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Part 2 [8% points each = 40% total] Short Identification Questions (IDs):A short answer ID should briefly address the basic journalistic questions: who or what, when, where, and why. Each term should be at least 4-5 sentences long. Be sure to discuss the significance. Write an answer for FIVE (5) of the following, even if you must guess somewhat (partial credit is better than none):The Battle of MidwayThe Battle of StalingradGen. Dwight D. EisenhowerThe Glass-Steagall ActHUACLebensraumMADThe Smoot-Hawley TariffSoviet Satellite StatesThe Truman Doctrine

Borrowing from the Schlieffen Plan that had been executed during World War I, Germany invaded France through the Ardennes Forest and neutral Belgium. This caught France and the British Expeditionary Force off guard; their main armies were encircled and only narrowly escaped during [BLANK-1]. France fell to the Nazis just six weeks after the start of the invasion.

An American-made film called [BLANK-1] depicted life in Nazi-occupied French territory in North Africa. Common to films of the early 1940s, this motion picture embodied a reactionary nationalism in response to the Nazi threat (this is particularly true in a scene involving dueling patriotic anthems). Film viewers would have clearly seen the Nazis as the enemy and would have been inspired to oppose them by supporting their own country’s war efforts.

Part 2 [8% points each = 40% total] Short Identification Questions (IDs):A short answer ID should briefly address the basic journalistic questions: who or what, when, where, and why. Each term should be at least  4-5 sentences long. Be sure to discuss the significance. Write an answer for FIVE (5) of the following, even if you must guess somewhat (partial credit is better than none):The Day of Two NoonsFrederick Jackson TurnerThe Great Constitutional RevolutionThe Homestead ActThe Lost CauseSocial DarwinismThe Social GospelThe Triangle Shirtwaist FireThe Union StockyardsThe White City

[BLANK-1] was a celebrated frontiersperson and scout of the Wild West. This person’s life and exploits, alongside other notorious Wild West personas like Billy the Kid and Wild Bill Hickock, became the subject of dime novels that glorified western life.

A Scottish immigrant to America and steel magnate, [BLANK-1] was one of America’s wealthiest men and exemplified the complexities of America’s Gilded-Age millionaires (were they robber barons or captains of industry?). The man gained a fortune through owning a monopoly of steel firms and by employing vertical integration tactics. On the one hand, he was a great philanthropist. He wrote The Gospel of Wealth and donated much of his vast fortune to charity. On the other hand, he was a brutal employer who worked his employees 364 days a year and used Pinkerton Agents to break up unions and bust strikes.

[BLANK-1] occurred in 1864 when Cheyenne forces led by Chief Black Kettle followed government instructions and reported to Fort Lyon in hopes of signing a peace treaty. Militia forced led by John M. Chivington attacked the Cheyenne encampment, slaughtering more than 200 men, women, and children. The event caused a national scandal, but the deaths of so many Native Americans was also celebrated in some circles.

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Which cellular organelle contains DNA ?

Amino acids are the primary building blocks for ___________ which are assembled by the organelle ____________