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| Ma, president of taiwan (republic of china) |
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| Karzai, president of Afghanistan |
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| Wen Jiabao, premiere of China |
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| Zardari, president of pakistan |
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| king abdullah of saudi arabia |
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| Hosni Mubarak, president of Egypt |
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| Recep Tayyip; president of Turkey |
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| Bambang, president of Indonesia |
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| Netanyahu; Israeli prime minister |
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| Ahmadinejad,president of Iran |
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| ayotallah khomeni of iran |
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| most populous chinese group |
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| why are ethnic problems in china disappearing? |
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| the han are moving all over |
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| china has always had a positive what? |
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| trade surplus (they sell more than they buy) |
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| how much power did russia have in the 90s? |
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| how many new countries formed from the USSR |
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| what happened this semester to ensure Pakistan does not go down in flames? |
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| the US gave them a lot of money |
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| no, b/c of winter war with russia in 1939 |
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| who was in the white house when the random people crashed the party? |
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| Singh, prime minster of India; first official white house visit of obama's presidency |
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| how many more troops is obama sending to Afghanistan? |
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| what would happen if an earthquake hit Japan? |
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| the world economy would collapse |
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| who won most popular russian of all time? |
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| who just gave up their nuclear powers? |
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| a single shogun destroyed everyone else. when and what was its name? |
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| who opened up japan to outside trading? |
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| what did japan turn korea into? |
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| in 1895 made it into a slave state for their natural resources |
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| What did the US do to Japan in 1940? |
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| stopped selling them oil because they were afraid of what they could do with it |
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| What countries did Japan want to take over in WWII? |
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| other part of the marshall plan |
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| most spoken languages on earth |
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| US government thinks who knows where al-quada are but are hiding them? |
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| US-Pakistan relations are very....right now |
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| marshall plan was offered to whom? |
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| all european countries; soviet satellites didnt take it |
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| kashmir; between pakistan and india |
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| Turkey and Greece are original members of what? |
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| Original members of European coal and steel community |
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| Frace, germany, italy, belgium, luxembourg, netherlands |
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| the original ECSC members are core of what? |
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| everyone except ayatollah and amminejad |
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| how can you spot an EU attack on the news? |
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| someone attacks a mcdonalds |
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| who has been trying t get into the EU since it formed? |
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| Why was Wen traveling around so much? |
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| He is primarily focused on resource acquisition |
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| main US priority in helping Russia after cold war |
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| making sure their nuclear material was under control |
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| select russian businessmen |
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| who is tough on oligarchs? |
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| who is tough on oligarchs? |
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| what are very bad aspects of russia still? |
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| healthcare and environment |
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| T/F Ma of Taiwan does not want to establish good ties with China |
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| What did russia do to a lot of its stuff? |
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| re-nationalized it; especially oil |
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| what is Russia's calling card that they are "back"? |
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| their invasion of georgia |
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| groups obama met with in singapore |
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| obama was first president to meet with ASEAN |
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| ASEAN plus south korea, japan and china |
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| why does obama call himself the pacific president? |
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| we are in the pacific century, if not millennium |
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| majority of islamic world population |
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| majority in Iran (90%) and iraq (70%) |
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| reasons why middle east is far behind |
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physical overload
golden age of islam comes to an end
bypass
ottoman stagnation |
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| all of north africa and saudi arabia and neighbors |
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| teams in order of US likedness |
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team hebrew
team turk
team arab
team persia |
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From North to South: The biggest is Honshū.
1. Hokkaidō
2. Honshū
3. Shikoku
4. Kyūshū |
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saudia arabia
russia
US
Iran |
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| old school islamic code of law, followed in saudi arabia |
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