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The term "manifest destiny" is associated with what country?
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United States
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Japan
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Germany
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Russia
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Great Britain
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In 1803, the United States doubled in size after the Louisiana territory was purchased from
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Mexico
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Spain
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Canada
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Great Britain
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France
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The last major Indian victory against the United States armed forces came in 1876 at the Battle of
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Little Big Horn
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the Plains
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Topeka
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Bleeding Knee
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Wounded Knee
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Which of the following was not one of the chief factors for the outbreak of the American Civil War?
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the election of Abraham Lincoln
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the issue of slavery
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he imperatives of building industrial-capitalist system against those of an export-oriented plantation economy
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the traditional argument between British and French alliance
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states' rights as opposed to the federal government's authority
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The U.S Civil War changed character on January 1, 1863, after
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the Battle of Gettysburg
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Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation
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the Nat Turner slave rebellion
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the Battle of Antietam
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The Confederate states signed an alliance with the British
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New France passed into British control after
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the War of 1812
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the Thirty Years' War
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the Seven Years' War
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the American Revolution
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the War of the Spanish Succession
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The main spark for the outbreak of the Mexican-American War in 1845 was the United States' acceptance of the new state of
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New Mexico
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Missouri
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Arizona
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Texas
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California
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The War of 1812
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cost Canada almost one third of their territory
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split the country along ethics lines
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split the country along religious lines
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led to a Canadian-U.S. alliance against Great Britain
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stimulated a new sense of Canadian unity against an external threat
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The U.S. invasion of Canada in the War of 1812
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allowed for the Americans to claim the Dakotas, Idaho, and Montana
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ensured Quebec would remain independent from the rest of Canada
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was the key event in ensuring the American victory over the British
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was repelled
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resulted in a humiliating defeat for the Canadian and a long-standing hatred for the U.S
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The first Prime Minister of Canada was
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Louis Riel
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Martin Fierro
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John Macdonald
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Pierre Trudeau
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Viscount Macartney
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Emiliano Zapata was
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a caudillo who dominated Argentina in the 1840s
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a Mexican agrarian rebel who fought for the goals of La Reforma
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the "Mechiavelli of the pampas"
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the first influential Brazilian writer
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the president of Mexico in the 1920s
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The early stages of industrial development in the United States depended in large part on investment captial from whic of the following nations?
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Great Britain
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Japan
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France
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Spain
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China
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In terms of the industrial development in the United States in the late nineteenth century, the most important economic development was
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the introduction of the steam engine
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the introduction of the factory system
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the rise of trade unions
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the construction of the railroad lines that lined all U.S. regions
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the vast increase in the merchant marine fleet for overseas commerce
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The National Policy, which was designed to attract migrants, protect nascent industries through traiffs, and build national transportation systems was a policy in
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the United States
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Mexico
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Canada
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Argentina
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Japan
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The primary goal of the Creole leaders on the Latin American independence movements was to
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established a unifies Latin American state
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seize political power and keep it
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establish democracy
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redistribute property and restructure society
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eliminate the racial categorization of the people
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By the 1860s, Britain's leading supplier of beef was
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the United States
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Holland
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Argentina
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Brazil
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Canada
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Immigration to Latin America
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Was almost nonexistent after the abolition of th slave trade
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was limited to Africans
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was limited to Europeans
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Included peoples from all over Europe and Asia
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Had little impact of social and economic development
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After the conclusion of the American Civil War, freed blacks
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achieved economic and political equality with whites
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received enough grants of land to become substantial economic competitors to the white population
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flocked to take advantage of the Back to Africa program
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quickly lost their political and civil liberties in the South
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almost unanimously migrated to the west in pursuit of economic opportunity
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in 1882, the United States government ordered a halt to migration from
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Ireland
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Japan
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Russia
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China
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India
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The Northwest Rebellion was led by
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Louis Riel
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Jefferson Davis
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Jourdan Anderson
