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| was a Chinese revolutionary and Communist leader. He led the People's Republic of China from it's birth until his death in 1976. |
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| A term used to express Robespierre's madness in killing in the name of the people. |
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| What is a nonaligned nation? |
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| It is a newly independent nation that chose not to align itself with either the USA or USSR in the Cold War. |
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| What is Social Darwinism? |
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| Based on the concept of competition, only the strongest will survive within society. |
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| German leader, racist, wanted to extinguish certain ethnicities and only have the "pure german race", also leader of the Nazi's. |
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| What is the Balfour Declaration? |
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| Promised that the Jewish community in Palestine will not be affected. Issued by during WWI to redistribute lands of the Ottoman Empire if Britain could conquer them. Created problems in the Middle East. |
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| Was a Vietnamese Communist Revolutionary. He also led the Viet Minh independence movement. |
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| A russian word meaning "restructuring", used to describe the reforms introduced by Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. |
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| What is Ethnic Cleansing? |
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| Term used to describe all forms of ethnically-motivated violence, rape and murder. The Turkish Govt. murdered more than 1.5 million Armenians in 1915. |
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| Dictator of the Communist Party (Soviet Union). Launched a Command Economy - was leader of one of the Allied Powers. |
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| A group along w/ Tutsis were committing mutual genocide that ripped apart Rwanda and helped accelerate the Congo's descent into Civil War. |
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| It is the North American Free Trade Association. An agreement signed by USA/Canada/Mexico creating a trilateral trade bloc. |
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| An Islamic Group that operates as a network comprising both multinational, stateless arm and fundamentalist Sunni movement. They attacked the USA on Sep. 11, 2001-the USA responded by launching the War on Terrorism. |
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| What is the European Union? |
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| It is an economic political union of 27 member states, established by the treaty of Maastricht. |
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| A shipliner that was sunk off the Irish coast-one of the factors bringing the US into WW2. |
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| What is Liberation theology? |
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| Group that threatened the state and the wealthy. It confronted powerful opposition forces that were willing to engage in violence if necessary. |
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| What is Yellow Journalism? |
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| People who wrote newspaper articles that had eye catching headlines to sell more newspaper but they didn't have factual information. |
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| What is the World Trade Organization? |
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| It is an international organization designed to supervise and liberalize international capital trade. Regulates trade between participating countries. |
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| A political philosophy that exalts the nation over the individual-advocates a centralized govt. led by a a dictator. |
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| A russian word meaning "openness" adopted as another political slogan by Mikhail Gorbachev. Encouraged greater freedom of expression w/ perestroika. |
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| Known as German National Socialism-worked under Adolf Hitler - adopted by the German govt during WW2. |
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| Who is Winston Churchill? |
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| A British Politician known for his leadership in the UK during WW2-served as Prime Minister. |
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| The control of one state of another through political and often military means. |
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| He was a political and military leader of the 20th century China. Led the northern expedition to unify the country. |
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| What is the Iron Curtain? |
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| A line created by Winston Churchill to describe the separation of the Western Democratic Europe and Eastern Communistic Europe. |
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| the abbreviation used for military submarines used by Germany in WW2. |
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| Was an American inventor who invented the light bulb, phonography and motion picture cameras. |
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| A German director and actress noted for her aesthtics and innovation as a filmmaker. Her famous film was "Triumph de Willens". |
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| Was a system of legal racial segregation enforced by the national party government in South Africa between 1948-1994. |
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| Who were the Moral Majority? |
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| a political organization of the US which had an agenda of evangelical Christian oriented political lobbying. |
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| What is the Zimmerman Telegram? |
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| a coded telegram dispatched by the foreign secretary of the German empire Arthur Zimmerman-sent to the Mexican govt. saying that if they joined sides w/ them they would help them get the US back. |
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| Refers to the Industrial and financial business conglomerates in the Empire of Japan, whose influence allowed control of significant parts of Japan's economy from the Meiji period until the end of WW2. |
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| Involves the identification of society with its state-the belief that one's nation is of primary importance. |
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| The second largest denomination of islam after Sunni Islam. Based on the teachings of the Qu'ran. |
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| It is a puppet state in Manchuria and Eastern inter Mongolia. It is the homeland of the Manchus who founded the Qing dynasty. Was abolished after the defeat of Imperial Japan at the end of WWII. |
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| What is the International Monetary Fund? |
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| an international organization that oversees the global financial system. It offers loans to poor countries. |
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| an organization of petroleum exporting countries-12 of them together. |
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| a policy of settling international quarrels by admitting and satisfying grievances through negotiation and compromise-avoiding an armed conflict. Applied towards the Nazi Germany. |
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| A political system where the state is under control of the political organization where there is no limits to its authority. |
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| What is the self-strengthening movement? |
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| a period of institutional reforms initiated during the lat Qing Dynasty following a series of military defeats to foreign power. |
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| They were the military nobility of pre-industrial Japan. |
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| He was a Bolshevik leader and the first Head of State in the Soviet Union. |
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| Basic rights and freedoms all humans are entitled too-Life, Liberty, Freedom of Expression, etc. |
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| Mass genocide of over 6 million Jews during WW2-was a state sponsored extermination by Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler. |
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| The last emperor of Russia. He made Russia go from a great power to an economic and military disaster. |
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| What is The White Man's Burden? |
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| It is a poem written by Rudyard Kipling, it is a characterization for imperialism that justified the policy as a noble enterprise. |
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| What was the Treaty of Versailles? |
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| A peace treaty to end WW2. It ended the war w/ Germany. |
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| What is the Bandung Conference? |
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| A meeting of Asian and African states, most of which were newly independent. Was a step towards non-aligned movement. |
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| What is the One China Policy? |
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| States that the People's Republic of China is the sole legitimate government of mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. |
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| What is the 38th Parallel? |
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| A line of latitude in the northern hemisphere used as a pre-korean boundary between N. and S. Korea. |
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| A country under the control of the Republic of China since the end of WW2-not recognized by the US. |
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| What is the Persian Gulf War? |
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| The final conflict which was initiated with the UN by coalition force from 34 nations against Iraq to expel Iraqi forces from Kuwait after its invasion. |
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| What is the Truman Doctrine? |
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| A set of principles of US foreign policy by President Harry S. Truman. It is served to inhibit the formation of coalition governments that included communist elements. |
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| A non-governmental organization created by natural or legal person w/ no participation or representation of any government. |
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| He was a prominent Chinese politician, and diplomat and was leader of the Communist Party of China. He became a reformer who led China towards a Market Economy. |
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| Empress of the Qing Dynasty |
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| Where the soldiers fought. |
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| Leader of the non-violent coalition. |
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| Where they they the Yalta Conference where they agreed that Germany should be disarmed and denazified. |
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