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George W. Bush’s wartime adversary

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Osama Bin Laden

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Abraham Lincoln’s wartime adversary

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Jefferson Davis

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Woodrow Wilson’s wartime adversary

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Kaiser Wilhelm II

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Franklin Roosevelt’s wartime adversary

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Adolf Hitler

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Harry Truman’s Soviet counterpart

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Joseph Stalin

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John Kennedy’s Soviet counterpart

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Nikita Khrushchev

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Richard Nixon’s Soviet counterpart

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Leonid Brezhnev

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Ronald Raegan’s Soviet counterpart

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Mikhail Gorbachev

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First territory occupied by Germany in its search for Lebensraum

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Sudetenland

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What war was the Battle of the Bulge fought?

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World War II

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What war was the Battle of the Marne fought?

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World War I

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What war was the Bull Run?

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Civil War

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What was was Battle of Gettysburg

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Civil War

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What war was the Guadalcanal

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Pacific war

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What war was Saratoga

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American Revolutionary War

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What war was Waterloo

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Napoleonic wars

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What war was Yorktown

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American Revolutionary War

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Name 3 accomplishments of Napoleon

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Established bank of France, revised napoleonic code and set up a public education system

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Who seized power in Russia after Russian revolution

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Bolsheviks

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What European countries unified after late 19th century

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Germany and Italy

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Who invented the telegraph?

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Samuel Morse

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Who invented the steam engine?

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James watt

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Who invented the assembly line?

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Henry ford

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Who invented the locomotive

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George Stephenson

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Who was the author of the wealth of nations and founded modern economics

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Adam smith

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What countries were created after World War I

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Yugoslavia, Czech, Poland, Hungary

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The ________ dynasty imposed the ______ form of island on Persia.

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Safavid/Shi’a

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What terrorist origination was responsible for the World Trade Center attack?

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Al Qaeda

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The industrial revolution began in…

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United Kingdom

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First country invaded by the US in the War of Terror

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Afghanistan

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What trade goods did Europeans wish to acquire from China during the age of imperialism?

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Silk, tea and porcelain

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Alliance of US, Canada and Western Europe

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NATO

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Alliance of USSR, and Eastern Europe during the Cold War

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Warsaw Pact

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American naval commander that opened Japan to trade in 1854

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Matthew Perry

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Diplomatic offices headed by consuls

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Consulates

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During the Great Depression unemployment in the US rose as high as…

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32%

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During the US policy of containment, the US became involved in what affairs?

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Berlin airline, Cuban missile crisis, Korean conflict/war, Vietnam conflict/war

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Exemption of foreigners from the laws of the country where they love or do business

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Extraterritoriality

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First shah ruler of the Safavid dynasty in Persia, who made the country prosperous

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Shah Abbas I

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Germany’s invasion of _____ brought the UK into World War I

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Belgium

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Local troops in India trained and led by British officers

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Sepoys

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Which countries are permanent members of the U.N Security Council

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US, UK, France, China, Russia

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Practice based on the belief that government should not restrict or interfere with international trade

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Free trade (laissez-faire)

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The attempt to seize the Suez Canal by France, Great Britain, and Israel failed when…

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The United States failed to support them

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Elite slave troops of the Ottoman Empire

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Janissaries

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The invasion of this country led to the first gulf war

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Kuwait

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The PLO wants to…

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Establish a Palestinian state

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Title of the emperor of the Ottoman Empire

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Sultan

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Title of the military overlord of Japan from 1192 to 1868

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Shogun

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Title of the prime minister of the Ottoman Empire

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Vizier

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Which countries were founding member of OPEC

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Venezuela, Saudia Arabia, Iran

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Which country attempted to be the 3rd superpower during the 1960s?

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France

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Name a country that’s a sponsor of terrorism

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North Korea, Iran

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What did the Berlin Conference do?

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Divided Africa among Europeans

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What did the Camp David Accord do?

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Peace agreement between Israel and Egypt

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What did the congress of Vienna do?

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Ended napoleonic wars

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What did the Maastricht treaty do?

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Created the European Union

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What did the SALT I treaty do?

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Limited nuclear weapons between the US and USSR

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What did the treaty of Paris do? 1763

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Ended 7 year war

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What did the treaty of Paris- 1783 do?

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Ended American revolution

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Watt did the treaty of Versailles do?

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Ended WWII

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In a communist state who owns the means of production?

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Government

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The UK entered WWII after Germany invaded…

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Poland

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What country was most alarmed about Russia gaining access to the Mediterranean?

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UK

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What are the components of mass production?

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Interchangeable parts, assembly line, division of labor

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Conflict over the Sudan nearly brought which two countries to war?

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UK and France

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What event ended dètente between US and USSR?

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Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

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Who promoted separation of powers?

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Montesquieu

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Who promoted the idea of government being a social contract?

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Who prompted popular soverignty?

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John Locke

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Who wrote the Declaration of Independence and when was it published?

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Thomas Jefferson/7-4-1776

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The US was involved in trying to build a democracy in _____ after deposing ______ in 2003

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Iraq/sadam Hussein

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US policy of opposing communist expansion through alliances, deterrence, and confrontation when needed

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Containment

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The UK ended its negative balance of trade with China in the 18th century by selling…

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Opium

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Uprising by Chinese upset at foreign influence in their country…

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Boxer rebellion

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Which countries carved spheres in china in the late 19th century?

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US, UK, France, Germany, Japan, Russia

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Name given to the massive industrialization and modernization program in Japan in the late 19th century

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Meiji restoration

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What treaty forced China to legalize the opium trade?

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Treaty if tianjing

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After the overthrow of the Qing dynasty who tried to establish a republic in china?

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Sun Yat-Sen

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Chinese emperor that tried to bring modern reforms to china in the late 19th century-early 20th century

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Guang Xu

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How was Japan unique in the age of imperialism?

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Japan was the only non-western country to industialize and acquire colonies

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