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World History Final Flashcards

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Holy book of Judiasm

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Torah

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Holy book of Christianity

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Bible/new testiment

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Holy book of Islam

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Koran

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Hinduism is centered in...

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India

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Islam is centered in...

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Africa and the Middle East

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The highest concentration of Jewish people is in the city of...

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Jerusalem

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Hindus believe in..., when you are reborn after death

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reincarnation

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Hindus also believe in..., which means your good and bad actions cause good and bad results

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karma

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In Buddhism, the... is the teachings and methods to reach in lightenment

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eightfold path

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2 main branches of Islam

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Sunni and shite

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The... are the central beliefs of Judaism and Christianity

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10 commandments

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A Religon with many gods

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polytheism

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A religion with one god

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Monotheism

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All Muslims who can afford to are supposed to go on a pilgrimage to...

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Mecca

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The founder of Buddhism

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Siddahtha Gautama

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The founder of Islam was the prophet...

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Muhhamed

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Jewish leader and author of the Torah

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Moses

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In Hinduism the... is the righteous and virtuous path

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dharma

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The... are the four main teachings of Buddhism

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4 noble truths

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The... was a division of society in India based on strict classes

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caste system

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What religion is karma from

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Hinduism

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What religion is the 8 fold path from

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Buddhism

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what religion is the Koran from

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Islam

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what religion is Allah from

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Islam

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what religion is the Torah from

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Judaism

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what religion is the 5 pillars from

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Islam

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what reilgion are the 10 commandments from

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Chrisitianity

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What religion is Isreal from

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Judaism

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What religion is Mecca from

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Islam

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What religion is India from

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Hinduism

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What religion is reincarnation from

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Hinduism

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What religion is the Enlightenment from

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Christianity

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What religion are the 4 noble truths from

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Buddhism

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what religion is China from

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Buddhism

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Whate were some of the trade goods on the earliest international trade route?

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Wool(we need clothes), incense(rituals), gold(currency), silver(currency), dyes(textiles), animals(farm labor).

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What was the silk road?

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an ancient trade route that linked the Western world with the Middle East and Asia. It was a major conduit for trade between the Roman Empire and China and later between medieval European kingdoms and China

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Geographical boundaries of the Silk road

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China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

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Time period of the silk road

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130 B.C.E. until 1453 C.E.

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Who controlled the silk road

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Chinese han dynasty

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What is the Columbian Exchange

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The Columbian Exchange is the process by which plants, animals, diseases, people, and ideas have been introduced from Europe, Asia, and Africa to the Americas and vice versa

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where is the Columbian exchange

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americas Europe and africa

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what was traded in the Columbian exchage

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Slaves, food, ideas, diseases.

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when was the Columbian exchange

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1492-1800

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What keeps the U.S. cotton production competitive with countries that are less developed.

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The government subsidies the cotton industry even when it isn't profitable. The USA has the technology to grow cotton with very few people.

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Why does bangledesh make a ton of textile exports

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cheap labor costs, duty-free access to major markets, and growing pool of low skilled workers

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Where id Americans get their textiles prior to the current age of globalization?

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enlgand

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Where will Americans get their textiles in the next age of globalization?

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Underdeveloped countries like yemen

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What are two main canals that keep world trade circulating>

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suez canal and Panama canal

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What 20th century innovatin made globalization possible, who invented it and what is one issue with it that needs to be addressed.

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Container Shipping. It lost tens of thousands of jobs because it was so easy. Invented by a truck driver named McLean. The problem is the ships have to use a lot of oil. Sound pollution has terrible impact on wild life.

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Allies of WW2

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France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and, to a lesser extent, China.

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Appeasment

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appeasement was the name given to Britain's policy in the 1930s of allowing Hitler to expand German territory unchecked

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Axis

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Germany

Italy

Japan

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Battle of Britain

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biggest air battle in history between Britain and Germany for air controll over the english channel. When the British air force

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Battle of Stalingrad

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turned the tide of the western front of the war. Stopped the German advance in Russia.

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Blitzkreig

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The German tactic for taking over land. Enter very quickly and overwhelm the opposing force before they can strike back.

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Chamberlin

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The prime minister before WW2 who gave the peace for our time speech.

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Churchill

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The prime minister during WW2 who rallied the people and gave the we will fight on the beaches speech.

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Dunkirk

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the biggest military retreat in history. The British forces were backed up to the beaches of Dunkirk and British civilian vessels crossed the channel to pick them up.

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Eisenhower

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Eisenhower planned and supervised two of the most consequential military campaigns of World War II: Operation Torch in the North Africa campaign in 1942–1943 and the invasion of Normandy in 1944.

