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| What did Ganal Abdel Nasser and Ninety Army Officers do in 1952? |
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| Threw Faruk off his thrown |
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| When Nasser came into power, who controlled the Suez Canal? |
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| What was the first country banned from using the Canal? |
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| What did Nasser want to put his energy into? |
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| Defending and shaping his homeland |
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| Why did Nasser want to build a dam across the Nile River? |
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| To irrigate their fields and to generate electricity from the power of the water |
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| Why didn't Dwight Eisenhower ant to lend Nasser money? |
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| He thought Nasser was friendly with the Soviet Union |
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| What did the French and British Government do? |
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| They ordered their troops to leave Egypt |
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| What did a ration book have in it? |
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| It was a book of coupons for rationed foods like sugar, butter, meat, and eggs. |
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| Why did British children have to leave London and go to the country? |
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| It was to dangerous because houses were being bombed. |
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| Why did life get back to "normal" in America quickly after 1945? |
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| They never fought on American soil. |
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| What does the Secretary of State do? |
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| They're the advisors to the President and help keep friendships with other countries. |
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| What did George Marshall want the U.S. to do to help the countries of Europe rebuild? |
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| Give twenty billion dollars to Europe so they can rebuild |
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| Why did Joseph Stalin refuse to take the money? |
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| He thought if he took it America might ask him for a favor |
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| Why did the government make movies about the Marshall Plan? |
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| They helped persuade Americans that it was a good idea. |
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| Why did Germany get some of the money? |
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| The Allies didn't want to make Germany as poor as it had been after WWI. |
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| What did America, France, and England want Germany to become? |
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| What happened to Germany? |
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| What did more and more East Germans do? |
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| They went to the west side and never came back. |
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| What did the East German's government do to Berlin? |
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| Put a wall across Berlin. |
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| What was the wall supposed to do? |
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| Seperate East Germany from West Germany. |
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| What happened to the union of South Africa in 1931? |
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| It became independent from Great Britain |
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| Could Blacks in the South elect any representatives? |
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| Yes, but they all had to be white |
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| According to the National Party, who should govern Africa? |
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| Africa should be goverened by white South Africans of Dutch descent |
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| Why did the National Party think whites should be in charge? |
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| They partly believed that white civilization was superior. |
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| What did white South Africans do in 1948? |
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| They voted to put the National Party into power. |
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| What four groups did the Population Registration Act divide South Africa into? |
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| Whites, Africans, Asians, and Colored (people of mixed white and African descent) |
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| What were the National Party lives called? |
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| What was the Separation called? |
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| It was called "Apartheid" |
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| What did nonwhites call the Acts? |
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| They called them unjust laws |
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| How did the government treat African National Congress members? |
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| What rule did the government make about ANC protest? |
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| Newspapers couldn't write about the protest |
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| What did Chiang call the country in exile? |
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| He called it Republic of China |
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| What was Mao's title in the People's Republic of China? |
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| What was Mao's collected writings called? |
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| They were called Mao's Little Red Book |
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| What was good about Mao's China? |
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| People began to grow more prosperous |
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| Name two Republics of China. |
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1. The Kuomintag "Republic" in Taiwan
2. The People's "Republic" in China |
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1. Treated as a hero by his people
2. Made China more prosperous
3. Government harsh and repressive |
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| What were four factors that made John F. Kennedy such a popular president? |
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| He was handsome and well educated; he was married to Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy; he was a war hero; and he had written two famous books. |
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| Where did President and Mrs. Kennedy go on November 22, 1963? |
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| They went to Dallas, Texas. |
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| Who else was with the Kennedys in their open car? |
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| The Governor of Texas, John Connally, his wife, Nellie and Secret Service agents were in the car. |
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| What happened in front of the Texas School Book Depository? |
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| President Kennedy was shot twice and killed. |
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| Who was sworn in as President? |
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| The Vice President, Lyndon B. Johnson, was sworn in as President. |
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| Who was arrested for Kennedy's assassination? |
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| Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested. |
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| What happened to Oswald when he was being taken to the county jail? |
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| He was murdered by Jack Ruby. |
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| What happened to Jack Ruby? |
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| He died before he could be convicted. |
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| Wherewas President Kennedy buried? |
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| He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. |
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| What was the separation between whites and blacks in the American South called? |
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| It was called Segregation. |
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| What were the segregation laws nicknamed? |
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| They were called Jim Grow Laws. |
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| What were the protest against Jim Crow Laws called? |
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| They were called the Civil Rights Movement. |
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| What did Rosa Parks do on Dec. 1, 1955? |
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| She refused to move to another row of seats on a bus. |
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| Who was the Minister asked to lead a boycott against riding the bus? |
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| Martin Luther King Jr. was asked to lead the boycott. |
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| When the Supreme Court told schools to "integrate", what were they telling the schools to do? |
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| They were telling the schools that they must be open to blacks and whites equally. |
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| What did the Voting Rights Acts of 1965 say? |
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| It said that blacks were guaranteed the right to vote. |
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| What happened to Martin Luther King Jr.? |
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| He was assassinated on April 4, 1968. |
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| A dfrat is when young men are forced to join the military. |
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| What government agency keeps track of how many young men could be drafted? |
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| The Selective Service keeps track of these young men. |
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| How did Americans begin to feel about the Vietnam war? |
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| They began to say that it was a mistake. |
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| Who became president after Lynden Johnson? |
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| Who were the "boat people"? |
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| They were Vietnamese who tried to leave by sailing to other countries. |
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| They were Prisoners of War. |
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| It mean Missing in Action. |
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| How many Americans fought in the Vietnam War? |
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| Almost three million Americans fought in the war. |
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| What did Nixon do when he took office? |
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| He began to pull American soldiers out of Vietnam |
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| Where is the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial? |
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| How long did the Six-day war last and in what year was it? |
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| It lasted for six days in 1967. |
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| What four countries fought in the Six-day War? |
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| Israel, Syria, Egypt, and Jordan. |
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| What did Israel take away from the defeated countries at the end of the war? |
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| When did the third war between Israel and her neighbors begin? |
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| It began in Yom Kippur, the day of Atonement, 1973. |
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| What country helped Israel? |
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| The United States helped Israel. |
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| What was the refusal by OPEC to sell oil to America called? |
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| It was called an oil embargo. |
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| Once the government announced that gas would be rationed, what method did it use for people to get gas fairly? |
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| If the LAST number of your license plate was an odd number, you could ONLY buy gas on odd numbered days. If the LAST number was even, then you could ONLY buy gas on EVEN number days. |
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| What was the second way the government tried to deal with the oil shortage? |
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They made the highest speed limit for every state to be 55 miles per hour.
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| Five years later, who was the president of the United States? |
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| The president was Jimmy Carter. |
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| Why did OPEC refuse to sell oil to America? |
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| America had helped Israel in the Yom Kippur War. |
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