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A nurse named Alina relayed news of a strike in this city sparked by the firing of a woman over membership in the WZZW. A neo-socialist writer asked “Why Die for” [this city] in an anti-war slogan published in a Parisian newspaper. In this city, a list (10[1])of 21 demands made by the Inter-Enterprise Strike Committee, or MKS, led to an agreement permitting politically independent (10[1])unions. At the start of one invasion, the Brownshirts aided local police in a fierce battle over this city’s Post Office. (-5[1])At Versailles, a corridor of land west of this port city was granted to a country (-5[1])led by Józef Piłsudski. A 1980 strike in this city’s shipyards led to the formation of Solidarity. For 10 points, a crisis over what “Free City” on the Baltic Sea was an immediate cause of the Nazi invasion of (10[1])Poland? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Gdańsk [or the Free City of Danzig]
<European History>
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Omer KeskinOxford AEdinburgh4610
Elliot CosnettOxford BKiel6410
Haike LiuKCLImperial B85-5
Rose ConwayCambridge CCambridge B101-5
Brendan BethlehemCambridge BCambridge C14010
Carlos DoebeliImperial BKCL14210

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