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106 Cards in this Set
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what were 2 major western advantages? (ex)
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technology and unification/nation-state
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Who was Alfred Thayer Mahan and what book?
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American admeiral, The influence of Sea Power upon History
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What was the Great Mutniy or Sepoy Rebellion?
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British control of India, The Brithis India Company had run things
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Who was responsible for Indian Nationalism?
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Mohatma Gandhi
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What year did the India get their indepenedence?
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1947
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What is the largest democracy in the world?
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India
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What were the opium wars?
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britain vs. china, when brits brought opium and sold it along coast of china...easy brit victory
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what ends the opium wars? terms?
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treaty of nanking; brits get extra territoriality (humiliation)
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who is the Open Door Policy advicated by?
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US
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what is the Boxer Rebillion?
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regular attacks on forigners and christiaons by the secret nationalist society which was supported by the cinese gov.
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Who was the major revolutionary leader during the chinese revilution of 1911?
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Dr. Sun Yat-sen
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Japan
what is the Tokugawa? |
a famiy of shoguns apponitd by the emporere of japan; ran the gov. of japan
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who were the samurai?
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hereditary military/warrior class in feudal japan
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who completed two naval expeditions to Japan to establish deplomatic and trade relations with Japan from us?
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Matthew C. Perry
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what is the name of the time when the tokugawa is overthrown and the emporere gets more power?
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Meiji Restoration
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who is the worlds first non-western power?
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Japan
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yrs of Russo-Japanese war?
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1904-1905
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what treaty ends the Russo-Japanese war?
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Treaty of portsmith
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who was the explorer, missionary, physician of Africa?
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David Livingstone
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what conference is held to lay down rules of eruopean exploaration to avoid wars with\of africa?
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Conference of Berlin
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what contrys were invoved with the colonization of africa?
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GB, france, germany, italy, belgium
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what was the name of the capital of Liberia and who was it named after>
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monrovia, Pres. James Monroe
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what was the Great Trek?
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the Boers/Afrikaners move to the north/Transvaal and Orange Free State to escape the British
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who was in the Boers Wars and what was it over?
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Brit and Dutch, diamonds and gold (transvaal)
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who was elected Pres. of S.Africa in the first all race election?
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Nelson Mandela
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the dates of WWI
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1914-1918
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where does ww1 start?
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the balkans, powder keg of europe
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what is the bismarckian system?
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a system of military alliances that Bismarck had successfully formed to isolate Frace after the Fraco-prussian war
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who was the triple alliance>
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Germany, A-H , Italy
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who were the Triple Entente
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franco, russia and england
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what event sparked ww1?
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the sustrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife are assiassinated while visiting Austrian controlled Sarajevo, Bosnia
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what was the chain reaction?
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a series of blunders and declarations of war based on the promises of the secret alliances
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WHY DOES GB DECLARE WAR?
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THEY HAD HOPED TO STAY OUT OF THE WAR BUY DECLARED WAR ON GERMANY BC THEY VIOLATED THE NEUTRALIITY OF BELGIUM
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WHO BECOMES THE ALLIED POWERS
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THE TRIPLE ENTANTE
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WHO BECOMES THE CENTRAL POWERS?
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THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE
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WHAT IS THE GERMAN SHLIEFFEN PLAN?
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GERMANS PLAND TO QUICKLY CONQUER FRANCE BY PUSHING THROUGH BELGIUM TO PARIS AND THEN TURNING TO DEFEAT RUSSIA
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WHAT WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT FRONT IN THE WAR?
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WESTERN FRONT
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WHAT BATTLE STOPPED GERMANY FROM GETTING PARIS?
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FIRST BATTLE OF MARNE
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WHAT BATTLE DOES GERMANY DEFEAT RUSSIA IN THE FIRST OF WWI?
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BATTLE OF TANNENBERG
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WHAT MADE THE AMERICANS MAD AT THE GERMANS?
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THE SINKING OF THE LUSITAINA BC AMERICANS WERE ON IT AND DIED
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WHAT DID CHURCHILL GET FIRED FOR BC HE SUPPORTED, CAMPAIGN? WHY
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GALLIPOLI CAMPAIGNE, SOLDIERS GOT KILLED
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WHAT BRITISH AGEN FORUGHT TO HELP THE ARABS?
