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What aspect of the Cold War arms race made it so terrifying?

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The weapons were more powerful than ever before

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A “red scare” was the fear of

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communists in the United States

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After Germany surrendered, the Allies decided at Yalta to

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divide it in four parts, to be governed by Britain, the United States, the Soviets, and France

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During the Korean War, which nation provided hundreds of thousands of troops to help North Korea

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China

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After World War II, the United States offered assistance to war-torn European nations through which of the following?

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the Marshall Plan

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Which alliance was dedicated to the security of communist nations in Europe during the Cold War

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The Warsaw Pact

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What is a major reason why countries were drawn to communism after WWI

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Communist groups promised economic equality and better living standards for the population

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The Truman Doctrine was rooted in the idea of

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containment

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The Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution were social reform programs led by which leader

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Mao Zedong

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The Great Leap Forward

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was strongly criticized as a failure

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Which alliance was created after WWII as a defensive measure against aggressor nations

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NATO

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What did the US claim justified involvement in Southeast Asia

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The Domino Theory

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The Berlin Wall was built in order to

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prevent East Germans from defecting (escaping) to West Germany

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The US became involved in Vietnam, in part, because of the Truman Doctrine which emphasized

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stopping the spread of communism

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The “Bay of Pigs” refers to

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a US attempt to overthrow the Cuban government

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During the Vietnam War, the Tet Offensive

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turned American public opinion against the war

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The Tet Offensive damaged American moral because it

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demonstrated that the communists had not lost the will or ability to fight

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Which of the following best describes the Vietcong’s war strategy in Vietnam

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fight small skirmishes

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The end of the Vietnam War resulted in

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communist control of Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam

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What conflict was called the Soviet Union’s “Vietnam”

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the Soviet war in Afghanistan

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Why has Jerusalem been a stumbling block in peace negotiations between Arabs and Israelis

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Jerusalem is sacred to both Jews and Muslims

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What was the reaction in 947 to the United Nations plan to divide Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states

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The Jews accepted the plan but the Arabs rejected it

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23
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The Middle East has strategic global importance because

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it has large oil and gas reserves

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Great Britain stopped the German Luftwaffe at the Battle of

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Britain

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What did the Soviet Union do during Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939

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It attacked Poland from the east as part of the Nazi-Soviet Pact

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Hitler decided to invade the Soviet Union because

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he wanted the Soviet Union’s vast natural resources

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Who inspired the British people to resist the German invasion

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Winston Churchill

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28
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Which country had gained control of most of Western Europe by 1940

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Germany

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What US action influenced the Japanese decision to attack the US in 1941

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The US banned the sale of iron, steel, and oil to Japan

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Because of the war, large numbers of women in the United States began to work as

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steelworkers and welders

31
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People considered by the Nazis to be undesirable were

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imprisoned in concentration camps

32
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The Japanese leaders believed they could destroy the American Pacific Fleet

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at Pearl Harbor

33
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What caused the US to enter WWII

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the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

34
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During WWII, Rosie the Riveter came to symbolize

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the women who worked in US manufacturing plants

35
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In 1942, what priority did Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin set in the war

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to achieve victory in Europe before trying to achieve it in Asia

36
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The US strategy of island hopping in the pacific

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allowed the US to gradually move north toward Japan

37
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What battle is considered the turning point in the Pacific War

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the Battle of Midway

38
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Instead of making cars, the Ford Motor Company converted to making

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B-24 Bombers

39
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The Germans were finally halted in their advance into the Soviet Union at

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the Battle of Stalingrad

40
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Why was island hopping important during WWII

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to allow American forces to capture key Pacific islands and use them to get closer to Japan

41
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In what part of the world were the battles of Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa fought

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the Pacific

42
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The complicated Allied invasion to take Europe back from the Axis powers began

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on D-Day

43
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What was the final solution to the Jewish question announced by the Nazis at the Warsaw Conference

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kill all the Jews

44
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The slaughter of European Jews by the Nazis became known as what

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the Holocaust

45
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The goal of the Manhattan Project was what

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develop an atomic bomb

46
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Who were the kamikaze

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Japanese pilots who crashed into Allied warships

47
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V-E Day, May 8, 1945, marked

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the end of the war in Europe

48
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What important idea came out of the Nuremberg and Tokyo Trials

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Individuals are responsible for their own actions

49
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What finally brought an end to WWII

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the dropping of atomic bombs by the US on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

50
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What was one of Stalin’s major goals in Eastern Europe after WWII

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to create a protective buffer zone of friendly governments

51
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The provisions of the Treaty of Versailles focused mainly on

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punishing Germany

52
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In Italy’s fascist state, the state was glorified over the individual; the government controlled the people and tolerated no

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opposition

53
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What was a key characteristic of fascism in the 1920s and 1930s

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supremacy of the state

54
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As a show of force, Mussolini orchestrated what event which showed the constitutional monarchy in Italy that he was willing to take over the government by force if need be

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March on Rome

55
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France occupied Germany’s coal-rich Ruhr Valley and Rhineland region in 1923

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because Germany had fallen behind in reparation payments outlined in the Treaty of Versailles

56
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Under Mussolini’s rule in Italy,

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there was a one-party dictatorship

57
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What was a cause of Stalin’s Great Purge

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Stalin feared rival party leaders

58
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In implementing purges, Stalin was attempting to

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eliminate the competition to his authority

59
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A ___ state is a government that aims to control the political, economic, social, intellectual, and cultural lives of its citizens

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totalitarian

60
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In writing ___ ____ Hitler outlined his blueprint for Germany’s future

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Mein Kampf

61
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A factor in leading many Germans to accepted Hitler and the Nazis was

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the belief that Hitler had ended Germany’s economic depression

62
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In 1931, Japanese ultranationalists seized the Chinese province of

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Manchuria

63
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The Japanese attacked Manchuria in large part because they needed the

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resources and living space

64
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Who emerged as the military leader of Japan prior to WWII

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General Hideki Tojo

65
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How did the League of Nations respond when Japan invaded Manchuria in 1931

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It condemned Japan’s action but did nothing to stop it

66
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In 1935, the Nazis passed the Nuremberg Laws, which

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deprived Jews of German citizenship

67
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What measure did the Nazis take that was a rejection of the Treaty of Versailles

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They rearmed Germany

68
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What did the Nazi-Soviet Pact accomplish for Germany

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It gave Germany a free hand in western Poland without fear of a Soviet attack

69
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Which policy did the British use to attempt preventing another war

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Appeasement

70
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Through what action did Hitler violate the Treaty of Versailles in 1936

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He sent troops into the Rhineland

71
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What was usually the first stage of Hitler’s blitzkrieg strategy

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The Luftwaffe attacked ground targets from the air

72
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WWII began in Europe when Germany invaded ___ in September 1939

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Poland

73
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Hitler used which military strategy when invading Poland

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Blitzkrieg

74
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What happened at Dunkirk in the spring of 1940

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British forces successfully retreated across the English Channel

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