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There's controversy in Hong Kong on an exam question that asks students to weigh the statement: "Japan did more good than harm to China in the period 1900-45." The controversy was over allowing such nuance on 'settled history'. What ways do historians present questions like these w/ students? [META]	2
The Black Civil Rights Movement inspired other groups to launch their own movements in the United States. How about outside the US? Were there movements that took inspiration from what was going on in the US?	2
When Andrew Jackson implemented the spoils system, was he called out for corruption by his opponents? What was resistance to the spoils system like?	2
How radical were the Radical Republicans? They ended up controlling Congress to push through crucial civil rights legislation and amendments, yet the Reconstruction agenda ended up rejected by American society after Grant. How did an "extreme" position wield popular power just to become 'fringe'	2
Chants of "From the river to the sea" call for a single, unified, Palestinian state - a rejection of the UN Partition Plan of 1947. Einstein thought a Zionist state was not ideal, preferring harmonious living between Jews and Arabs. How would Jews have lived in a single Palestinian state in 1948?	2
100 years ago today, Lt. Leefe Robinson shot down the first German zeppelin over England and the action was widely celebrated while the zeppelin was burning in the sky by Londoners. How widely feared were zeppelins at the time by the general populace and the military strategists?	2
Indonesia has the 10th most airports in the world today - during the heyday of Dutch colonial rule (1900), how extensive was trade inside the Dutch East Indies? Is there any good picture of the density of trade, either official or unofficial, and how the Dutch attempted to control this in any way?	2
Was there any cooperation and/or criticism between the Bureau of Indian Affairs and its Canadian counterpart on how it worked with the aboriginal peoples in the area they managed?	2
How aggressive and violent were California farmer's associations in oppressing the efforts of the many minority and/or poor farmworkers advocating for better pay and working conditions until the Delano grape strike?	2
What were relations between the LAPD and the black community between the Watts riot and the Eulia Love shooting? Were relations always low, or did they recover after the riots to fall again after the shooting and into the 1980s?	2

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