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| Cuba had been ruled by this dictator |
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| a young Cuban lawyer with a record of violence and revolutionary activity, attempted to start a revolution against the Batista government |
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| Castro organized this to sieze the Cuban government |
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| after becoming President, he was informed of a plan for a force of Cuban exiles to intiates an anti-Castro revolution by invading Cuba |
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| this is where the Americans invaded Cuba |
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| President Kennedy and Soviet Premier Khrushchev agreed to end this |
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| Nicaragua, Sandinistas, Somoza |
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| Cuban aid in ___________ enabled a group of Communist revoulutionaries called the ___________ to oust President Anastasio ______________ in 1979 |
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| led a successful military overthrow of the government in Argentina |
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| elected vice president, succeeded her husband upon his death, becoming the first woman to head a government in the Western Hemisphere |
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| was chosen president by a legislative decision in Chile |
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| leader of the coupe, assumed office of president after Allande committed suicide |
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| this discovery greatly increased Mexico's economic potential |
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| preparation for independence began when ______ became a republic |
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| Palestine, Transjordan, and Iraq |
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| Britian gained control of the affairs of these countries |
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| France gained control of the affarirs of these countries |
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| much of the world's known oil reserves and the conflict between the Arabs and the Jews |
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| two reasons why the Middle East is a vital part in the world affairs today |
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| reawakening of Arab nationalism since the beginning of WWI, and emergence of the Jewish state of Israel in 1948 |
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| two most important modern trends in the Middle East |
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| the British government issued this, which supported a national Jewish homeland to Palestine for Jewish Zoinists |
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| those who advocated a Jewish national state |
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| on May 14, 1948, the Jews proclaimed independence |
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| became the first president of Israel |
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| Israel's first prime minister |
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| means the "Day of Atonement," the Arabs against the Jews on the highest holy day |
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| "Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries," formed in 1960 as a monopoly designed to control the supple and price of oil |
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| Menachem Begin and Anwar el-Sadat |
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| Israeli Prime Minister and Egyptian President shocked the world when they met with the US President Jimmy Carter at Camp David in the US to discuss a peaceful settlement of Israeli-Egyptian disputes |
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| Israel agreed to withdraw completely from the Sinai Peninsula |
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| "Palastine Liberation Organization," was under Yassir Arafat, whose goal was to establish a Palenstinian state in Israel through force and terror |
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