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6th History Ch. 31
6th History Ch. 31
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6th Grade
03/19/2014

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What did Ganal Abdel Nasser and Ninety Army Officers do in 1952?
Definition
Threw Faruk off his thrown
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When Nasser came into power, who controlled the Suez Canal?
Definition
Egypt and Great Britain
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What was the first country banned from using the Canal?
Definition
Isreal
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What did Nasser want to put his energy into?
Definition
Defending and shaping his homeland
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Why did Nasser want to build a dam across the Nile River?
Definition
To irrigate their fields and to generate electricity from theĀ  power of the water
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Why didn't Dwight Eisenhower ant to lend Nasser money?
Definition
He thought Nasser was friendly with the Soviet Union
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What did the French and British Government do?
Definition
They ordered their troops to leave Egypt
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What did a ration book have in it?
Definition
It was a book of coupons for rationed foods like sugar, butter, meat, and eggs.
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Why did British children have to leave London and go to the country?
Definition
It was to dangerous because houses were being bombed.
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Why did life get back to "normal" in America quickly after 1945?
Definition
They never fought on American soil.
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What does the Secretary of State do?
Definition
They're the advisors to the President and help keep friendships with other countries.
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What did George Marshall want the U.S. to do to help the countries of Europe rebuild?
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Give twenty billion dollars to Europe so they can rebuild
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Why did Joseph Stalin refuse to take the money?
Definition
He thought if he took it America might ask him for a favor
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Why did the government make movies about the Marshall Plan?
Definition
They helped persuade Americans that it was a good idea.
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Why did Germany get some of the money?
Definition
The Allies didn't want to make Germany as poor as it had been after WWI.
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What did America, France, and England want Germany to become?
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A democracy
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What happened to Germany?
Definition
It was divided in half.
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What did more and more East Germans do?
Definition
They went to the west side and never came back.
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What did the East German's government do to Berlin?
Definition
Put a wall across Berlin.
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What was the wall supposed to do?
Definition
Seperate East Germany from West Germany.
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