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W. Europe/China/Korea
You are history. Literally.
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History
Undergraduate 1
04/17/2017

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Charles de Gaulle
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Returned to France after WW2 and established the Fifth Republic
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Francois Mitterand
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Part of the socialist party who became president of France
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Alcide De Gasperi
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A conservative leader who helped Italy recover from WW2
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Red Brigades
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Terrorists organized by Communists in Italy
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Juan Carlos
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Successor of Franco who encouraged moderation and democratic rule
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Chiang Kai-Shek
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A Christian Chinese statesman who led the Nationalists
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Mao Tse-tung
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Led the Chinese Communists
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George C Marshall
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Traveled to China as an envoy to arrange peace between the Nationalists and Communists
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Taiwan
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Chiang and 2 million nationalists soldiers and their families fled here
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1949
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The People's Republic of China was established
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Great Leap Forward
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China's second Five-year Plan
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Cultural Revolution
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Purging China of all counterrevolutionaries and foreign influences
Helped to form the Red Guards
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40 million
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Died under Mao's reign of terror
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Deng Xaioping
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Emerged as Communist China's most powerful leader after Mao
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Kim Il Sung
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The Soviets set him up under a Communist puppet regime in North Korea
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Syngman Rhee
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The First President of the Republic of Korea
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38th Parallel
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Korea was divided by this
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1950
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Beginning of the Korean War
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General Douglas MacArthur
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Dispatched troops to Korea from Japan
Named Supreme Commander of all U. S. States and UN forces
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Pusan Perimeter
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A battle line where the Americans and South Koreans fled to
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Inchon
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MacArthur landed his forces here in Korea
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1953
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Joseph Stalin died
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Fidel Castro
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Attempted to start a revolution against the Batista government in Cuba
Organized the 26th of July Movement
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Bay of Pigs
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Cuban freedom fighters trained by America invaded Cuba here
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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The Soviets stopped their construction of missile bases in Cuba
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Sandinistas
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Communist revolutionaries in Nicaragua who ousted President Somoza
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