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What did Ganal Abdel Nasser and Ninety Army Officers do in 1952? |
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Threw Faruk off his thrown |
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When Nasser came into power, who controlled the Suez Canal? |
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What was the first country banned from using the Canal? |
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What did Nasser want to put his energy into? |
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Defending and shaping his homeland |
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Why did Nasser want to build a dam across the Nile River? |
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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? |
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He thought Nasser was friendly with the Soviet Union |
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What did the French and British Government do? |
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They ordered their troops to leave Egypt |
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What did a ration book have in it? |
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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? |
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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? |
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They never fought on American soil. |
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What does the Secretary of State do? |
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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? |
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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? |
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They helped persuade Americans that it was a good idea. |
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Why did Germany get some of the money? |
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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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What happened to Germany? |
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What did more and more East Germans do? |
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They went to the west side and never came back. |
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What did the East German's government do to Berlin? |
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Put a wall across Berlin. |
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What was the wall supposed to do? |
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Seperate East Germany from West Germany. |
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