world war one part b

Question 1

irluenza pandemic

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An Influenza pandemic is an epidemic of an influenza virus that spreads on a worldwide scale and infects a large proportion of the world population. In contrast to the regular seasonal epidemics of influenza, these pandemics occur irregularly - there have been about 9 Influenza pandemics during the last 300 years.

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

functionalism

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a form of a religion, especially Islam or Protestant Christianity, that upholds belief in the strict, literal interpretation of scripture.

Question 6

prohibition era

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the action of forbidding something, especially by law.

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 depression

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a long and severe recession in an economy or market.

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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Franklin Delano Roosevelt, commonly known as FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945

Question 11

maginot line

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The Maginot Line, named after the French Minister of War André Maginot, was a line of concrete fortifications, obstacles, and weapon installations built by France in the 1930s to deter invasion by Germany.

Question 12

Ramsey Mcdonald

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James Ramsay MacDonald, FRS was a British statesman who was the first Labour Party Prime Minister, leading Labour governments in 1924, 1929–1931 and, having been expelled from the party he had helped

Question 13

Irish Republican Army

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The Provisional Irish Republican Army was an Irish republican paramilitary organization that sought to remove Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom and to bring about an independent republic encompassing all of Ireland. Wikipedia

Question 14

The Easter Rising

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The Easter Rising, also known as the Easter Rebellion, was an armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week, April 1916.

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 Gandhi

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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. W

Question 17

Igbo Women war of 1929

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The Women’s War’ or Aba Women’s Riots was an insurrection in British Nigeria which occurred in November 1929.

Question 18

kenya

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Kenya is a country in East Africa with coastline on the Indian Ocean. It encompasses savannah, lakelands, the dramatic Great Rift Valley and mountain highlands. It’s also home to wildlife like lions, elephants and rhinos. From Nairobi, the capital, safaris visit the Maasai Mara Reserve, known for its annual wildebeest migrations, and Amboseli National Park, offering views of Tanzania’s 5,895m Mt. Kilimanjaro.

Question 19

Pan Afficanism

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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

Stalin

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Stalin, now one of the top men in the party, was sent there by Lenin to ensure that grain was getting shipped to Moscow.

Question 24

The black Shirts

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Black Shirts, colloquial term originally used to refer to the members of the Fasci di combattimento, units of the Fascist organization founded in Italy in Mar., 1919, by Benito Mussolini. A black shirt was the most distinctive part of their uniform. The Black Shirts were mainly discontented ex-soldiers.

Question 25

Corporate

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Corporate statism or state corporatism is a political culture and a form of corporatism whose adherents hold that the corporate group which is the basis of society is the state. The state requires all members of a particular economic sector to join an officially designated interest group.

Question 26

egypt

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Egypt, a country linking northeast Africa with the Middle East, dates to the time of the pharaohs. Millennia-old monuments sit along the fertile Nile River Valley, including Giza’s colossal Pyramids and Great Sphinx as well as Luxor’s hieroglyph-lined Karnak Temple and Valley of the Kings tombs. The capital, Cairo, is home to Ottoman landmarks like Muhammad Ali Mosque and the Egyptian Museum, a trove of antiquities.
Capital: Cairo

Question 27

Adolf

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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. Wikipedia

Question 28

Angio

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a white, English-speaking American as distinct from a Hispanic American.
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Question 29

egyptian treat y

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The Anglo-Egyptian Treaty of 1936 (officially, The Treaty of Alliance Between His Majesty, in Respect of the United Kingdom, and His Majesty, the King of Egypt) was a treaty signed between the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of Egypt.

Question 30

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 31

Command Econmy

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

Question 32

Ghana

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Ghana, a nation on West Africa’s Gulf of Guinea, is known for diverse wildlife, old forts and secluded beaches, such as at Busua. Coastal towns Elmina and Cape Coast contain posubans (native shrines), colonial buildings and castles-turned-museums that serve as testimonials to the slave trade. North of Cape Coast, vast Kakum National Park has a treetop-canopy walkway over the rainforest.

Question 33

belgian congo

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The Belgian Congo was a Belgian colony in Central Africa between 1908 and 1960 in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Colonial rule in the Congo began in the late 19th century

Question 34

Mass Communication

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the imparting or exchanging of information on a large scale to a wide range of people.

Question 35

new economic policy

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The New Economic Policy (NEP) was based around a tax called prodnalog, which was a tax on food. By introducing a tax, Lenin was essentially admitting that he was taxing something people owned. Requisition had forcibly taken food under War Communism.

Question 36

collective farms

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a jointly operated amalgamation of several small farms, especially one owned by the government.

Question 37

purge

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rid (someone) of an unwanted feeling, memory, or condition, typically giving a sense of cathartic release.

Question 38

Authoritarianism

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favoring or enforcing strict obedience to authority, especially that of the government, at the expense of personal freedom.

Question 39

SS

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SS definition. An elite corps of combat troops (SS is short for Schutzstaffel, which is German for “protective shield”) formed originally within the German Nazi party as a bodyguard for Adolf Hitler and other Nazi leaders and led by Heinrich Himmler.

Question 40

Secret Police

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a police force working in secret against a government’s political opponents.

Question 41

The Spanish Civil war

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The Spanish–American War was a conflict fought between Spain and the United States in 1898. Hostilities began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of the USS Maine in Havana harbor in Cuba leading .