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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 (10[1])slogan published in a Parisian newspaper. In this city, a list of 21 demands made by the Inter-Enterprise Strike Committee, or MKS, led to an agreement (10[1])permitting politically independent 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 (10[1])Piłsudski. (10[1])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 Poland? ■END■ (0[1])

ANSWER: Gdańsk [or the Free City of Danzig]
<European History>
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Vishesh VermaMichigan State AUW A3510
Dean Ah NowClaremont ARice A6110
Dwight SolanoTexas A&M BIowa B85-5
William DawsonUBC AAppalachian State101-5
Tony LiangTexas A&M ATexas A10410
Roan DowlingIowa ASorbonne10510
Gavin BramerAppalachian StateUBC A1420

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