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Which of the following helped british farmers increase food production in the 1700s? |
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improvment in farm machinery
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Which of the following became an important source of power for the Industrial Revolution?
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Why was coal important to the Industrial Revolution? |
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| provided fuel to produce iron |
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How were women treated during the Industrial Revolution? |
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| long working hours away from home |
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during the agricultural revolution in the 1700s, how did wealthy landowners increase food production? |
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why did Britian take the lead in the Industrial Revolution? |
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| they had a buisness class who had a lot of money they could invest |
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industrialization in the textile industry resulted in what? |
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which group benifited the most from the Industrial Revolution? |
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the idea that the goal of society should be "the greatest happiness for the greatest number" of its citizens was a philosophy held by which group? |
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how did the Industrial Revolution encourage Imperialisim? |
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| created a need for raw materials and markets |
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which countries controlled south africa during the 1800s? |
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why did britian and russia want to control iran? |
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result of sepoy rebellion in indea? |
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| british government took direct command of india |
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how was ethiopia able to resist european expanson? |
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| modern weapons and well trained army |
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the boer war- the british fought decendants of what country? |
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| the netherlands-or the dutch |
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what did the indian national congress want? |
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| self-government for india |
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political consequences of imperialisim? |
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| increased tension among western nations |
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how did western imperialism try to modernize lands they conquered? |
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| imposed western culture on the subject people |
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what did most of the profits from the global economy of the 1900's go tword? |
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| industrialized nations of the west |
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in the late 1800's the u.s. annexed what land? |
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to westernize powers, what was meant by modernization? |
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the acceptance of western culture
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| why did germany join the triple alliance? |
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| protect themselves from france |
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| what ended the involvment of russia in wwi? |
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| the brest-litovsk treaty withdraws russia from the war- also aided the russian revolution |
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| what new technology turned wwi into global war? |
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| what weapon made it a stalemate on the western front? |
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| why was it hard to advance during trench warfare? |
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| why was wwi so destructive? |
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| use of new technologies (poison gas, tanks, machine guns, submarines), so many men died, involved so many countries |
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| effects of militarism in the late 1800's? |
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| nations made political and military alliances |
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| result of the Bolshevik reolution? |
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| what was lenin's new economic policy designed to do? |
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| rebuild the soviet economy |
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| how did stalin come to power? |
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| he had a loyal following among communist party members |
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| purpose of stalins 5 year plan? |
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| to turn the soviet union into a modern industrial power |
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| how do you describe facism? |
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| blind loyalty to the state |
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| why was italy attracted to it during the 1920's? |
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| they promised a job to everyone |
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| kellogg-brian pact-purpose of it? |
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| effects of stalins 5 year plan? |
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| expansions of heavy industry |
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| effects of the great depression? |
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| how did hitler come to power? |
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| because of the great depression |
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| what was the purpose of the maginot line? |
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| to prevent german invasion |
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| effects of the great depression in the u.s.? |
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| more government involvment in peopls lives |
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| persecution and elimination of jews |
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| target of the nazi blitz in england? |
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| what was operation barbarossa? |
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| invasion of russia by germany |
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| what does d-day refer to? |
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| the allied invasion of france |
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| what act brought the u.s. into wwii? |
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| turning point for the u.s. in the pacific? |
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| how did the allies end the war in europe? |
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| what does holocaust refer to? |
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| massacre of more than 6 million jews |
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| which nations suffered the most in wwii? |
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| what does iron curtain refer to? |
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| said by winston churchill in fulton missouri-to describe the division of europe between east and west-communist and not communist. created by russia |
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| the two major allies during the cold war-NATO in the west and_____________ in the east? |
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| policy of stopping the spread of communism? |
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| reaction to the soviet occupation of east berlin? |
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| cold war tensions heighten with soviet capture of what? |
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| what was the domino theory? |
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| that if one country in SE asia fell to communism they would all fall |
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| major effect of the cold war? |
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| increased political tension worldwide |
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| space race began with the launch of what? |
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| sputnik satellite by the russians |
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| us hockey win in 1980- "miracle on ice" over what country? |
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| chinese nationalist fled to his country when mao zedong came to power? |
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| effort to rebuild europe after wwii is called what? |
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| country that america went to war with in the 1900's? |
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| they were a colony of what country? |
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| why did we fail in vietnam? |
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| lack of support at home, guerilla warefare tactics, lack of support by the south vietnamese |
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| technique we used against N. vietnam? |
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| policy after vietnam that limited the presidents ability to go to war? |
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| the war powers revolution |
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| in 1979 the USSR invaded what nation? |
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| what did the us do in response? |
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| boycotted the 1980 summer olympics |
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