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John Macdonald
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Porfirio Diaz
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The Suez Canal was essential for
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facilitating trade between both U.S. coasts
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British control over India
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Spanish control over the Philippines
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French control over Vietnam
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the maintenance of the Ottoman Empire
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All of the following were motivations driving European powers to seek new colonies during the era of new imperialism except
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the search for overseas markets for goods and investments
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the search for natural resources
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consideration of national prestige
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the need for coaling stations for steam-powered navies
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the search for cheap labor to import into Europe as "guest-workers"
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The battle of Omdurman
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ensured British domination over New Zealand
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allowed France to establish a colony in Vietnam
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led to the collapse of the Ottoman Empire
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opened the doors for British colonial rule in Sudan
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doomed Russia to defeat in the Russo-Japanese War
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the "White Mans Burden" refers to
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Europeans punitive civilization mission
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the relentless search for markets
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the physical and mental inferiority of the white race
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Russia
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Ottoman Empire
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The most important figures in the uprising in 1857 in India were
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Russian military officials looking for advantage in the Great Game
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disgruntled sepoy troops
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french agents working to cause unrest in an important British colony
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the representatives of the Indian National Congress
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American soldiers looking for an excuse to pry India away from British control
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In the 1820's the British were able to reverse the balance of trade with China, long unfavorable to them, by selling the Chinese
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weapons
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drugs
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steamships
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tea
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machines
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Hong Xiuguian, leader of the Taiping rebellion, claimed to be
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descended from the Ming Emperors
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Jesus' younger brother
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the hidden imam
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Shogun
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Manchus
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Between 1859 and 1893, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos all fell under the control of
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England
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France
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the Dutch
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Germany
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the United States
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By 1900, the only part of Southeast Asia not under European imperial rule was
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Vietnam
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Cambodia
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Malaysia
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Siam
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Laos
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The Congo Free State was established in the 1870s by
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Italy
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Belgium
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England
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France
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Germany
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The Berlin Conference
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set up a timetable for decolonization in Africa
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devised the ground rules for the European colonization of Africa
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Ended the Crimean War
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established the Triple Alliance
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legitimized the German colonization of the Marshal Islands
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The Boers were
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east African coastal merchants
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Indians who served as soldiers for the British
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Malaysian tribal chieftains who allied with the Dutch
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Australian aborigines
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Dutch settlers in South Africa
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In 1770, Captain James Cook anchored his fleet at Botany Bay, near what modern city?
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Melbourne
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Sydney
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Cape Town
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New South Wales
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Wellington
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Which matching of imperial power and colony is not correct?
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England and New Zealand
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Germany and the Marshall Islands
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Dutch and Indonesia
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United States and Fiji
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France and Tahiti
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The Monroe Doctrine
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ensured the neither the Europeans or the Americans would ever interfere in western hemisphere affairs
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opened Japan to U.S. trade
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gave the British an inroad into New Zealand
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worked as a justification for the U.S. intervention in western hemispheric affairs
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handed the Philippines over to the United States
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The United Stats occupied Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guan, and the Philippines after its victory in
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World War I
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the Opium War
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the War of 1812
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the Filipino Civil War
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the Spanish-Cuban-American War
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Emilio Aguinaldo led and uprising in
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Mexico against the Spanish
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Fiji against the British
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Indonesia against the Dutch
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the Philippines against the United States
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Brazil against the Portuguese
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Which one of the following Pacific island remained independent from European, American, and Japanese colonial powers in the 19th century?
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Micronesia Islands
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Philippine Islands
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Hawaiian Islands
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Samoan Islands
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Tonga Islands
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The Sino-Japanese War began with a dispute over
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Burma
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Korea
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Mongolia
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Vietnam
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Siberia
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Japan became a major imperial power after its victory in the
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Sino-Japanese War
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Crimean War
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Korean War
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Russo-Japanese War
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Opium War
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The author of the Essay of the Inequality of the Human Races was..
