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What did Ronald Reagan urge Mikhail Gorbachev to do in his speech at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin?
Tear down this wall.
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Why were millions of people out of work during the Great Depression?
The global economy was more interconnected so economic hard times spread quickly.
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What was the result of the Long March during the Chinese Communist Revolution?
The Communists recruited more peasants along the way.
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What was the significance of the Camp David Accords?
Egypt agreed to recognize and sign a peace treaty with Israel.
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What helped to worsen the effects of the Great Depression in Europe?
High U.S. tariffs on European goods reduced their demands in the USA.
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Who was the leader of the 1946 Chinese Revolution?
Mao Zedong
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What was the immediate cause of the Great Depression?
The stock market crash of 1929
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What do the Tet Offensive, Ho Chi Minh, and the Fall of Saigon have in common?
The Vietnam War
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What is the cause for the continued Arab-Israeli conflict and Arab rejection of the State of Israel?
The UN Partition of Palestine into two countries in 1947.
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What was one of the major goals of Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points?
The creation of an organization to protect countries against aggression.
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Unlike the 1917 Russian Revolution that was led by the ____, the 1946 Chinese Revolution started among the _____?
Factory Workers, Peasants
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Why was the so-called Iron Curtain created by Stalin following World War II?
To protect Eastern Europe from U.S. influence.
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Which two wars did the United States fight between 1950 and 1975 to prevent the spread of communism?
Korea and Veitnam
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What is the significance of the Balfour Declaration of 1917?
The British signaled their willingness to create a Jewish homeland.
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How did the events of September 11, 2001 affect the United States?
It led to increased border checks in the United States.
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Who was the leader of the Solidarity movement that ended communism in Poland?
Lech Walesa
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What do June 6, 1944 second front in Europe, and US, British, and Canadian Troops land in France have in common?
D-Day, or the Allied Landing in Normandy
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What was one major cause of World War II?
Hitler wanted more territory to expand a master race.
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Why did Britain partition India into two separate countries before granting it independence?
Continued religious tensions between Hindus and Muslims.
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What did the United States do to go after the people responsible for September 11, 2001?
The United States invaded Afghanistan to go after Al-Queda.
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What was Nelson Mandela fighting against in South Africa?
Apartheid
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What was the significance of the Yalta conference held between the USA, UK, and USSR near the end of WWII?
To divide Europe between two spheres of influence.
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What was the immediate cause of World War II?
The invasion of Poland by Germany
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What new U.S. cabinet-level department was created as a result of the attacks of September 11, 2001?
The Department of Homeland Security
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Use of violence and terror, censorship and government control of news, bind loyalty to leader, and extreme nationalism are all traits of what?
Totalitarianism