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7th Grade Final Exam Flashcards

1
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French aristocrats and nobles were members of the _____ estate?

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2nd

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French Clergy were members of the _____ Estate?

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1st

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French peasants and merchants were members of the _____ Estate?

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3rd

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Name the French king and queen during the French Revolution?

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Louis XVI and Marie Antounette

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5
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Name the French writer who described and endorsed the Enlightenment ideals

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Voltaire

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6
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Name the important French document that stated the rights of all French men and citizens

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Declaration of the Rights of Man

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7
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Name the committee that led France’s revolutionary government and resulted in the Reign of Terror

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Committee of Public Safety

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8
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Name the army general who became the dictator of France

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Napoleon Bonaparte

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9
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In what country did the French lose 500,000 men to the Grand Army due to harsh weather and enemy soldiers?

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Russia

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10
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Hungry revolted against what European country?

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Austria

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11
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Name the chancellor of Prussia who united all German territories into one country

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Otto von Bismarck

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12
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Who was the first kaiser of the United Germany?

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Kaiser Wilhelm I

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13
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Many British farmers moved to the _____ during the 18th and 19th centuries

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City

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14
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Who invented the reaping machine?

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Cyrus McCormick

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15
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Who invented the cotton gin?

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Eli Whitney

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16
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Who improved the steam engine?

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James Watt

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17
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Who used patents to control the sales of inventions?

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Richard Arkwright

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18
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Name the dominant nation in Europe after Napoleon’s defeat?

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Great Britain

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19
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The 1833 Factory Act placed limits on?

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Child Labor

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20
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Name the first known religious group to fight against the salve trade

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Quakers

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21
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Name the man who led the British parliament to end the British slave trade

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William Wilberforce

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22
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Name the American who published the first known article in the American colonies that supported the freeing of slaves

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Thomas Paine

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23
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Name the American abolitionist who was once a slave in Maryland

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Frederick Douglas

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24
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Define Suffrage

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The right to vote

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25
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Name the British Prime Minister who increased the number of eligible British voters

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Benjamin Disraeli

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26
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Before voting rights in Britain, the privilege to vote was based on

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Land ownership

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27
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Anti-semitism is hatred towards

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Jews

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28
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The Dreyfus Affair occurred in which country?

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France

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29
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What was Dreyfus accused of doing?

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Passing military secrets to the Germans

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30
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Who described Russian life in the book War and Peace?

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Leo Tolstoy

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31
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What British author wrote about hardships in England’s Industrial Age?

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Charles Dickens

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32
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Name the French chemist who stemmed the spread of several diseases

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Louis Pasteur

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33
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Who wrote The Descent of Man and Origin of Species?

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Charles Darwin

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34
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Who invented the automobile?

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Henry Ford

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35
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Who was the first to patent the telephone?

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Alexander Graham Bell

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36
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Who was the first to patent the telegraph?

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Samuel Morse

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37
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Name 3 things that the Fante Confederation promoted in Africa

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Education, Self Rule, and improving the lives of their people

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38
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Menelik was the ruler of what African country

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Ethiopia

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39
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Name the African general who used modern weaponry to defend the Wassoulou Empire

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Samori Ture

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40
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Name the British explorer and missionary who discovered the waterfalls that were later named for the queen of England

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David Livingstone

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41
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Victoria Falls is located near what river?

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Zambezi River

42
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Name the Scottish missionary who preached the gospel in South Africa for 53 years

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Robert Moffat

43
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Name the 1st African bishop in the Anglican Church

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Samuel Ajayi Crowther

44
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Early British trade in Africa centered around what trade?

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Slave Trade

45
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In 1868, what African scholar disproved claims of the racial inferiority of the black man?

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John Africanus Horton

46
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Leopold was the imperialist king of what European country?

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Belgium

47
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Ethiopia defeated what European country and resisted colonization?

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Italy

48
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Name the ruler that laid the foundation for modern Turkey

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Mahmud II

49
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What imperial ruler oppressed Russia’s peasants by legalizing the sale of serfs separately from the land?

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Catherine the Great

50
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Napoleon’s army suffered great losses due to harsh winter weather while retreating

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Russia

51
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Britain and France competed for control of what Asian country?

