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| What are the three main components needed for production--also known as the factors of production. |
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| What concept from the U.S. constitution have influenced many countries around the world? |
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| The idea that people can self-govern and preserve freedom for it's people. |
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| What idea did Karl Marx create where the workers would bring about a revolution and seize ownership of property to be shared by everyone? |
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| What geographical advantage did England have over other countries in order to industrialize first? |
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| navigable rivers and natural harbors |
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| What invention had the biggest impact on the transportation of freight (goods,cargo)? |
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| The steam engine (created by James Watt). |
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| What is one of the main similarities between the American Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Bill of rights? |
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| Both outline the rights people should have. |
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| an economic system based on private ownership and on the investment of money in business ventures in order to make a profit. |
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| an economic system in which all means of production--land, mines, factories, railroads, and businesses--are owned by the people, private property does not exist, and all goods and services are shared equally. |
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| What country controlled India? |
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| The seizure of a country or territory by a stronger country. Also controlling the political, economic, and social life of the weaker country. |
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| Berlin Conference of 1884-85 |
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| Conference establishing rules for the division of Africa by European nations. |
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| Who was the philosopher that stated that government is granted power by the people. |
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| Triple Entente (1907 alliance- pre WWI) |
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| Great Britain, France, and Russia |
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| What region had a long history of ethnic disputes and nationalism and was known as the "powder keg" of Europe? (Think pre WWI, Austria-Hungrary and Serbia |
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| a form of warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield. |
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The German strategy in World War I to capture
Paris, France and then defeat Russia |
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| What two major events pushed the United States into World War I |
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| Unrestricted submarine warfare on American ships and the Zimmerman Note. |
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| What event pulled Russia out of World War I? |
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| The Russian Revolution caused Russia to leave the war. |
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| When a country devotes all their resources to the war effort. |
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| What group of people did the Ottoman Empire target for mass killings (genocide)? |
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| What country had to take complete responsibility for World War I (Treaty of Versailles)? |
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| What organization did the United States not join because they feared it would cause them to go to war in the future? |
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| Which Revolution did not establish a stable constitutional government--American Revolution or French Revolution? |
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| What event did people establish that they had power over the king of France by creating a constitution? |
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| What countries were created after WWI from the empire of Austria-Hungary? |
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| Czechoslovakia,Yugoslavia, Austria, and Hungary,. |
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| This Soviet plan was created to increase economic development |
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| What do totalitarian states (ex.Fascism and Communism) stress? |
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| Nationalism (state before the individual) |
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| Under Lenin, the Russia became what type of government? |
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| What policy did Britain and France adopt for dealing with Hitler? |
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| Which European country was Germany unable to defeat because their air force was able to defeat the German Luftwaffe(air force)? |
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| What grew because of the Industrial Revolution? |
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| Why did European countries feel they had the right to colonize territory in Africa and Asia? |
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| Where all citizens have the right to vote on laws vs. representatives. |
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| Who created the idea of a "social contract" where people had the right to overthrow their government if they did not protect their rights. |
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