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What are simply lowest quantum mechanical energy state of photons?
Virtual photons
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What is responsible for electrostatic interaction between electric charges?
Virtual photons
[ "Energy\n\nIn particle physics, this inequality permits a qualitative understanding of virtual particles which carry momentum, exchange by which and with real particles, is responsible for the creation of all known fundamental forces (more accurately known as fundamental interactions). Virtual photons (which are si...
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What results in Coulomb law?
electrostatic interaction between electric charges
[ "Energy\n\nIn particle physics, this inequality permits a qualitative understanding of virtual particles which carry momentum, exchange by which and with real particles, is responsible for the creation of all known fundamental forces (more accurately known as fundamental interactions). Virtual photons (which are si...
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What can be considered for the special case of systems which are closed to transfers of matter?
Energy transfer
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The portion of energy which does not do work during the transfer is called what?
heat
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Give one example of how energy can be transferred between systems?
transmission of electromagnetic energy via photons
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What asserts that energy is always conserved and that heat flow is a form of energy transfer.
first law of thermodynamics
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The first law of thermodynamics asserts that what is always conserved and that heat flow is a form of energy transfer?
energy
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What is a commonly used corollary of the first law?
for a system subject only to pressure forces and heat transfer (e.g., a cylinder-full of gas) without chemical changes
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What is the principle that is vitally important to understanding the behaviour of a quantity closely related to energy?
entropy
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What is entropy?
measure of evenness of a distribution of energy between parts of a system
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What is the mathematical result when an isolated system is given more degrees of freedom?
second law of thermodynamics
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Who defeated the native Prussians during the 13 century?
Teutonic Knights
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The Balts were gradually converted into which religion?
Christianity
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Which ethnic group become dominant following the 13 century just a few hundred years later?
Germans
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What other groups during this period for form minorities?
Poles and Lithuanians
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Around when did the Old Prussian language become extinct?
17th or early 18th century
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Why were the prince electors able to proclaim themselves King of Prussia?
Because the duchy was outside of the core Holy Roman Empire
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In what year were the prince electors elect them selves as King?
1701
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What time period did East Prussia and West Prussia join to become Prussia?
Prussia
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What year did the Kingdom of Prussia become the leading state of the German Empire?
1871
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What well known treaty would eventually would grant West Prussia to Poland?
Versailles
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What year did the Nazi's fall in World War II?
1945
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How many died trying to defend the province in Kaliningrad?
300,000
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Which group took possession of Prussia in the 13th century?
Teutonic Knights
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Which two areas were slowly Germanized during the 13th century?
Old-Prussian (north) and Polish (south) toponyms
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What did the knights of expansionist polices eventually lead to?
several wars
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What year was the Second Treaty of Thorn enacted?
1466
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Who converted to Lutheranism and secularized the Prussian branch of the Teutonic Order?
Albert of Brandenburg-Ansbach
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In what year did The Teutonic Order lose Eastern Prussia?
1525
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What did Albert establish himself as?
first duke of the Duchy of Prussia
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In what year did Maximilian III die?
1618
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What happened as a result of Maximilian's death?
Albert's line died out
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Who revoked the King of Poland's sovereignty over Prussia in 1660?
Frederick William
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Brandenburg was part of what dominating force?
Holy Roman Empire
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What jurisdiction was the Prussian lands under?
Teutonic Order
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Who elected there self as King of Prussia in 1701?
Frederick III
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What did the former Duchy of Prussia become known as?
Altpreußen ("Old Prussia")
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What wiped out one third of East Prussia's population during the early 1700's?
the plague and famine
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What was lost in Prussia's history during the Plague?
speakers of Old Prussian
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What military overran much of East Prussia?
Russian troops
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In what year was Royal Prussia annexed?
1772
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In what year was the territory of Warmia incorporated?
31 January 1773
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What was ratified in 1773 in Prussia?
The Polish Partition Sejm
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What defeat led to Prussia having to swear its allegiance to Napoleon?
Battle of Jena-Auerstedt
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What city did King Frederick William use to flee Prussia?
Königsberg
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What year did Napoleon end of the War of the Fourth Coalition?
1807
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Who instigated the Prussian reforms?
Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein and Karl August von Hardenberg
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What was included in the reform?
emancipation of the serfs and Jews
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In what year was East and West Prussia first united?
1824
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When did East and West Prussia split again?
1878
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Was the population of the Prussian province in 1900?
1,996,626 people
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Which religious group made up the majority of the population in Prussia?
Protestants
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Due to Germanization which three groups saw a decrease in Prussia?
Masurians, Kursenieki and Prussian Lithuanians
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Which country invaded east Prussia in World War I?
Russian Empire
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Why did the Russian army face such little resistance when moving through Prussia?
German Army had been directed towards the Western Front
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In what year did the battle of Tannenberg take place?
1914
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In what year did Germany become a republic?
1918
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What was implemented that separated East Prussia from Germany?
Treaty of Versailles
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What was implemented to provide transport to East Prussia?
The Seedienst Ostpreußen
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Who was the leader of the East Prussian Nazi Party?
Erich Koch
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What large plans did Koch have?
mass-scale industrialization of the largely agricultural province
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What even occurred during the summer of 1932 in Konigsberg?
attack on the headquarters of the Social Democrats
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Who was killed in the attack of the Social Democrats?
Gustav Sauf
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How were East Prussians able to pay for land improvements and road construction?
publicly funded emergency relief programs
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What was the name of the initiative to help with the new projects in East Prussia?
Erich Koch Plan
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What did Koch report to Hitler in 1933?
that unemployment had been banished entirely
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In what year did the Nazi's alter around one-third of the toponyms of the area?
1938
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Around how many places were renamed when the Nazis entered Prussia?
1,500
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What would happen if some didn't comply with the Nazi's with their demands?
sent to concentration camps
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How many people lived in Easy Prussia in 1939?
2.49 million
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Of the population in East Prussia, what percentage of those were German?
85%
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How many East Prussian Jews were around in 1939?
3,000
[ "East_Prussia\n\nIn 1939 East Prussia had 2.49 million inhabitants, 85% of them ethnic Germans, the others Poles in the south who, according to Polish estimates numbered in the interwar period around 300,000-350,000, the Latvian speaking Kursenieki, and Lietuvininkai who spoke Lithuanian in the northeast. Most Germ...
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What happened to those Jews who remained?
deported and killed in the Holocaust.
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In what year was the Regierungsbezirk Zichenau annexed?
1939
[ "East_Prussia\n\nIn 1939 the Regierungsbezirk Zichenau was annexed by Germany and incorporated into East Prussia. Parts of it were transferred to other regions, e.g. Suwałki to Regierungsbezirk Gumbinnen and Soldau to Regierungsbezirk Allenstein. Despite Nazi propaganda presenting all of the regions annexed as poss...
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What other parts of East Prussia were transferred after the annexation of Zichenau?
Suwałki to Regierungsbezirk Gumbinnen and Soldau to Regierungsbezirk Allenstein
[ "East_Prussia\n\nIn 1939 the Regierungsbezirk Zichenau was annexed by Germany and incorporated into East Prussia. Parts of it were transferred to other regions, e.g. Suwałki to Regierungsbezirk Gumbinnen and Soldau to Regierungsbezirk Allenstein. Despite Nazi propaganda presenting all of the regions annexed as poss...
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Despite all the propaganda that ws presented to the East Prussians what did German populations want within the country?
reunification with Germany
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What two countries were East Prussia partitioned into after World Was II?
Poland and the Soviet Union
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What was the city of Konigsberg renamed in to in 1946?
Kaliningrad
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What happened to most of the German population during the war in what is current day Kaliningrad?
evacuated during the war
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How many Germans were living in East Prussia in 1945?
800,000
[ "East_Prussia\n\nShortly after the end of the war in May 1945, Germans who had fled in early 1945 tried to return to their homes in East Prussia. An estimated number of 800,000 Germans were living in East Prussia during the summer of 1945. Many more were prevented from returning,[citation needed] and the German pop...
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Around how many camps were set up by the Germans during the way?
45 camps
[ "East_Prussia\n\nShortly after the end of the war in May 1945, Germans who had fled in early 1945 tried to return to their homes in East Prussia. An estimated number of 800,000 Germans were living in East Prussia during the summer of 1945. Many more were prevented from returning,[citation needed] and the German pop...
