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HIST 1020 Final Terms
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04/25/2014

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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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1933-1945
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Harry S. Truman
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1945-1953
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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1953-1961
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John F. Kennedy
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1961-1963
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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1963-1969
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Richard M. Nixon
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1969-1974
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Gerald R. Ford
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1974-1977
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James E. Carter
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1977-1981
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Ronald Reagan
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1981-1989
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George H. Bush
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1989-1993
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Hitler's Mein Kampf
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Means My Struggle.
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Lebensraum
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means Living Space
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Manchukuo
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Manchuria
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Henry Pu-Yi
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Last Emperor of China and only Emperor of Manchukuo.
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Mussolini, Italy, and the Conquest of Ethiopia
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Spanish Civil War
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Loyalists (Pro-Republic) vs Nationalists (Anti-Republic)
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Francisco Franco
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Leader of Spain(1939-1975) after Civil War
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German Re-militarization of the Rhineland
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1936.
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Pacificism
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Belief in peace without exception.
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Engelbert Dollfuss and Kurt Von Schuschnigg
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Austrian Leaders
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Anschluss
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The merger of Austria and Germany on 1938
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Fortress Europa
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Nations conquered and/or allied to Nazi Germany
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The German "Blitz" of London and other cities
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Collaboration
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Acceptance of and cooperation with German control
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Resistance
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Opposition to German authority in France
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Marshal Henri Petain
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Leader of Vichy France
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Vichy, France
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Capital of unoccupied France
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The Free French
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Led by Charles Degaulle from London, 1940-1944
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"Battle of Britain"
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1940-1941. German effort to crush the British.
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Sudetenland
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Western parts of Czechoslovakia with mixed German and Czech population
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Japanese "East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere"
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The Pact of Steel
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Between Germany and Italy. Signed 1939
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Policy of Appeasement
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Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister
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Tripartite Pact of 1941
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Japan, Germany, and Italy
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Daladier, Chamberlain, Mussolini, Hitler: Munich Conference
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1938. Only 4 allowed to attend. No Czech or Soviet.
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Polish Corridor
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Polish land separating part of Germany along with Danzig (Now Gdansk): Port City used by Poland in the Polish Corridor.
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The Soviet-Finnish War
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1939-1940.
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German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact of August 1939
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Blitzkrieg
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Lightning War. German military tactic first against Poland
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German evasion of the Soviet Union
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June 1941.
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The "Big Three"
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United States, United Kingdom, and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)
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The Great Patriotic War
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Soviet Term for World War II.
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Tojo
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Japanese Leader during most of World War II
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The "Rape of Nanking"
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Japanese Attack on Chinese City, Today's Nanjing.
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Japanese Bombing of Pearl Harbor
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Anglo-American Campaigns in North Africa, Sicily, and Italy
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1942-1944
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2nd Front
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Beginning with D-Day invasion of Europe from Normandy
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V-E Day
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Victory in Europe. May 1945
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V-J Day
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Victory in Japan. August 1945
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The "Final Solution"
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Holocaust of the "Jewish Problem"
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan
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Sites for U.S. Atomic Bombs. August 1945
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Sitzkrieg
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Phony War. October 1939 to April 1940
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The Anglo-American Atlantic Charter
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1941
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Yalta Meeting:
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Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill. January 1945.
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Potsdam Meeting:
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Stalin, Truman, Churchill, Then Attlee. July 1945.
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The Nuremberg War Trials
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1945-1946.
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The United Nations founded after World War II.
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The Truman Doctrine:
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Turkey and Greece.
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European Recovery Act
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Marshall Plan. 1947-1952
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Common Market
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European Economic Community: Created 1957 and renamed the European Union in 1993.
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The Iron Curtain
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Term popularized by Winston Churchill, 1946 speech.
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The Two Germanies:
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East (Pro-Soviet) and West (Pro-Western). East Berlin - Capital of East Germany. West Berlin - Pro-Western city within East Germany
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Bonn
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Capital of West Germany
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The Berlin Airlift
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1949.
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The Building of the Berlin Wall
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1961.
