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A Quiz to See if U.S. Schools Taught You State Propaganda

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158. Have more U.S. citizens been killed by working on nuclear weapons, fighting in wars, being victimized by foreign terrorists, or by domestic gun violence, or smoking cigarettes? What are the numbers?

159. How many U.S. wars has the U.S. Institute for Peace opposed since its creation?

160. What do the people of Diego Garcia, Koho'alawe, the Aleutian Islands, Bikini Atoll, Kwajalein Atoll, Culebra, Vieques, Okinawa, Thule, the Aetas, the Cherokee, and most native peoples of the United States have in common?

161. What percentage of U.S. wars are marketed as promoting freedom?

162. During what percentage of U.S. wars are civil liberties in the United States curtailed?

163. How many average Europeans, Asians, Africans, or Latin Americans would it take to damage the natural environment as much as the average person in the United States?

164. What single institution creates the most environmental destruction?

165. How did women in the United States and around the world vote themselves the right to vote?

166. What did it take to win children's rights in the United States?

167. What is the Vietnam Syndrome?

168. What were the most successful tactics of the Civil Rights movement?

169. How many corporations control most major U.S. media outlets?

170. How was Apartheid officially ended in South Africa?

171. What happened on Rosenstrasse?

172. Which have succeeded more often and with longer lasting successes in struggles against tyranny during the past 100 years, violent or nonviolent revolutions?

173. Who were the Wobblies?

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