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AP literature list 3 Flashcards

5481630456	Avocation	A subordinate occupation pursued in addition to one's vocation especially for enjoyment	0
5481630457	Avocation (sentence)	Although she enjoys many avocations, she hasn't been able to do any of them, and she hasn't found a friend to do them with.	1
5481630458	Callous	Not showing/feeling concern about the problems/suffering of other people	2
5481630459	Callous (sentence)	Everyone ended up crying during the movie, but the callous woman, who didn't enjoy the movie, did not shed a tear.	3
5481630460	Capricious	Likely to change frequently and suddenly	4
5481630461	Capricious (sentence)	Although he liked stability, he decided to try to be more capricious, and he liked his new attitude.	5
5481630462	Disparity	The quality or state of being different	6
5481630463	Disparity (sentence)	If he is elected for president, he will try to lower the disparity between the lives of the rich and poor, but the election won't be easy.	7
5481630464	Efficacy	The power to produce a desired result	8
5481630465	Efficacy (sentence)	Although the company states high efficacy for the product, the product has many reviews, and the reviews aren't good.	9
5481630466	Epistle	A message on paper from on person to another	10
5481630467	Epistle (sentence)	We had to find a bigger box because there were so many epistles and the old box was overflowing.	11
5481645956	Hospice	A place that provides rooms and usually public dining for overnight guests	12
5481648925	Hospice (sentence)	Although we prefer hospices, we haven't been ably to go to one, and there were none around where we were going.	13
5481652631	Impetus	Something that arouses action/activity	14
5481654009	Impetus (sentence)	We were able to accomplish a lot because we had a lot of impetus, amend the manager was pleased.	15
5481657050	Moribund	Nearly dead	16
5481657500	Moribund (sentence)	We had the priest come over because our grandmother was moribund, and the priest blessed her.	17
5481662533	Vacillate	To show uncertainty about the right choice	18
5481663543	Vacillate (sentence)	I would have chosen winch college I like an I want to go to, but I tend to vacillate a lot.	19
5481668152	Antithesis	Balancing words/phrases/ideas that are strongly contrasted, often by means of grammatical structure	20
5481670700	Antihero	Central hero who lacks all qualities traditionally associated with heroes	21
5481675187	Anthropomorphism	Giving human characteristics to animals or objects	22
5481677618	Aphorism	A brief cleverly worded statement that gives a wise observation about life or a principle of general truth	23
5481680906	Apostrophe	Calling out to an imaginary/dead person or to a place/thing/personified abstract idea	24

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Fallacies - AP Language Flashcards

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5394478908	Appeal for Sympathy	ignores the real issue by emotional appeal.	0
5394492281	Bandwagon	statement is assumed to be logically valid because of popular support.	1
5394497340	Appeal to tradition	continue to do things as we have done them in the past. Asserts that a premise must be true because people have always believed in it or have done it.	2
5394506854	Slippery Slope	suggests that one step will inevitably lead to more. (weather -> toaster -> plastic surgery -> Joker -> being attacked by batman.)	3
5394517278	guilt by association	when a persons guilt or innocence is determined by the company he or she keeps. Ex: You hang around bill and bill skips school so you must skip school.	4
5394529041	appeal to authority	committed when the person making the statement is not a legitimate authority on the subject.	5
5394543194	Ad hominem	discrediting an argument by attacking the person who makes it.	6
5394549632	straw man	misrepresented someones argument to make it easier to attack.	7
5394556169	equivocation	Tricks of language that use the same term with different meaning	8
5394557799	Non Sequitur	Using a premise to prove a point that is often related by often quite distant. The conclusion doesn't logically follow the explanation.	9
5394566999	Post hoc ergo propter hoc	writer/speaker mistakenly assumes that because the first event proceeded the second event, it must mean that the first event caused the later one.	10
5394573005	circular reasoning	States that the first claim is initially loaded with the very conclusion one has yet to prove.	11
5394579059	Faulty dilemma	All of the options are not taken into account in the solution posed by the major premise. Ex: you can either graduate and go to college or you can work at minimum wage.	12
5394585228	Hasty generalization	a conclusion based on an inadequate evidence or a sample that is too small. Ex: Even thought its my first day I can tell this course is going to be boring.	13
5394607541	Appeal to ignorance	attempts to use an opponents inability to disapprove a conclusion as proof of the validity.	14
5394615071	Broken Window	Destruction will benefit the economy.	15
5394619157	Faulty analogy	comparison that is used to demonstrate a point but which is invalid	16
5394621680	Red herring	Introducing an unrelated or invalid point to distract the reader/audience from the actual argument.	17

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AP World History China Flashcards

