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| What did nationalism mean in the former colonies of Asia and Africa? |
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| Self-determination, not expansion into an empire |
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| What would come before security in many nations? |
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| Who was the Hindu who used civil disobedience to get Britain to leave India in 1947? |
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| Who was the Hindu who used civil disobedience to get Britain to leave India in 1947? |
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| What was the promotion of religious identity over national identity? |
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| What would it prevent from happening? |
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| Gandhi's dream of a United India |
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| What was the newly created (1947) Muslim country in Western India? |
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| What country would remain HIndu? |
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| What was the decision in which countries did not align with either the U.S. or the Soviet Union |
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| Who was the communist who defeated the French in 1954? |
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| Where did he defeat them? |
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| an independent, united Vietnam |
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| In 1976 who becomes a united, communist nation? |
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| What was usually called the Middle East? |
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| What was the only Middle Eastern Nation remaining under imperial rule after WWII? |
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| What was the Balfour Doctrine of 1917? |
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| Britain commits to creating a Jewish state in Palistine |
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| What did the promise to protect? |
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| The rights of Arabs still living there |
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| What were the communal farms Jews begin creating in Palestine as more of them immigrate there? |
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| Why did Britain turn the problem over to the US? |
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| They could not handle with Jewish/Arab conflict |
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| What is created on May 1948? |
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| With support from what two countries? |
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United States
Soviet Union |
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| What 5 countries immediately attack Israel? |
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| Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Iraq |
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| Israel defeats them all and gains more land |
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| Who was the leader of Egypt? |
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| What did he fail to gain control of? |
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| The Suez Canal from Britain |
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| What still cause problems today? |
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| Oil and the U.S. backing of Israel |
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| Where did more than 2 million French own land and lived there in the 1950's? |
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| How did the Algerian leader support them? |
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| He used violence against the French |
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| What happened from 1954 to 1962? |
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| What was the celebration of Africa's poets, writers, traditions, and cultures? |
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| Why was decolonization slowed? |
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| Whites claimed blacks wanted communism in Africa |
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| What was the first independent Sub-Saharan nation? |
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| Where did the British move black farmers? |
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| Who were the black subversives who began killing white settlers? |
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| Who was the leader of Kenya who negotiated it's independence in 1963? |
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| Much of Asia (except India and Japan) developed either of what two ways after 1945? |
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| Military, authoritarian rule |
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| What was the Great Leap Forward? |
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| Mao's decision in China to push for industry and communal agriculture |
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| What was Mao's attempt to further communist rule? |
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| 7 million Chinese intellectuals were killed |
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| Opened China's relations to the west |
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| What did he do with the students? |
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| He sent them to foreign universities to learn |
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| Where did students wanting democracy began protests? |
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| Deng quickly and violently crushed the protest |
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| What country remains politically stable and democratic? |
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| What are three problems still there in India? |
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Assassinations of leaders
Overpopulation
Religious tolerance |
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| The Arab-Israeli Conflict (116-1117) |
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| Arabs became linked toward Israel through what? |
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| Islam and Arab nationalism |
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| Why has Pan-Arab unity not occurred? |
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| Because of jealous and religious divisions (Shia and Sunni) |
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| Israel would defeat Egypt and Syria in what two wars? |
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Arab-Israeli (1967)
Yom Kippur (1973) |
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| Peace between Israel and Egypt |
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| Who was the Egyptian leader killed by his own people? |
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| For making peace with Israel |
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| PLO is headed by Yasser Ararat, and did what? |
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| Government in exile for Palestinians that had been moved out of Israel |
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| What was the desire to reassert Islamic values in Muslim politics? |
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| Many Muslims are skeptical about what? |
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| What was the violent struggle to protect Islam? |
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| Terrorists use it to do what two things? |
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| Rationalize and legitimize their actions |
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| Iran and Iraq (1117-1118) |
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| What country still identifies itself as a Persian nation? |
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| Who was the Iranian leader supported by the US? |
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| Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi |
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| Islamists hated what about him? |
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| His secular, western lifestyle, and repressive tactics |
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| Who was the Islamist who assumes power and leads the Iranian Revolution? |
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| What did Shia militants under his rule do? |
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| Held 55 American hostages for 444 days |
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| Who took over all US bases and businesses? |
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| What was the Iran-Iraq war? |
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| Iraq's Saddam Hussein (Arab) invades Iran and millions in both countries die |
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| What was the Gulf War? (1991) |
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| Iraq invades Kuwait but is driven back by UN forces |
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| What happens on September 11, 2001? |
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| An Islamic terrorist group called al-Queda bombs the World Trade Center |
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| In 2003 what does the US do? |
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| Invades Iraq as part of George W. Bush's expansion of the "War on terror" |
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| Politics and Economics in Latin America |
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| After WWII Latin America viewed the US as what two things? |
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| Why do peasants in Mexico still suffer? |
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| Lazaro Cardenas' land reform was not substained |
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| Who was the popular leader in Argentina after WWII? |
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| Nationalistic populism called for what three things? |
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Industrialization
Support of the working class
Freedom from foreign control |
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| What was the "dirty war?" |
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| When Military rulers after Peron used Nationalistic populism to control subversives |
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| What four things still cause problems in Latin America? |
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US cold air intervention
Fears of communism
Brutality
Corrupt governments |
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| What was an attempt to unite Roman Catholics with Marxists to combat the misery? |
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| Who was the Marxist leader of Venezuela who hates the United States? |
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