Vocabulary

Question 1

influenzab pandemic

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Pandemic Influenza definition and the World Health Organization (WHO) pandemic phases: A pandemic is a global disease outbreak. A flu pandemic occurs when a new influenza virus emerges for which people have little or no immunity and for which there is no vaccine.

Question 2

surrealism

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a 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, for example by the irrational juxtaposition of images.

Question 3

cubism

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an early 20th-century style and movement in art, especially painting, in which perspective with a single viewpoint was abandoned and use was made of simple geometric shapes, interlocking planes, and, later, collage.

Question 4

jazz

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a 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

functionlism

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in the arts) the doctrine that the design of an object should be determined solely by its function, rather than by aesthetic considerations, and that anything practically designed will be inherently beautiful.

Question 6

prohibition era

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n 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

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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 depressiom

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the financial and industrial slump of 1929 and subsequent years.

Question 9

the new deal

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New Deal definition. A 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

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FDR definition, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Question 11

maginot line

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Definition of Maginot Line. 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

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James Ramsay MacDonald, FRS was a British statesman who was the first Labour Party Prime .

Question 13

Irish republican

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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

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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

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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 gandi

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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

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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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an equatorial country in East Africa, on the Indian Ocean… Meaning, pronunciation, example sentences, and more from Oxford Dictionaries.

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

stalian

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an uncastrated adult male horse.

Question 24

the black shirts

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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

egypt

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Officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, a country in northeastern Africa bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Israel and the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south, and Libya to the west. The principal geographic feature of the country is the Nile River.

Question 26

adolf hitler

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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 27

anglo

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

Question 28

egyptian treaty kemal

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The Treaty of Sèvres (French: Traité de Sèvres) was one of a series of treaties that the Central …. Turkish nationalist leader Mustafa Kemal demanded t

Question 29

five year plan

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

Question 30

command economy

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

Question 31

ghana

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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.

Question 32

belgian congo

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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 33

francism

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

Question 34

pablo picasso

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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 35

abstract expression

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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 (e.g., action painting). Leading figures were Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning.

Question 36

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.