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When did U.S. fears of communism increase?
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When China became Communist
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Who was Hitlers propaganda minister?
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Joseph Goebbles
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Who did Vladimir Putin of Russia use military force against to suppress rebellions
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Chechnya
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Who was the South African bishop who won the Nobel Prize in 1984
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Desmond Tutu
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What were the goals of the South African Union? |
they wanted Pan-Africanism
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Who was the U.S. senator responsible for the "Red Scare"?
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Joseph McCarthy
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What caused Britain and France to declare war on Germany in WW2?
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when they invaded Poland they realized Germany wasn't trustworthy
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Who was the Socialist president of France who nationalized the banks and industries? |
Francois Mitterrand
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The African National Congress called for an armed resistance against the gov after who was arrested? Why was he arrested?
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Nelson Mandela; for speaking out against apartheid
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What is the purpose of Propaganda
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to influence public opinion for or against a cause
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How did the Enabling Act allow Hitler to establish a totalitarian state?
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It allowed him to ignore the Constitution for 4 years to "deal with the countrys problems"
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Who founded the United Farm Workers Union?
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Cesar Chavez
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What did the Chinese communist do in order to fight the larger Nationalist army?
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guerilla tactics |
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What as the turning point of the war in the Pacific
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Battle of Midway Island, when U.S. planes destroyed 4 attacking Japanese aircraft carriers
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What was the period of tension after WW2 called?
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Cold War |
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When and why did Margret Thatcher resign?
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when anti-tax riots broke out and her popularity was at an all time low
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What was the relationship between warlords and landlords in China?
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adversarial; Landlords were more on the peoples sides and the warlords had the support of the military |
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In 1998 war broke out in Serbia when they would not allow what area to exist as an autonomous province?
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Croatia |
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What did the Nazi's do when they felt the Einsatzgruppen was to slow? |
They made concentration camps
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What weakened Soviet economy during Brezhnev leadership?
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central gov. planning had created a large bureaucracy that discouraged efficiency in industry; the inefficiency in agriculture
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What happened when Slobodan Milosevic stripped Kosovo of its autonomy?
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Some groups of ethnic Albanians founded the KLA; and began a campaign against Serbian rule in Kosovo. In efforts to crush the KLA, Serb forces began to massacre ethnic Albanians |
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What did the Council for Economic Assistance do?
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rebuild prosperity and stability in Eastern Europe |
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Who waged war against Great Britain for control of the Falkland Islands?
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Argentina |
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What country improved its social system, like education but suspend elections? |
El Salvador |
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What was the Bay of Pigs? |
Where Kennedy approved a secret attack against Castro to happen that failed miserably |
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What was Blitzkreig? How did it plan to do what it did?
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lightening fast attacks used by Germans in WW2
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What is appeasement? How was it used in WW2?
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satisfying demands of dissatisfied powers in an effort to maintain peace and stability. Hitler used it to rise to power by proving we weren't gonna do anything |
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What was the purpose of Stalin's 5 Year Plan? |
set economic goals every 5 year period in hopes to transform Russia virtually overnight from agricultural to industrial |
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What was Gorbachev's most serious problem? |
nationalism |
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Which Civil War helped to contribute to tension between USSR and the US?
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Greek |
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Who experienced the economic miracle and what was it?
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West Germany; unemployment fell from 8% to .4% |
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Where did most of the leaders of newly independent African nations come from? |
urban middle class and had studied in Europe or U.S. |
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Why did Chiang Kai-Shek not try to reform wealth distribution?
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bc his support came from the country side and urban middle class and neither of them wanted land reforms
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what was the purpose of the Marshall Plan? |
designed to rebuild the prosperity and stability of war-torn Europe
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What was decided at the Tehran conference? |
they decided to defeat Germans first, then meet in Berlin |
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What was the area of northwestern Czech called that Hitler wanted? |
Sudetenland |
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What nation took 52 American hostages? |
Iran |
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Who ordered the Shanghai Massacre? |
Chian Kai-Shek |
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What do Fascist believe? |
glorifying the state above the individual by emphasizing the need for a strong central gov. led by a dictorial ruler |
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What was the Treaty of Locarno? |
guaranteed Germany's new Western borders |
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What was the first African nation to gain its independence from Britain?
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Ghana |
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Who was Hitlers minister of araments and munition
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Albert Speer
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What was the most heroic event of WW2?
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When the Royal Navy and citizens in private boats evacuated 228,000 Allied troops (Battle of Durnik) |
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What was the leading factor that allowed many Germans to accept Hitler and the Nazi's? |
Germanys economic difficulties; Hitler promised to help |
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Where were new oil reserves found in the 1970's ? |
Mexico
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What is the Brezhnev Doctrine?
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When Brezhnev insisted on the right of the Soviet Union to intervene if communism was threatened in another communist state |
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What did they agree on at the Yalta Conference? |
United Nations; Stalin agreed free elections in future t determine a new gov. in Poland
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How did Mussolini win over the Catholic Church?
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He made new laws that gave the gov. the right to suspend any publications speaking bad about the Church; he formally organized the Church's state & so they claimed Italy; also gave them a large grant and recognized them as the sole religion of the state
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what is totalitarianism? |
a gov that aims to control the politica;, economical, social, intellectual, and cultural lives of its citizens
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who did the sandinistas lose power to in th 90's?