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3016537411	pictographs	The Shang made this type of language ______	0
3016544751	land for military service	feudalism	1
3016595953	zhou social classes	1. gentry (wealthy, study confucian ideas, civil service) 2. peasants 3. merchants	2
3016635672	to make an excuse to overthrow shang	Why did the Zhou create the mandate of heaven?	3
3016656832	Qin	Which dynasty unified China?	4
3016666997	iron sword	The Zhou made the crossbow and ______ _____.	5
3016681783	bureacracy	Qin created what system of gov?	6
3016719921	Han social hierarchy	What does this represent? Scholar-bureacrats peasants laborers artisans artists and unskilled	7
3016744718	convey power, important trade centers	The role of cities was to ______ ______. They were also ______ _____ ______.	8
3016761722	supply lines	Supply trains of animals and wheeled carts	9
3016897552	Pax Sinica	Han's trade on the silk roads led to ________ (period of peace, growth, populations)	10
3016900070	Centralized governments	What are these examples of? Han, Mauryan, Byzantine	11
3016834421	accessible	Hans wanted to make trade more	12
3016916427	the silver rule	What does Shu mean?	13
3016918708	be considerate of others	What does Ren mean?	14
3016920392	do what is appropriate	What does Li mean?	15
3016938431	negotiation with allies and foes, crucial for imperial conquest	Diplomacy is ________ _______ _______ and _________. It is crucial for ____________ ________.	16
3016975562	Despotism	form of government in which single entity rules with absolute power (oligarchy, autocracy, etc.)	17
3016992160	What did the Chinese practice during Warring States period	animism, shamanism	18
3016993799	concubines	mistresses of emperors of dynasties	19
3016998002	1. Trade (horses, grapes, wine, wool, rugs, camels) 2. Ideas, customs, beliefs 3. Disease	Silk Road brought what to China:	20

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AP World History Chapter 31 Flashcards

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2268810588	world war 2 officially began in what year	1939	0
2268811416	what countries were members of the axis powers	germany, japan, italy	1
2268811992	after 1937, the government of japan was dominated by	a military regime dedicated to the ultra-nationalist goals	2
2268812370	when did the japanese march into manchuria	1931	3
2268813072	adolf hitler was the political and ideological leader of	national socialist party	4
2268813910	Hitler promised the German people all of the following EXCEPT	to rid Germany of the kulaks	5
2268815003	who was the leader of fascist italy	mussolini	6
2268815426	what country contributed to spain's republicans during the spanish civil war	the soviet union	7
2268815683	This city became the capital of the Chinese Nationalists for much of WWII	Chongqing	8
2268816010	the tripartite pact, signed in 1940, included what countries	germany, japan, italy	9
2268816261	in order to avoid a two front war, hitler signed a non aggression pact with	the soviet union	10
2268816582	the nazi invasion of this country in 1939 put an end to the idea of appeasement	poland	11
2268817049	what was the basis used for the german military strategy	blitzkrieg	12
2268818504	what happened in rotterdam	nazi bombers leveled the dutch port of rotterdam, killing over 40,000 civilians	13
2268819860	Which of the following did NOT contribute to the fall of France to the Germans?	The refusal of English troops to fight with the French	14
2268820192	This city was the capital of the Nazis' puppet regime in France	vichy	15
2268821915	All of the following groups were part of the Final Solution EXCEPT	musicians	16
2268822465	At this conference in 1942, the Nazi high command finalized plans for the destruction of the Jewish race	Wannsee	17
2268822856	Approximately how many people were killed by the Nazis during the Holocaust?	12 million	18
2268823498	where did the allies launch their european invasion	normandy	19
2268823949	Hitler's last-ditch effort to repel the Allied armies became known as	the Battle of the Bulge	20
2268825405	Universally recognized as the greatest naval battle in history, the Japanese fleet was effectively put out of commission at	midway	21
2268826360	This American general ordered mass aerial bombing of highly vulnerable Japanese cities	le may	22
2268827541	what country chose a path of neutrality and cooperation with japan in the pacific theater of ww2	thailand	23
2268828707	Japan's surrender in the Pacific was precipitated by	the use of atomic weapons on the cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima by the US	24
2268829140	what were the conferences held among the allied powers to determine the fate of europe after the defeat of germany	potsdam, yalta, teheran	25
2268831264	what institution was created as a result of ww2	united nations	26
2268831734	what is true concerning zionism following ww2	zionists turned to violent attempts to eject the british from palestine in response to the british attempts to limit immigration to the middle east	27
2268832514	the afrikaner national party in south africa established a rigid system of racial segregation called	apartheid	28
2268833321	In what nation were white settlers able to retain their position of supremacy?	south africa	29
2268833968	by what decade had the european colonization of most of black africa come to an end	60s	30
2268834879	what did jomo kenyatta do	led to a violent and prolonged revolution in kenya	31
2268835676	what is true concerning the algerian independence movement	decolonization in algeria was violent, as white settlers resisted independence through the OAS supported by powerful elements within the french military	32
2268836532	Which of the following nations achieved independence without violence?	philippines	33
2268837305	What radical African leader helped to achieve independence in Ghana?	Kwame Nkrumah	34
2268837674	In what year did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, thus bringing the US into WWII?	1941	35
2268838022	Which of the following was NOT a result of the peace treaties signed following WWII	German industrial power was destroyed	36
2268838555	British victory in the Battle of Britain was due to all of the following EXCEPT	the V2 rocket	37
2268838779	Hitler came to power in Germany	as a result of entirely legal and constitutional means	38
2268839940	In what type of African colonies was the process of decolonization most violent?	Those with large numbers of white settlers	39
2268840677	What was the solution to the division in India between Muslims and Hindus in 1947?	The British decided to divide India into two nations, a Muslim Pakistan and a secular, but Hindu dominated India	40
2268841164	Of all the nationalist parties in India, the British were most closely allied with	the Muslim league	41
2268841544	How did the Indian Congress Party and nationalist leaders respond to British participation in WWII?	Congress opposed the war effort and its leaders were jailed, but the Muslim League rallied to the British cause	42
2268841894	A Jewish homeland to be called Israel was established in 1948	in Palestine	43
2268842644	What document during WWII included a clause that recognized the "right of all people to choose the form of government under which they live?"	the atlantic charter	44
2268843177	Which of the following nations, created in the aftermath of WWI, lost its/their independence following WWII?	Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia	45
2268843956	FDR met with the other major Allies in 1945 at	Yalta	46
2268844407	A 1944 Allied landing in this country created a European front against the Germans	France	47
2268844684	The balance of the war in Europe shifted in 1941 when Germany invaded	the Soviet Union	48

