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World History Final
Second Semester
45
History
10th Grade
06/02/2008

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why did US and USSR consider Cuba important?
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location
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The axis countries?
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Germany, Italy, Japan
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Which North Korean leader was called Great Leader?
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Kim Ill Sung
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what event led to the US entering the cold war?
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the attack on pearl harbor
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how did imperialism lead to WWI
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countries got hot over colonies
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in the 1800s vietnam was a colony of what country?
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france
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the 1st US president to visit the USSR?
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Richard Nixon
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the ruler of Russia before their revolution?
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czar nicholas
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SALT means?
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Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty
agreement to limit production and deployement of certain nuclear weapons
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the soviet union leader to sign SALT was...
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Leonid Brezhnev
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who was the american leader during the cuban missle crisis?
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kennedy
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why did the korean war begin?
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the north attacked the south
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which country provided goods for north korea?
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china
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why did a serbian terrorist attack ferdinand
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what is appeasement
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why was WWI more destructive than earlier wars?
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allies
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great britain, france, ussr, and us
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the leader of the bolsheviks during their revolution was
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Lenin
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D-Day
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the Allied invasion of France at Normandy
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U.S. president who criticized USSR's human rights and boycotted the olympics
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Vietminh?
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what was the even when cuban exiles invaded cuba
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bay of pigs
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the slogan made famous by Lenin
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Land Peace and Bread
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the conflict over land in austria-hungary
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what was the outcome of the korean war
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N.K. remained communist and S.K became democratic (and succesful)
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what happened to chinse nationalists after the chinese civil war
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they fled to taiwan
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what was the event when US and USSR came closest to war
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cuban missle crisis
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what is the term that refers to improved relations between US and USSR
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detente
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the leader during the cuban missle crisis was...
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khrushchev
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the communist leader of north vietnam
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Ho Chi Minh
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y did the communists help out in vietnam
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the group of laws preventing jews to marry nonjews
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nuremburg laws
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what country did not join the league of nations which made it fail
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what was the goal of stalins 5 year plan
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the big three countries were
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US USSR great britain
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what was Mao's program to increase it's output in stuff
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the great leap forward
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what event ended WWII for europe
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nationalism
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mao's program to rid the country of boiurgeios tendencies
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the cultural revolution
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why did the korean war end
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what was the zimmerman telegram
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what is the domino effect
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was was hitler's word for his final extermination
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the final solution
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what are uboats and who used them
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germany, submarines
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why did WWI last so long
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trench warfre
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