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| Meeting at which Europeans agreed on rules for colonizing Africa. |
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| War between the British and the Boers. |
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| Leader of Filipino nationalists. |
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| Interest in or taking of land for its location or products. |
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Control by a strong nation over a weaker nation. |
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| Term refering to India as the most valuable of all British colonies. |
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| King who helped Siam modenize. |
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| Leader of Ethiopian resistance. |
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| Southeast Asian mainland and islands along the rim of the Pacific Ocean. |
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| Governing in a "parental" way by providing for needs but not giving rights. |
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| Last Hawaiian ruler of Hawaii |
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| Belief that one race is superior to others |
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British rule over India form 1757 to 1947 |
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| Indian soldier under British command |
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| Uprising of Indian soldiers against the British |
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| Zulu chief who created a large centralized state |
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| Use of Charles Darwin's ideas about evolution to explain human societies |
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| Human-made waterway connecting the Red and the Mediterranean Seas |
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Leader in Mexico's fight for independence |
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| Rebellion aimed at ending foreign influence in China |
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| Leader of a powerful revolutionary army |
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| Right of foreign residents to follow the laws of their own government rather than those of the host country |
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| Enemy of Diaz who believed in democracy |
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| Cuban writer who fought for cuban independence |
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| Movement in Mexico aimed at achieving land reform, better education and other goals |
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| Period of rule by Emporer Mutsuhito from 1867 to 1912 |
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| US statement of opposition to European influence in the Americas |
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| Policy proposed by the United States giving all nations equal oportunities to trade in China |
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| War between Britain and China over the opium trade |
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| Man-made waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans |
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| Popular leader of the Mexican revolution |
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Dictator who came to power after Juarez |
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| Statement that the United States had the right to exercise "police power" in the Western Hemisphere |
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| War between Russia and Japan fought in 1904 |
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| War fought between the United States and Spain in 1898 in which the Americans supported the Cuban fight for independence |
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| Area in which a foreign nation controls trade and investment |
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| Rebellion against the Qing Dynasty |
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| Treaty between the United States and Japan opening trade between the two nations |
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| Great Britain, France, Russia and other nations who fought on their side |
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| Agreement to stop fighting |
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| Germany, Austria-Hungary and other nations who fought on their side |
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| Region along the German-Russian border where much fighting took place |
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| Plan for a just and lasting peace |
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France's premier and delegate at Versailles |
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| International group with the goal of keeping peace among nations |
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| Glorifying for war and preparing for it |
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One-sided information designed to persuade |
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| Control of the amounts and kinds of goods people can have |
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| Germany's plan for winning the war on two fronts |
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| Allowing people to decide for themselves about what kind of government they want |
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War in which countries use all of their resources for the war |
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Agreement at the end of World War I between Germany and the Allied Powers |
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| Fighting from trenches dug in the battlefield |
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| Military agreement between Germany, Austria-Hungary annd Italy |
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| Military agreement among Britain, France and Russia |
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| Unrestricted Submarine Warfare |
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| Using submarines to sink any ship without warning |
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| Region of northern France where much fighting took place |
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| President who proposed the Fourteen points and represented the United States at Versailles |
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| The slaughter of Indians by the British |
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| Disobeying the law for the purpose of achieving some higher goal |
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| Large, government-owned farm |
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| Economy in which the government makes all the economic decisions |
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A political party practicing the ideas of the Karl Marx and Lenin |
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| Plans to develop the Soviet Union's economy |
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| Arrest, exile, or killing of thousands of suspected enemies of the communist party |
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| Leader of the Chinese Nationalist Party |
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| Revolutionary leader who took control of the communist party after Lenin |
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| Nationalist party of China that overthrew the Qing Dynasty |
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| Escape of the Communists to safety after being surrounded by Nationalist forces |
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| Leader of the Communist revolution in China |
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| Chinese nationalist protest against China's fate as decided by the Treaty of Versailles |
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| Leader of the movement for Indian independence from Britain |
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| Leader of Turkish nationalists who overthrew the last Ottoman sultan |
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| Temporary government led by Alexander Kerensky |
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| Eccentric monk assasinated because of his corrupt influence on the Russian royal family |
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| Laws to prevent Indians from protesting British actions |
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| A march to protest British salt tax |
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| One of the first leaders of the Kuomintang; "father of modern China" |
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| Government that has total control over people's lives |