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APES Flashcards

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4904734734	atmosphere	Not one of common phosphorus resevoirs:	0
4904765031	organic compounds	Carbon is a major component of	1
4904773328	freshly fallen leaves	Topsoil contains all of the following except	2
4904776716	Gaseous cycle	The nitrogen cycle is considered to be a	3
4904791614	Divergent plate boundary	Tectonic plates move apart in opposite directions at a	4
4904799534	Hydrologic Cycle	The cycle most responsible for linking the other biogeochemical cycles is the	5
4904828350	energy from the sun and gravity	The energy sources primarily responsible for Earth's external geological processes are	6
4904828351	mantle fault	A _____________________ is not one of the three types of boundaries between lithospheric plates	7
4904837024	low; high	Clay has _____ permeability and ________ porosity	8
4904845398	lithosphere	Fossil Fuels and minerals are found in the	9
4904850586	nitrification	Ammonium ions are converted to nitrite ions which are then converted to nitrate ions through what process	10
4904872178	All of these answers	Soil is a complex mixture of	11
4904872179	horizons	The zones that compose a mature soil are known as	12
4904878860	calcium carbonate shells	Of the following carbon-based compounds which would have the slowest turnover rate?	13
4904890756	surface litter	Freshly fallen leaves, organic debris, and partially composed organic matter as a indicative of the	14
4904899725	photosynthesis	All of the following increase the carbon in the atmosphere except	15
4904910877	burning fossil fuels and removal of forests and brush	The two ways in which humans have most interfered with the carbon cycle are	16
4904951196	solar energy and gravity	The hydrologic cycle is driven primarily by	17
4904951197	Igneous	Lava is an example of ________ rock	18
4905031326	Nirtrogen Fixation	Nitrogen gas is converted to ammonia through	19
4905037015	Clay	Which of the following types of soil hold the most water?	20
4905046409	Composed of crust and core	Which of the following is false?	21
4905052356	Sustainable agriculture	Of the following human activities, the one which probably contributes least to soil erosion is	22
4905063622	Calcium	All of the follwing are elements involoved in major biogeochemical cycles except	23
4905072367	Organic	which of the following is not a characteristic of a mineral?	24
4905083704	Nutrient holding capacity	Properties of sand do not include good	25
4905091839	along edges of continents	The majority of earthquakes and volcanoes occur	26
4905107806	Cycrobacteria	Nitrogen fixation is accomplished by	27
4905119321	Photosynthesis and Cellular	Transfer of carbon between organisms depends primarily on	28
4905126591	Topsoil	A horizon commonly referred to as A- Horizon	29
4905136235	partially decomposed organic matter	Humus is	30
4905138454	Nitrogen	The most common gas found in the atmosphere	31
4905142481	Carbohydrate Cycle	All of the following are general types of nutrient cycles except	32
4905147257	Phosphorus	The major plant nutrients most likely to be a limiting factor is	33
4905162776	High; high	Sand has a ______ permeablilty and a ________ porosity	34
4905167006	Water	The hydrologic cycle refers to movement of	35
4905173065	moving water	Most soil erosion is caused by	36
4905195190	Transpiration	Of the following processes of the water cycle, the one working against gravity is	37
4905195191	Atmospheric cycle	The nitrogen cycle is an example of an	38
4905195192	clay	Which of the following types of soil has the least pore space	39
4905200584	All of those	An example of a microbe is	40
4905205809	Porosity	Soil texture most directly determines	41
4905215715	crust and upper mantle	The lithosphere is made up of	42
4905218428	Bedrock	As it weathered ________ gives rise to the C Horizon	43
4905227428	O	The surface litter is described by the letter	44
4905235372	all of the following	Humans add sulfur to the atmosphere by	45
4905242140	Weathering	Soil is developed most directly through	46
4905251113	applying organic fertilizers to agricultural land	Humans remove nitrogen from the soil by all of the following except	47
4905256695	all of the above	The theory of plate tectonics explains	48
4905265710	Coal	Which of the following rocks is most likely to be formed from compacted plant remains	49
4905273108	transform fault	Tectonics in opposite but parallel directions along a fault at a	50
4905290507	lithosphere	Where a geologist collect rock and soil samples	51
4905297873	creation of a fault	The earthquake is most directly caused by	52
4905307645	metamorphism	The changes of rocks from one rock to another	53
4905313147	plastic region in the mantle	The aethenosphere is	54

