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41 Cards in this Set
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Which British soldier and historian encouraged the Arab nationalism in the early 20th century?
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Which of the following nicknames was used for Manfred Von Richthofen, famous German pilot of World War II?
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Red Baron
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How it is called the literary genre that focus on the Victorian era of the late 19th century, mixing history and science fiction?
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Steampunk
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What revolution overthrew the Japanese feudal regime?
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Meiji |
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What is considered the main trigger of World War I?
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The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand inSarajevo France
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What treaty ended the war in 1917 between Russia and the Central Powers?
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Brest-Litovsk
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What US President proposed a 14-point program as a basis for the armistice after World War II?
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Woodrow Wilson
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In the Peace of Paris some treaties were signed. Which one was signed with Germany?
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Versailles
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What famous French sculptor was the author of works such as "The Thinker" and "The Kiss"?
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Rodin |
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What name received the Art Nouveau in Spain with Antoni Gaudí as one of its prominent architects?
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Modernism |
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What is the term for the female political movement in the late 19th century that demanded the right to vote for women and they got in 1914?
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Suffragist
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What position was held by Nicholas II, head of state in Russia until the revolution?
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Tsar |
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What is the term for the committees of workers, soldiers and peasants who demanded the end of the war with Germany and deep reforms for Russia in 1917?
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The red party members during the Russian Revolution were called…
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Bolsheviks
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When did the Russian revolution of 1917 start?
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October
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What is the term for the mixed economic system that balanced communism and free trade after the Russian revolution?
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N.E.P.: New Economic Policy
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What new state emerged after the Russian Revolution?
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U.S.S.R.: Union of Soviet Socialist Republic
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Germany enters the S.D.N. in 1925 after signing the treaties of…
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Ethiopia was invaded by Italy in 1935, but what was the previous name of this country?
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Abyssinia
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What year did the Wall Street crash start in New York?
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1929 |
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What was the main cause of the crash of 1929?
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Overproduction
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What artistic movement of the early 20th century tried to represent inner feelings and social and psychological problems through greatly exaggerations, bold lines and strong colours?
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Expresionism
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What artistic movement of the early 20th century used as background of his painting the world of the subconscious and the dreams with illogical or unreal characters and large infinite leaks?
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Surrealism |
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What artistic movement of the early 20th century sought to organize the picture with geometric shapes and the predominance of the form?
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Cubism |
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Salvador Dalí belongs to an artistic movement of the early 20th, but which one?
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Surrealism |
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What Soviet leader worshiped their own personality and his totalitarian regime through its "purging" (murders, deportations) and a system of forced labor camps called "gulags", mostly in Siberia?
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Stalin |
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What is the term for the interventionist policy carried out by President FD Roosevelt, with the purpose to mitigate the Great Depression of the 30s?
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New Deal |
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Adolf Hitler wrote Mein Kampf with Rudolf Hess in prison, but what is the meaning of this title?
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My struggle |
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What German term was used by the press for the fast attacks by surprise of the Wehrmacht in the campaigns of Poland, France and Eastern Russia?
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Who were the Italian paramilitary groups that belonged to the National Fascist Party?
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Blackshirts
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What word is used for Adolf Hitler, which means "guide"?
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Führer
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What is the term for Austria’s annexation to the Third Reich?
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Anschluss
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What treaty was signed by Japan and Germany against Communist countries?
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What event marked the beginning of World War II?
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The invasion of Poland by the German army on September 1, 1939
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What is the term for the French region, where a puppet government led by Marshal Pétain was constituted?
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Vichy France
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What was the term for the German Air Force that faced the British RAF (Royal Air Force) in the Battle of Britain?
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What German general was called "the Desert Fox" because of his victories in North Africa, but defeated at the Battle of El Alamein?
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Rommel
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What battle the Russian army defeated the Germans starting the definitive allied counterattack?
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Stalingrado
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Where the Allies landed in 1944 initiating the decisive phase of the war?
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Normandy
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The United States entered the Second World War when one the US bases in the Pacific was bombed, but which one?
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Pearl Harbor
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World War II ended in August 1945, when two atomic bombs were dropped on two Japanese cities:
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Hiroshima & Nagasaki
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