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Chapter 28 Quiz
World Wars and Competing Visions of Modernity, 1900–1945
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On June 28, 1914, members of a Bosnian Serb nationalist group assassinated the Austrian heir to the throne, _________, and his wife while they toured the Bosnian city of Sarajevo, thus unleashing the chain of events that would ultimately lead to World War I.
Ernest Von Hohenberg
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Bohuslaw Chotek
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Francis II
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Franz Ferdinand
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From the very first, World War I was what is known as a _________, a conflict in which the belligerent parties engage in the complete mobilization of available resources in order to secure a military victory.
war of capitulation
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total war
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terminal war
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do-or-die war
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Germany, with its allies Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire made up what was known as the _________, at war with Great Britain, France, and Russia, or the Allied powers.
Central powers
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Axis powers
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Belligerent powers
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Aggressive powers
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The so-called February Revolution in Russia forced Tsar _________to abdicate and created a provisional government.
Alexander II
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Alexander III
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Nicholas II
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Nicholas I
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The _________of Vladimir Lenin, campaigned against Russian involvement in what had become a highly unpopular war and launched a takeover in the capital of Petrograd, as St. Petersburg had been renamed at the start of the conflict.
"Liquidationists"
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Socialist Revolutionaries
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Mensheviks
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Bolsheviks
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In March 1918, in return for Russia's withdrawal from the war, the Treaty of _________obligated Russia to hand over roughly one third of the Russian Empire´s population, territory and resources to Germany.
Brest-Litovsk
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Paris
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Plassy
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Bjorko
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The United States' war aims were embodied in President Wilson's _________.
Five Points
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Twelve Points
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Fourteen Points
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Ten Points
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As a result of the Versailles Peace Treaty which brought World War I to an end, a new supra-national _________was entrusted with the maintenance of peace.
United Nations
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Federation of Nations
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World Confederation
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League of Nations
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Which of the following does
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characterize the United States after the First World War?
The war industrial economy went into sudden collapse.
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The majority of the population now lived in nonrural environments.
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. It shifted from a debtor to a creditor nation.
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It was the strongest among the Allied democracies.
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In 1920, the _________gave American women the right to vote.
Twelfth Amendment
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Nineteenth Amendment
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Eighteenth Amendment
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Thirteenth Amendment
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Why did the American Federation of Labor have difficulties in improving labor conditions for workers?
They lacked resources as union dues were illegal.
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They were not trusted by workers as they believed they were communists.
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They had difficulty organizing unskilled workers with diverse ethnic backgrounds.
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They were openly opposed by state and local governments.
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The anti-foreigner and anti-Communist backlash after 1919 was part of a larger unease with the culture of Modernism which had been ushered in at the end of the First World War and was characterized by all
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of the following:
The rapid decline of the Ku Klux Klan.
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The rise of fundamentalist Christian religion.
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Increased intolerance toward Catholics and Jews.
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The spread of the pseudo-science of eugenics.
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Which of the following was
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A general slowdown in economic production.
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A shift from investment in manufacturing to stock market speculation.
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Saturation of the market for consumer goods behind high tariff walls.
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Rising rates of profit in all industries.
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Under President Franklin D. Roosevelt's prodding, Congress enacted what he called the _________.
"New Society"
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"New Deal"
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"Great Society"
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"New Frontier"
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One showpiece of President Franklin Roosevelt's anti-Depression legislation was the _________.
The Tennessee Valley Authority
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Medicare
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Medicaid
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The "War on Poverty"
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_________is defined as the condition of economic independence and self-sufficiency as state policy.
Plutocracy
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Meritocracy
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Autocracy
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Autarky
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After World War I, the most strategically important focus of British and French colonialism was _________.
The South Pacific
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The Middle East
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Southeast Asia
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West Africa
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The _________declared Britain's support for the idea of establishing Palestine as a national homeland for the Jewish people.
Mandate of Palestine
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McMahon-Hussein Correspondence
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Sykes-Picot Agreement
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Balfour Declaration of 1917
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General _________was the man behind the creation of a modern, secular Turkey that was now able to stand up against the European powers.
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Celal Bayar
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Fevzi Çakmak
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Mustafa Kemal "Atatürk"
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Ýsmet Ýnönü
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In 1919, the Indian National Congress called for full _________, or self-rule from Britain, and advocated nonviolent noncooperation.
moksha
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swaraj
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ex-raj
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dharma
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_________was the most prominent advocate of non-violence in India in the 1920s and 1930s.
