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| When was Khrushchev elected? |
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| What was command economy? |
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| an economic system in which the state or workers' councils manage the economy. |
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| A campaign to eliminate Stalin's opposition in 1934-39) |
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| In WWII, Germans had to pay how much? How many years did they accomplish this? |
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| 33 billion dollars in 30 years |
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| During the Nuremberg Trials, how many were put on trial? |
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| How many countries were economically assisted? |
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| Which two countries recieved help from Marshall Plan? |
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| What year did Gorbachev become leader? |
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| Who are included in the sub-humans Hitler accuses? |
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| gypsies, Poles, Russians, homosexuals, insane, disabled, incurably ill. But Nazis specially focused on the Jews |
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| This is the invasion of Austria by Germany |
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| What's the Kellogg-Briand Pact? |
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| The pact to renounce war as a national policy |
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| How many soldiers were lost in Russia during WWII? |
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| What was the Zimmerman note? |
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| A letter that exposed German plans to help Mexico regain US territory. PUshing the US into WWI. |
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| In what part of Europe were the Western and Eastern Front? |
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| Which nation's actions led the US to abandon its neutrality and join WWI? |
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| What was all that remained of the Ottoman Empire at the end of WWI? |
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| Who was the last czar of Russia? |
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| What was Nicholas Romanov II's wife's name? Where is she from? |
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| Who was the leader of Bolshevik Revolution in RUssia and the first communist leader of Russia? |
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| Who was the leader of the Red Army under Lenin and forced by Stalin to flee the Soviet Union to Mexico? |
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| Who transformed the SOviet Union into a totalitarian state? |
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| In what country did the Bolshevik Revolution take place? |
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| Why did the Soviet government decided to eliminate kulaks? |
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| The Kulaks resisted collective farming/collectivization |
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| Goals of the Five-Year Plans: |
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| stronger national defense, modernization of the Soviet econnomy, and rapid industrial growth. (Militarize, Modernize, Industrialize) |
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| Who was the Soviet leader after Stalin? |
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| What was the name of the first satellite sent into space? What did it start? |
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| What country suffered greatly because of war debts (WWI)? |
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| What was the Kellogg-Briand Pact? |
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| an international peace agreement after WWI |
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| What do fascism and communism have in common? |
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| They encourage strong nationalist feelings, are one party systems, and disreguard individual rights |
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| Who were the Axis Powers in WWII? |
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| Japan, Italy, and Germany (JIG) |
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| Who was the leader of the Third Reich? |
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| What does fascism stress? |
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| Which three leaders are Fascist leaders? |
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| Hitler, mussolini, and Franco (Spain) |
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| What was the title of Hitler's book (German and English)? |
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| Mien Kampf, "My Struggle" |
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| What was the attack on German Jews by Nazi mobs on November 9, 1938 called? |
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| Kristallnacht; "Night of Broken Glass" |
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| Which country invaded Rhineland in 1936? |
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| What country did Hitler take over first? |
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| What country signed a nonaggression pact with Germany? When? |
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| Soviet Union; August 1939 |
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| What brought Great Britain and France into WWII? |
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| Invasion of Poland by Germany |
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| Why did the US enter WWII? |
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| The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor |
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| What did Stalin want Churchill and Roosevelt to do? |
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| Form a western front against Germany (Russia would attack from the east to 'smash' Germany |
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| Who was supreme commander of the Allied forces in Europe during WWII and later President of the US? |
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| June 6, 1944, the Allied invasion of France, also known as Operation Overlord |
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| What was Hitler's "Fianl Solution"? |
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| Genocide against "inferior" races |
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| Where was the largest Nazi extermination camp? |
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| What Japanese cities were the atomic bombs dropped on? |
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| What was addressed at the Nuremberg Trials? Who was accused? |
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| The Holocaust; Nazi leaders |
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| What country lost the most soldiers in WWII? |
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| What country had the most civilian killed in WWII? |
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| China (debatable by Russia) |
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| What was the Marshall Plan? |
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| An economic assistance program to help rebuid Europe after WWII |
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| What was the main goal of the Truman Doctrine? |
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| Strengthen Europe's resistance to communism |
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| What was the containment aimed at containing? |
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| The spread of communism worldwide |
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| What was the Warsaw Pact? |
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| The name of the alliance established by European communist nations in response to NATO |
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| What was the Cuban Missile Crisis? |
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| Dangerous stanndoff took place beetween US and Soviet Union, over the presence of Soviet missile |
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| what was destalination and who started it? |
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| The criticism of Stalin's abuses of power, started by Khrushchev |
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| The policy to reduce Cold War tensions |
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| Who did the Soviet Union invade in 1979? |
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| What Soviet leader began the reforms that led to democratization? |
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