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Josiah Clark Nott
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Count Joseph Arthur de Gobineau
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Charles Darwin
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Herbert Spencer
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Ram Mohan Roy
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Count Joseph Arthur de Gobineau viewed Europeans as
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smart but docile
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somewhat intelligent but remarkably energetic
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intelligent and morally superior to all other peoples in the world
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dull and arrogant
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unintelligent and lazy
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The social Darwinist believed that
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a sharp distinction had to be made between the biological and social worlds
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only socialist political and social structure would keep humans from destroying themselves
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more powerful nations had to protect weaker nations
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powerful nations were meant to dominate weaker nations
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human beings had reached the point at which competition among nations was no longer necessary
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The term social Darwinism is associated with
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Cecil Rhodes
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Josiah Clark Nott
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Herbert Spencer
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Count Joseph Arthur de Gobineau
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Otto van Bisemarck
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The spark for World War I was provided when Gavrilo Princip assassinated
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Francis Joseph
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Nicholas II
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Alexander Kerensky
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Francis Ferdinand
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Otto van Bismark
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The first total war in world history was
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the Crimean War
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the American Civil War
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World War II
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the Franco-Prussian War
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World War I
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Approximately how many combatants dies in World War I?
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one million
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three million
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four million
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nine million
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fifteen million
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The term for the idea that people with the same ethic origins, language, and political ideals had the right to form sovereign state was
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Utopian socialism
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positive nationalism
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democratic republicanism
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Fabianism
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self-detemination
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The nationalistic aspirations of subject minorities was most threatening to a state such as
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England
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Austria-Hungray
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Spain
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France
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Germany
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What affect did World War I have on the status of women?
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working class women enjoyed the greatest advancement in economic opportunity
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the demands of total war actually reduced the opportunities for women
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all women took advantage of the new economic opportunities which lasted long past the war
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the slaughter caused by the capitalistic tensions caused 32 percent of women to join socialist or communist parties
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women in many countries received the vote in the years after the war.
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The Twenty-One Demands were issued
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by the United Stats to Japan
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by Japan to China
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by Austria to Serbia
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by England to Germany
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by Germany to France
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The Japanese fought in World War I due to their
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anger over German atrocities against Chinese civilians
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long-standing Franco-Japanese alliance
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fear of Americans entering into China
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desire to acquire German colonies in Asia
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erupted after the assassination of Nicholas II
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The March Revolution of 1917
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swept Lenin into power in Russia and led to the creation of the Soviet Union
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resulted in the long-anticipated collapse of the Ottoman Empire
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forced France out of the war
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led to the establishment of a reform-minded provisional government in Russia
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erupted after the assassination of Nicholas II
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The last tsar of Russia was
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Alexander II
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Ivan IV
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Nicholas II
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Ivan III
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Alexander III
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The main reason for the failure of the provisional government in Russia in 1917 was
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Lenin's inexperience in actually running a government
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the growing rivalry between Stalin and Trotsky
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the strain placed on the government by the unpopular alliance with Germany
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the public's desire for total victory, which clashed with the government's pacifistic approach
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the inability to satisfy popular demands for an end of the war
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The Treaty of Brest Litovsk
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was harsh toward the Germans and led to resentment after the war
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forged the alliance between England and France that would later be expanded to the Triple Entente
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forced the Chinese to give Hong Kong to the British
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ended Russia's involvement in World War I
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was shaped by American desires
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Woodrow Wilson agreed to many harsh stipulations to the Treaty of Versailles
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because he felt that Germany had to be punished on a world stage
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because of his personal hatred of the French
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in return for the creation of the League of Nations
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because of his hatred for Germany, caused by the sinking of the Lusitania
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as a means of showing that democracy was the single best form of government
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In wake of World War I, Mustapha Kemal became president of
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Russia
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Egypt
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Persia
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Syria
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TUrkey
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The mandate system
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led to the occupation of Germany after the war
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allowed the Germans to repay their reparations to the Allied powers
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allowed for the rapid spread of communism
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angered the Arab world because it was little more than a glorified form of imperialism
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was one of Windrow Wilson's Fourteen Points
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In the years after World War I, the idea of progress
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gave a sense of hope in the midst of terrible human suffering
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remained the foundation of Asian thought
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became even more popular among liberal Christian thinkers
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was bolstered by the growing popularity of Confucian thought
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was roundly attacked
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The uncertainty principle is associated with
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Einstein
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Spengler
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Heisenberg
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Freud
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Keynes
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The spread of photography
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led many painters to choose the camera as their instrument of expression
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resulted in a lack of creative artistic expression because of general pessimism
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led to a new artistic genre that tried to produce paintings that were more accurate than the camera
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led many painters to take an almost Luddite-like glee in smashing cameras
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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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artists learned to adhere to accepted public definitions of reality
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photography was no longer considered a legitimate art form
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generally accepted standards that distinguished between "good" and "bad" art disappeared
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impressionism was recognized as the single best art form
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a set of criteria was established that allowed art students to distinguish between "good" and "bad" art
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IN response to the Great Depression, economist John Maynard Keynes
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proposed that the government should do nothing and wait out the economic hard times
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was a big supporter of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff
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felt that the government should tighten the money supply
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wrote the capitalism had failed and that it was time for the United States to experiment with communism
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urged the government to expand the money supply and undertake public works to provide jobs
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Which of the following was not one of the chief actions Roosevelt's New Deal?
