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As Communist forces launched their offensive to take Seoul, did North Korea, China or the Soviet Union worry that the United States might start deploying nuclear weapons? Was there int'l pressure to ensure the US would not use nukes? How prepared were their forces for the use of nuclear weapons?	7
Did the Black Plague of the 14th century leave a lasting cultural impact on other regions in the world as it did in Europe?	7
Haitian attempts to reconquer the Dominican Republic under Emperor Faustin I are summarized with sparse details & no footnotes on Wikipedia, including just one sentence on the third invasion of Haiti where a "30,000-man army...fled at the first shot." What actually happened during these invasions?	7
D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation is said to have been the inspiration for the creation of the second Ku Klux Klan. But what preceded the second Klan? Did the Klan replace similar fraternal groups dedicated around the same ideals? Was it the old order in cloaks or was it something different?	7
Why did the Democratic League and the Communists refuse to attend the National Assembly held by the Kuomintang to create. new constitution in 1946?	7
When the Southern Song Dynasty backed a national standard for paper money backed by silver and gold, how common was this paper currency in and out of China at the time? Did it inspire any other nearby people to try out paper banknotes?	6
How true is the idea that air combat in WWI was a chivalrous affair, and thus the reason the Red Baron got so many kills was due to targeting the pilots, not disabling the planes?	6
To what extent can we call Fascist government under Mussolini revolutionary? How much stayed the same for most of Italian society, and how much was changed?	6
Did Johnson try to pursue a détente policy in the Cold War as president? What were his views of his successor's efforts such as the trip to the PRC?	6
How organized was China's main religions (Confucianism, Daoism and Buddhism) in its history? How exactly were they used by the Emperor and his court to legitimize their rule, while simultaneously not de-legitimizing each other?	6

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