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Mystery of History 4 Semester 2 Flashcards

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Man walks on the Moon

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July 20, 1969

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The collapse of the Soviet Union

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December 26,1991

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3
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World War I

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1914-1918

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4
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Formation of Isreal

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May 14, 1948

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The Great Depression

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1929

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World War II

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Sept 3, 1939 - Sept 2, 1945

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Who was the pilot of the first successful motorized flight? and what was the date?

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Orville Wright
December 17, 1903

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Who invented the braille system for the blind?

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Louis Braille

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Who wrote papers about the light, atoms and relativity and got his doctorate at age 26?

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Albert Einstein

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What Norwegian and his crew reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911?

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Roald Amundsen

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What country introduced poison gas in during World War I?

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Germany

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What country agreed to the armistice on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918?

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Germany

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Who formed the USSR in 1922, which grew from 4 to 15 republics?

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Vladimir Lenin

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Both the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil war lasted how many years?

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Two years

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Who marched on Rome Italy in 1922 and usurped Victor Emmanuel III in the “bloodless revolution”?

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Benito Mussolini

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Who died of a supposed brain hemorrhage before the Korean war ended?

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Joseph Stalin

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Who promised a “New Deal” for Americans in 1932?

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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After the famous salt march, who organized the Quit India movement to free India from British rule?

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Mohandas Gandhi

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What country had the Weimar Republic, to give the people a constitution, a president and a two house parliament?

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Germany

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20
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What secret society was founded in 1918 for the preservation of the Aryan race?
Who was the founder of the German worker’s Party

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Thule Society

Anton Drexler

21
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Who helped to found the confessing church, which did not align with the Nazi party?

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer

22
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What war ended when Francisco Franco was victorious over the left-wing Republican leaders?

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the Spanish Civil War

23
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Name the Axis Powers at the start of World War II

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Germany, Italy, and the Soviet Union

24
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Who violated the Nazi/Soviet Pact by launching Operation Barbarossa and invading the USSR?

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Adolf Hitler

25
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Who led the Allies in the invasion at Normandy?

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Dwight D Eisenhower

26
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Who was in charge of a plot to kill Hitler, called Valkyrie, which failed?

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Claus von Stauffenberg

27
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Who created the US Air Force, the CIA and the Department of Defence?

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President Harry Truman

28
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Who declared Israel a secular state in Palestine?

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David Ben-Gurion

29
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Who taught at St. Mary’s School in Calcutta?

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Sister Teresa

30
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Who established Jiangxi-Soviet as a Communist territory in China?

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Mao Zedong

31
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What was built on the 38th parallel to divide two countries?

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The Korean Demilitarized Zone, separated North Korea and South Korea

32
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Who supplied Cuba with nuclear missiles from the Soviet Union and caused the Cuban Millie Crisis?

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Nikita Khrushchev

33
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Boa Dai served as a puppet ruler under the Japanese and French in what country?

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Vietnam

34
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Who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 for helping with the Civil Rights Act?

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Martin Luther King Jr.

35
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Wernher von Braun, was a former Nazi who designed the Saturn V rocket that fired what spaceship?

A

Apollo 11

36
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Norma McCorvey

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Texas

37
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James McCord

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Watergate Hotel

38
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Ayatollah Khomeini

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Iran

39
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Anwar Sadat

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Camp David

40
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Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu

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Romania

41
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Saddam Hussein

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Iraq

42
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When the Soviet Union collapsed who vied for leadership?

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Boris Yeltsin and Mikhail Gorbachev

43
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Slobodan Milosevic, who died in prison before he could be tried for war crimes, was the leader of what country?

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Yugoslavia

44
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Nelson Mandela spent 18 years in a cell on Robben Island for fighting against what?

A

apartheid

45
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Osama bin Laden was born in Saudi Arabia, what did he start in 1988?

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al-Qaeda

46
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What did John write from the island of Patmos?

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Revelation

47
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What did George W Bush declare unofficially after the 9/11 attacks?

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“War on Terror”

48
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One of the suspects in the John F Kennedy assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald, was killed on his way to county jail by whom?

A

Jack Ruby

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