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tighten the money supply
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give workers the right to organize and bargain collectively
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provide social security in old age
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guarantee minimum wages
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create jobs through public work projects
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War Communism
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was a term first used by Marx in the Communist Manifesto
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called for carrying the communist revolution to the rest of the world by force
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was an unplanned course of nationalization
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instituted free market reforms
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had been the central feature of Lenin's philosophy for twenty years before the revolution
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Lenin's New Economic Policy of 1921
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pushed the peasants onto large state-run collectives
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stripped all land ownership away from the peasants
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called for a trading alliance with Communist China
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temporarily restored the market economy
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initiated the First Five-Year Plan
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The First Five-Year Plan
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was a military scheme that called for a massive increase in arms production
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was designed to transform the Soviet Union from an agricultural nation into an industrial one
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was designed to increase the agricultural production of the Soviet Union and make it the world's leading food producer
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was a communist plan to embrace capitalism in order to promote economic growth
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was a politcal plan to spark a communist revolution in the United States
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All of the following constitute steps taken by Benito Mussolini to consolidate power expect
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the elimination of all other political parties
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outlawing freedom of speech
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instituting a communist system of government
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decreasing freedom of the press
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exiling, imprisoning, or killing Italians who spoke out openly against his regime
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In decades following World War I, nationalism was most powerful in Asia in the regions of
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Korea
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China
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India
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Japan
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China and India
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The most influential organization dedicated to the end of British rule in India was
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the Muslim League
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the Pan-Indian Association
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the Indian National Congress
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League of the Fourteen Points
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Indian Communist Party
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Gandhi's greatest accomplishment was
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reconciling Hindus and Muslims
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preventing a bloody revolution in 1929
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were subject to discriminatory laws and white prejudice
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a lawyer for Africans
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transforming Indian nationalism into a mass movement
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The Indian Act of 1937
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gave total independence to India from Britain
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instituted new measures of oppression that the British used to quell opposition to their rule in India
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gave the institutions of a self-governing state to India, although the British government still exercised overall control
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created the Muslim state of Pakistan
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provided a clear timetable for the independence of India
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Muhammad Ali Jinnah called for the creation of
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Pakistan
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Iraq
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Palestine
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Saudi Arabia
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Indonesia
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The Great Depression aggravated the tense situation between Muslims and Hindus in India in part because
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Muslims precieved that they were economically controlled by the Hindu majority of India
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all British economic assistance went to Hindus rather than Muslims
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the Hindu majority of India refused to do business with Muslims
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Hindus accused Muslims of being the cause of the depression in India
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no answer is correct
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The May Fourth Movement
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disguised the beginning of Stalin's great purge of his enemies
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was Lenin's shocking free market reforms
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perfectly expressed growing Japanese nationalism
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galvanized the Chinese against foreign interference
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is the perfect representation of Ghandi's nonviolent movement
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The former teacher and librarian that became the leader of the Chinese communist movement was
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Jiang Jieshi
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Sun Yatsen
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Shanfei
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Mao Zedong
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Guomindang
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Who launched the Northern Expedition?