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AP World History Flashcards

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4830529813	Archaeology	The study of human history and prehistoric through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts and other physical remains.	0
4830530752	Anthropology	The comparative study of human societies and cultures and their developments.	1
4830530753	History	The study of past events, particularly in human affairs.	2
4830531701	Primary Source	An artifact, a document, diary, manuscript, autobiography, a record, or other source of information that was created at the time under study.	3
4830534305	Secondary Source	Information is one that was created later by someone who didn't experience first-hand or participate in the events or conditions you're researching.	4
4830534306	Civilization	The stage of human social development and organization that is considered most advanced.	5
4830535257	Culture	The arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.	6
4830536518	Paleolithic	Of, relating to, or denoting the early phase of the Stone Age, lasting bout 2.5 million years, when primitive stone implements were used.	7
4830536519	Clovis Culture	A prehistoric Native American culture that first appears in the archaeological record of North America around 13,500 years ago, at the end of the last ice age	8
4830538819	Neolithic (agricultural revolution)	Of, relating to or denoting the later part of the Stone Age, when ground or polished stone weapons, and implements prevailed.	9
4830538820	Foragers	To search about; seek rummage; hunt.	10
4830540850	Pastoralists	A sheep or cattle farmer.	11
4830540851	Diffusion	The spreading of something more widely.	12
4830543324	Syncretism	The amalgamation or attempt amalgamation of different religions, cultures, or schools of thought.	13
4830543325	Megalith	A large stine that forms a prehistoric monument (e.g., a menhir) or part of one (e.g., a stone circle or chamber tomb)	14
4830544631	City-State	A city that with its surrounding territory forms and independent state.	15
4830544632	Patriarchy	A system of society or government in which men hold the power and women are largely excluded form it.	16
4830545799	Fertile Crescent	A crescent-shaped region containing the comparatively moist and fertile land of otherwise arid and semi-arid Western Asia, the Nile Valley and Nile Delta.	17
4830546633	Catal Huyuk	An archaeology site in what is now south-central Turkey.	18
4830547468	Sumerians	A member of the indigenous non-Semitic people of ancient Babylonia.	19
4830549239	Babylon	A contemptuous or dismissive term for aspects of a society sen as degenerate or oppressive, especially the police.	20
4830550403	Hammurabi	The sixth king of the Amorite First Dynasty of Babylon, assumed the throne from his father, Sin-Muballit, and expanded the kingdom to conquer all of the ancient Mesopotamia.	21
4830550404	Ziggurat	A rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple	22
4830551776	Cuneiform	Denoting or relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit, surviving mainly impressed on clay tablets.	23
4830551777	Memphis	An ancient city of Egypt south of Cairo.	24
4830566057	Thebes	Known to the ancient Egyptians as Waset, was an ancient Egyptian city located east of the Nile about 800 kilometers (500 mi) south of the Mediterranean.	25
4830567622	Pharoah	A ruler in ancient Egypt.	26
4830567623	Pyramid	A monument structure with a square or triangular base and sloping sides that meet in a point at the top, especially one built of stone as a royal tomb in ancient Egypt.	27
4830569473	Scribe	person who copies out documents, especially one employed to do this before printing was invented	28
4830570726	Hieroglyphics	Enigmatic or incomprehensible symbols or writing.	29
4830573954	Papyrus	A material prepared in ancient Egypt from the pithy stem of a water plant, used in sheets throughout the ancient Mediterranean world for writing or painting on and also for making rope, sandals, and boats.	30
4830573955	Harappa	A village in Pakistan: site of successive cities of the Indus valley civilization.	31
4830576264	Mohenjo-Daro	One of the largest cities of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization, also known as the Harappan Civilization which developed around 3000 BCE from the prehistoric Indus culture	32
4830578300	Shang Dynasty		33
4830578301	Zhou Dynesty		34
4830579765	Mandate of Heaven	An ancient Chinese belief/theory and philosophical idea that (heaven) granted emperors the right to rule based on their ability to govern well, appropriately and fairly.	35
4830579766	Mesoamerica	A region and cultural area in the Americas, extending approximately from central Mexico to Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and northern Costa Rica, within which pre-Columbian societies flourished before the Spanish colonization of the Americas in the 15th and 16th centuries.	36
4830580799	Olmec		37
4830580800	Teosinte		38
4830582336	Andes		39
4830584062	Chavin		40
4830584063	Llama		41
4830585338	Hierarchy		42
4830585339	Migration		43
4830587513	Bantu Migration		44
4830588944	Austronesian Migration		45
4830589511	Chiefdoms		46

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AP US History World War 2 Flashcards

