the United States right after the Spanish-American War
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Emilio Aguinaldo
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American Commordore who opened up Japan to trade from the United States
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Commodore Matthew Perry
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Opium War between these two countries
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1. Chinese
2. English |
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Empress Cixi
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Dowager Empress of China from 1861-1908
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Emporer of Japan during the Meiji Era (1867-1912)
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Mutsuhito
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4 long range causes of the Great War (WWI)
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(IMEN)
1. Imperalism 2. Millitarism - Arms race 3. Economic Rivalry 4. Nationalism |
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Gavrilo Princip assassinated this heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne
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Francis Ferdinand
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1914 this country gave the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy a "blank check"
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Germany
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3 Central Powers during the Great War
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1. Germany
2. Ottoman Empire 3. Bulgaria |
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U-boats
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German created Submarines
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President during the Great War (WWI)
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Woodrow Wilson
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First Marne
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At this battle, the Germans were stopped 20 miles from Paris at the Marne River
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Battle of Somme
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At this battle a British general said, "It was the blackest day in the history of the British Army."
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German field Marshall who defeated the Russians at the battle of Tannenberg
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Von Hindenberg
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Battle of Verdon
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At this battle, a French General said "they (Germany) shall not pass"
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Battle of Jutland
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After this naval battle, the German navy was driven back into port and did not come out to give battle to the British Navy for the rest of the war
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Roosevelt's Three R's
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1. Relief
2. Reform 3. Recovery |
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5 major causes of the Great Depression
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1. Stock Market
2. High Tarriffs 3. Lack of Credit 4. Unequal Distribution of Wealth 5. Natural Disasters |
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The Popular Front was this European countries solution to the Great Depression
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France
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3 Republican Presidents of the 1920s
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1. Harding
2. Cooling 3. Hoover |
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2 European statesmen signed the Locarno Agreement
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1. Briand
2. Gustav Stresemen |
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American Secretary of State who signed the Kellogg-Briand Pact
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Henry Cabot Lodge
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This scientist was responsible for the "theory of relativity"
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Einstein
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Austrian who wrote The Interpretation of Dreams
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Frued
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3 Scandanavian countries used cooperative community effort to fight the effects of the Great Depression
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1. Sweeden
2. Finland 3. Norway |
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3 Programs (administrations/acts) that Roosevelt initiated to get the United States out of the Great Depression
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1. Works Progress Administration
2. Civilian Conservation Core 3. Tennessee Valley Authority |
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In these radio adresses FDR assured the nation that Banks were again sound and that you should put your money in them again
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Fireside Chats
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Senator from Luisiana who may have become the totalitarian leader of the United States had it not been for an assassins bullet
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Huey Long
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4 of Wilson's 14 points
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1. Open Peace
2. League of Nations 3. Self Determination 4. Arms Limitation |
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Who were the "Big Three" (men) at the Paris Peace Talks of 1919?
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1. Georges Clemen Ceau
2. David Lloyd George 3. Woodrow Wilson |
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3 reason the United States entered the War in 1917
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1. close ties with British
2. had been giving loans & arms and ammo to allies 3. Luisitania |
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Supreme Commander of all Allied Forces on the Western Front in the summer of 1918
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Ferdinand Foch
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German general who led the Meuse-Argonne Offense in the spring of 1918
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Ludendorff
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Second Marne
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At this battle, on the Marne River in the spring of 1918 the germans were once more stopped short of Paris by the Allied Forces
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This general led the American Expiditionary Force to France in 1917
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General "Black Jack" Pershing
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In the fall of 1918 this German Kaiser abdicated power
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Wilhelm II
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Social Democrats
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This German Party was responsible for the Treaty of Versailles
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5 terms of the Treaty of Versailles
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1. League of Nations
2. Germans lost their Arm Forces 3. Alsacce & Lorraine 4. Saar Valley 5. Polish Corridor |
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3 European countries created as a result of World War 1 (WWI)
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1. Turkey
2. Hungary 3. Yugoslavia |
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Authors of the Communist Manefesto
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Marx & Engels
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German Kaiser in 1871
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Wilhelm I
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Czar Liberator; assassinated in 1881
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Alexander II
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Queen Victoria
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This Queen of England spread hemophilia to the royal families of Spain and Russia
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Treaty of Portsmouth
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this treaty ended the Russo-Japanese War
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American President who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in ending the Russo-Japanese War
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Roosevelt
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Trotsky
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rival of Stalin; was assassinated in Mexico by communist angents sent by Stalin
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two "super powers" that emerged from Word War II
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1. USA
2. USSR |
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British Prime Minister who "coined" the term the "iron curtain"
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Churchhill
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Headquarters of the United Nations
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New york
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2 german concentration camps
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1. Auschwitz
2. Treblinka |
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Genocide
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term that describes the systematic extirmination of an entire people
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the US dropped atomic bombs on these two Japanese cities to end World War II
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1. Hiroshima
2. Nagasaki |
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Emporer Hirohito
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Japanese emporer who remained on the throne after World War II
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Manhattan Project
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this project developed the atomic bomb in the United States
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3 leaders who met at Potsdam Conference
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1. Truman
2. Stalin 3. Churchhill |
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2 actions taken at Yalta
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1. Stalin said he would help defeat he Japan after theyg ot out of the war
2. Put no limit on European expansion |
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Operation Overlord
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code name for the attack on Normandy and France (June 6, 1944)
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Rommel
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German general "desert fox"
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General Eisenhower
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supreme commander of all Allied forces in the ETO
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Keenan
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member of the state department was responsible for the policy of "conatainment"
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Nuremberg War Trials
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Nazis were charged and executed for war crimes against humanity
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4 zones Germany was divided into (1945)
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1. France
2. USA 3. English 4. Soviet Union |
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3 "satellite states" controlled by Soviet Union
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1. Czeckslovakia
2. Hungary 3. Poland |
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Marshall Plan
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named after the American Secretary of State this plan pumped up billions of United States dollars to aid European recovery from WWII and perhaps saved Western Europe from a communist take-over.
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1959 Fidel Castro forced this dictator into exile
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Batista
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Bay of Pigs
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complete disaster; plan formed by CIA this invasion of Cuba was a humiliation to the United states.
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This president oredered the Soviets to get their missiles out of Cuba in October in 1962
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Kennedy
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This doctrine, named after a president, promised millitary aid to countries fighting communist aggression
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Truman Doctrine
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Triple Alliance
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1. Germany
2. Italy 3. Austro-Hungarian Monarchy |
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League of Nations was the idea of what president
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Woodrow Wilson
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Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated by who?
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a Serb patriot
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the last Russian Czar
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Nicolas II
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who wrote The Jungle
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Upton Sinclair
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who did the Treaty of Versailles blame the war on?
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germany
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"Spirit of Locarno"
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refers to peaceful cooperation between Germany and France
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The Interpretation of Dreams
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Sigmund Frued
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The Nuremberg Laws did what?
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prohibited Jews from holding government jobs in Germany
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Josef Goebbels
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Hitlers minister of propoganda
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3 key nations of the western world as we entered the 20th century
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1. Germany
2. Russia 3. USA |
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Why did Russia drop out of the war in 1918?
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Communist Revolution
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This Soviet leader ordered he death of the Czar and his family
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Lenin
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Hitler tried to seize power at this "putsch" in 1923
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Munich Beerhall Putsch
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This king gavce Mussolini power
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Victor Emanuel II
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Neutrality Acts
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these acts tried to prevent the United States from getting involved in another European war by prohibiting the loaning of money or selling arms to nations at war
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Gathering Storm
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Winston Churchhill
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