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Sun Yat-sen
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Mohandas Gandhi
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Jiang Jieshi
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Puyi
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Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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The Long March
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destroyed Mao Zedong credibility with the Chinese
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left Jiang Jieshi in complete control of the Chinese Communist Party
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forced Mao Zedong to flee China and hide in the Soviet Union
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greatly strengthened Mao Zedong's leadership position
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a revolution that placed the Japanese communist party in power
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The Mukden incident
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started active warfare between the Chinese nationalists and communists
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started the career of Mao Zedong
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resulted in the signing of the of the Sino-Russian Pact
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provided Germany with an excuse to send troops into Poland
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provided Japan with the excuse to send troops into Manchuria
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Manchukuo was the
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Japanese nationalist leader who led Japan into World War II
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Korean leader who vainly fought to push the Japanese out of Korea
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Japanese puppet state in the former Manchuria
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the code name for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
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scene of the biggest naval battle in the Pacific during World War II
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Africans were participants in World War I because
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they were paid a great deal of money by the Europeans to participate
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many believed in the cause of the Entente powers versus the Central powers
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many believed in the cause of the Central powers versus the Entente powers
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they were bound by colonial ties to European powers
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they were paid a great deal of money by the Europeans to participate and many believed in the cause of the Entente powers versus the Central powers
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All of the following African colonies were compelled by European colonial powers to participate in World War I excpet
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British colonies
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Spanish colonies
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Beligian colonies
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Italian colonies
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German colonies
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After World War I, colonial powers
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let go of their colonial holdings
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gave the colonials the right to vote
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shut down exportation
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made the colonies dependent on the European economy
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granted independence for those colonies that served during the war
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Pan-Africanism is an idea that advocated
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the formation of individual African states whose boarder were the same as those established by the European colonial powers
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the creation of individual African states based solely on religious affiliation
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the creation of individual African stats based on language groups
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the establishment of Muslim stats throughout Africa
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the unification of all people of African descent around the globe into one African state
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One of the greatest proponents of Pan-Africanism was
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Malcolm X
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Jomo Kenyatta
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Marchus Garvey
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Jesse Jackson
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Which of the following are U.S. policies towards Latin America?
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New Deal
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Dollar Diplomacy
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Good Neighbor Policy
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Latin American Assistance Plan
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Dolor Diplomacy and Good Neighbor Policy
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Who of the following is most closely associated with the Good Neighbor Policy?
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Woodrow Wilson
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Warren Harding
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Herbert Hoover
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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World War II began with
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the assassination of Francis Ferdinand
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Japanese attacks to China
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A Russian invasion of Poland
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the Nazi invasion of Poland
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the German takeover of Czechoslovakia
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The height of Japanese atrocity in China was reached at the rape of
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Beijing
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Shanghai
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Hong Kong
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Nanjing
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Manchukuo
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The Guomindang during World War II was
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an Asian economic organization
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a Japanese government that rules the Philippines
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the resistance government of the Chinese versus Japan's invasion of China
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the resistance government of Korea versus Japan's invasion of Korea
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an Asian political action group in the United States that campaigned against discrimination versus Asians
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The Tripartite Pact brought together
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England, France, and the Soviet Union
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China, England, and the United States
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Germany, Italy, and Japan
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England, the Soviet Union, and the United States
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Germany, Italy, and Austria
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The Italian fascists used which war as an excuse to intervene and gain valuable military experience?
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Russian Civil War
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Ethiopian Civil War
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Czechoslovakian Civil War
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Algerian Civil War
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Spanish Civil War
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The high point of appeasement was
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the Munich Conference
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the signing of the Nazi-Soviet Pact
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the German invasion of Poland
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Germany sending troops into the demilitarized Rhineland
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the Washington Conference
Frage 95
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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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Winston Churchill
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Aldolf Hitler
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Benito Mussolini
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Joseph Stalin
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Neville Chamberlain
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