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World History
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History
10th Grade
05/30/2010

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T/F: The Seven Year's War began in North America, but spread to involve almost all of Europe
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True
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T/F: Mary I married Philip II of Spain as part of her attempt to restore Cathlicism to England
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True
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T/F:Elizabeth I's rule was weakend by a Puritan Parliment that blocked financing for her programs
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False
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T/F:Peter The Great made the position of czar more powerful
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True
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T/F:Catherine the Great was more sucessful at domestic rule than foregin policy
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False
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T/F:Henry IV converted to Calvinism in order to unify France
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False
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T/F:Cardinal Richelieu created a system that strengthened the role of the clergy in French Government
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False
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T/F:Under Louis XIV France became less tolerant toward other religions
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True
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T/F:Brandenburg-Prussia grew in strength after Fredrick William unified all the armies into one
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False
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T/F:Fredrick William I lived extravagntly in an attempt to copy Louis XIV's show of power
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True
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T/F:The Diplomatic Revolution was the result of attempts to curtail French power
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False
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T/F:The Treaty of Utrecht was designed, in part, to limit France's power
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True
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T/F:The Pragmatic Sanction allowed Maria Theresa to inherit all of her father's lands
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True
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T/F:Peter the Great moved the capital of Russia in order to escape western influence
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False
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T/F: James I's difficulties with Parliment resulted from his attempts to restore Catholicism
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False
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T/F:The Balkan League was organized to create unified trade between the Balkan states
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False
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T/F: Most African nations resisted assimilation
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True
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T/F: Bismark pushed the German states into the Franco-PrussianWar to unify Germany
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True
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T/F: In general, no one supported Alexander II's decision to end surfdom
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False
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T/F:In Russia, groups such as the People's Will used violence to try to get the government to meet its demands
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True
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T/F: As a result of the Spanish-American war, the U.S gained control of Cuba
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True
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T/F: In general, Christian missionaries from imperial nations had a negative impact on colonies
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False
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T/F: Japan took advantage of the shock of Pearl Harbor to conquer other Pacific Islands
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True
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In general, the people of the United States wanted to join the war immediatley after it started
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False
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The Axis Powers captured Stalingrad after 6 months of fighting
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False
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T/F:At the Yalta conference, Allied leaders decided that Germany would be divided and occupied by the Allied troops
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True
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T/F: Japan invaded Manchuria, and eventually gained control of one-fourth of China
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True
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Lavoisier Proved...
Definition
Matter can change shape or form but cannot be created or destroyed
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Natural Philosophers
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Thought based on religious teachings and classical literature
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Newton's Work Explained
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laws of motion and gravity
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In Ptolemy's geocentric universe..
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its believed that the eart revolves around the sun
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Descartes believed..
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only using known facts to arrive at conculsions
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Sea Dogs
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used piracy to support England against Spain
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Baron de Montesquieu
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Proposed Government of checks and balances
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Rationalism
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Truth can be determined by logical thinking
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Thomas Hobbes
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Believed people should give up rights for order
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Intolerable Acts
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British laws passed in 1774 to which colonists objected
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Factors of Production
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Land, capital, labor
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Mass Production
Definition
system of producing large numbers of identical items
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Simon Bolivar
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Lead several revolutions in Latin America
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Suffrage
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Right to Vote
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Buisness Cycle
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Alternating periods of prosperity and decline
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Romanticism
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Artistic movement focusing on emotion over reason
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Herbert Spencer
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Formulated the theory of social Darwinism
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Ivan Pavlov
Definition
Explained the conditioned reflex
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Socialism
Definition
Political and economic system in which the goverment owns the means of production
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Karl Marx
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Believed  that total evolution to destroy capitilism
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Louis-Napoleon
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Authoritarian French leader
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Communards
Definition
Rebelled against Treaty of Frankfurt and monarchist rule
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Charles III
Definition
Strengthened spanish control angered the colonists
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Emigration
Definition
Movements of people away from their natural lands
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Jane Addams
Definition
A reformer who made cities have social services
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D-Day
Definition
June 6th 1994 the day Allied troops began the invasion on France's Normandy Coast
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Neutrality Acts
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US plan to stop communisim
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Anti-Comintern Pact
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Pledge to stop communisim
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Munich Conference
Definition
Resulted in appeasement
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Henrich Himmler
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Head of Final Solution
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Mary Wollstonecraft argued that
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Enlightenment ideas should apply to women
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Oliver Cromwell was the leader of the
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New Model Army
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British moved into North America in order to
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find the Northwest passage
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John Locke believed that
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people's rights should be protected by the government
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In a limited consitutional monarchy, the monarch had
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to consult parliment
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The Articles of Confederation created a
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weak central government
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The First Contiental Congress called for
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full rights of British Citizens for the colonists
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Napoleon's rule could be best describeed as
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a dictatorship
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The Declaration of Rights of Man established
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Freedom of speech, right to fair trial, right to hold office
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The Directory allowed
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wealthy to regain power
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Universal manhood sufferage meant
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men could vote regaurdless of owning property
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The Declaration of Independence gave
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rights of goverment to the people
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"A Republic of Virute" meant that people
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were expected to be good citizens
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The Hundred Days refers to
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the return of Napoleon
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At the Congress of Vienna, territory was divided up to
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Restore cultural borders, reward some nations, punish some nations
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Among the national Assembly's first actions was
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allowing tithe and feudal dues
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The true beginning of the French Revolution was
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3rd estate declaring itself the National Assembly
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Discontent in France was caused by
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Rising cost of living, lack of political voice, and anger at nobility's freedoms
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The Triple Entente was formed in reaction to
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Germany's military build up
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The Treaty of Brest Litovsk allowed the Germans to
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Mobilize more troops against France
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What weapons were used in WWII
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Poisonous gas, tanks, airplanes, long range artillerym machine guns, and U-Boats
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The Battle of Marne was importante because
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it kept Germany from entering Paris
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After the Revolution, control of the new Russia was won by
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Bolsheviks
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As nations tried to outlast each other, WWI became
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War of Attention
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What are 3 ways the Soviet culture changed during the 5 YRs war?
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Forms became collectives, steel production increased, and produtcion of consumer goods decreased
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During the Paris Peace conference, the US and Europe disagreed about
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The prescense of the formal central powers
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Russia's Communist government tried to improve food production by
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having peasents form collective farms
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What are the 3 effects of the Teaty of Versailles?
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Poland was restored, Austria & Hungray was seperated, and France regained Alasce Leraice
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Hitler's movement of troops into the Rhineland
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there was no reponse
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The Weimat Republic was unpopular in Germany because
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People felt that they had signed a humiliating treaty
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The Great Depression affected
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Everybody
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Postwar Britain's economic recovery was based on
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A coelition, labor and liberal government
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Soviet armies fighting Germany benefited from
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cold weather
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The conquest of Norway and Denmark was important to Germany because they
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access the Atlantic ocean
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Stalin signed a nonagression pact with Germany because
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he and Hitler wanted to divide Eastern Europe
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To avoid war with Germany, Britan andFrance promised not to
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Interfere with German annexation of Czechosolvakia
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The Battle of Britian was fought mostly
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in the Air
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Victory against Japan came after
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atomic bomb attacks
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In the concentration camps, the people least likley to be exucuted were
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the healthiest
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According to Hitler's plan, Easter Europe would become living space for
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Aryan Race
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Victory in the Balkans gave the Axis Powers
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Acces to Middle Eastern and Russian oil fields
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The "sofy underbelly of the Axis" referred to
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Italy & the Balkans
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