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6299991517	Neutrality Act	law that kept the US out of WW2	0
6299991518	Lend Lease Act	law that said the US can give or sell arms to other nations for the protection of the US from those countries	1
6299991519	America 1st Committee	group that favored US neutrality or isolationism	2
6299991520	Fascism	form of government that glorifies the state over the individual; demands a strong central government	3
6299991521	Totalitarian State	a government that controls all aspects of the people	4
6299991522	Inflation	the rate of increase in costs	5
6299991523	Adolf Hitler	fascist chancellor of Germany; started the rise of the Nazi Party; broke the Versailles Treaty and pretty much started WW2	6
6299991524	NAZI	Nationalist Socialist German Workers' Party; party those rose to power in Germany; led by Adolf Hitler	7
6299991525	Gestapo	Hitler's personal army; would eventually become the SS	8
6299991526	Reichstag	the government building (kind of like the White House and Capitol Building combined) that Hitler attacked and got arrested	9
6299991527	Mein Kampf	Hitler's book that is titled "My Struggle"; details his beliefs and what he would do when he gets to power; illustrates his hatred of the Jews, German imperialism; every German family had a copy but never read it	10
6299991528	Enabling Act	law that gave Hitler ultimate power to disregard any and every law in order to fix the economy; his approval rate increased due to his success in boosting the economy	11
6299991529	Nuremburg Laws	laws that banned Jews from German citizenship; targets were identified (Jews had to wear the yellow Star of David)	12
6299991530	appeasement	a compromise where 1 side gets something	13
6299991531	German Soviet Non-Aggression Pact	deal between Russia and Germany that split Poland in half; Germany takes west and Russia takes east	14
6299991532	blitzkrieg	"lightning war"; tactic to go in with as much force as you can (airforce and tanks)	15
6299991533	Maginot Line	series of defenses France put up along the border of Germany; consisted of trenches and bunkers; 60% of France became occupied in less than 1 month	16
6299991534	Puppet Government	a government that is controlled by an outside force	17
6299991535	Rape of Nanking	the capital of China was invaded by the Japanese; over 50% of the people that lived there were killed either by torture, killing competitions, or rape	18
6299991536	Blockade of Japan	impact of the rape of Nanking; the US decided to impose this as well as an embargo to ensure that Japan never hit anyone else like that ever again	19
6299991537	USS Arizona	only ship in Pearl Harbor that was not able to be salvaged and repaired; 1,177 men died in this explosion; sunk in 9 minutes; bomb hit engine and artillery room	20
6299991538	Doolittle's Raid	1st US raid on Tokyo; showed the US that we were going to come back from Pearl Harbor and fight	21
6299991539	Pearl Harbor	Japan's bombing of the US Pacific Ocean naval base; hit us hardcore; December 7th, 1941	22
6299991540	Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)	program that paid factories to change to produce war products	23
6299991541	Cost Plus Program	program that paid for materials and the finished product that companies made for the war effort	24
6299991542	Ration Cards	these limited what a person could buy; this ensured that there were enough resources for the war	25
6299991543	scrap drive	people would donate their scraps of metal for the war effort	26
6299991544	victory gardens	gardens that people would grow because of the ration cards; if there was a surplus of food, they would donate the extra to the war effort	27
6299991545	GI Bill	this paid vets to go to college and would provide housing	28
6299991546	Navajo "Code Talkers"	these people would talk in the Navajo language since it was not a written language; this was useful as the Axis Powers could not translate the code	29
6299991547	Tuskegee Air Men	group of all black fighter pilots; their job was to protect big bombers; flew over 200 missions and never lost a bomber; Eleanor Roosevelt convinced her husband to put them into combat	30
6299991548	442nd Regiment	combat team that was made up of Asians that volunteered for the military to show their loyalty to America; most decorated combat team in US history; fought in Italy and France	31
6299991549	Executive Order 9066	order given by FDR that made all Japanese people live in internment camps	32
6299991550	internment camps	camps in the US designed to hold people of Japanese descent	33
6299991551	D-Day	battle on the beaches of Normandy; June 6th, 1944; largest amphibious invasion in the history of the world; also known as Operation Overlord	34
6299991552	General Eisenhower	man who planned the D-Day invsion; hand delivered several thousand letters that he personally addressed that explained to the soldiers exactly their jobs for the invasion	35
6299991553	Atlantic Sea Wall	Germany's defense wall on the French coast; 4 million land mines	36
6299991554	101st airborne	group of paratroopers that were elite; their job was to take out the German machine guns and tanks behind enemy lines	37
6299991555	Arsenal of Democracy	weapons that were used to fight the Fascists; US gave weapons to democratic nations and Russia	38
6299991556	Destroyer Deal	the deal in which the US gave 50 destroyers to Great Britain in exchange for 8 UK bases	39
6299991557	Tehran Conference	meeting between Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt; the Big 3 agreed to focus on Germany and then Japan; 1st meeting of the Big 3	40
6299991558	Battle of the Bulge	Hitler's last offensive battle; over 10,000 US troops surrendered; Patton drove over 102 miles in 2 days to help support Allied lines; Russia eventually came in and helped	41
