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Warsaw Ghetto
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largest of the Jewish ghettos
set up by Hitler during the Holocaust lasted 3 years;between 1940-1943 people died in this ghetto from starvation, disease, and being sent away to concentration camps |
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expain Hiroshima and Nagasaki
people died mainly from |
two atomic bombs set off by the U.S. bombing the Japanese in 1945 within 3 days of eachother
radiation |
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Hiroshima was bombed on ______ and was the 1st/2nd atomic bomb to hit Japan it was the smaller/larger of the two; killed more/less people
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Aug. 6, 1945; 1st bomb; smaller of the two;more
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Nagasaki was bombed on _______ it was the 1st/ 2nd atomic bomb to hit Japan it was the smaller/larger of the two killed more/less people
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August 9, 1945; 2nd bomb; larger bomb;less
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Holocaust killed
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killed 6 million Jews; progam led by Adolf Hitler and Nazi program to wipe out all non-Aryan people
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United Nations included ____ countries
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50
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U.N. was intended to
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protect its members from aggresion
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U.N. was established in
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1945
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U.N. was established to replace
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the league of nations
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U.N. was based in which city
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New York
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Space Race
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when the U.S felt pressure to get ahead in space technology; to be ahead of the Soviet Union
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Space Race: the soviet union put a satellitle into orbit in
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1957
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Space Race: U.S. raised the funding for
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science and education
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Space Race: What year did the U.S put a satellite into orbit
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1958
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Space Race the U.S was the first to have a man on the moon in
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1969
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Stalin was the dictator of what country
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Russia
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Stalins carrer lasted from
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1922-1953
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Stalins popular name was
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man of steel
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Stalins goal was to
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create a perfect communist state in Russia through totalitarian rule
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Ho Chi Minh leader of what country
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Communist leader of North Vietnam
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Ho Chi Minh was the leader of ______ between
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Vietnam the end of WWII to his death 1945-1969
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Ho Chi Minh was a democratic/communist leader
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communist
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lenin was the force behind what in what year
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the russian revolution in 1917
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Lenin was the first
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great leader of the soviet union
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Lenin was a _________ politician
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communist
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Lenin put whos ideas to modern communism to use
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Marx's
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Bourgeoisie was what class
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the middle class
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Proletariat was what class
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the poorest class of the working people "the workers"
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Rowlatt acts was a law passed by the
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British Raj; in India
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the Rowlatt Acts was a law which was passed on what month and year
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March 1918
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The Rowlatt Acts was a law to
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control public unrest and root out conspiracy
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The Rowlatts Acts gave English authorities power to deal with
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revoultionary activity
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What leader was extremely critical of the Act and argued that not everyone should be punished in response to isolated political crimes
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Ganhdi
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Mahatma Gandhi was a _________ of what groups independence
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non-violent leader of Indian independence
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M. Gandhi urged as a ___________ as a means to
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non-violence and civil disobedience leader ; independence from Great Britain
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In what year did M. Gandhi returned to India and became the leader of the Indian National Congress
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1914
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M. Gandhi led India to independence in what year
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1947
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The Amritsar Massacre occured on what day
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April 13 1919
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The Amritsar Massacre was an incident in which
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British troops fired on a crowd of unarmed Inidian protesters;killing a large number
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The Amritsar Massacre was the prelude to what? between what years
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Mahatma Gandhi's Non-cooperation Movement of 1920–22
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The Salt March was an act of what
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non violent protest
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The Salt March was an act of non violent protest against the ...... in what country
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British salt tax, colonial India
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The Salt March was a march of a number of people with the leader........to make .....
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Ghandi ....salt
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The march of the salt march lasted from what dates
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March 12 to April 6, 1930
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Bolsheviks was a member or a supporter of what party
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Marxist-Leninist party
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A Bolsheviks was a communist/democratic
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communist
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The Bolsheviks leader was
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Lenin
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The Bolsheviks were willing to sacrafice everything for what?
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change
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WWII propaganda: the government used propaganda to get the peoples support in..... to
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in WWII-make people pro-war
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WWII propoganda became successful after
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Pearl Harbor
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wwII propganda used posters to urge
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increased labor and production as well as conservation of materials for the war effort
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what happened on dday
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D-day: The day on which the Allied forces invaded France during World War II
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date of dday
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Jun 6, 1944
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which invasion was the largest amphibious landing in history
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D-Day in which allied forces invaded france
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South Korea, aided by
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United Nations forces consisting primarily of U.S. troops
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The korean war lasted from
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1950-1953
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The Korean war was between
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North and South Korea
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During the korean war who was North Korea aided by
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China
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