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Modern World History Finals
Mr. Torp's Final Exam for 2nd semester
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History
10th Grade
06/13/2007

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1920s women's style seen as uninhibited:
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FLAPPER
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1920s architectural style merging beauty & practicality:
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PROLETARIAT
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Nazi attack on Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues:
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KRISTALLNACHT
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Der Führer:
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HEIL HITLER!
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Germany's Post-WWI republic:
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WEIMAR REPUBLIC
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The 1935 Nuremberg Laws deprived:
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JEWISH CITIZENS OF THEIR CITIZENSHIP
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Roaring Twenties book by Fitzgerald:
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THE GREAT GATSBY
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Surrealist artist:
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SALVADOR DALI
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The name that Hitler gave his gov't:
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3RD REICH
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Built to prevent German Invasion:
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THE MAGINOT LINE
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Mussolini's followers were called:
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BLACKSHIRTS
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FAscists, like Communists, advocated:
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TOTALITARIAN GOVERNMENT
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Site of the first Japanese attack on the United States:
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Pearl Harbor
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German Death Camp:
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DACHAU
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Ordered use of Atomic Bomb:
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HARRY S. TRUMAN
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During the early days of the war, the US advocated:
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NEUTRALITY
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The 2nd Atomic Bomb was dropped on:
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NAGASAKI
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German losses at Stalingrad were made greater by:
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HITLER'S REFUSAL TO RETREAT
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Mussolini was killed by:
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ITALIAN PARTISANS
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Nazis didn't prosecute:
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AUSTRIANs
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Divided into 4 zones after WWII
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BERLIN
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Country which suffered most casualties:
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RUSSIA
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Pilot on suicide plane:
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KAMIKAZE
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Nazi murder of Jews was an example of this:
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GENOCIDE
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RAF maintained control over air supremeacy over:
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GREAT BRITAIN
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STalin's "scorched earth" policy:
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DESTROY THINGS OF USE TO GERMANY
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Africa held what percentage of the votes in UN?
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1/3 OF THE VOTES
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The policy of apartheid was legalized and strengthened by:
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AFRIKANERS
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In the early 1900s, starvation in Somalia was worsened by:
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FIGHTING AMONG RIVAL CLANS
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The countries of Africa with predominant Arab cultures are located in the:
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NORTH
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In the early 1900s, aimed conflict broke out in Algeria between the government and the:
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ISLAMIC OPPOSITION
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While encouraging market reforms during the 1980s, China's pragmatic leaders continued to oppose:
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ECONOMIC TIES WITH THE UNITED STATES
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Of the troops representing the UN during the Korean War, 90% of the soldiers came from:
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THE UNITED STATES
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President Lyndon B. Johnson used the Gulf of Tonkin incident as justification for:
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Seeking greater US involvement in Vietnam
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The Tienanmen Square crackdown stirred fears in Hong Kong about:
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RELATIONS WITH THE UNITED STATES
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Tension between Japan and other countries are:
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THE DIFFICULTY OF SELLING PRODUCTS TO THEM
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The solidarity movement is in:
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NATIONALISM
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Major factor in Yugoslavian breakup:
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NATIONALISM
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2050's estimated population
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12 billion
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Post-Soviet Union federation:
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COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES
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Policy of openness in the USSR:
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GLASTNOST
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Pope John Paul II's homecountry:
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POLAND
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The French Canadians sought:
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INDEPENDENCE
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Republics in the USSR resented dominance in:
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Russia
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US Budget Defecit. (ignore)
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BUDGET DEFICIT
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Rising populations in:
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DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
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In which country was Nicolae Ceausecu based in?
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ROMANIA
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What did Greece and Turkey fight over?
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CYPRUS ISLAND
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Where is the Brandenberg Gate?
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BERLIN
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What is the term given to Soviet economic reconstruction?
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PERESTROIKA
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Used the courts to protect African-American rights:
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NAACP
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First Man on the Moon:
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Niel Armstrong
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City divided by a wall:
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BERLIN
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Headed Senate Committe on Investigation:
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McCarthy
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Site of the UN:
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NEW YORK
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Sputnik I
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World's first space satellite
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Communist country that Tito helped avoid Soviet domination:
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YUGOSLAVIA
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US took over anti-communist drive here:
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VIETNAM
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Policy of resisting spread of communism:
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CONTAINMENT
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80 percent French-speaking
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QUEBEC
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The Anti-Communist campaign was led by:
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McCARTHY
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Supreme Court in Brown V. Board of Education that:
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SEGREGATION WAS ILLEGAL
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Demanded that Japan open up for trade:
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MATTHEW PERRY
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Domination of one country by another:
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IMPERIALISM
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Encouraged Chinese opium use:
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CECIL RHODES
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The Suez Canal connected the:
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RED AND MEDITTERRANEAN SEA
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During the 1840s, thousands of French citizens migrated to the colony of
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ALGERIA
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In 1898 the Phillippines became a colony again after the
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DEFEAT OF ITS REBELS BY THE SPANISH
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Who wrote "The White Man's Burden"?
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Rudyard Kipling
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The construction of the Panama Canal was made possible by the:
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SPANISH DEFEAT IN CUBA
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What type of country is autonomous but is influenced by another country?
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PROTECTORATE
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A country which is ruled by an imperialist power:
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COLONY
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How did Cecil Rhodes make his money?
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GOLD AND DIAMONDS
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In 1885, 14 nations met in Berlin to discuss the partition of:
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AFRICA
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Liberia avoided European colonization primarily because of:
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IT'S SUPPORT FROM THE UNITED STATES
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iN 1853 mATTHEW pERRY USED NAVAL POWER TO FORCE jAPAN TO:
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begin trading w/ the US
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The Roosevelt Corollary implied the US would not tolerate:
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European interference with the Western HEMISPHERE
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Colonial officials often discourage native peoples from:
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Practicing traditional customs and rituals
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Meaning "warring"
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BELLIGERENT
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As the war settled into a stalemate, countries tried to maintain citizens' morale by:
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SPREADING PROPAGANDA
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The policy of requiring civilians to serve in the military is:
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CONSCRIPTION
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Great Britain entered war against Germany when:
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GERMANY REFUSED TO LEAVE BELGIUM
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The United States entered the war because:
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OF THE SINKING OF THE LUSITANIA
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The Lusitania is sunk by:
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THE GERMANS
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Glorification of war:
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MILITARISM
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Preparation for war:
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MOBILIZATION
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Rasputin was the mystical healer and adviser to:
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NICHOLAS II
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Germans resumed a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare to break British control of seas.
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The Triple Entente consisted of France, Russia, and:
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GREAT BRITAIN
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France demanded:
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REPARATIONs
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On the Western Front, many soldiers:
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LIVED IN TRENCHES
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