6299991559	Yalta Conference	2nd conference of the Big 3; they decided what to do with Germany after the war; Churchill and FDR wanted to work with Germany; Stalin=burn/crush Germany; Stalin demanded a buffer between Germany and Russia, aka Poland	42
6299991560	Pottsdam Conference	last conference of the Big 3; Prime Minister Clement, President Truman, and Stalin; debated about what to do with Germany; Truman told Stalin about the nuclear bomb	43
6299991561	VE Day	May 8th, 1945; Victory in Europe Day; millions of Jews move to Israel and make it a country	44
6299991562	Nuremberg Trials	event where the Nazis (mostly concentration camp workers) were put on trial for crimes against humanity; these went on for over a year; several Nazis were executed, some committed suicide, and some escaped to Argentina	45
6299991563	Tojo	commander of all Japanese forces; tried to kill himself with an American gun and lived because an American medic saved him; later put on trial and executed; responsible for demanding the Pearl Harbor attack	46
6299991564	Douglas MacArthur	US commander of the Pacific; "We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction" (what a lame coverup)	47
6299991565	Bataan Death March	event in which the Japanese marched US POWs to labor camps; they marched over 60 miles in the blazing Filipino summer; there were 80,000 soldiers that were captured	48
6299991566	Island hopping	the US tactic of taking over little islands bit by bit to get close enough to bomb Japan	49
6299991567	Battle of Midway	battle that was 100% naval; midway between the US and Asia; 6 months after Pearl Harbor; turning point of the war in the Pacific; US cracked the Japanese radio code; US found out about the attack on midway and sneak attacked with aircraft carriers; result was that the Japanese fleet was no longer a threat in the war	50
6299991568	Kamikaze	Japanese suicide bombers; they added extra explosives, extra gas, and carried a short sword to take their life	51
6299991569	Bonzai Charge	famous attack in which the soldiers attached bayonets and charged the enemy while yelling "Long live the Emporer!" in Japanese	52
6299991570	Iwo Jima	battle that took place on a volcanic island; Japanese hid and traveled through cave and tunnel networks; this was where the famous Flag Raising photograph was taken	53
6299991571	Marines	main US force in the Pacific; only branch that has been in every major conflict	54
6299991572	Battle of Okinawa	largest amphibious assault in the Pacific; more people were killed than Hiroshima and Nagasaki and most casualties were civilians	55
6299991573	Harry S Truman	33rd President of the US; succeeded FDR when he died; known for being a Moderate Democrat	56
6299991574	Fire bombing	tactic that is essentially napalm; US did this to Japan and ended up destroying 50% of the country; we only lost about 240 airmen in the attacks	57
6299991575	Manhattan Project	this event's objective was to create the atomic bomb; had to split an atom in a controlled manner; Einstein came to the US and helped; thousands of scientists came to help; cost $2 billion to make 1 bomb; located in Los Alamos, New Mexico	58
6299991576	Major General Groves	military leader of the Manhattan project; created and designed the Pentagon; organzied and ensured efficiency in the project	59
6299991577	Dr. Oppenheimer	scientific leader of the Manhattan project; became obsessed with his work and could not handle stress very well; devastated at the results of dropping the bombs; "I am become death, the destroyer of worlds"	60
6299991578	Tinian Island	the island the bombers took off of to bomb Japan	61
6299991579	Little Boy	the uranium bomb; 1st bomb of its kind to be used in combat; dropped on Hiroshima	62
6299991580	Paul Tibbets	man who flew the plane that dropped Little Boy; named his plane, the Enola Gay, after his mother	63
6299991581	Hiroshima	August 6th, 1945; Little Boy was dropped and killed 70,000 immediately and then twice that much by radiation and cancer; was targeted because of its poor defense and high population	64
6299991582	Fat Man	the plutonium bomb; surrounded by smaller and slower explosives; the US only had enough plutonium to make 1 bomb; we didn't know if it would work or not but decided to go with it anyways; this bomb was two times stronger than the uranium bomb but killed half as many	65
6299991583	Nagasaki	place where Fat Man was dropped; US dropped warning pamphlets 3 days before dropping the bomb; 40,000 people were killed; most of the shock was absorbed in the hills and mountains; this place has a higher radiation poisoning	66
6299991584	VJ Day	September 2nd, 1945; the Japanese surrender and marked the end of the war; japan has never had a military since; the unofficial surrender was 6 days after Nagasaki	67
6299991585	Japanese War Crime Trials	event where many Japanese leaders were put on trial; General Tojo was put on trials; many were tried for the Rape of Nanking as well as bio chemical experiments	68
6299991586	Bio-chemical experiments	what the Japanese performed on POWs; purpose was to develop more harmful weapons using nature	69
6299991587	German Soviet Non-Aggression Pact	the agreement between Germany and Russia to split Poland	70
6299991588	V V	victory in Europe, victory at home; black civil rights movement during the war. The Double V campaign bolstered the spirits of black soldiers and strengthened African American commitments to fighting for equal rights.	71
6299991589	Spheres Of Influence	When a country has a geographical influence, like America to Southern American countries	72
6299991590	Bloc	a group of nations with similar interests, like the European countries under the influence of communism from Stalin.	73

