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• What problems did Germany experience after World War I?
  
• I am doing an essay on an "examination of reasons why Britain lost India". What would be a list of reasons I could include in the paper? (in logical order - i.e. one reasons links to the next) So far I have ... (see below).
  
• What were TV shows of the 1950's like?
  
• What crop initially increased the demand for African slaves in the Caribbean?
  
• What were some of Genghis Khan's significant accomplishments?
  
• What did the Soviet Union do in response to NATO?
  
• What were the 7 European countries that colonised 114 countries?
  
• Harappan civilisation started near which river in India ?
  
• The former Soviet Union broke into what separate states?
  
• Who was Amerigo Vespucci and what did he discover?
  
• Who were the significant inventors during the Industrial Revolution? What did they invent?
  
• How did WW2 effect the modern world?
  
• What type of battle was the Battle of Britain, and why was England's victory so important?
  
• What caused the civil war in Yugoslavia?
  
• What is the Agriculture Revolution?
  
• What challenging conditions did the U.S. soldiers in Cuba face?
  
• How did monks and nuns influence life in the middle ages?
  
• Why did Han rulers create civil service examinations?
  
• What group of people moved into Italy from Asia Minor and took control of Rome around 600 BC, bringing with them their building techniques and religious beliefs?
  
• When did the United Nations officially begin?
  
• Why was cotton important during the industrial revolution?
  
• What caused the Spanish Civil War and why did Germany and Italy support it? Did Germany's and Italy's support somewhat caused to World War Two? (Please provide resources if you can)
  
• What liberated the Philippines from Japanese occupation?
  
• Why do you think Christianity did not gain many followers in Africa or most of Asia?
  
• What was the purpose of the Washington Naval Disarmament Conference and the Kellogg Briand Pact? What prompted them? Was the purpose accomplished?
  
• How did WW1 impact WW2?
  
• Why were the British interested in expanding their power in India?
  
• Why was Constantinople called the "New Rome"?
  
• What was the state of African people before European trying to establish control in the mid-1800s?
  
• What inventions sped up communication beginning in the late 19th century?
  
• In the more than 90 years since it was built, do you think that the benefits of the Panama Canal to world trade have outweighed the costs in time, money, and human life?
  
• The government of the United Kingdom is an example of which type of monarchy?
  
• What was the main reason that Europe began to trade opium for Chinese goods?
  
• Which oldest known North America culture were entirely nomadic hunters of large animals?
  
• What region did Germany and Italy control by December 1941?
  
• Which answer best explains why the United States initially followed a policy of appeasement toward Germany?
  
• How did ww1 help to bring about the russian revolution?
  
• When did Hitler die?
  
• What led to the rise of cities in central and south america?
  
• What was the result of the Korean War?
  
• Which european leaders helped to spread Christianity ?
  
• How did some Europeans show their resistance to Nazi persecution of the jews?
  
• Why was the invention of penicillin so important in the context of WWII? What were some other advances in medicine that were important during the war?
  
• What countries are responsible for the exploitation of Egyptian resources?
  
• How is unrestricted submarine warfare a threat to neutrality?
  
• Why did Hitler believe that Jews and other "subhumans" had to be exterminated?
  
• What are the 10 most important events in world history? Justify your answer.
  
• Why would some people willingly give up their rights to the fascist state?
  
• What are the three main reasons the Aztecs lost to the Spanish during the Spanish Conquest of the Aztec Empire?
  
• What was the first language actually spoken in the Neolithic era? Into what languages did it eventually evolve?
  
• What advantages would gunpowder weaponry give to those who used it over those who did not in the early modern era ?
  
• Who were the great traders and seafarers on the Mediterranean Sea?
  
• What is a mosaic, and where were mosaics found in the Byzantine Empire?
  
• How did the Allied bombing of Germany in 1942 change the war?
  
• How do I defend monarchy in an argument?
  
• How was korea split between the United States and the Soviet Union?
  
• Who were the "Cristeros"?
  
• Among Arab countries, what is unusual about Egypt?
  
• How did the First and Second Sino-Japanese War contribute to a century of Chinese humiliation?
  
• What was a significant effect of the greco-persian wars?
  
• Why were the french corsairs brutally slaughtered in the Florida massacre?
  
• Who was defeated in world war 2?
  
• When did Italy and Asia stop trading. I know they started in 983. My question really is what happened with Italy and Asia trading in the tenth century?
  
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• How is total war different than most wars fought before WW1?
  
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• How far should Canada go to protect bilingualism?
  
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• How was Hitler able to murder so many Jewish people?
  
• Who were the pre-Colombian tribe who lived in South Florida?
  
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• How was China’s conservative religious tradition manifested in its social institutions?
  
• Why was Austria easier for Hitler to annex than Czechoslovakia?
  
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• Did resources or geography influenced the Invasion of Normandy ?
  
• Why did the Europeans continue maritime exploration when the Chinese deliberately abandoned it?
  
• What is the Philosopher's Stone?
  
• How did aggression lead to war in Asia and Europe?
  
• Who were the major members of WWI?
  
• What advance improved communications during World War I?
  
• Why did most of the combat on the Western Front in World War I take place in a relatively small area?
  
• By the end of the 16th century, what was the fashionable trend that drove the demand for knitted items?
  
• How did Sumerians celebrate holy days?
  
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• There are those who say that the U.S. attacks are State Sponsored Terrorism, is this true?
  
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• What are the two indigenous domesticated sources of meat in the Andes?
  
• What happened when the Ottoman Empire weakened?
  
• How were the West African kingdoms involved in the slave trade?
  
• Why is Islam criticized in many parts of the world?
  
• What was the significance of the Second Battle of the Marne?
  
• What name was given to the Allied plan to invade France?
  
• After NATO was formed, what was the USSR's reaction to this military alliance?
  
• What was the significance of the Nanking Massacre in the context of World War II?
  
• What action on November 11, 1918, brought World War I to an end?
  
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