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Global studies final exam reveiw
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History
10th Grade
01/15/2014

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when did the U.S. stock market crash
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october 29, 1929
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1942 a sea and air battle in ww2 in which american forces defeated japanese forces in the central pacific.
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the battle of midway
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when did paris fall in to the hands of the Germans
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june 14, 1940
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when did pearl harbor happen?
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December 7, 1941
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what was the name of the people who controlled the south of france
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vichy
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what was the name of the attack on tokyo as a response to the japanese attack on pearl harbor?
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Dolittle Raid
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"master race" according to Nazis
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Aryan
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the process of creating a government elected by the people
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Battle of Britain
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Battle where Stalin threatened that his generals better defend his city to the death
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Battle of Stalingrad
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what was the name of the campus that held Japanese-American citizens during the war for fear of them being spies?
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Internment camps
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What happened to Franklin D. Roosevelt?
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Polio
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when did the cuban missile crisis happen?
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October 1962
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what group of people controlled china after the chinese civil war?
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communists

 

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who was the first president to visit china and the soviet union since WWII?
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Richard M. Nixon
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who created the largest oil company in the united states, the standard oil company?
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John D. Rockefeller
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who created the largest steel company in the country in pittsburg named carnegie steel?
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Andrew Carnegie
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Who was the millitary leader who was the cause of the congress of vienna?
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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what happened to the american railroad system after the civil war?
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expanded
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Where did the industrial revolution begin?
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England
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Who brought the industrial revolution to the Americas?
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Samuel Slater
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A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries politically, economically, or socially.
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Imperialism
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an 1857 rebellion of Hindu and Muslim soldiers against the British in India.
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Sepoy Mutiny
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the adoption of a conquerers
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the adoption of a conquerers culture by a conquered people.
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assimilation
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a land controlled by another nation
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colony
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first major leader of the bolsheviks
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lenin
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what was the new name for Russia given by Lenin?
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The Union of Soviet Socialist republic
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