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Citing injustices by Serb officials in the Yugoslav government, ______ declared its independence as a free, capitalist state.

Educational opportunities for women helped the advancement of science. For example, ________ became a professor of physics at the Faculty of Sciences of Paris in 1906 and eventually won two Nobel prizes.

The most important “second front” opened by the Allies in Europe was created in June 1944 with the

In 1949, Mao’s insurgents took control of the Chinese government and

In a 1947 speech to Congress, the American president set out his policy of support for the resistance of “free peoples” to communism by tying politics to economics; it would be a choice between “two ways of life.” This policy was known as the ________ Doctrine.

The poet ________ presented a philosophy in his poetry that bordered on despair: life is a living death, to be endured as boredom and frustration.

The ______ president Anwar Sadat supported coexistence with Israel.

The Los Alamos laboratory that built the United States’ first atomic bombs was directed by

What international event staged during 1968 was especially marked by popular demonstrations and political violence?

To what does the term “Iron Curtain” refer?