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The uncertainty principle is associated with
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Heisenberg
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War Communism
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Was an unplanned course of nationalization
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The deliberate violation of perspective by Japanese artists influenced
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Edgar Degas
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Who began the fascist movement?
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Mussolini
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In a purely scientific sense, the uncertainty principle proposes that
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It is impossible to specify simultaneously both the position and velocity of a subatomic particle
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Discoveries in physics added to the anxiety of the 1920s and 1930s because
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They called into question the established notions of truth
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On Black Thursday, 24 October 1929,
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The U.S. stock market crashed
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At the lowest point of the Great Depression, what percentage of U.S. banks were out of business?
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44 percent
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The 1935, Nuremberg Laws
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Deprived German Jews of their citizenship
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The father of psychoanalysis was
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Sigmund Freud
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The Russian Civil War that broke out after the revolution was between
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Reds, being the communists of Lenin's regime; and Whites, comprising a collection of anti-communist groups
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The Kristallnacht was
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A Nazi-arranged attack on thousands of Jewish stores
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All of the following constitute steps taken by Benito Mussolini to consolidate power except
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Instituting a communist system of government
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All of the following constitute steps taken by Benito Mussolini to consolidate power except
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Instituting a communist system of government
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Which of the following groups was not one of the new artistic movements of the twentieth century?
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Impressionists
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The spread of photography
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Led many painters to believe that the purpose of painting was not to mirror reality but to create it
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One of the biggest results of the artistic experimentation of the 1920s and 1930s was that
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Generally accepted standards that distinguished between "good" and "bad" art disappeared
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In the years after World War I, the idea of progress
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Was roundly attacked
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This individual's surname means "man of steel."
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Stalin
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The notion that space and time are relative to the person measuring them was first articulated in
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Einstein's theory of general relativity
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John Maynard Keynes
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Urged governments to stimulate the economy by increasing the money supply
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The term "lost generation" was coined by
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Gertrude Stein
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According to Freud, the root of neurotic behavior was
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A conflict between conscious and unconscious mental processes
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The leader of the fascist movement in Germany was
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Adolf Hitler
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Which of the following was not one of the chief actions of Roosevelt's New Deal?
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Tighten the money supply
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The author of All Quiet on the Western Front was
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Erich Maria Remarque
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By 1929, the price of a bushel of wheat was
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At its lowest level in four hundred years
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The leading proponent of cubism was
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Pablo Picasso
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The First Five-Year Plan
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Was designed to transform the Soviet Union from an agricultural nation into an industrial one
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The official goal of the Nazi regime toward Jews in the period before World War II was
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To pressure them to emigrate
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In response to the Great Depression, economist John Maynard Keynes
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Urged the government to expand the money supply and undertake public works to provide jobs
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During the Battle of Okinawa,
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Over one hundred-thousand Okinawan civilians died refusing to surrender
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The Italian fascists used which war as an excuse to intervene and gain valuable military experience?
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Spanish Civil War
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After the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich,
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The Nazis eliminated the entire village of Lidice
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The key to the Allied victories in Europe and Asia was
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Industrial capacity
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The weakness of the League of Nations was revealed in its inability to take any substantial action in response to the Italian invasion of
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Ethiopia
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In the Battle of Okinawa the Japanese introduced
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Kamikaze pilots
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The Japanese finally surrendered in August 1945
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After the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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The Tripartite Pact brought together
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Germany, Italy, and Japan
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The U.S. victory in the Pacific that turned the tide against the Japanese was
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Midway
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The high point of appeasement was
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The Munich Conference
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After the fall of France in 1940, the only country left to fight Germany was
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Britain
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While the Nazi-Soviet Pact was on the surface a nonaggression treaty, it had secret stipulations that spelled out
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The division of eastern Europe
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"Asia for Asians" was the slogan of the
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Japanese
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In the Battle of Britain the Germans hoped to defeat the English
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Almost solely through air attacks led by the Luftwaffe
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World War II began with
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Japanese attacks on China
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By December 1941, the Soviets gained two new allies in their struggle to defeat the German invasion of their country: a severe winter and
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The United States
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The height of Japanese atrocity in China was reached at the rape of
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Nanjing
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The majority of the comfort women in World War II were from China and
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Korea
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In 1938, Germany sent troops into what country and forced its leaders to accept the Anschluss?
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Austria
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The largest of the Nazi death camps was
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Auschwitz
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The Guomindang during World War II was
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The resistance government of the Chinese versus Japan's invasion of China
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The German Blitzkrieg referred to
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A lightning war
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Comfort women were
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Korean and Chinese women forced into prostitution by the Japanese
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At the Wannsee Conference,
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The Nazis put in place the Final Solution
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The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere was designed by
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Japan
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The European part of World War II began with the
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German invasion of Poland
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The Japanese goal in the bombing of Pearl Harbor was
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To weaken the United States' naval capacity
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In the wake of the Munich Conference, what leader proposed that the meeting had ensured "peace in our time"?
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Neville Chamberlain
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The U.S. secret weapon in the Pacific campaign was
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A code-breaking operation known as Magic
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