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HI 102 Final
pages 416-420
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11/27/2011

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"In war, indeed there can be no subsitute for victory..."
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quote by MacArthur
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Fulgencio Batista
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Cuba had been ruled by this dictator
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Fidel Castro
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a young Cuban lawyer with a record of violence and revolutionary activity, attempted to start a revolution against the Batista government
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"26th of July movement"
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Castro organized this to sieze the Cuban government
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John F. Kennedy
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after becoming President, he was informed of a plan for a force of Cuban exiles to intiates an anti-Castro revolution by invading Cuba
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Bay of Pigs
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this is where the Americans invaded Cuba
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"Cuban Missile Crisis"
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President Kennedy and Soviet Premier Khrushchev agreed to end this
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Nicaragua, Sandinistas, Somoza
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Cuban aid in ___________ enabled a group of Communist revoulutionaries called the ___________ to oust President Anastasio ______________ in 1979
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Juan Peron
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led a successful military overthrow of the government in Argentina
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Isabel Peron
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elected vice president, succeeded her husband upon his death, becoming the first woman to head a government in the Western Hemisphere
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Salvador Allende
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was chosen president by a legislative decision in Chile
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Augusto Pinochet
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leader of the coupe, assumed office of president after Allande committed suicide
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oil
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this discovery greatly increased Mexico's economic potential
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Turkey
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preparation for independence began when ______ became a republic
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Palestine, Transjordan, and Iraq
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Britian gained control of the affairs of these countries
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Lebanon, and Syria
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France gained control of the affarirs of these countries
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much of the world's known oil reserves and the conflict between the Arabs and the Jews
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two reasons why the Middle East is a vital part in the world affairs today
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reawakening of Arab nationalism since the beginning of WWI, and emergence of the Jewish state of Israel in 1948
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two most important modern trends in the Middle East
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Balfour Declaration
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the British government issued this, which supported a national Jewish homeland to Palestine for Jewish Zoinists
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Zionists
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those who advocated a Jewish national state
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state of Israel
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on May 14, 1948, the Jews proclaimed independence
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Chaim Weizmann
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became the first president of Israel
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David Ben-Gurion
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Israel's first prime minister
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Yom Kippur War
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means the "Day of Atonement," the Arabs against the Jews on the highest holy day
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OPEC
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"Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries," formed in 1960 as a monopoly designed to control the supple and price of oil
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Menachem Begin and Anwar el-Sadat
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Israeli Prime Minister and Egyptian President shocked the world when they met with the US President Jimmy Carter at Camp David in the US to discuss a peaceful settlement of Israeli-Egyptian disputes
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Camp David Accords
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Israel agreed to withdraw completely from the Sinai Peninsula
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PLO
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"Palastine Liberation Organization," was under Yassir Arafat, whose goal was to establish a Palenstinian state in Israel through force and terror
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