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T E LAWRENCE, LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
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WHAT WAS THE ONLY MAJOR SURFACE NAVAL BATTLE OF THE WAR> WHO
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BATTLE OF JUTLAND, GB AND GERMANY
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WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF THE EASTERN REBELLION
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THE IRISH SEEKING INDEPENDENCE FROM ENGLAND
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RUSSIA
WHAT WAS THE SOCIAL REVOLUTIOANRY PARTY |
NON MARXIST SOCIALIST- GOAL SOCIALIZAION OF AGRICULTURE, APPEALED TO PEASENTS
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WHAT WAS THE SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY?
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THIS PARTY APPEALED TO THE INDUSTRIAL WORKERS/PROLETARIAT
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WHAT WAS THE BOLSHEVIK FACTION?
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LED BY VI LENIN,
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WHAT WAS THE BLOODY SUNDAY?
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ST PETERSBURG, THE GOAL OF THE DEMONSTRATION OS TO PRESENT A PETITION TO THE CZAR AT THE WINTER PALACE, PEACEFUL....THEY ARE KILLED AND HURT
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WHAT ALMOST OVERTHREW THE CZAR?
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REVOLUION OF 1905
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WHAT IS THE OCTOBER MANIFESTO?
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CZAR NICH. II PROMISED A CONSTITUTION AND DUMA FOR RUSSIA AND THE EXTENTION OF THE VOTE
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WHAT YEAR DID THE TOW REVOLUTIONS IN RUSSIA OCCUR?
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1917
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WHAT EFFECT DID THE MARCH(FEBRUARY)REV. HAVE?
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OVERTHREW CZAR BUT DID NOT BRING COMMUNIST INTO POWER
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WHAT TREATY TOOK RUSSIA OUT OF WWI ?
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TREATY OF BREST-LITOVSK
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WHO FOUGHT IN THE RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR?
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RED ARMY VS. WHITE (ANTI-BOLSHEVIK) ARMY
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WHO WAS LININ'S ARMY
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RED
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WHAT WAS LININS POLICY OF NATIONALIZING INDUSTRAIL AND OTHER FACILITIES AND REQUISTITIONING THE PEASENTS; PRODUCE DURING THE CIVIL WAR?
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WAR COMMUNISM
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BOLSHEVIK PARTY IS RENAMED WHAT?
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COMMUNIST PARTY
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WHAT WAS INTRODUCED BY LENIN TO REVIVE THE ECONOMY AFTER THE RAVAGES OF THE CIVIL WAR AND MISTAKES OF WAR COMMUNISM?
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THE NEW ECONOMIC POLICY
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WHAT US PRES. DECIDED TO ENTER WWI?
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WOODROW WILSON
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WHAT YEAR DID US CONGRESS DECLARE WAR AND ENTERED WWI?
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1917
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WHAT WAS WILSONS 14 PTS.
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ADVOCATED OPEN CONVENANTS NATIONALISM FREE TREADE AND A LEAGUE OF NATIONS
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WHO ATTENEDED THE PARIS PEACE CONFERENCE?
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GB FRANCE US ITALY (BIG 4)
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WHAT IS GERMANY FORCED TO SIGN AT THE PARIS PEACE CONFERCNE?
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TREATY OF VERSAILLES
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WHAT WAS ARTICLE 231 OF THE TREATY OF VERSAILLES?
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FORCED GERMANY TO ACCEPT TOTAL BLAME FOR THE WAR
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WHAT WAS WILSON'S 14TH PT>
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THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS
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WHAT WAS ONE OF THE NEW COUNTRIES CREATED FROM THE LAND RUSSIA LOST TO GERMANY
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POLAND
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WHO WAS THE FIRST FASCIST RULER IN EUROPE?
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MUSSOLINI
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WHAT ALLOWS MUSSOLINI TO COME INTO POWER
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THE MARCH TO ROME
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WHAT HAPPENS TO VATICAN CITY BC OF THE DEAL MADE WITH MUSS.?
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ITS SOVEREIGNTY AND INDEPENDENCE IS CONFIRMED
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WHAT WAS MUSS. FOREIGN POLICY?
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AGGRESSIVE
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WHAT WAS THE FIRST GOV. AFTER WWI IN GERMANY?
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WIEMAR REPUBLIC
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WHAT WAS THE LACARNO CONFERENCE?
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BY SIGNING THIS GERMANY ACCEPTED HER WESTERN BOUNDARIES AS DESIGNATED BY THE TREATY OF VERSAILLES
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WHAT DID N.A.Z.I. STAND FOR
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NATIONAL SOCIALIST GERMAN WORKERS PARTY
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WHAT HAPPENED AT THE BEER HALL PUTSCH IN MUNICH?
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HITLER OF SENTENCED TO 5 YRS IN PRISON AND ONLY SERVES 9 MONTHS
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WHAT WAS HITLERS BOOK CALLED?