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they lost free elections to a coalition headed by Violeta Barrios de Chamorro
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what was the Truman doctrine? what did it state?
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stated the U.S. would provide money to countries threatened by communist expansion; how they responded to British withdraw the possibility of Soviet expansion into the Eastern Mediterranean |
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how did the French president Charles de Gaulle plan to make France a world power again?
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he invested heavily in nuclear arms |
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what is Detent? when and how did it end |
'a relaxation of tensions and improved relations between the 2 superpowers' it suffered a major setback in 1979 when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan; the U.S. disapproved greatly and wouldn't participate in the Olympics |
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after what events did the U.S. break off relations with Cuba?
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when the Castro regime began to receive aid from Soviet Union
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why did the economies of many African nation suffer? |
the price of major exports dropped and they had a poor balance of trade` |
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who founded solidarity?
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Lech Walesa? |
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what was the Dawes plan? what was its purpose? |
it was to coordinate Germany's annual payments with its ability to pay (originally to reduce reparations) |
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Who became the first black president of South Africa?
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Jomo Kenyatta |
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What were the Nuremberg laws?
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they excluded Jews from German citizenship. Jews were defined not by religion but by wether their grandparents were Jewish |
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What characterizes modern African Culture?
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they kept their artistic traditions, yet have adapted them to foreign influences |
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what is pan-Africanism? Who promoted it?
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the unity of all black Africans, regardless of national boundaries; it was promoted by Leopold Senghor, Julius Nyerene, Kwame Nkrumah, and Jomo Kenyatta |
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what happened on Jan 3, 1959? |
Castro's revolutionaries seized Havana |
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where was che Guevara killed? by who? |
Bolivia by the Bolivian army |
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What was the Mukden Incident? |
When the Japanese cited a Chinese attack on a Japanese railway near the city of Mukden to justify them seizuring Manchuria |
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what communist nation remained independent of the soviet control?
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Albania and Yugoslavia |
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What happened at the Postdam Conference? |
Truman demanded free elections in Europe |
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Who led the Army on the Long March? |
Mao Zedong |
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What was one of the first goals of the European Union? |
establish a common European currency/Euro |
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How did Gorbachev attempt to reform Russia? |
'perestroika' radical reforms |
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what country was heavily influenced by the drug cartels and cocaine production??
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Panama
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Why was the Berlin Wall built?
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to separate West and East Germany in hopes to starve and kill of the East Germans |
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What was Kristallnacht
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'the night of shattered glass' when Nazi's burned synagauges and destroyed 7thousand Jewish businesses in a destructive rampage against the Jews |
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Who overthrew the gov of Nicaragua, just to lose to free elections?
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Contras |
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What was the 'New Life Movement' |
promoted Confucian values and rejected what was seen as excessive individualism and materialism of Western Capitalism |
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who was in office in the U.S. during the Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missle Crisis? |
JFK |
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Who did Mao feel would drive the Chinese revolution? |
peasants/middle class |
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what was Eitsatzengruppen and what was their purpose |
they were given the job of being mobile killing units; their purpose was to kill all Jews fast |
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who administered the Final Solution
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Reinhard Heydrich |
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Who were the original members of NATO |
Belgium, luxemborg, france, Netherlands, Britain, Italy, Denmark, Norway, Portugal, Iceland, U.S.,
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the british struggled to control which 2 groups
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catholics and protestants
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what country was dominated by the PRI the Institutional Revolutionary Party?
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Mexico |
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Where is AIDS most prevalent in the world? what is AIDS? |
Africa- its a fatal disease that starts off as HIV that is caused by exchanging bodily fluids |
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perestroika |
gorbachev's plan to reform the Soviet Union by reconstructing its economy |
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who did castro overthrow in Cuba
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Fulgencio Batista |
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Politburo? |
committee that became the leading policy-making body of the communist party in Russia |
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what communist leader initiated the Prauge Spring |
Alexander Dubcek |
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compare and contrast hitler, Mussolini, and stalin |
stalin and hitler are very alike. the only things they don't have in common is their hatred for eachother. Mussolini cant really be compared to the 2, he was more worried about nationalism |
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what dictators were in power during the great depression |
hitler, stalin, mussolini |
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what motivated attack on foreigners in Germany in the 90s
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Germans felt foreigners were taking their jobs |
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who was Franscico Franco? what did he do for his country? |
led Spanish military forces; he revolted against democratic gov in 1963 |
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what happened dec 2, 1947
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pearl harbor |
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why did Germany lose battle of stalingrad |
soviets launched a counter attack |
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what is holocaust |
mass murder of jews by Nazi's 1941-1945 |
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who were the members of the warsaw pact |
soviet union, Albania, Bulgaria, czech., east Germany, hungary, Poland, romania |
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détente |
relaxation of tensions and improved relations between the 2 super powers |
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who was the first leader of Ghana after its independence |
Kwame Nkrumah |
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what happened in Rwanda`
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Rwanda genocide hutu vs. tutsi |
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who was the Tanzania president who pushed for pan-africanism |
Julius nyere
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who ruled using terror in the 1970's
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Idi Amin |
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in what country was the African national congress formed? |
south africa |
