Question 1

The M in the acronym MAIN stands for what cause of WW1?

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Militarism

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Massiveness

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Monster

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Machinery

Question 2

The A in the acronym MAIN stands for what cause of WW1?

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Alliances

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Advances in Art

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Armenians

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Abolition

Question 3

The I in the acronym MAIN stands for what cause of WW1?

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Imperialism

Question 4

The N in the acronym MAIN stands for what cause of WW1?

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Nationalism

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Nihilism

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Negativity

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Nostalgia

Question 5

Name of the friendly agreement between Britain and France. Britain gained control of Egypt. France gained control of Morocco. No written agreement, only an alliance against Germany.

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Entente Cordiale

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Kellogg-Briand Pact

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Central Powers

Question 6

Name of the official alliance between Great Britain, France and Russia in the years before WWI.

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Triple Entente

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Entente Cordiale

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Kellogg-Briand Pact

Question 7

The name of the World War I alliance of Britain, France, Russia and all the other nations that became allied with them in opposing the Central Powers

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Allies (or Allied Powers)

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Entente Cordiale

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Central Powers

Question 8

a large region in southeastern Europe; Russia sought to dominate this region prior to WWI; "powder keg" of Europe because any spark of war in this region could ignite war in Europe.

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Balkans

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Aleutians

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Baltic States

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Ottoman Empire

Question 9

Date on which Archduke Franz Ferdinand was Assassinated - Marks the start of WWI

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June 28, 1914

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July 4, 1776

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November 11, 1918

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May 14, 1948

Question 10

Heir of the Austrian throne whose assassination in Sarajevo set in motion the events that started World War I. Assassinated on June 28, 1914

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Archduke Francis Ferdinand

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Czar Nicholas II

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Marshall Foch

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Kaiser Wilhelm II

Question 11

The name of the World War I alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire

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Central Powers

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Entente Cordiale

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Triple Entente

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Allied Powers

Question 12

Ruled Germany 1888; he dismissed Bismarck and allowed the Reinsurance Treaty to expire

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Wilhelm ll

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Czar Nicholas II

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Marshall Foch

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Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Question 13

The country that entered World War 1 on the allied side in response to Germany having broken a treaty and having invaded neutral Belgium.

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Great Britain

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France

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United States

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Russia

Question 14

The plan that called for Germans to send most of their forces west through neutral Belgium and quickly surround Paris, then rush to meet the advancing Russian forces on the eastern front after France surrendered

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Schlieffen Plan

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Operation Sealion

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Kellogg-Briand Pact

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Washington Naval Pact

Question 15

The term for a wartime condition in which both sides suffer major losses without major gains on either side

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stalemate

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total war

Question 16

The term for a war in which all the resources of a country are devoted to destroying the enemy; civilians and soldiers alike are involved

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total war

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stalemate

Question 17

Name of Russia's first dictator, a Communist; signed a treaty with the Germans and took Russia out of the war; took advantage of the chaos of Russia's defeat and of Czar Nicholas II stepping down on March 15, 1917; He became Russia's leader as the central government collapsed:

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Vladimir Lenin

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Fyodor Dosteovsky

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Josef Stalin

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Mikhail Bakunin

Question 18

Name of meeting in which 32 nations met to establish peace; excluded the countries that supported the Central Powers and excluded Russia

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Paris Peace Conference

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United Nations Conference

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Geneva Convention

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Tennis Court Oath

Question 19

Name of the treaty between Germany and the Allies that ended WWI; blamed Germany for the war; Germany lost territory and its colonies, had to pay massive reparations for war damages, and had to reduce their military strength

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Treaty of Versailles

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Treaty of Berlin

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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

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Treaty of Ghent

Question 20

Match the term with its description

Question 21

Russia's second dictator; defeated Leon Trotsky in a struggle for power; ruled the Soviet Union as a dictator&#44; promising success for his people but in reality resulting in millions of deaths

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Joseph Stalin

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Nicholas II

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Fidel Castro

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Adolf Hitler

Question 22

Name of the government formed in Germany after World War I; failed because it was unpopular and had no majority party

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Weimar Republic

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Third Reich

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Golden Horde

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Nazi Empire

Question 23

Another name for the National Socialist German Workers' Party; took over the German government when the Weimar Republic failed

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Nazi Party

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Liberal Party

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Communist Party

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Conservative Party

Question 24

Name of the leader of the Nazi Party who became the dictator of Germany

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Adolf Hitler

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Otto von Bismarck

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Mao Zedong

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Josef Stalin

Question 25

Italian dictator who formed the Fascist Party and negotiated the Lateran Treaties with the pope; allied with Germany in the second world war