Jawarhalal Nehru
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Nathuram Godse
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Narayan Apte
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Mohandas Gandhi
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In 1929, the newly created _________brought the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1917 to an end.
Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)
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Party of Democratic Revolutions (PRD)
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National Action Party (PAN)
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Labor Party (PT)
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In Russia, Lenin's successor, _________, built the Communist Party into an all-powerful apparatus that brutally shifted resources from agriculture into industry and lifted the Soviet Union into the ranks of the industrial powers.
Vyacheslav Molotov
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Joseph Stalin
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Gregory Malenkov
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Nikita Khrushchev
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In November 1929, the party congress officially decreed the _________as the necessary step toward the Soviet Union's accelerated industrialization.
collectivization of agriculture
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confiscation of personal goods and wages
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indentured servitude of peasants
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mass genocide of peasants
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Between 1929 and 1931, three to five percent of the "wealthiest" farmers on grain-producing lands, called _________, were "liquidated," meaning that they were either executed, sent to labor camps, or resettled on inferior soil.
serednyaks
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bednyaks
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kulaks
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batraks
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After growing disillusioned with Marxism, Benito Mussolini founded the "Italian Combat Squad," whose job was to_________.
Provide security in Italian cities.
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Break up communist rallies and strikes
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Rebuild the war-torn economy
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Spread Mussolini's ideas to the rest of Europe
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In 1924, "Il Duce," as Mussolini styled himself, began implementing his idea of a _________, in which all sectors of society contribute in a systematic, orderly and hierarchical fashion to the health of the state.
communist state
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police state
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client state
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corporate state
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After the abdication of Emperor William II, a republican constitution was adopted by a new German parliament in the city of ____________.
Berlin
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Versailles
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Weimar
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Potsdam
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Germany's NSDAP, or _________ Party became the largest party in the parliament by July of 1932.
National Socialist German Workers
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German Conservative
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German National People's
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German Progress
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Taking his cue from Mussolini's policies, Hitler and the Nazis _________of the Weimar Republic, purged the civil service of Jews, closed down all political parties except for the NSDAP, enacted censorship laws, and sent communists to concentration camps.
reformed the federalist structure
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abolished the federalist structure
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strengthened the federalist structure
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adapted the federalist structure
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The _________, a new secret police force established by Hitler, set in place a surveillance system in what was now called Germany's "Third Empire".
Wehrmacht
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Luftwaffe
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Schutzstaffel
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Gestapo
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The German army in Poland had pioneered a new kind of warfare referred to as "lightning war," or _________.
Sturzkampfflugzeug
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Stuka
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Blitzkrieg
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Panzer
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The Holocaust led to the murder of roughly _________, nearly six million, of Europe's Jews.
one-half
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two-thirds
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one-third
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one-fifth
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May 8, 1945, is known as _________or "VE Day."
Victory Expected Day
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Victory with England Day
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Victory in England Day
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Victory in Europe Day
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The _________as it came to be known, is often cited as the modern beginning of Chinese nationalism and led shortly thereafter to the founding of a Chinese Communist Party in 1921.
May Fourth Movement
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April Fourth Movement
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June Fourth Movement
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October Fourth Movement
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While Japan had used its control of Manchuria, Korea, and Taiwan in its support of autarky in the 1930s, its bid for empire in the Pacific was portrayed as the construction of _________.
"The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Alliance"
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"The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere"
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"The Greater East Asia Monopoly"
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"The Greater East Asia Empire"
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Under the premiership of General Tojo Hideki, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, the Philippines, and Dutch and British territories on _________.
December 15, 1941
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December 15, 1942
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December 7-8, 1941
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December 1, 1941
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President Harry S Truman made the fateful decision to have two experimental bombs dropped on _________on August 6 and 9, 1945.
Kyoto and Yokohama
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Kyoto and Hiroshima
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Kyoto and Tokyo
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Which of the following is
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a country established after World War One?
Poland
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Czechoslovakia
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Bulgaria
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Turkey
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Mohandas Gandhi, pictured above, sought Indian independence through:
armed struggle
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cooperation with the British colonial authority
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the support of the League of Nations
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non-violent civil disobedience
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The poster above was part of a plan to do what with agriculture in the Soviet Union?
The government sought to expand the number of kulaks to increase agricultural production
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The government wanted to introduce "scientific agriculture" from Europe
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The government sought to collectivize agriculture in order to support industrialization
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The government wanted to expand agriculture eastward by relocating peasants in Siberia
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