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Topic 28: The Modern West Emerges

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	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. In his bid for re-election, President Bill Clinton moved increasingly to the political .

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. President Bill Clinton was impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives, but acquitted by the in 1999.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. , Richard Nixon’s vice president, was forced to resign under the weight of charges of bribery, extortion, and kickbacks.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. George Kennan’s famous “Mr. X" article setting forth the basic tenets of postwar American foreign policy was published in the journal .

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. Truman’s secretary of state, who put his imprint on a number of important initiatives, was .

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. John F. Kennedy suffered a humiliating setback in the .

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. In the twentieth century, the disintegration of the made the Middle East a difficult area in which to establish successor states.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. In 1958, President Charles de Gaulle established the , in which France maintained control over economic development and the external and military affairs of its colonies.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The commander of the Spanish insurgents against the Spanish Republic was General Francisco .

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. Historians can gain an accurate idea of Hitler’s state of mind in 1937 from the Memorandum.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The forcible uniting of Austria and Germany in 1938 is called the in the German language.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. One of the major points of dispute between Berlin and Warsaw was the port city of .

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The German tactic of massive, mobile warfare was called the .

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. In the years immediately before World War II, the British leader Winston was viewed as a flashy and flawed man by some.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The code name for the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union was Operation .

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The political party formed by Mussolini was called the party.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. Mussolini ended the conflict between the papacy and the Italian state in the .

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. Paul von , a war hero, won the presidency of the Weimar Republic by running on a campaign dealing with the betrayal and shame of the Versailles Treaty.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The , the symbol of the Nazi party, has been used by many cultures to express the unending cycle of life.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. Hitler laid out his thoughts and goals in a turgid and longwinded book called .

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. Kristallnacht means .

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The twenty years between the two world wars was a fruitful time for the dictators and a perilous time for .

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The policy of attempting to gain total economic self-sufficiency and freedom from reliance on any other nation is known as .

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The first Labour prime minister in Great Britain was .

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. A rogue who launched one of the greatest scandals in France during the 1930s was .

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The Polish patriot who wielded a benevolent control over his country from 1926 to 1935 was Marshal Josef .

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. To respond to the Great Crash and subsequent Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt inaugurated the .

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The Latin American country spearheading the drive for social reform in the region was .

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The inventor of the quantum theory was Max .

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. Einstein’s was expressed in the formula E=mc2.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The founder of the Dada school was .

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. Several new political movements surfaced in postwar Europe, notably an important current that was wedded to democratic institutions and moderate social reform.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. France, pressed by the war in , changed its constitution in 1958.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The consolidation of democracy and the shift leftward of the political spectrum entailed a general movement toward a state.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. A new breed of bureaucrat, often called a “” because of intense training in engineering or economics, came to the fore in the offices of government.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. In Britain, Conservative leader began the longest-running prime ministership in history in 1979.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. In 1958, six western European nations set up the , or Common Market, to begin to create a single economic entity across national boundaries.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. A Common Market bureaucracy was established, ultimately in , to oversee operations.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. A new began to take shape with the publication in 1949 of The Second Sex by the French intellectual Simone de Beauvoir.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The widespread exodus to West Germany from East Germany continued until the was built in 1961.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. A challenge to communist rule came from Poland in the late 1970s in the form of an independent labor movement called .

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. , exiled to the West because of his trilogy on Siberian prison camps, found the West too materialistic.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. Like its predecessor the League of Nations, the had as its primary mission provision of a forum for negotiating disputes.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The slaughter of six million Jews during World War II is known as the .

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. By the summer of 1940 most of France lay in German hands, while a semi-fascist collaborative regime based in the city of ruled the remainder.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. German strategy in World War II focused on the , or lightning war.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. In the of 1941, Roosevelt persuaded a reluctant Churchill to include a clause that recognized the “right of all people to choose the form of government under which they live.”

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. In 2001, the United Nations excluded the United States from membership in the Commission.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The hit the headlines with the crash of key Western banks in 1929, but had begun in many parts of the world even earlier.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The , led by Adolf Hitler, began to pick up strength after nearly fading from existence during the mid-1920s.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. In Italy a fascist state had been formed in the 1920s led by .

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. In 1938 Hitler proclaimed a long-sought union, , with Austria as a fellow German nation.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. Hitler was able to convince the leaders of Britain and France at the that he would be satisfied with the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. British Prime Minister achieved temporary peace by his policy of appeasing Adolf Hitler.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. Hopes that the Versailles settlement could be permanent ran so high that an American and a French leader coauthored a treaty outlawing war called the Pact of 1928.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. Britain promised support to Jewish settlers in Israel in the of 1917.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. Russia signed the Treaty of in March 1918, giving the Germans substantial territories in western Russia in return for peace.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The Treaty of that established the peace following World War I set up important preconditions for future strife by creating new categories of discontented powers.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The established after World War I proved to be little more than a discussion group, as real diplomacy continued on a nation-to-nation basis.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. In World War I, Germany was allied to .

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. France and England were allied to in World War I.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. In Britian’s case, the were a repressed group that pushed for independence.

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