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How many forced labourers were in the largest camp?
48,000
[ "East_Prussia\n\nShortly after the end of the war in May 1945, Germans who had fled in early 1945 tried to return to their homes in East Prussia. An estimated number of 800,000 Germans were living in East Prussia during the summer of 1945. Many more were prevented from returning,[citation needed] and the German pop...
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What were the children that were left behind in East Prussia that was occupied by the Russians referred to as?
Wolf children
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In what year did the Polish government officially take over the administration in East Prussia?
1945
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How was the pre-war population in East Prussia referred to as?
Germanized Poles
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How much did the Ukrainians make up in population as a percentage in East Prussia?
18.5%
[ "East_Prussia\n\nRepresentatives of the Polish government officially took over the civilian administration of the southern part of East Prussia on 23 May 1945. Subsequently Polish expatriates from Polish lands annexed by the Soviet Union as well as Ukrainians and Lemkos from southern Poland, expelled in Operation V...
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What year did East Prussia become an official province of Russia?
1946
[ "East_Prussia\n\nIn April 1946, northern East Prussia became an official province of the Russian SFSR as the \"Kyonigsbergskaya Oblast\", with the Memel Territory becoming part of the Lithuanian SSR. In June 1946 114,070 German and 41,029 Soviet citizens were registered in the Oblast, with an unknown number of disr...
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In who's honor was the city named Kaliningrad from Konigsberg?
Mikhail Kalinin
[ "East_Prussia\n\nIn April 1946, northern East Prussia became an official province of the Russian SFSR as the \"Kyonigsbergskaya Oblast\", with the Memel Territory becoming part of the Lithuanian SSR. In June 1946 114,070 German and 41,029 Soviet citizens were registered in the Oblast, with an unknown number of disr...
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Between August 24th and October 26th how many German's left the Oblast to the Soviet Occupation zone?
42,094
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What happened to the Curonians who lived in the area in East Prussia?
expelled by the Soviet Union
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What did the Russians consider Curonians?
fascists
[ "East_Prussia\n\nA similar fate befell the Curonians who lived in the area around the Curonian Lagoon. While many fled from the Red Army during the evacuation of East Prussia, Curonians that remained behind were subsequently expelled by the Soviet Union. Only 219 lived along the Curonian Spit in 1955. Many had Germ...
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Where did most of the Curonians flee to in 1958?
West Germany
[ "East_Prussia\n\nA similar fate befell the Curonians who lived in the area around the Curonian Lagoon. While many fled from the Red Army during the evacuation of East Prussia, Curonians that remained behind were subsequently expelled by the Soviet Union. Only 219 lived along the Curonian Spit in 1955. Many had Germ...
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Once the German populations was removed, what three groups settled into the nothern area?
ethnic Russians, Belarusians, and Ukrainians
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In the Soviet section to the north, what did they want to expel from their land?
eliminating all remnants of German history
[ "East_Prussia\n\nAfter the expulsion of the German population ethnic Russians, Belarusians, and Ukrainians were settled in the northern part. In the Soviet part of the region, a policy of eliminating all remnants of German history was pursued. All German place names were replaced by new Russian names. The exclave w...
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What else happened in the northern part of East Prussia in the now Russian area?
names were replaced by new Russian names
[ "East_Prussia\n\nAfter the expulsion of the German population ethnic Russians, Belarusians, and Ukrainians were settled in the northern part. In the Soviet part of the region, a policy of eliminating all remnants of German history was pursued. All German place names were replaced by new Russian names. The exclave w...
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What has since been considered in Kalinigrad?
reverting Kaliningrad's name to its historic name of Königsberg
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What city was completely rebuilt after the Russians and Germans had bombed it?
Kaliningrad
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How was the removal of the Germans in East Prussia usually handled by the Russians?
violent and aggressive
[ "East_Prussia\n\nAlthough the 1945–1949 expulsion of Germans from the northern part of former East Prussia was often conducted in a violent and aggressive way by Soviet officials, the present Russian inhabitants of the Kaliningrad Oblast have much less animosity towards Germans. German names have been revived in co...
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What were common task of the corporation formed by the urban and rural districts?
schools, traffic installations, hospitals, cultural institutions, jails
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