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• What were the greatest dangers faced by wounded and captured soldiers during the Civil War?
  
• What are some military units who served with distinction during WWII?
  
• How did the invention of the cotton gin in 1793 affect the use of slave labor in the South?
  
• What was the Allied strategy for World War II?
  
• What was the city of Timbuktu best known for?
  
• What did the Confederacy win at Chancellorsville? What did it lose?
  
• How did Harriet Tubman become a conductor on the Underground Railroad?
  
• The period of time during the 1920s when there was a fear of Communism growing in the United States was known as what?
  
• Why did the railroads initially divide the United States into four standard time zones?
  
• What event started the Civil War?
  
• Why was the Bay of Pigs an embarrassment for the United States?
  
• What was the Scopes Trial?
  
• What was the effect of the Dred Scott decision?
  
• Why did the United States and many other nations step in to the First Persian Gulf War?
  
• Can anyone please explain about the impact of the great depression of 1929 on Vietnam?
  
• What was the key to Persia's communication network?
  
• What were the some changes to the world map after World War 1?
  
• Why did the UN vote on the creation of Israel?
  
• Who were the Nazi's against?
  
• Why did the Fur trade develop in North America?
  
• During WWII, the American armed forces were still segregated by race. Why do you think this issue became increasingly important during this era, leading to the desegregation of the Armed Forces a few years after the war?
  
• What is a commissioner of oaths ?
  
• Who was Catherine d'Medici?
  
• Why did farmers who had small plots of land sometimes work on plantations?
  
• Why did the United States back the French in their fight against Ho Chi Minh?
  
• What is anti-semitism?
  
• Approximately how many Americans died during the Vietnam War?
  
• What contributed to Ho Chi Minh's campaign in the conflict with France following World War II?
  
• How did enslaved African Americans hold on to their African customs?
  
• What group of islands did the Japanese attack on the same day they attacked Pearl Harbor?
  
• Who caused the Cultural Revolution?
  
• What are some military units who served with distinction during WWII?
  
• What were some of the effects of the Crusades?
  
• Why have the United States and Great Britain come under fire after the military phase of the Iraqi conflict ended?
  
• During the Time of Troubles in Russia, why was there much confusion?
  
• What did Japan do in response to military pressure from Commodore Matthew Perry?
  
• What was the cause of the Iranian hostage crisis?
  
• How was Canada obtained by Britain?
  
• From what country did workers come to work on the Central Pacific Railway?
  
• Mark Twain said the following: "Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to." What did he mean when he said this? This is just for my personal curiosity as I was reading about Twain.
  
• What did the Blackshirts, Schutzstaffel, and Brownshirts have in common?
  
• During the Time of Troubles in Russia, why was there much confusion?
  
• Who invented the modern pen?
  
• What does the Iran-Contra affair refer to?
  
• Why do you think America still has troops stationed in South Korea?
  
• What did the Crow Arapaho, and Sioux all have in common?
  
• Whats going on in the Middle East?
  
• What was Tammany Hall?
  
• Where in North America did Champlain explore?
  
• What led to the uprising at Tiananmen square?
  
• What happened during the Vietnamese election in 1956?
  
• Whats going on in the Middle East?
  
• Why did George Washington make the risky move of crossing the Delaware River on Christmas night?
  
• What was the turning point of World War II in Eastern Europe? Who defeated whom?
  
• What was the outcome of the Battle of Little Big Horn?
  
• Who ruled Palestine after World War 1?
  
• In what way did the American Revolution affect Native Americans?
  
• What started World War 1?
  
• Why is the Syrian and Russian attack on Aleppo significant?
  
• How many Christians did the Jewish Bolsheviks kill?
  
• How can I write about the spread of Buddhism citing 3 examples of evidence in 3 or 4 sentences?
  
• What did Nazi camp administrators do to identify people from different groups in the concentration camps?
  
• How did the Hudson's Bay Company expand the fur trade?
  
• Why were many Arabs angered by decisions made at the Paris Peace Conference after World War I?
  
• What event led to the anti-war protest at Kent State in 1970?
  
• Why did Yugoslavia develop differently than other eastern bloc countries after World War 2?
  
• Can anyone please explain How did the French people established their control over Vietnam? ( class 10th)
  
• What is the history of VIETNAM ?
  
• How did the invention of the cotton gin change the economy of the South and the North?
  
• What shocked many people in the Union and the Confederacy after early battles such as Shiloh and Bull Run?
  
• Whiat was a major issue that led to the Crimean War?
  
• Why is realism said to be a reaction to romanticism?
  
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