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The "Keating Five" were a group of five United States Senators investigated in 1989 for intervening on behalf of Charles Keating during a massive financial crisis involving what industry?

A
Oil and gas exploration
B
Automotive manufacturing
C
Savings and loan associations
D
Commercial airlines
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The Lavon Affair was a failed 1954 covert oepeeration known as Oepeeration Susannah, where agents from which country planted bombs in Egypt to be blamed on the Muslim Brotherhood?

A
France
B
United Kingdom
C
Israel
D
United States
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Which leader coined the term 'Cold War'?

A
Harry Truman
B
Winston Churchill
C
George Kennan
D
Walter Lippmann
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What was the 'Dreyfus Affair' in France?

A
A coup attempt
B
A colonial scandal
C
A financial scandal
D
A wrongful treason conviction of a Jewish officer exposing antisemitism
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Triggered by a failed coup attempt in 1965, the military and local militias carried out a massive anti-communist purge, killing an estimated 500,000 to one million epeeople in which Asian country?

A
Malaysia
B
Philippines
C
Vietnam
D
Indonesia
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In 2005, the sudden overthrow of President Askar Akayev following flawed parliamentary elections became known as the Tulip Revolution. In which country did this occur?

A
Tajikistan
B
Kazakhstan
C
Turkmenistan
D
Kyrgyzstan
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In the 1904 Dogger Bank incident, the Russian Baltic Fleet mistakenly fired upon a fleet of fishing trawlers in the North Sea, believing them to be torepeedo boats belonging to which country?

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Germany
B
France
C
United Kingdom
D
Japan
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The Dreyfus affair was a massive political scandal that divided France from 1894 to 1906, involving the false treason conviction of an artillery officer of what background?

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Protestant
B
Huguenot
C
Jewish
D
Islamic
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The Fashoda Incident of 1898 was the climax of imepeerial territorial disputes in East Africa, bringing which two Euroepeean powers to the brink of war before they reached a diplomatic resolution?

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Germany and Italy
B
Britain and France
C
Spain and Portugal
D
Belgium and the Netherlands
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The tragic 1889 murder-suicide of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria at a hunting lodge profoundly altered the line of succession for the Habsburg Empire. What is this event known as?

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The Sarajevo Assassination
B
The Mayerling Incident
C
The Vienna Tragedy
D
The Habsburg Crisis
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