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3717973125	Dorian Gray	The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde	0
3717975166	Lord Henry Wotton	The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde	1
3717978103	Basil Hallward	The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde	2
3717978104	Sibyl Vane	The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde	3
3717979669	The Picture of Dorian Gray	Oscar Wilde	4
3717982614	Mrs. Helene Alving	Ghosts - Henrik Ibsen	5
3717983628	Pastor Manders	Ghosts - Henrik Ibsen	6
3717984792	Oswald Alving	Ghosts - Henrik Ibsen	7
3717986062	Regina Engstrand	Ghosts - Henrik Ibsen	8
3717986063	Jakob Engstrand	Ghosts - Henrik Ibsen	9
3717986891	Captain Alving	Ghosts - Henrik Ibsen	10
3717987661	Johanna	Ghosts - Henrik Ibsen	11
3717987662	Ghosts	Henrik Ibsen	12
3717989242	Dr. Henry Jekyll	Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson	13
3717992783	Mr. Edward Hyde	Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson	14
3717993889	Mr. Gabriel John Utterson	Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson	15
3717993890	Dr. Hastie Lanyon	Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson	16
3717994730	Mr. Poole	Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson	17
3717995981	Mr. Enfield	Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson	18
3717995982	Mr. Guest	Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson	19
3717997642	Sir Danvers Carew	Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson	20
3717998626	Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde	Robert Louis Stevenson	21
3717999420	Marlow	Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad	22
3718002927	Kurtz	Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad	23
3718003710	General manager	Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad	24
3718004421	African Mistress	Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad	25
3718005462	The Intended (fiancé)	Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad	26
3718010361	Heart of Darkness	Joseph Conrad	27
3718011373	Gregor Samsa	The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka	28
3718012321	Grete Samsa	The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka	29
3718013126	Father Samsa	The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka	30
3718013127	Mother Samsa	The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka	31
3718013940	Charwoman (cleaning woman)	The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka	32
3718015348	Office Manager (boss)	The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka	33
3718016173	Boarders	The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka	34
3718017319	Original Maid	The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka	35
3718017320	The Metamorphosis	Franz Kafka	36
3718018111	Richard	Richard III - Shakespeare	37
3718019214	Buckingham	Richard III - Shakespeare	38
3718020210	King Edward IV	Richard III - Shakespeare	39
3718020211	Clarence	Richard III - Shakespeare	40
3718021618	Lady Anne (widow)	Richard III - Shakespeare	41
3718021619	Duchess of York	Richard III - Shakespeare	42
3718022625	Queen Margaret (widow)	Richard III - Shakespeare	43
3718038258	Queen Elizabeth	Richard III - Shakespeare	44
3718022626	Richmond	Richard III - Shakespeare	45
3718023447	Hastings	Richard III - Shakespeare	46
3718025581	Richard III	Shakespeare	47
3718026389	Lysistrata Character	Lysistrata - Aristophanes	48
3718028684	Kleonike	Lysistrata - Aristophanes	49
3718029335	Myrrhine	Lysistrata - Aristophanes	50
3718029336	Koryphaios of Men	Lysistrata - Aristophanes	51
3718030273	Chorus of Old Men	Lysistrata - Aristophanes	52
3718031644	Koryphaios of Women	Lysistrata - Aristophanes	53
3718031645	Chorus of Old Women	Lysistrata - Aristophanes	54
3718032512	Kinesias	Lysistrata - Aristophanes	55
3718033699	Peace (handmaid)	Lysistrata - Aristophanes	56
3718049413	Lysistrata	Aristophanes	57
3718053155	Orgon	Tartuffe - Moliere	58
3718053848	Tartuffe Character	Tartuffe - Moliere	59
3718054710	Dorine	Tartuffe - Moliere	60
3718055423	Cleante	Tartuffe - Moliere	61
3718056076	Elmire	Tartuffe - Moliere	62
3718056939	Mariane	Tartuffe - Moliere	63
3718056940	Damis	Tartuffe - Moliere	64
3718057902	Madame Pernelle	Tartuffe - Moliere	65
3718058882	Valere	Tartuffe - Moliere	66
3718060195	Monsieur Loyal	Tartuffe - Moliere	67
3718061537	Flipote	Tartuffe - Moliere	68
3718061538	Tartuffe	Moliere	69
3718062628	Winston Smith	1984 - George Orwell	70
3718065915	Julia	1984 - George Orwell	71
3718066943	O'Brien	1984 - George Orwell	72
3718066944	Big Brother	1984 - George Orwell	73
3718067749	Mr. Charrington	1984 - George Orwell	74
3718067750	Syme	1984 - George Orwell	75
3718068632	Parsons	1984 - George Orwell	76
3718069349	Emmanuel Goldstein	1984 - George Orwell	77
3718069350	1984	George Orwell	78

