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To what extent - if any - did surviving White Army veterans of the Russian Civil War, or White émigrés more broadly, support Nazi Germany?	5
Did Napoleon ever consider allying with the First Saudi State during his campaigns in the Middle East? What evidence, if any, exists to support this?	5
What were some of the ways in which the African-American Civil Rights Movement of the 20th century changed notions of racial and ethnic difference within "non-white" communities?	5
The World Wide Web was released to the general public right around the same time the Soviet Union was collapsing and the Cold War ended. Was there any sense within the United States and its allies that the Web was part of the “End of History” and the inevitable triumph of liberal democracy?	5
What was the initial national security response 9/11 outside of the United States? Were counterterrorism efforts and authorities rapidly expanded like they were in the US?	5
Is there a historical connection between Switzerland's tradition of "neutrality" and its linguistic pluralism, with three of its four national languages being French, German, and Italian - ie., three long-competing and in many eras, mutually hostile powers with distinctive cultural identities?	4
Is the fracturing of anti-CPUSA and anti-Soviet Leftism in the 1930s-1940s considered by historians to be a major cause of the demise of the American "Old" Left?	4
Why did the “new immigrants” to the US from Southern and Eastern Europe seem to be disproportionately receptive to socialist and anarchist political movements in the late 19th and early 20th centuries?	4
How did Jews and Catholics fit into the racial hierarchy of the Jim Crow South?	4
FDR’s second-term court-packing scheme is well-known; less remembered is his 1938 campaign against incumbent Congressmen from his own party who weren’t supportive of the New Deal. Was FDR’s feud with conservative Democrats in Congress more politically damaging to him than the court-packing plan?	4

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