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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 permitting politically independent unions. (10[1])At the start of one invasion, the Brownshirts aided local police in a fierce battle over this city’s Post Office. At Versailles, a corridor of land west of this port city was granted to a country led by Józef Piłsudski. (-5[1])A 1980 strike in this city’s shipyards (10[1])led to the formation of Solidarity. (10[1])For 10 points, a crisis over what “Free City” on the Baltic Sea (10[1])was an immediate cause of the Nazi invasion of Poland? ■END■

ANSWER: Gdańsk [or the Free City of Danzig]
<European History>
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Cooper Roh (DII)Columbia AJohns Hopkins3510
Albert Zhang (UG)Columbia CJohn Jay6510
Sam Macchi (DII)VassarColumbia B105-5
Ashish KumbhardareRowanNYU B11210
Anirudh Bharadwaj (DII)PennHaverford11810
Jack Rado (DII)Columbia BVassar13110

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