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- Alexander Graham Bell used an electrical wire to
- send voices over long distances
- Marconi's invention relied on the
- dicovery of electromagnetic waves
- The internal combustion engine led to the development of
- the automobile
- Louis Pasteur learned that heating liquids
- prevented the frowth of bacteria
- The release of energy by elements as they break down is
- radioactivity
- Albert Einstein's theory of special relativity stated that
- no particle can travel faster than light
- All of the following are social sciences EXCEPT
- literature
- Ivan Paclov's discovery of the coditioned reflex showed that
- RESPONSES COULD BE CHANGED THROUGH TRAINING
- Sigmund Freud's process of psychoanalysis was based on
- his discovery of the unconscious
- Reformers sycg as Jane Addams helped cities
- offer social services to the poor
- Growing populations in cities encourgaed
- more forms of enterainment
- The popularity of bicycles was the result of
- mass production
- Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony expressed the Romantic movement's appreciation of
- nature
- Art about the problems of everyday life became known as
- naturalism
- Renoir's and Monet's art both tried to capture
- impressions more than reality
- What was the greatest cause of city growth in Britain in the 1800s
- Factory system
- The Carbonari were a
- pro-risorgimento secret society
- The Kind of Sardinia, Victor Emmanuel II was an ideal choice for a unification leader because
- he wanted to expand Sadinian territory
- Unified Italy faced all of the following problems EXCEPT
- religious divisions
- German nationalism was inspired by
- Napoleon's rule
- Otto con Bismarck believed in the concept of a
- powerful state
- In the new German government, power belonged to the
- kaiser
- Germany;s late industrialization was a benefit because
- the undustry could use the advanced machinery developed elsewhere
- To lessen the growing power or socialism, Bismarck
- banned the public meeting of socialists
- Bismarck resigned because
- William II wanted absolute power
- Czar Alexander II listened to public opinion and
- freed the serfs
- Russian radical groups
- assassinated Alexander II
- Repressice czarist policies let to
- the formation of the Social Democratic Labor Party
- Great Britain supported Turkish suppression of independence to
- keep Russians out of the Mesiterranean
- The Treaty of San Stefano gave self-rule to
- Bulgaria
- control of the new Russia was won by
- the Bolsheviks
- AS nations tried to outlast each other, World War I became
- a war attrition
- Japan's move into China was met by
- a condemnation
- The International Brigades fought for
- the Loyalists
- The Axis Powers came together
- to fight communism
- To avoid war with Germany, Britain and France promised not to
- interfere with German annexation of Czechoslovakia
- Stalin signed a nonaggression pact with Germnay because
- he and Hitler wanted to divide up eaastern Europ
- The conquest of Norway and Denmark was important to Germany because they
- provided access to the Atlantic Ocean
- The Battle of Britain was fought mostly
- in the air
- Soviet armies fighting Germany benefited from
- cold weather
- Japan's attack on the islands of French Indochina
- cut off British supply lines
- Victory in the Balkans gace the Axis Power
- access to Middle Eastern and Russian oil fields
- According to Hitler's plan, eastern Europe would become living space for
- the Aryan race
- In the concentration camps, the people least likely to be executed were
- the healthiest
- All of the following helped Jews escape the Holocaust EXCEPT
- Anne Frank
- The "soft underbelly of the Axis" referred to
- Italy and the Balkans
- Victory against Japan came after
- atomic bomb attacks on Japan
- AS soviet leader, Khrushchev
- denounced Stalinist repression and restrictions
- SEATO was an
- anti-commmunist organization
- The Warsaw Pact was
- the Eastern block mutual defense agreement
- The European Economis Community agreed to
- eliminate tariffs between member nations
- The Marshall Plan intended to
- help Europe's economic recovery
- Yugoslavia was expelled from Cominform because it wanted to
- resist Soviet domination
- Nationalism became apparent in Canada when
- Quebec tried to separate from Canada
- The leaders at Potsdam agreed that Germany should
- remain a single country
- The Nurnberg trials resulted in
- the Nazi Party being declared a criminal organization
- Fear of invasion made the Soviets demand that
- Eastern European nations become communist
- Postwar West Germany became
- democratic
- The Cuban Missile Crisis was a
- standoff between the U.S. and the Soviet Union
- Because the Warsaw Pact troops outnumbered NATO troops, Nato increasingly used its newly invented
- nuclear weapons as deterrents
- As president of the Fifth Republis, Charles de Gaulle
- freed Algeria
- The United Nations' Security council was
- made up of temporary and permanent members
- Lyndon Johnson's Greaty Society was plan
- of social reforms