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Enola Gay

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The plane that dropped the first atom bomb

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Hindenburg

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the chancellor of Germany before Hitler rose to power.

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League of Nations

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the first intergovernmental organization established “to promote international cooperation and to achieve international peace and security”. It is often referred to as the “predecessor” of the United Nations.

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Lebensraum

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the German reason for expansion. Hitler believed in the Aryan race and wanted to expand it. to do this he needed the space to do it.

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Luftwaffe

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the German air force

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Manhatten Project

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The project to build the atom bomb

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Operation Overlord

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The other name for D-Day

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Phoney War

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A period at the begiining of WW2 where neither the axis or the allies made and major moves.

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Third Reich

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Nazi controlled Germany.

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Weimar Republic

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The German government before hitler took power,

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Winter War

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The war between Finland and Russia. Finland won.

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What is the link between the treaty of versialles and the rise of Hitler.

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The treaty of Versaills demoralized and embarrassed the German people that it made them very unhappy with their government which allowed for radical voices like Hitlers to become very popular.

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Explain Hitler's rise from the beer hall putsch to fuhrer.

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The beer hall putsch gave Hitler the fame and recognition he needed to start a political career which ended with him becoming the German dictator.

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List the leaders of the US, GB, FRance, USSR, Japan and GErmany during WW2

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Franklin Roosevelt/Harry Truman, Chamberlin/Churchill, Albert Lebrun, STalin, Emporer Hirohito.

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List the first three countries/territories annesec by Hitler beginning in 1938 and explain his reasons for doing so.

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Austria, the sudetanland, and chekoslovakia, and Poland.

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What were the similarities between the goals of Germany, Italy, and Japan at the begining of WW2? use specific examples of how they were going to achieve them.

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All three held resentment from the allies after WW1. All three countries wanted to expand and felt that their people were superior. Germany wanted to do this by expanding as much as possible to increase the Aryan population. Italy wanted to rebuild the Roman Empire. Japan wanted to take over all of Asia.

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What was the plan behind operation sea lion and why did it fail?

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Operation Sea lion was Hitler's plan to invade the Uk. It started with the Luftwaffe bombing the RAF however wen the RAF accidentally bombed Berlin Hitler got really mad and focused all of the attacks on London allowing the RAF to rebuild its forces and defeat the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain.

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Wjat was the plan behind operation Barbarossa and why did it fail?

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Opperation Barbarossa was Hitlers plan to invade the USSR. It failed because Hitler wanted to do a show of force sweeping all across Russia but this spread his forces too thin and caused the attack to fail as winter set in and Stalin brought in Siberian troops to fight in the winter.

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Explain peral harbor. When, where, why, how, and what was the result.

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Peral harbor was the attack mad by the Japanese of the American Naval base Peral Harbor. It happened December 7 1942 in peral harbour Hawaii. The Japanese did this as a show of force to try to keep america out of the war. The result was america joining the war.

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How did Roosevelt help the Allies prior to Peral Harbor

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Rossevelt helped the allies, primarily Britain, before they joined the war by lending them much needed supplies like weapons and oil through the lend lease act

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Cognitive Dissonance

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the discomfort a person feels when their behavior does not align with their values or beliefs.

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Confimation Bias

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the tendency of people to favor information that confirms or strengthens their beliefs or values and is difficult to dislodge once affirmed

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Disccrimination

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the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of ethnicity, age, sex, or disability.

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Implicit Bias

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Implicit bias, also known as implicit prejudice or implicit attitude, is a negative attitude, of which one is not consciously aware, against a specific social group.

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Microagression

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veryday slights, insults, putdowns, invalidations, and offensive behaviors that people experience in daily interactions with generally well-intentioned individuals who may be unaware that they have engaged in demeaning ways

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Prejudice

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preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience.

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Self fulfilling prophecy

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an expectation or belief that can influence your behaviors, thus causing the belief to come true

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stereotypes

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a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.

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Why poot ti weet

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there isn't any words that can describe a massacre. it shows that Vonnegut cant describe a massacre.

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why was Dresden bombed

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to force Germany out of the war.

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What role did Kurt Vonnegut have

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POW

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Who invented So it Goes

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The tralfamadorians. It is about the inevitability of death. death will always happen. Billy pilgrim uses it after every death because he is so desensitized.

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Why is it called the childrens crusade

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because a lot of younger men died in the war.

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WHy are all the real soldiers dead

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all the people who choose to be in the military and were trained are dead and all the conscripts are left.

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how was the Battle of Midway a turning point

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because the Japanese missed all our aircraft carrier sthe USA won. this was the turning point t of the war of the Pacific. It stopped Japanese expansions.

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One argument for dropping the atomic bomb

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end the way to save lives

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one argument against dropping the atomic bomb

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radiation.