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The brutal Crimean War led indirectly to the emancipation of what class of people?

The “guilt clause” of the Treaty of Versailles a section of the treaty that:

The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche promoted the idea of the Übermensch as the solution to the problems of Western industrial society. What was the Übermensch?

Following the Bolshevik seizure of power during the “October Revolution” in late 1917, what action did they take regarding the ongoing war with German and Austria-Hungary?

Why did the Nazis borrow American eugenic ideas and laws (e.g. the Supreme Court decision in Buck v Bell) and implement them in Germany, forcibly sterilizing or killing thousands of physically and mentally handicapped people?

What role did consumer mass culture play in the sexual revolutions of the 1960s and 70s?

French decolonization, a twenty year process, was punctuated by brutal repressions and military disasters such as Dien Bien Phu, a 1954 battle that led to the independence of what former French colony?

British control of the mandate of Palestine ended in 1948 with the creation of what new state, which was immediately invaded by five of its hostile neighbors?

What was Nixon’s ultimate fate?

In what war did the United States fight for Cuba’s freedom from an empire while at the same time taking over Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and the Philippines?