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Cuba/Middle East/ Vietnam 418-425
You are history. Literally.
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Undergraduate 1
04/19/2017

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Juan Peron
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Overthrew the Argentinian government and pursued socialist programs
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Isabel Peron
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The first woman to head a government in the Western Hemisphere
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Salvador Allende
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President of Chile who was a Marxist who came to power through elective processes
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August Pinochet
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Leader of an Anti-Communist overthrow in Chile who became president and established free market
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Oil
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Increased Mexico's economic potential and made them fourth place among oil producing nations
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Balfour Declaration
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British government supported national Jewish homeland for Jewish Zionists
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May 18, 1948
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The Jews proclaimed the independent state of Israel
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Chaim Weizmann
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A Russian born Jewish chemist who became the first president of Israel
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Israeli Menachem Begin and Egyptian Anwar elSadat
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Met with U. S. President Jimmy Carter at Camp David
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Camp David Accords
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Israel agreed to withdraw completely from the Sinai Peninsula
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Yassir Arafat
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Wanted to establish a Palestinian state in Israel through force and terror
Ran the PLO
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Mohammed Reza Shah
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The Shah, the anti-Communist ruler of Iran who was overthrown by Communist revolutionaries
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Ruhollah Khomeimi
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Iran's new totalitarian leader
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Saddam Hussein
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Became dictator of Iraq and used religion to unify the Arab states under his control
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Indira Gandhi
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Daughter of Nehru of India who was assassinated
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Ghana
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The first African nation south of the Sahara to gain independence
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Kwame Nkrumah
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First Prime minister of Ghana
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Patrice Lumumba
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Leader of the pro-Communist faction in the Republic of the Congo
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Idi Amin
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Seized power in Uganda and killed as many as 300,000 people
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Muammar al-Qaddafi
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Dictator of Libya
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Haile Selassie I
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Last of the Ethiopian monarchs
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Ho Chi Minh
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Vietnamese Communist who intended to control of Indochina
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Ngo Dinh Diem
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President of South Vietnam
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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Provided the legal justification for U. S. military involvement in the Vietnam Conflict
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William C. Westmoreland
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Commanded the U. S. troops in South Vietnamn
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Tet Offensive
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A large scale attack against 30 South Vietnamese cities and several U. S. military installations
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