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The Progressive Era overlapped with the creation of the Jim Crow South. What influence or impact, if any, did the Progressive movement have on the South?	2
After the death of the Hirohito, how did Japanese society react to both his death and the accession of the new emperor? Was there a movement to make Japan a republic at the time? How was the death received outside of Japan by those who opposed Japanese imperialism?	2
North Vietnam fought for the unification of the country under the banner of communism, but what did South Vietnam and its people actually fight for, aside from just not being communist?	2
In The Sea Wolf novel a rival group of sealing schooners engage in a small shootout and taking of prisoners. Was the sailing trade seen as a place where violence was expected?	2
What options were available to the UN or US to help end the Rwandan Genocide?	2
Were vigilante crime-fighters tackling mobsters or bandits a product of a society that felt the rule of law was not equipped to handle the criminality that arose during and after Prohibition?	2
Mikhail Gorbachev seems to have a largely negative legacy in Russia today, but was this the case in the 1990s? And how has his reputation fared in the Eastern bloc and the former Soviet republics both before and after the collapse of the Soviet Union into the 1990s?	2
With Israel's controversial bill declaring it a Jewish nation state being passed, how has the concept of Israel being both a state for Jews while incorporating its Arab population played out in its history, in its treatment of non-Jews in Israel proper (so excluding the occupied territories)?	2
At the end of the Winter War, "Finnish concessions and territorial losses exceeded Soviet pre-war demands." If this was the case, was there a widespread pro-peace movement in Finland to oppose the war initially, and later view the war as unnecessary?	2
Public Enemy in "Fight the Power" described Elvis as having no meaning to Chuck D. What was the reception of Elvis to the African-American community at the time and onwards?	2

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