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63 Cards in this Set
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Alexander Graham Bell used an electrical wire to
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send voices over long distances
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Marconi's invention relied on the
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dicovery of electromagnetic waves
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The internal combustion engine led to the development of
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the automobile
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Louis Pasteur learned that heating liquids
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prevented the frowth of bacteria
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The release of energy by elements as they break down is
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radioactivity
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Albert Einstein's theory of special relativity stated that
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no particle can travel faster than light
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All of the following are social sciences EXCEPT
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literature
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Ivan Paclov's discovery of the coditioned reflex showed that
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RESPONSES COULD BE CHANGED THROUGH TRAINING
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Sigmund Freud's process of psychoanalysis was based on
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his discovery of the unconscious
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Reformers sycg as Jane Addams helped cities
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offer social services to the poor
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Growing populations in cities encourgaed
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more forms of enterainment
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The popularity of bicycles was the result of
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mass production
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Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony expressed the Romantic movement's appreciation of
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nature
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Art about the problems of everyday life became known as
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naturalism
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Renoir's and Monet's art both tried to capture
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impressions more than reality
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What was the greatest cause of city growth in Britain in the 1800s
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Factory system
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The Carbonari were a
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pro-risorgimento secret society
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The Kind of Sardinia, Victor Emmanuel II was an ideal choice for a unification leader because
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he wanted to expand Sadinian territory
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Unified Italy faced all of the following problems EXCEPT
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religious divisions
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German nationalism was inspired by
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Napoleon's rule
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Otto con Bismarck believed in the concept of a
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powerful state
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In the new German government, power belonged to the
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kaiser
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Germany;s late industrialization was a benefit because
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the undustry could use the advanced machinery developed elsewhere
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To lessen the growing power or socialism, Bismarck
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banned the public meeting of socialists
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Bismarck resigned because
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William II wanted absolute power
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Czar Alexander II listened to public opinion and
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freed the serfs
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Russian radical groups
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assassinated Alexander II
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Repressice czarist policies let to
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the formation of the Social Democratic Labor Party
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Great Britain supported Turkish suppression of independence to
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keep Russians out of the Mesiterranean
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The Treaty of San Stefano gave self-rule to
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Bulgaria
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control of the new Russia was won by
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the Bolsheviks
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AS nations tried to outlast each other, World War I became
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a war attrition
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Japan's move into China was met by
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a condemnation
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The International Brigades fought for
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the Loyalists
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The Axis Powers came together
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to fight communism
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To avoid war with Germany, Britain and France promised not to
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interfere with German annexation of Czechoslovakia
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Stalin signed a nonaggression pact with Germnay because
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he and Hitler wanted to divide up eaastern Europ
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The conquest of Norway and Denmark was important to Germany because they
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provided access to the Atlantic Ocean
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The Battle of Britain was fought mostly
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in the air
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Soviet armies fighting Germany benefited from
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cold weather
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Japan's attack on the islands of French Indochina
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cut off British supply lines
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Victory in the Balkans gace the Axis Power
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access to Middle Eastern and Russian oil fields
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According to Hitler's plan, eastern Europe would become living space for
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the Aryan race
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In the concentration camps, the people least likely to be executed were
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the healthiest
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All of the following helped Jews escape the Holocaust EXCEPT
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Anne Frank
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The "soft underbelly of the Axis" referred to
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Italy and the Balkans
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Victory against Japan came after
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atomic bomb attacks on Japan
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AS soviet leader, Khrushchev
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denounced Stalinist repression and restrictions
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SEATO was an
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anti-commmunist organization
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The Warsaw Pact was
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the Eastern block mutual defense agreement
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The European Economis Community agreed to
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eliminate tariffs between member nations
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The Marshall Plan intended to
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help Europe's economic recovery
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Yugoslavia was expelled from Cominform because it wanted to
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resist Soviet domination
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Nationalism became apparent in Canada when
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Quebec tried to separate from Canada
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The leaders at Potsdam agreed that Germany should
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remain a single country
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The Nurnberg trials resulted in
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the Nazi Party being declared a criminal organization
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Fear of invasion made the Soviets demand that
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Eastern European nations become communist
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Postwar West Germany became
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democratic
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The Cuban Missile Crisis was a
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standoff between the U.S. and the Soviet Union
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Because the Warsaw Pact troops outnumbered NATO troops, Nato increasingly used its newly invented
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nuclear weapons as deterrents
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As president of the Fifth Republis, Charles de Gaulle
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freed Algeria
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The United Nations' Security council was
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made up of temporary and permanent members
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Lyndon Johnson's Greaty Society was plan
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of social reforms
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