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Question 1

Irluenza Pandemic

Answer 1

An Influenza pandemic is an epidemic of an influenza virus that spreads on a worldwide scale and infects a large proportion of the world population. In contrast to the regular seasonal epidemics of influenza, these pandemics occur irregularly - there have been about 9 Influenza pandemics during the last 300 years.

Question 2

surrealism

Answer 2

Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings. The aim was to “resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality

Question 3

cubism

Answer 3

Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music, literature and architecture. Cubism has been considered the most influential art movement of the 20th century.

Question 4

jazz

Answer 4

type of music of black American origin characterized by improvisation, syncopation, and usually a regular or forceful rhythm, emerging at the beginning of the 20th century. Brass and woodwind instruments and piano are particularly associated with jazz, although guitar and occasionally violin are also used; styles include Dixieland, swing, bebop, and free jazz.

Question 5

functionalism

Answer 5

belief in or stress on the practical application of a thing, in particular.

Question 6

prohibition era

Answer 6

the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment. Synonyms: prohibition Type of: period, period of time, time period. an amount of time.

Question 7

black tuesday

Answer 7

October 29, 1929. On this date, share prices on the New York Stock Exchange completely collapsed, becoming a pivotal factor in the emergence of the Great Depression.

Question 8

great depression

Answer 8

a long and severe recession in an economy or market.

Question 9

the new deal

Answer 9

group of government programs and policies established under President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930s; the New Deal was designed to improve conditions for persons suffering in the Great Depression.

Question 10

FDR

Answer 10

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, commonly known as FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.

Question 11

maginot line

Answer 11

. 1 : a line of defensive fortifications built before World War II to protect the eastern border of France but easily outflanked by German invaders. 2 : a defensive barrier or strategy that inspires a false sense of security.

Question 12

ramsey mcdonald

Answer 12

He became Britain’s first Labour prime minister in 1924

Question 13

irish republican army

Answer 13

The Irish Republican Army (IRA) is any of several armed movements in Ireland in the 20th and 21st centuries dedicated to Irish republicanism, the belief that all of Ireland should be an independent republic. It was also characterised by the belief that political violence was necessary to achieve that goal.

Question 14

the easter rising

Answer 14

Easter Rising. noun. an armed insurrection in Dublin in 1916 against British rule in Ireland: the insurgents proclaimed the establishment of an independent Irish republic before surrendering, 16 of the leaders later being executed.

Question 15

the weimar republic

Answer 15

The Weimar Republic was the democratic government founded in Germany following Kaiser Wilhelm II’s abdication near the end of War World I. It continued in name until 1945, but actually ended with Hitler’s seizure of dictatorial powers in 1933.

Question 16

mohandas gandhi

Answer 16

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was the leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India. Employing nonviolent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world.

Question 17

igbo womens war of 1929

Answer 17

The “riots” or the war, led by women in the provinces of Calabar and Owerri in southeastern Nigeria in November and December of 1929, became known as the “Aba Women’s Riots of 1929” in British colonial history, or as the “Women’s War” in Igbo history.

Question 18

kenya

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Kenya is a country in East Africa with coastline on the Indian Ocean. It encompasses savannah, lakelands, the dramatic Great Rift Valley and mountain highlands. It’s also home to wildlife like lions, elephants and rhinos.

Question 19

pan africanism

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the principle or advocacy of the political union of all the indigenous inhabitants of Africa.

Question 20

civil disobedience

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the refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes and fines, as a peaceful form of political protest

Question 21

indian national congress

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Congress party definition. A political party in India, formally the Indian National Congress, established in the late nineteenth century. It was the party of Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru. After India achieved independence from Britain in 1947, the Congress party dominated India’s politics for two decades.

Question 22

mussolini

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Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian politician, journalist, and leader of the National Fascist Party, ruling the country as Prime Minister from 1922 to 1943.

