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Who replaced Stalin as head of the USSR following Stalin’s death from a stroke in 1953 (good riddance)?

Karl Marx claimed his socialist worldview was “scientific” because it was based not on ideas, but on material forces, especially:

How was the Battle of Britain fought?

What event prompted the abdication of the Kaiser and the collapse of the German Empire?

How did the Soviets establish hegemony over Eastern Europe during and after World War II?

The cotton gin, which mechanically separated seeds from cotton “lint” or fiber, was invented in Georgia by New England school teacher Eli Whitney. What was significance of this American agricultural device for the British industrial revolution?

Which of the following was not a key component of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis’ political rhetoric?

1 million people were killed in combat and another 500,000 executed during the Russian Civil War, which pitted the “Red” Bolsheviks against the “Whites.” Who were the Whites?

Why did American president Harry Truman decide to use the atomic bomb against Japan?

What was the result of Britain’s week-long artillery bombardment of the Germans, followed by a massive infantry attack, at the Somme in 1916?