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| Fascist leader of Germany |
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| Scientist who developed the theory of relativity |
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| Giving in to keep the peace |
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| First person to fly alone across the Atlantic |
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| Temporary alliance of several political parties |
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| Philosophy that says each person must make a meaning in a world that has no universal meaning |
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| President of the United States during the Depression |
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| German philosopher who dismissed reason, democracy and progress as empty ideas |
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| Severe economic downturn that followed the collapse of the US stock market in 1929 |
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| Belief that political ties with other countries should be avoided |
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| Lively loose form of popular music developed in the United States |
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| Book by Hitler outlining his beliefs and goals for Germany |
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| Meeting of world powers in 1938 that allowed Hitler to take part of Chechoslavakia |
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| Roosevelt's program for creating jobs and improving the American economy. |
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| Nationalism that gives power to a dictator and takes away individual rights |
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| Physician who exposed the workings of the unconscious mind |
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| Art movement in which a dreamilike world, outside of reality is portrayed or evoked |
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Idea that as moving objects approach the speed of light, space and time become relative |
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| Government of Germany after World War I |
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| Declaration of principles issued by Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt in August 1941 |
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| Battle of British and German air forces fought during 1940-1941 |
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| Six-month battle on the island of Guadalcanal in which American and Australian troops defeated Japanese defenders |
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| Sea and air battle in which American forces defeated Japanese forces near Midway Island in the Pacific |
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| Battle during which the Red Army forced the Germans out of Stalingrad |
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| Final large-scale attack by German troops that was forced back by the Allies |
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| Warfare in which surprise air attacks are followed by massive attacks on land |
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| Leader of French government-in-exile |
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| Huge Allied invasion mounted to retake France from the Germans |
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Breaking down armed forces |
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| Process of creating a government elected by the people |
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| US general who commanded Allied forces in the Pacific |
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American general who helped drive the Germans out of Africa |
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| German general who led troops into North Africa |
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| Hitler's plan to kill as many Jews as possible |
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| Systematic killing of an entire people |
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| Neighborhoods in which European Jews were forced to live |
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| Systematic mass killing of Jews and other groups considered inferior by Nazis |
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Japanese admiral who decided that the US fleet in Hawaii had to be destroyed |
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| "Night of broken glass" when Nazis attacked Jews throughout Germany |
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Agreement that says countries will not attack or invade one another |
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| Trials of Nazi leaders charged with crimes against humanity, held in Nuremberg, Germany |
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| Navy base in Hawaii attacked by the Japanese |
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| Line that separated North Korea and South Korea |
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| Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini |
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| Muslim leader who overthrew the Shah of Iran |
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| Willingness on the part of the superpower to go to the brink or edge of war |
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| State of tension between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II |
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| Large farm setup in China in which many families work the land and live together |
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| Policy aimed at preventing the spread of Communism |
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| Uprising in China between 1966 and 1976 that aimed to establish a society of peasants and workers in which all were equal |
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| Leader of the Communist rebels in Nicaragua |
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| Policy to decrease tensions between the superpowers |
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Theory that nations were like a row of dominoes: if one fell to communism, the others would fall, too |
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| Leader of the United Nations forces during the Korean war |
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| Nixon's plan for gradually withdrawing troops from Vietnam and replacing them with South Vietnamese troops |
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| Vietnamese nationalist who drove the French out of Vietnam and who led North Vietnam |
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| Division between Eastern and Western Europe during the Cold War |
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| Nationalist leader who set up an new government in Taiwan |
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| President of the United States from 1961-1963 |
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| Communist rebels who set up a brutal government in Cambodia |
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| Soviet leader after Khrushchev |
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| President of the United States from 1963-1969 |
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| Communist leader who defeated the Nationalists and led the People's Republic of China |
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| Plan to give aid to European countries to help them recover from the war |
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| Millitary alliance including the United States, Canada, and several countries in Western Europe |
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| Leader of the anticommunist government of South Vietnam |
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| Leader of the Soviet Union after Stalin |
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| Countries that did not take sides with eith the the United States or the Soviet Union |
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| Young Chinese students who carried out the Cultural Revolution |
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| President of the United States from 1969 to 1974 |
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| President of the United States from 1981 to 1989 |
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| Talks to limit nuclear arms in the United States and the Soviet Union |
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| Developing nations in Asia, Africa and Latin America |
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| Policy of giving aid to countries threatened by communism |
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| World organization formed to prevent war |
