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• Why did the railroads initially divide the United States into four standard time zones?
  
• Why is the Syrian and Russian attack on Aleppo significant?
  
• What was the effect of the Dred Scott decision?
  
• Whats going on in the Middle East?
  
• What are some military units who served with distinction during WWII?
  
• What is a commissioner of oaths ?
  
• How did the invention of the cotton gin in 1793 affect the use of slave labor in the South?
  
• During the Time of Troubles in Russia, why was there much confusion?
  
• What did the Crow Arapaho, and Sioux all have in common?
  
• Can anyone please explain How did the French people established their control over Vietnam? ( class 10th)
  
• What was Tammany Hall?
  
• Why did the Fur trade develop in North America?
  
• Why did the United States and many other nations step in to the First Persian Gulf War?
  
• How can I write about the spread of Buddhism citing 3 examples of evidence in 3 or 4 sentences?
  
• Why is realism said to be a reaction to romanticism?
  
• Who were the Nazi's against?
  
• What shocked many people in the Union and the Confederacy after early battles such as Shiloh and Bull Run?
  
• Why was the Bay of Pigs an embarrassment for the United States?
  
• What event led to the anti-war protest at Kent State in 1970?
  
• What was the Allied strategy for World War II?
  
• What event started the Civil War?
  
• Why did Yugoslavia develop differently than other eastern bloc countries after World War 2?
  
• What was the city of Timbuktu best known for?
  
• Approximately how many Americans died during the Vietnam War?
  
• What was the key to Persia's communication network?
  
• Why did farmers who had small plots of land sometimes work on plantations?
  
• The period of time during the 1920s when there was a fear of Communism growing in the United States was known as what?
  
• What happened during the Vietnamese election in 1956?
  
• What were the some changes to the world map after World War 1?
  
• What are some military units who served with distinction during WWII?
  
• Who invented the modern pen?
  
• What was the outcome of the Battle of Little Big Horn?
  
• From what country did workers come to work on the Central Pacific Railway?
  
• How did the Hudson's Bay Company expand the fur trade?
  
• What did the Blackshirts, Schutzstaffel, and Brownshirts have in common?
  
• In what way did the American Revolution affect Native Americans?
  
• Why did the UN vote on the creation of Israel?
  
• Can anyone please explain about the impact of the great depression of 1929 on Vietnam?
  
• What did Nazi camp administrators do to identify people from different groups in the concentration camps?
  
• Whats going on in the Middle East?
  
• How did enslaved African Americans hold on to their African customs?
  
• What was the cause of the Iranian hostage crisis?
  
• During WWII, the American armed forces were still segregated by race. Why do you think this issue became increasingly important during this era, leading to the desegregation of the Armed Forces a few years after the war?
  
• Mark Twain said the following: "Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to." What did he mean when he said this? This is just for my personal curiosity as I was reading about Twain.
  
• How did the invention of the cotton gin change the economy of the South and the North?
  
• What is anti-semitism?
  
• How many Christians did the Jewish Bolsheviks kill?
  
• Who ruled Palestine after World War 1?
  
• How was Canada obtained by Britain?
  
• Why did the United States back the French in their fight against Ho Chi Minh?
  
• During the Time of Troubles in Russia, why was there much confusion?
  
• Whiat was a major issue that led to the Crimean War?
  
• What contributed to Ho Chi Minh's campaign in the conflict with France following World War II?
  
• What does the Iran-Contra affair refer to?
  
• Why did George Washington make the risky move of crossing the Delaware River on Christmas night?
  
• What was the turning point of World War II in Eastern Europe? Who defeated whom?
  
• Where in North America did Champlain explore?
  
• What were some of the effects of the Crusades?
  
• What led to the uprising at Tiananmen square?
  
• What was the Scopes Trial?
  
• What group of islands did the Japanese attack on the same day they attacked Pearl Harbor?
  
• What started World War 1?
  
• Why have the United States and Great Britain come under fire after the military phase of the Iraqi conflict ended?
  
• What is the history of VIETNAM ?
  
• Who caused the Cultural Revolution?
  
• Who was Catherine d'Medici?
  
• What did Japan do in response to military pressure from Commodore Matthew Perry?
  
• Why were many Arabs angered by decisions made at the Paris Peace Conference after World War I?
  
• Why do you think America still has troops stationed in South Korea?
  
• What did the Confederacy win at Chancellorsville? What did it lose?
  
• What were the greatest dangers faced by wounded and captured soldiers during the Civil War?
  
• How did Harriet Tubman become a conductor on the Underground Railroad?
  
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