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India

52
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Robert Clive won a key victory at the Battle of ____

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Plassey

53
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By winning the ______ War, Britain gained control of much of India

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Seven Year

54
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With only 3,000 men, what British general routed a large Indian force?

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Robert Clive

55
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Jonathan Goforth was a missionary to _______

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China

56
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The Asian country that escaped European imperialism by serving as a buffer between French and British Territories

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Siam

57
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Commodore Matthew Perry pressured what Asian country to open for trade and end it’s isolation?

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Japan

58
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Meiji means_______

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“Enlightened Rule”

59
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The Austrian heir to the throne who was assasinated and it started WWI

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Archduke Francis Ferdinand

60
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Define “stalemate”

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when large numbers of troops die without major gains for either side

61
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In the 1800’s and 1900’s, the Ottoman Empire tried to eliminate what group of people?

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Armenians

62
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Define total war

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War in which all resources of a country are devoted to destroying the enemy

63
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Name the treaty that was signed and ended WWI

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Treaty of Versaille

64
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Name the Nazi leader

A

Adolf Hitler

65
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Name the 1st Russian communist dictator

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Vladimir Lenin

66
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Name the 2nd Russian Communist Dictator who developed the Five-Year Plan and killed many Christians

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Joseph Stalin

67
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Woodrow Wilson led in the formation of what organization?

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League of Nations

68
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Name the leader of the Chinese Communist Party

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Mao Zedang

69
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Name the father of Modern Physics

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Albert Einstein

70
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In the 1930’s, what American President established a number of federal agencies that were supposed to create jobs and bring America out of the Great Depression?

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt

71
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The Emperor of Japan during WWII

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Emperor Hirohito

72
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Japanese general who expanded his country’s military power

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Hideki Tojo

73
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Define Appeasement

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Avoiding conflict by making concessions or giving them something

74
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The President of the USA during WWII that died shortly before the war ended

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Franklin Roosevelt

75
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British Prime Minister who tried to avoid war by giving in to Hitler’s demands

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Neville Chamberlain

76
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Hitler called his German empire the _____

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Third Reich

77
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What country maintained its policy of isolation from European conflicts at the beginning of WWII?

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USA

78
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Who led German forces in Africa?

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Erwin Rommel

79
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Who was the supreme allied commander in the Pacific?

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General Douglas MacArthur

80
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Victory in Europe day was

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May 8th, 1945

81
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The US dropped two atomic bombs in what country?

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Japan

82
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The Nazis killed almost 1 million _______ at the concentration camp in Auschwitz

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Jews

83
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Japan wrote a constitution and developed a democratic government after WWII under what man’s leadership?

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General Douglas MacArthur

84
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Konrad Adenauer established a free market in what country?

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West Germany

85
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Name the first communist dictator of China

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Mao Zedang

86
Q

Chaing Kai-shek founded the Republic of China on what island?

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Taiwan in 1949

87
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In 1962, the Soviet Union placed nuclear missiles in what country?

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Cuba

88
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Mohatma Gandhi helped what country achieve independence from Great Britain?

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India

89
Q

Who attacked Israel the day after it declared its independence?

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Arab forces of Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Iraq

90
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The Jews overwhelmed a superior Arab force in what short war?

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Six-Day War

91
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Great Britain’s first woman Prime Minister

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Margaret Thatcher

92
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The Solidarity Movement was an anti-communist labor movement in what country?

A

Poland

93
Q

Soviet leader who allowed private ownership of industry, released political prisoners, and became the first Soviet president

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Mikhail Gorbachev

94
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American President who helped spread democracy to other countries and promoted the Space Defense Initiative

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Ronald Reagan

95
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Name the resources that remains the main source of energy for transportation, heat, and electricity

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Oil

96
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Define Single Market

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Enables states to trade with one another without restriction

97
Q

The CFA franc is a currency used on what continent?

A

Africa

98
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An economic union of what continent combines 8 countries into trade cooperation

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Africa

99
Q

Why was the internet first developed in the USA?

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To enable the military to continue to communicate following a nuclear attack

100
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Al Qaeda and the Taliban are radical organizations that practice what religion?

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Islam

101
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Saddam Hussein invaded what country in 1990 and seized its oil reserves?

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Kuwait

102
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What religious group persecutes Christians in North Africa?

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Muslims

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