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2417607895	Anne Bradstreet	-moved to americans with other Puritans at 18 -8 Children -father and husband contributed to founding of Harvard -poetry = diary -addressed to husband and children -positive and hopeful tone -women and religion -plain style/classicism -Contemplations, To my Dear and Loving Husband	0
2417619496	Richard Wilbur	-still alive -Pullitzer x2 - ends poems in crescendo -order and organization influenced by Robert Frost and WH Auden -childhood influences & WWII -Boy at the Window, A fable, The Writer	1
2417628996	William Carlos Williams	-The red wheelbarrow -modernism and imagism -fresh and unique, everyday circumsances of everyday people -line breaks -National Book award and Pulitzer Prize	2
2417635639	Elizabeth Bishop	-raised by maternal grandparents, elite school -perfectionist, therefore not many works -struggle, sense of belonging, human experiences of grief and longing -journeys, traveling -national book award and Pulitzer Prize "one art"	3
2417645941	Geoffrey Chaucer	-father of english lit -1st to be buried in Poets Corner of WM Abbey -poet, philosopher, bureaucrat, diplomat, alchemist -The canterbury tales -satirist, close to modern english	4
2417659584	John Donne	-married anne more, scandal with father -metaphysical poetry/conceit -Compass in Valediction: Forbidden Mourning -Satire, love, sermons, Dead be not proud, a hymn to god the fotehr	5
2417672376	Robert Browing	influenced by Elizabeth Barretts poems, married her -Porphyria's lover -my last duchess -dramas, short lyrics, free verses, narratives,	6
2417685601	Garrett Hongo	japanese american born in hawaii -professor of creative writing at university of oregon at eugene -influenced by jap/american experience -Yellow Light -Volcano: A memoir of Hawai'i	7
2417692461	Robert Lowell	manic depression, married/divorced x3, heartbreak, -pulitzer x2 -rigorously formal --> Modern Style - invented congessional poetry -exteremly personal works - personal traumas -failing love life and manic depression -life studies, 91 Revere streete, skunk hour	8
2417703880	Rita Dove	-beauty, political themes, civil rights, music and dance -Pullitzer for Thomas and beulah -on the bus with rosa parks	9
2417709043	Derek Walcott	-modernism -selfaware realism -stepping beyond the boundaries of traditional poetry -morality, socio-economic, mythical, carribean birthplace -nobel prize -Omeros, The Illiad -- reflects homers journey and caribbean identy/beauty of the island	10
2417719609	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	-always feared over money, fear of mental illness -In memoriam stanza, mythological past, personal past -in memoriam, the lady of shaloti, ulysses	11
2417725816	Marianne Moore	-baseball fan -National book award, pullitzer prize, bollingen prize, -muhammed ali admirer -"baseball and writing"	12
2417733641	Cathy Song	Anedotes, imagery, free verse, narrative, family -korean/chinese descent, -Picture Bride, Youngest Daughter	13
2417740959	Sylvia Plath	Attempted suicide, single mother with two children, married ted hughes, poor, -suicide by cooking gas -wrote about hardships,real life depression, honest and shocking struggles -"daddy" "metahors" Mirrors"	14
2417753659	William Butler yates	-irish, dublin, active in irish nationalsim, protestant, irish folklore -symbolic -art and politics, romanticism to modernism transition "The lake isle of innisfree" "the second coming"	15
2417761725	Gwendolyn Brooks	-lived in inner city chigago -1st black author to win Pulitzer prize for poetry -clipped lines, patterns and random rhyes, strong dialect - civil rights, inequality, female struggles, drug use, poverty - the bean eaters, we real cool	16
2417771406	Seamus Heaney	irish poet, playright, translator -small irish farm -catholic in protestant world -professor at harvard/oxford -childhood memories, farm life, nature, family, irish commentary, death -nature imagery, sensous language, sexual metaphors, simplistic natural speech -"digging"	17
2417783000	Joy arjo	-highly political feminist, musiciam and writer, in a band and plays ukelele and bass -university of new mexico -voice of the earth, landscape of time and tielessness, people who struggle/ to know themselves and to survive -native american myths, symbols, values, love of natural world "the woman who fell from the sky" "The last song"	18
2417791142	Phillip Larkin	Warwickshire, england -wrote novels, enjoyed jaze, no-nonsense, hated limelight -female alter ego -"Whitsun Weddings" "Toads" "A study of reading habits"	19
2417796264	Walt Whitman	-debated sexuality, humanism and optimism, transcendentalism and realism, fatehr of free verse, influenced by homer, dante, shakespeare and bible, invented words, "o captain my captain" "i hear america singing" "leaves of grass"	20
2417802968	William Blake	-influenced by bible, claimed to have visions of God's head and Exekiel -influenced by gothic architechure -painter and a poet -biblicam themes, heaven and hell, sexuality, innocense and experience, religion and imagionation, "The Sick Rose" "the Cimney Sweeper" "The clod/the pebble" "The lamb" "To the muses"	21
2417812129	William Wordsworth	-**"daffodils", "I wandered lonely as a cloud" -feeling, instinct, pleasure -power of the human mind, spendor of childhood, beneficial infleunce of nature	22
2417821095	Andrew Marvell	-scathing political satire -metaphysical, love and religion, elaborateconceit, vibrant imagery, satire and religion, soul vs body, art vs politics -"To his coy mistress"	23
2417829406	Alexander Pope	-translated the illiad -tuberculosis=very short -"hump backed toad" -satire and heroic couplets, ignorance and pointlessness of society -"essay on criticism" "rape of the lock" "essay on man"	24
2417841141	John Keats	-fighter for friends -medicine -depression and sore throats -passionate letters -tuberculosis -romanticism -odes, unhappy with real world, escape, negative capability "ode to grecian urn, nightinggale" "on autumn"	25
2417852065	HD (hilda doolittle)	-bisexual, freud -greek mythology -Helen in Egypt	26
2417856501	Ben Jonson	English Playwrit/poet -comedy of humors and satire plays, lyric poetry -dramatist -second most important dramatist after shakespeare -wrote Shakespeares Eulogy -Silent women, the Alchemist -satire, humor, distate for world, delight in exposing follies and vices	27
2417863522	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	-opiates, friends with wordsworth -romantic movement, german idealistic thought, transcendentalism, unifying spirit/consciousness, guilt, weight of wisdom, friendship "the eolian harp" "rime of ancient mariner" "kubla khan"	28
2417874431	Paul Lawrence Dunbar	sympathy "Caged bird"	29
2417881289	Emily Dickinson	anxiety, depression, rarely left home, sole caregiver to sick mother -nature, religion, law, music, medicine, DASHES -"Hope is the thing with feathers" "because I could not stop for death"	30
2417886042	Lucille Clifton	African american heritage, womens experience, female body "in the inner city" "good times"	31

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