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| What was divided between Germany and the Soviet Union? |
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| Who argued Soviet Union would collapse if communism spread no further? |
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| First Country to become a totalitarian state after World War I |
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| Germany's attempt to destroy Britain's Royal Air Force |
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| Attacked by Japan on December 7, 1941 |
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| Muslim Country split off from India in 1947 |
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| Period of low economic activity and high unemployment |
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| Germany, Italy, and Japan |
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| United States, Great Britain, Soviet Union, and China |
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| Seized by Indonesian troops in 1975 |
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| German Death camp in Poland |
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| Policy of Britain and France to avoid war with Germany |
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| Leader of Nationalist Vietminh |
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| Book that blamed Jews for Germany's troubles |
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| Hitler's program of genocide that killed as many as 6 million Jews |
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| City in which as many as 120,000 people were killed by an atomic bomb |
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| Franklin D. Roosevelt's social programs of the Great Depression |
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| As money loses value, prices go up |
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| Allied leaders met to make plans for the world after World War II |
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| Leader of Chinese communists |
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| When Germany could not pay reparations, the French attempted to do, what? |
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| D. take over German Industry |
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| New technologies in the 1930's made it possible for totalitarian leaders to |
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| Stalin set up a series of Five Year Plans in order to |
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| become a major industrial power |
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| How did France and Britain respond to Germany's expansion of territory? |
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| Why did Allied Leaders meet in 1943 to make plans for the post-war world? |
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| They were winning the war |
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| Which of the following was a major turning point in World War II |
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| Why did the Soviet Union set up communist governments in Eastern Europe? |
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| to discourage a German invasion |
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| The United States sent troops to Korea in an attempt to |
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| How did the Soviet Union respond to Eastern European demands for change? |
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| France gave its colonies in sub-Saharan Africa their independence in order to |
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| avoid violence and stop communism |
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| Which was a characteristic of Japan's postwar government? |
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| Which of the following best characterizes Japan's postwar society? |
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| Which of the following is a characteristic that Japans postwar government did NOT share with the U.S. government? |
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| Where was Nelson Mandela when Desmond Tutu predicted he would be prime minister? |
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| Why did Desmond Tutu think South Africa needed Nelson Mandela? |
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| to be the first black prime minister |
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| The future that Tutu envisioned for South Africa included |
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| peace between blacks and whites |
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| Why did South Vietnam's leader refuse to hold democratic elections? |
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| he feared a communist would win |
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| The U.S. policy of containment was meant to |
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| The Truman Doctrine pledged that the U.S. would |
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| fight the spread of communism |
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| Mohandas Gandhi protested British rule of India by |
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Which of the Dictators came into power first?
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Which dictator came to power at the beginning of the Great Depression?
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| How did France and Britain respond to Germany's expansion of territory? |
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| Stalin set up a series of five year plans in order to |
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| become a major industrial power |
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| How did the United States help Great Britain early in World War II? |
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| the cash-and-carry policy |
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| government-controlled information used to shape people's opinions |
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| southern European peninsula that was a hotbed of nationalist rivalries |
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| fascination with war and the military |
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| a state that believed its mission was to unite the South Slavs |
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| an understanding among nations |
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| a way of organizing a society in which the government owns the things that are used to make and transport products (such as land, oil, factories, ships, etc.) and there is no privately owned property |
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| an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state. |
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| The main failing of Sun Yat-sen's takeover was that it |
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| patriotic feeling, principles, or efforts |
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| Western Front fighting in World War I took place in |
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| The United States entered World War I after Germany |
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| sunk american merchant ships without warning |
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| a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force. |
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| British passenger ship sunk by a German submarine |
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| king who conquered Central Africa and forced the people to collect rubber |
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| an important Chinese shipping port |
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| Why did millions of Indians die of starvation in the 1800s? |
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| Farmers were forced to grow cotton |
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| combining small farms into large government-run factory farms |
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| a government whose leaders try to control the way citizen think and live |
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| Soviet leader who replaced Vladimir Lenin |
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| leader of Italy's Fascist Party |
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| leader of Germany's Nazi Party |
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| One major cause of the Great Depression? |
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| U.S. stock market crashed |
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| a strong ruler who controls a country by force is a |
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| Who was known for his anti-semitism, or hatred of Jews |
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