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Benito Mussolini

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Leon Trotsky

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Hirohito

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Adolf Hitler

Question 26

Name of the group of agreements between Benito Mussolini and the Roman Catholic Church; Mussolini gave the Catholic Church money and a small independent region known as Vatican City; the pope recognized Mussolini's government

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Lateran Treaties

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Reinsurance Treaty

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Treaty of Versailles

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Schlieffen Plan

Question 27

Name of the organization designed to be many nations working for peace; led by President Woodrow Wilson; this organization failed to meet its objective because it had no power to enforce its recommendations

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League of Nations

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European Union

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United Nations

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Pan-Arab League

Question 28

The decision of the ______________ Naval Conference limited the number of war ships each signing nation of the League of Nations could build.

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Washington

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Paris

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London

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Atlantic

Question 29

Name of the agreement between Germany, Britain, and France that recognized the present border as the permanent borders of these countries

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Lacarno Pact

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Kellogg-Briand Pact

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Washington Naval Conference

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Lateran Treaties

Question 30

Name of the agreement to settle disputes between nations by negotiation rather than by force (war)

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Kellogg-Briand Pact

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Washington Naval Conference

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Locarno Pact

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Lateran Treaties

Question 31

First leader of the Kuomintang Party in China; struggled to unite China

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Sun Yat-Sen

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Chiang Kai-Shek

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Mao Zedong

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Emperor Meiji

Question 32

Name of the Nationalist Party of China

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Kuomintang

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Chinese Communist Party

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Pan-Arabism

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Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists

Question 33

Second leader of the Kuomintang in China; led the nationalists in the civil war until the Japanese invaded&#44; delaying the civil war

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Chiang Kai-shek

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Sun Yat-Sen

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Mao Zedong

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Emperor Meiji

Question 34

Name of the political party made of a radical faction of the Kuomintang that split off from the main party

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Chinese Communist Party

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Nazi

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Nationalist

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Kuomintang

Question 35

leader of the Chinese Communist Party

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Mao Zedong

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Sun Yat-Sen

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Chiang Kai-Shek

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Emperor Meiji

Question 36

Name of the secular movement to form a united state of Arabia and an Arab League that would spread from the west coast of northern Africa to Saudi Arabia

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Pan-Arabism

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Taliban

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Muslim Brotherhood

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Balfour Declaration

Question 37

Name of the secret agreement between Germany and Russia that required that each power would maintain neutrality should the other find itself at war.

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Reinsurance Treaty

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Geneva Convention

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Lateran Treaty

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Berlin and Milan Decrees

Question 38

Names of two scientists who pioneered work with radioactivity; discovered uranium

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Pierre and Marie Curie (Madame)

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Albert Einstein and Clara Barton

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James Clerk Maxwell and Woodrow Wilson

Question 39

Father of Modern Physics

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Albert Einstein

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James Clerk Maxwell

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Madame Marie Curie

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Frank Lloyd Wright

Question 40

Term for the reign of Emperor Meiji in Japan from 1868 to 1912 which was marked by rapid modernization, industrialization, and military development

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Meiji Restoration

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Tioga Reforms

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Golden Age

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Decembrist Revolution

Question 41

The name of the piece of legislation passed in 1930 that established very high tariffs. Its objective was to reduce imports and stimulate the domestic economy, but it resulted only in retaliatory tariffs by other nations and economic devastation here.

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Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act

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Locarno Pact

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Federal Reserve

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Embargo Act

Question 42

US President (Republican) when the Great Depression started. Very unpopular. Firmly believd that the government should not intervene in private business matters - he did try some limited measures (Federal Farm Board)

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Herbert Hoover

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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John F. Kennedy

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Woodrow Wilson

Question 43

US President (Democrat) following Hoover. Created many federal agencies to create jobs and attempt to bring America out of the Great Depression.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Woodrow Wilson

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John F. Kennedy

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James Monroe

Question 44

Match the form of art with its definition

Question 45

Which period of history does the following description describe?

Collapse of the US stock market in 1929

Period of worldwide economic stagnation and depression

Heavy borrowing by European nations from USA during WW1 contributed to instability in European economies.

Sharp declines in income and production as buying and selling slowed down.

Widespread unemployment, countries raised tariffs to protect their industries.

America stopped investing in Europe.

Lead to loss of confidence that economies were self adjusting.

President Herbert Hoover was blamed for it.

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Great Depression

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World War I

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World War II

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Roaring Twenties

Question 46

A national banking system established in 1913, that controls the U.S. money supply and the availability of credit in the country

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Federal Reserve

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Smoot-Hawley Commission

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Fannie Mae

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Bank of America

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