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HI 102 Final
pages 421-427
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11/29/2011

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the Shah
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Iran's anti-Communist leader Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi
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Ruhollah Khomeini
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Iran's new totalitarian Muslim leader in 1979
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Saddam Hussein
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became the dictator of Iraq in 1979
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Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharak Nehru
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leaders in the struggle for Indian independence who advocated civil disobediance against the British government of India as a means of acheiving their goals
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1947
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India received its independence
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Indira Gandhi
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prime minister of India until her assasination
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Rajiv Gandhi
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succeeded Indira Gandhi, was prime minister until he was charged for corruption
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Ghana
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became the first African nation south of the Sahara to gain independence
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Kwame Nkrumah
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Ghana's prime minister, who quickly became the idol of African nationalists, and his government was held up as a model of emerging democracy
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Republic of the Congo
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The Belgian Congo became known as this after its independence
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Patrice Lumumba
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civil war broke out in Belgian and the Soviets sent out "technical assistants" and supplies to aid the Pro-Communist premier ______________
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Dr. Paul Carlson
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an American medical missionary who was murdered in Belgian
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Zaire
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the Republic of the Congo was renamed to this
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Algeria
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declared its independence from France in 1962
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Nigeria
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declared its Independence in 1967
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Liberia and Ethopia
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the two oldest African indepedent states
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Haile Selessie I
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The last of the Ethopian monarchs
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African National Congress(ANC)
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Marxist agitators infliterated such black nationalist groups
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Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia
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part of the Malay Peninsula
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Ho Chi Minh
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formed the Indochinese Communist Party intending to control all of Indiochina
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Vietminh
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Ho Chi Minh's forces
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Ngo Dinh Diem
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became president of South Vietnam
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Viet Cong
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Communist guerillas
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Loas
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became the scene of Communist agression when the Vietminh-backed Pathet Lao staged a rebellion against the Laotian government and fought a civil war with government troops
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Cambodia
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was dragged into the Vietnam War in the late 1960s
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Ho Chi Minh Trail
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a North Vietnamese invasion route and supply trail, and to destroy North Vietnamese supply depots in Cambodia
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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provided the legal justification for US military involvement in the Vietnam conflict
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William C. Westmoreland
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a general who buildup of the US troops in South Vietnam
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Tet Offensive
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a large-scale attack against 30 South Vietnamese cities and several US military installations
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Vietnamization
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withdrawing US troops and replacing them with South Vietnamese forces
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Ho Chi Minh City
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Saifon was renamed to this
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Edward Teller
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a Hungarian-born American physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project, planned for a more powerful nuclear weapon, the hydrogen bomb
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J. Robert Oppenheimer
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also helped develop the atomic bomb and now expressed "humanitarian" concern at the proliferation of nuclear weapons
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"Father of the Hydrogen bomb"
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Edward Teller was known as this
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"nuclear blackmail"
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the threat of the Soviets against the US
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"nuclear-freeze movement"
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demanded that America's nuclear arsenal be "frozen" at current levels with no new or improved weaponry
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