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De-Stalinization
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Under Soviet leaders Khrushchev and Brezhnev
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Hungarian and Czechoslovakia revolts against USSR
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1956, 1968
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American-Soviet Summit Conferences
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Beginning in 1955. Geneva
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Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Khrushchev and their relationships
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"Peaceful Coexistence"
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Idea initiated by the Khrushchev Regime
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Detente
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Nixon/Ford and Leonid Brezhnev
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Jimmy Carter and Human Rights Issues
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The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
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The Moscow Olympics
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1980. American Boycott
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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1949
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The "Warsaw Pact" of Pro-Soviet states
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Marshal Tito's Yugoslavia
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Independent Communist State
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Glasnost
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Gorbachev's policy of opennes in the Soviet Union
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Perestroika
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Gorbachev's policy of restructuring in the Soviet Union.
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Solidarity
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Poland Anti-Regime Labor Movement
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The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslavakia
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The Collapse of the Soviet Union
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1991 under Mikhail Gorbachev
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Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin
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Post Soviet, Russian Leaders.
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Emperor Hirohito
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Japanese Ruler. Maintained power after World War II
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General Douglas McArthur
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In charge of the occupation of Japan
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War Crimes Trials of Tojo and other Japanese leaders
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Mao Zedong
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Communist Conquest of China 1949
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Chiang Kai-Shek (or Jiang Jieshi)
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Leader of the Guomindang Party and after 1949, The Republic of China on Taiwan
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Normalization of Chinese-American Relations (Roles of Presidents Nixon and Carter)
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Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution under Mao
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1965-1976
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The Great Leap Forward
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Beginning 1958
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Chinese Red Guards
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Korean War
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Kim Il-Sung
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North Korea.
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Sygnman Rhee
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South Korea
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38th Parallel Dividing Korea
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As of 1953.
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French Indochina
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Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam
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Vietminh
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Communist forces of Ho Chi Minh
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Cambodia and the Communist Khmer Rouge
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1975-1978
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Ngo Dinh Diem
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South Vietnam Leader in Saigon. 1954-1963.
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Ho Chi Minh
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North Vietnam leader in Hanoi. 1954-1969
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Battle of Dien Bien Phu
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1954. Defeat leading to French withdrawal from Indochina
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"Domino Theory"
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President Eisenhower. Threat of communist spread is Asia from one communist takeover
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Johnson, Nixon, and American Involvement in Vietnam
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Dr. Henry Kissinger and the Paris Peace Conference
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1968-1973
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Fall of South Vietnam to Communists
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1975
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Student Demonstrations in Tienanmen Square in Beijing
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1989
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The Asian "Economic Tigers"
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General Pinochet
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1973-1988. Leader of Chile in the 1980s
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Eva Peron
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Leaders of Argentina in the 1940s and 1950s
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Kwame Nkrumah and Ghana
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Formerly the Gold Coast
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Apartheid and Nelson Mandela
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South Africa
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Frederik Deklerk
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Last White South African Leader
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Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
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Founder of Modern Turkey
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Zionism and the Founding of Israel
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Iran and the Government of the Shah
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The Iranian Revolution
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Ayatollah Khomeini takes power in 1978
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Islamic Fundamentalism and Theocracy in Iran since 1979
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David Ben-Gurion
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Early President of Israel
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OPEC
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Organization of Oil Exporting Countries. Including Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela, not just Arabic countries
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"Camp David Accords"
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Meeting between Egypt (Sadat) and Israel(Begin)
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Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO)
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Now known as the Palestinian Authority
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Yasir Arafat
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PLO Founder and Later Leader
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Iraq and the American overthrow of Sadam Hussein's regime
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Soviet Unsuccessful invasion of Afganistan
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1979
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Pakistan, Bangladesh, and India
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Major divisions of British India
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Indira Gandhi
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Indian Female Prime Minister
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Benazir Bhutto
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Pakistani Female Leader
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Fulgencio Batista
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Cuban President prior to Castro
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Ernesto "Che" Guevera
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Fidel and Raul Castro: The Cuban Revolution
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion Fiasco
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1961
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The Cuban Missile Crisis
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1962. Kennedy vs. Khrushchev
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The Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua
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Daniel Ortega
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The "Contras"
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Anti-Sandinistas in Nicaragua
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The Iran-Contra (Nicaragua) affair and the Reagan Administration
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