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definition of an assembly line
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A series of workers and machines in a factory creating identical items
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What is the Marshall plan?
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an american aid to help Europe , u.s.a gave 13$ billion in economic support after world war II
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what is the containment policy
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the policy to stop the spread of communism
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who was James watt?
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created the first steam engine
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what is the resource curse?
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when a countryu focuses all of its energy on a single industry
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what is NATO?
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a intergovermental military communism alliance based on the north Atlantic treaty signed on April 14,1949
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what are the 14 points
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a program for world peace
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Treaty of Versailles
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peace treaty after world war I to end the war between Germany and thee allied powers
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what is unrestricted submarine warfare
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where submarines sink vessels without warining
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what is liberalism
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a political philosophy that people should be free
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who took over Iran qwfter the Pahlavi shah fled?
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Ayatolah khomeini
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what country was the first to industrialize?
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Britain
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what country experience a civil war over ethnicity & oil
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Sudan
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