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MEIN KAMPF
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DATES OF BLACK TUESDAY?
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OCT. 29 1929 STOCK MARKED CRACH
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WHAT YEAR DID HITLER TAKE CONTROL OF THE GERMAN GOV.?
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1933
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WHEN DID THE THIRD REICH RULE?
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1933-1945
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WHO DID GERMANY RE-OCCUPY IN 1936?
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RHINELAND
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WHAT YEAR DID GERMANY ANNEX AUSTRIA?
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1938
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WHO ATTENED THE MUNICH CONFERENCE AND WHAT ISSUE WAS DISCUSSED?
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THE ISSUE OF SUDENTENLAND OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA, GERMANY-HITLER, ITLAY-MUSS. GB- CHAMBERALAND FRANCE-DELADIER
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WHAT WAS THE MUNICH PACT/AGREEMENT
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GERMANY GETS THE SUDENTANLAND
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WHAT WERE THE SPANISH REBELS OR CONSERVATIVE FORCES CALLED LED BY GERNERAL FRANCISCO FRANCO?
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NATIONALISTS/REBELS
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WHO DID THE SOVIET UNION PRIMARILY SUPPORT?
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THE REPUBLICAN/LOYALIST FORCES
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WHO INVADED MANCHURIA?
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JAPAN
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WHO INVADED CHINA IN 1937?
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JAPAN
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WHAT WERE THE FIVE YEAR PLANS?
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GOAL WAS TO RAPIDLY INDUSTRIALIZE RUSSIA, EMPHASIZED HEAVY INDUSTRY AT THE EXPENSE OF CONSUMER GOODS
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WHAT WAS THE GULAG?
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A SYSTEM OF FORCED LABOR CAMPS IN WHICH 18 MILLION PPL WERE IMPRISONED BW 1929-53
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WHO GAVE INTO HITLER?
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CHAMBERLAND -GB
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WHAT WAS THE MAGINOT LINE?
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87 MILE BORDER PLACED BY FRANCE IN PARANOIA OF GERMAN INVASION
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WHO WAS PRES. DURING G.DEPRESSION?
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HOOVER
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WHO BROUGHT AN INTERNATIONLAIST VIEW OF THE WORLD?
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FDR
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WHAT WAS THE NEW DEAL?
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FDR DOMESTIC PROGRAM WHICH CALLS FOR A MAJOR ROLE OF THE FEDRAL GOVERNMENT IN THE AMERICAN ECONOMY
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WHAT WAS THE START OF WWII?
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HITLER WANTED MARE OF CZECH. AND POLAND THAN WAS GIVIN TO HIM BY THE PARIS PEACE CON., HITLER INVADED POLAND
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WHAT YEARS DID WWII GO ON
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1939-1945
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WHAT YEAR DID AMERICANS ENTER WWII?
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1941
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WHAT WAS THE 'PHONY WAR'>
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WHEN POLAND IS INVADED BY GERMANY, THE BRIT. AND FRENCH DO NOTHING MILITARILY
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WHO SUCCEEDED CHAMBERLAND FOR GB AS PRIMEMINISTER?
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WINSTON CHURCHILL
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WHAT WAS THE MIRACLE OF DUNKIRK?
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BRITISH AND FRENCH WERE TRAPPED BY GERMANY BUT WERE MARACULOUSLY RESCUED
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WHAT IS THE BLITZ?
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THE LATER BOMBING OF LONDON AND OTHER CITIES IN BRITAIN
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WHAT HAPPENED IN 1940 IN THE US THAT WAS THE FIRST IN HISTORY?
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THE FIRST PEACETIME DRAFT
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WHAT WAS THE ATLANTIC CHARTER
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THE 2 LEADERS OF THE FREE WORLD MADE JOINT DECLARTIAON OF THEIR COMMON PRINDIPLES AND WAR AIMS LAYING THE IDOLGIGAL BASES FOR PEACE
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DATES OF PEARL HARBOR?
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DEC. 7 1941
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WHAT WAS THE GRAND ALLIANCE OR THE AXIS POWERES?
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GERMANY ITALY JAPAN
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WHAT WAS THE BATAAN DEATH MARCH?
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75000 FILIPINO AND AMERICAN SOLDIERS GON ON A 6 DAY 85 MILE FORCED MARCH TO A PRISON CAMP NEAR CABANATUAN
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WHAT BATTLE WAS THE TURNING PT OF THE WAR AND CAUSED GERMANY TO LOSE?
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BATTLE OF STALINGRAD
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