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As industrialization advanced, the two problems that began to plague entrepreneurs most were skyrocketing start up costs and
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outmoded stock market system
failure of consumption (buying) to keep up with production
steep rise in workers wages
excessive state regulatory interference
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The overall European population was growing at the end of the nineteenth century, but
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average life expectancy did not increase
most governments worried that they lacked enough manpower for their armies
governments still struggled to collect enought taxes to pay for urban improvements
the birthrate was falling in almost every country
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As industrialization advanced, the two problems that began to plague entrepreneurs most were skyrocketing start up costs and
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The overall European population was growing at the end of the nineteenth century, but
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Upon the outbreak of World War I, the world quickly devolved into two armed and allied camps: the âCentral Powersâ consisting of
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Giving into the demands of an aggressor in order to keep the peace is known
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The day of the invasion of Western Europe by Allied forces in an attempt to liberate it from the Nazis was known as
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Where in Germany did the Allies have Axis leaders tried for "crimes against humanity"?
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IN 1955, the Soviet Union created its own military alliance called the
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The state of tension and hostility between nations aligned with the United States on one side and the USSR on the other was known as the
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In 1949, the United States, Canada and nine other countries formed a new military alliance called the
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At the Yalta Conference, Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt disagreed with Joseph Stalin about
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Which of the following was NOT a major factor in the defeat of the Nazis?
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May 8, 1945, the day after Germany surrendered, officially became known as
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American forces embarked on a campaign known as __________, with the goal of recapturing some Japanese-held islands which were used as steppingstones to the next objective.
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Kamikaze pilots
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In May of 1942, the Japanese had gained control of the Philippines, killing several hundred American soldiers and approximately 10,000 Filipino soldiers during the
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Which Japanese city was the target of the second atomic bomb, dropped by the United States on August 9, 1945?
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The Manhattan Project was
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Which Japanese city was the target of the first atomic bomb, dropped by the United States on August 6, 1945?
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One of the earliest signs of the threat posed by the Japanese was their 1931 invasion of (562)
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The opposition of all war is known as
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Which of the following countries made up the Axis powers?
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Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin established a peaceful relationship between their nations in which historic agreement?
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Which country did Germany and the Soviet Union agree to divide up between them in the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939?
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At the Munich Conference of 1938
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Approximately how many Jews did the Nazis kill during the Holocaust?
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Detention centers (in Germany) for civilians considered enemies of the state were known as
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While the USSR had a Communist government, both Italy and Germany had a _____ government.
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The event which pushed France and England into declaring war during WWI was the
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The enormous power of the German military was revealed in their "lightning war", or __________ against Poland in 1939.
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What prevented the Germans from conquering the Soviet capital of Moscow in 1941?
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How did the League of Nations respond when Japan invaded Manchuria in
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In 1935, the Nazis passed the Nuremberg Laws, which
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With what countries did Japan ally itself
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What was the appeal of Mussoliniâs fascist government to Italians?
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What measure did the Nazis take that was a rejection of the Versailles Treaty?
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Which of the following describes fascism?
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One of Hitlerâs goals was the
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Which of the following was a result of the Bolshevik Revolution?
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Although the combatants in the Great War had individual objectives, all aimed to
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World War I was called a âtotal warâ because
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The single most significant aspect of German military policy in terms of its provocative effect on the United States and subsequent U.S. involvement in the war was
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A major source of discontent in the cities across Europe in the spring of 1917 was
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Among all the combatants the world over, the country that suffered the greatest number of casualties, with some 7.5 million dead during World War I, was
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In April 1917, the Germans moved to destabilize Russia by
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In October of 1918, what did the German high command do to deflect the blame for Germany's total defeat away from the military?
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Following the official end of hostilities on November 11, 1918, the world experienced another devastating blow with the death of some 100 million more people as a result of
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The Peace of Paris, negotiated over six months in 1919 and 1920, led to a series of treaties that expressly forbade
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The League of Nations was weakened at the outset when
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Of all the penalties imposed by the Treaty of Versailles, the one that generated the most outrage in Germany was the
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Violent attacks against Jews in Russia that were condoned by officials were known as
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In France, anti-Semitism became a hotly contested political issue with the arrest in 1894 of a Jewish army officer for espionage, particularly after
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The Russian Revolution of 1905 was caused by
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The Indian National Congress, founded in 1885, was
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The new mass journalism of this period was characterized by
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Historians use the concept of a "Second" Industrial Revolution to refer to
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One of the main purposes of the Dual Alliance by Germany and Austria in 1879 was to
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Which one of the following pairs of countries came to rival Britain as industrial powers?
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In the early 1880s a scramble among European countries for colonies in Africa was touched off by
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In the late 19th century, industrialization tended to be capital intensive, which means that
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Of the following, the country that was slowest to industrialize was
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In the Crimean War of 1853â1856, Britain and France fought to
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Italian unification in 1861 was led by the kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia because
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Following Austria's defeat in the Austro-Prussian War, Francis Joseph reluctantly agreed to the establishment of a âdual monarchy,â which granted Magyars
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Joseph Lister applied Louis Pasteur's germ theory to
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Laws requiring education for children were difficult to enforce because
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East Indian troops of the British army launched the Indian Rebellion in 1857 because they were angered by tightening British control and by
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The Suez Canal, opened in 1869, connected the
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The âputting-outâ system of the nineteenth century refers to
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Beginning in the 1840s, this factory-produced good became increasingly important to industrial economies.
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The Factory Act of 1833 in Great Britain
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British religious reformers attempted to combat religious indifference among the working classes by
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The disease that had the most devastating impact on cities in the first half of the nineteenth century was
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Middle-class reformers became concerned about what they perceived to be the urban working classes' increasing
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In 1842, the Treaty of Nanking forced China to permit a continuation of the
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The crop failures of the mid-1840s not only drove up the price of food but also