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Following the breakup of Germany with the Congress of Vienna, who became the Chancellor of Prussia?

____________, or openness, in Russia, allowed for the acceptance of criticism and public discussion of Soviet history and the Party itself. __________, or restructuring, seemed to abandon Marxist ideology in favor of a more capitalist system as it supported free enterprise and private property. 

Which of the following best describes Lenin’s New Economic Policy?

This leader of the Zionist movement believed that the Jewish population couldn’t survive if it didn’t have a nation of its own.

Cuba is the only communist nation in the Western Hemisphere.

In the late 19th century, the Belgian Monarch King Leopold II claimed the lands of the Congo which lead to at least 50% of the Native Africans dying under his leadership. 

As soon as I entered the Emperor’s [Emperor Napoleon III of France] study, he said he had decided to support the Italian states in a war against Austria, provided that the war could be justified in the eyes of diplomatic circles–and still more in the eyes of the French and European public opinion. Since the search for a believable excuse for war presented our main problem, I felt obliged to treat that question before any others. First I suggested that we could use the complaints about Austria’s bad faith in not carrying out its trade treaty. To this the Emperor answered that an unimportant business question could not be made the reason for a war designed to change the map of Europe. I proposed that we bring up again the objections we had made in 1856 to the illegal extension of Austria in Italy [when Austria illegally took over more land in Italy]. The Emperor did not like these excuses. He observed that if the complaints we put forward in 1856 had not been enough to make France and England act in favour of Italy at that time, they would still not appear to justify war. “Besides,” he added, “inasmuch as French troops are in Rome, I can hardly demand that Austria withdraw its forces from Ancona and Bologna [other Italian cities].” I had no other proposal to make. Together we set ourselves to discussing each state in Italy, seeking grounds for war. It was very hard to find any. After we had gone over the whole Italian peninsula without success, at Massa and Carrara [territories controlled by Austria and ruled by the Duke of Modena] we discovered what we had been seeking. We agreed to get the people in those territories to ask Your Majesty, Victor Emmanuel, for protection and to demand to be joined to our country. Your Majesty would refuse, but you would take note of the Duke of Modena’s harsh policy and send him a threatening note. The duke, confident of Austrian support, would reply disrespectfully. Then Your Majesty would send troops into Massa, and the war could begin. Since it would be the Duke of Modena who would look responsible, the Emperor believes the war would be popular not only in France, because the duke is considered, rightly or wrongly, a tyrant. 1858, Count Cavour – Planning a War   The methods used above were an example of Cavour’s use of which philosophy? Question: The methods used above were an example of Cavour’s use of which philosophy?

In what way(s) did the separate spheres for women change during the late 19th and early 20th century?

Britain and France had tried to appease Hitler by allowing him to take Poland and Czechoslovakia. However, the direct invasion of their ally Austria provoked a declaration of war. 

One major consequence of the First World War was