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| Louis Pasteur discovered gunpower |
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| Who patented the first automobile? |
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| One of the chief problems with improved industrial capacity was overproduction |
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| The American Civil War interrupted the flow of which commodity to the world market? |
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| The Conference of Berlin was summoned to set ground rules for the division of: |
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| Only Japan managed to retain independence by becoming an isolationist nation |
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| a rebellion in China against Europeans |
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| King Leopold treated the Congolese as family and uplifted them with his benevolence |
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| Who discovered the quantum |
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| Time and space are elastic and should be conceived as different aspects of the same dimension called spacetime |
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| Einstein called the relationship of motion to gravity the equivalence prinicple |
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| Nietzsche argued which of the following would do a better job ruling the general masses |
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| a call to action to make something of the world |
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| European medicine identified men as vulnerable to hysteria |
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| Freud argued that the cure to societies illness was in greater levels of civilization |
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| The main break with the novel's past began with the war in 1914 |
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| The gap between rich and poor led to the rise of political parties in Britain |
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| The Ottoman Empire tooks sides with the Allies |
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| The Arab Revolt was organized by the Axis Powers |
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| The only pitched naval battle was at |
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| Who suggested that the British army shoot its officers for incompetence |
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| What led to the Russian Revolution |
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| The Treaty of Versailles (1919) was widely hailed as successful treaty that would lead to an enduring peace |
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| The warfare on the western front of World War I was characterized by |
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| The Bolsheviks supported which theory |
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| Woodrow Wilson's plan was known as the Fourteen Points |
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| Who invaded the Ruhr Valley in 1923 |
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| The Balfour Declaration permitted Jewish Settlement in Palestine |
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| What did the pressure of the Great Depression lead most western countries to abandon |
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| Who said: "The Jew...Living under legal disabilities in almost every land has become the power behind many a throne." |
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| The period between the World Wars was one of peace, prosperity, and self-confidence in Europe |
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| Many consider James Joyce's novel Ulysses to be the best of a |
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| The concession made to Hitler |
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| The people of Europe greeted the outbreak of war with excited anticipation just as they had the outbreak of World War I |
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| concentrated heavy, mobile firepower and quick troop movement in small areas |
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| The war in the Pacific ended with Americans using nuclear weapons against Japan |
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| The Final Solution was decided upon years before the start of World War II |
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| The Nuremberg Trials were important because |
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| they marked the establishment of fundamental standars of international justice |
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| Comfort women were women who served as paid maids for Japanese officers to care for their personal affairs |
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| The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was largely the work of Eleanor Roosevelt |
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| World War II had little impact on the lives of women |
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| The Ba'ath Party was founded |
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| as a secular Pan-Arab movement with socialist ideals |
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| The Marshall Plan extended into Eastern Europe |
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| Who wrote the Stranger in 1942 |
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| Europe giving up the bulk of its overseas territories |
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| Konrad Adenaur led the German |
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| Christian Democratic Party |
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| The Prague Spring refers to reforms instituted in Czechoslovakia that were ultimately crushed by Soviet troops and intervention |
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| Second wave feminism refers to |
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| a broad movement for equality for women in the 1960s and 1970s |
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| The Cairo Declaration on Human Rights said that human rights are fundamental to human reason |
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| The Six-Day War refers to |
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the Israeli war against its Arab neighbors |
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| By the end of the century, most Europeans identified themselves as observant Christians |
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| The German Evangelical Church opposed Hitler |
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| Fundamentalism rose to the forefront of several Protestant denominations in the 1980s |
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| More than 90% of Jews living in which country migrated to Israel following the Six Day War? |
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| By 2010 Arabs comprised half of the Israeli population |
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| Ba'athism is a form of Islamic socialism |
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| Hamas began as an offshoot of the PLO |
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| There is a general conformity among Israeli Jews in seeing the formation of Isreal as a largely peaceful undertaking |
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| The Second Vatican Council was an attempt to |
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| The Red Cross estiamted that 5,000 people were killed in tiananmen Square |
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| The idea of uniting Europe in a super-state can be traced back to |
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| In 1992 the Treaty of Maastricht created the European Union |
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| The Assad family controlled |
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| NATO was set up to liberalize trade between nations |
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| Third Wave Feminism tends to see |
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| a gendered nature in everything that makes the masculine the norm |
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| in 1995, Hillary Rodham Clinton gave a famous and important speech at the UN Women's Conference in which |
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| she stated that women's rights are human rights |
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| The Good Friday Accord was meant to bring peace to Palestine |
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| The "Battle of Seattle" was over |
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