Question 23

stalin

Answer 23

The man responsible for the most deaths caused worldwide. This is hardly recognized, and those he killed were his own people

Question 24

the black shirts

Answer 24

Definition of Blackshirt. : a member of a fascist organization having a black shirt as a distinctive part of its uniform; especially : a member of the Italian Fascist party.

Question 25

corporatist state

Answer 25

Corporate statism or state corporatism is a political culture and a form of corporatism whose adherents hold that the corporate group which is the basis of society is the state. The state requires all members of a particular economic sector to join an officially designated interest group.

Question 26

egypt

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Egypt, a country linking northeast Africa with the Middle East, dates to the time of the pharaohs. Millennia-old monuments sit along the fertile Nile River Valley, including Giza’s colossal Pyramids and Great Sphinx as well as Luxor’s hieroglyph-lined Karnak Temple and Valley of the Kings tombs. The capital, Cairo, is home to Ottoman landmarks like Muhammad Ali Mosque and the Egyptian Museum, a trove of antiquities.

Question 27

adolf hitler

Answer 27

Adolf Hitler was a German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party, Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and Führer of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945.

Question 28

anglo

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a white, English-speaking American as distinct from a Hispanic American

Question 29

egyptian treaty kemal

Answer 29

The Treaty of Sèvres (French: Traité de Sèvres) was one of a series of treaties that the Central …. Turkish nationalist leader Mustafa Kemal demanded that the Turks fight against the Greeks trying to take the …. and extending from the Alma Dagh Mountains on the south to Egypt on the south; Area of territory

Question 30

five year plan

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a government plan for economic development over five years. The first such plan in the Soviet Union was inaugurated in 1928.

Question 31

command economy

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an economy in which production, investment, prices, and incomes are determined centrally by a government.

Question 32

ghanna

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noun. a republic in West Africa comprising the former colonies of the Gold Coast and Ashanti, the protectorate of the Northern Territories, and the U.N. trusteeship of British Togoland: member of the Commonwealth of Nations since 1957. 91,843 sq.

Question 33

belgian congo

Answer 33

The Belgian Congo (French: Congo Belge, Dutch: Belgisch-Congo) was a Belgian colony in Central Africa between 1908 and 1960 in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Colonial rule in the Congo began in the late 19th century.

Question 34

fascism

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an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization.

Question 35

pablo picasso

Answer 35

Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, also known as Pablo Picasso (/pɪˈkɑːsoʊ, -ˈkæsoʊ/; Spanish: [ˈpaβlo piˈkaso]; 25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973), was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France.

Question 36

abstract expressionism

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a development of abstract art that originated in New York in the 1940s and 1950s and aimed at subjective emotional expression with particular emphasis on the creative spontaneous act

Question 37

nazi party

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The Nazi Party was a political group that ruled Germany between 1933 and 1945. “Nazi” is a short form of the official name. In English the official name is the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. Under Adolf Hitler’s leadership, the Nazis started World War II.

Question 38

mass communication

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the imparting or exchanging of information on a large scale to a wide range of people.

Question 39

new economic policy

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The New Economic Policy was an economic policy of Soviet Russia proposed by Vladimir Lenin, who described it as a progression towards “state capitalism” within the workers’ state of the USSR.

Question 40

collective forms

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a jointly operated amalgamation of several small farms, especially one owned by the government.

Question 41

purge

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an abrupt or violent removal of a group of people from an organization or place.

Question 42

authoritarianism

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favoring or enforcing strict obedience to authority, especially that of the government, at the expense of personal freedom.

Question 43

ss

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. An elite corps of combat troops (SS is short for Schutzstaffel, which is German for “protective shield”) formed originally within the German Nazi party as a bodyguard for Adolf Hitler and other Nazi leaders and led by Heinrich Himmler.

Question 44

secret police

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a police force working in secret against a government’s political opponents.

Question 45

the spanish civil war

Answer 45

Spanish Civil War definition. A war fought in the late 1930s in Spain. On one side were the Loyalists, Spaniards loyal to a recently elected government in the form of a republic; on the other side were fascists (see fascism), led by General Francisco Franco.