Modern History

Citizens of this ideology led by Eliezer Hoofein, director of the Anglo-Palestine Bank, signed the Haavara Agreement with the Nazi government, allowing certain people to transfer assets to British Mandatory Palestine. The first major public support for this position by a European power was the Balfour Declaration whose aims were later realized by the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire, including its lands in the Middle East. , name this nationalist ideology that supported the re-establishment of an independent Jewish state.

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A former professional player of this sport formed the Congress for Democratic Change in Liberia, defeating Joseph Bokai in the 2017 Presidential elections. In a location for playing this sport, soldiers of Francisco Macías Nguema [[NGAY-mah]] executed 150 political prisoners while dressed as Santa Claus. Violence at a qualifier for an international tournament in this sport led to a five-day long war between Honduras and El Salvador. For the point, name this sport which Liberian president George Weah played for Manchester City.

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This economic policy implemented during the NEP period allowed limited private enterprise while maintaining state control of heavy industry and foreign trade. Lenin viewed this approach as a strategic retreat from pure socialist principles to rebuild the war-torn economy. The policy sparked ideological debates within the Bolshevik Party about the pace of socialist transformation and the role of market mechanisms. This mixed economy system was abandoned under Stalin's First Five-Year Plan in favor of rapid industrialization and agricultural collectivization. s, name this Soviet economic policy of the 1920s.

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General Arsenio Martínez Campos found his 'policy of attraction' completely ineffective against the guerrilla tactics of Máximo Gómez and Calixto García, prompting Madrid to replace him with a harder-line commander. The replacement, Valeriano Weyler, introduced the brutal reconcentración policy, forcibly herding rural Cubans into fortified garrison towns where disease and starvation killed tens of thousands. José Martí, whose Cuban Revolutionary Party had coordinated resistance from exile in New York, fell at the Battle of Dos Ríos in May 1895 and became an instant martyr whose memory galvanized the independence movement. The conflict erupted in February 1895 with the 'Grito de Baire' and drew the United States into open war after the mysterious explosion of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor. s, name this late-19th-century Cuban uprising against Spanish colonial rule.

Hint: Remember: Grito de Baire plus the Maine equals Cuba breaking Spain's chain.

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This person’s body may have been discovered by Zhang Junyan and Wang Hungbao, but Wang died in an avalanche before giving a precise location. A puncture found on this person’s skull suggest they died of an ice axe infliction. This person was last seen during a 1924 expedition, as he and Andrew Irvine were 245 meters from reaching one summit. Edmund Hillary called this person the “initial pioneer of the whole idea of climbing [a certain mountain]." For the point, what mountaineer took part in the first three British expeditions to Mount Everest?

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