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| Communist rebels in South Vietnam who were supported by North Vietnam |
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| Nixon's plan for gradually withdrawing US troops from Vietnam and replacing them with South Vietnamese troops |
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| Millitary alliance between the Soviet Union and the countries of Eastern Europe |
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| Leader of the FLN who became the first president and prime minister of Algeria |
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| Egyptian leader who signed a peace agreement with Israel |
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| Daughter of Aung San; winner of the Nobel Prize for her fight for democracy in Burma |
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| Former prime minister of Pakistan |
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| Agreement in which Egypt recognized Israel as a nation and Israel gave the Sinai peninsula back to Egypt |
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| The nations of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan |
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| Group consisting of mostly Hindus that led a campaign for India's independence |
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| Woman who defeated Marcos in the elections of 1986 |
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Leader of the Philipines who was elected but ruled as a dictator |
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| Israeli prime minister at the time of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war |
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Daughter of Nehru who followed him as prime minister |
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| Sustained rebellion by the Palestinians |
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| First prime minister of India |
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| Nationalist who helped lead Kenya to independence |
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| Leader in the Gold Coast independence movement |
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| Ruler who took control of the Congo in 1965 and renamed it Zaire |
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| Leader of the Muslim League |
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| A group that fought against the Soviet supported government in Afghanistan |
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| Muslim group that led a campaign for India's independence |
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| African movement after World War II to celebrate African culture, heritage and values |
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| Agreement aimed at giving Palestinians self-rule |
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Division of India into two nations |
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| Palestinian Liberation Organization |
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Leader who turned Indonesia into a police state |
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| Leader of Indonesian independence movement; first president of Indonesia |
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| A conservative Islamic group that controlled most of Afghanistan from 1998-2001 |
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| The nations of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia |
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| Strict separation of blacks and whites |
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| Political opponent of Gorbachev who became president of Russia |
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| Commonwealth of Independent States, a loose federation of former Soviet territories |
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| Chinese leader after Zhou Enlai |
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| Person against government policy |
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| Policy of murder and brutality aimed at ridding a country of a particular ethnic group |
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| System in which power is shared between state governments and a central authority |
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| Goals of Deng Xiaoping that called for progress in agriculture, industry, defense and science and technology |
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| Gorbachev's policy of openness |
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| Island that became part of China again in 1997 |
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| Breakng up of large estates in order to give land to the landless |
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| Leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991 |
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| Leader of the African National Congress who was imprisoned |
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| Gorbachev's policy aimed at reforming the Soviet economy |
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| Ruling committee of the Communist Party |
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| Institutional Revolutionary Party, which has controlled Mexico for most of the century |
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| Decrease in the size of the economy |
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| Uniting of East and West Germany into one nation |
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| Yeltsin's plan for changing the Soviet economy |
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| Quality of life as judged by the amount of goods people have |
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| Square in the capital of Beijing; scene of a student demonstration and massacre |
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| Chinese leader who worked with President Nixon to improve US-Chinese relations |
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| Aquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, a disease that attacks the immune system leaving sufferers open to deadly infections |
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| Process of creating identical copies of DNA for research or other purposes |
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| Attacks on information systems for political reasons |
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Department of Homeland Security |
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| Department of the US government that organizes the fight against terrorism in the US |
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Nation that is still developing industries |
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| Absence of barriers that can block trade between countries |
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| Difference between men and women in terms of wealth and status |
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| Use of genes to produce new products and cures |
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| Economy linking th economies of many nations |
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| Attempt to increase food resources worldwide in the 20th century |
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| International Space Station |
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| Project, involving 16 nations to build a huge laboratory in space |
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| Worldwide computer network |
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| Placing high value on owning things |
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| Layer of atmosphere that blocks dangerous rays from the sun |
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| Difference of opinion over political issues |
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| Cultural elements- such as sports, music movies and clothing- that reflects a group's common background |
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| People who leave their country to move to another to find safety |
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| Economic growth that meets current needs but conserves resources for the future |
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| Use of violence against people or property to force changes in society or government |
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| Universal Declaration of Human Rights |
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| 1948 statement of specific rights that all people should have |
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| Antiterrorism law that allowed the government certain rights to help chase and capture terrorists |
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| Leader of the Bolsheviks and first ruler of the Soviet Union |
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