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The Western Democracies Since 1960
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10th Grade
04/08/2007

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Francisco Franco
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Spain's chief of state until 1975
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Kurt Waldheim
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Former U.N. secretary-general elected president of Austria in 1986
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Berlin
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New German capital, moved from Bonn in 1991
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the Channel Tunnel (the "Chunnel")
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Underwater vehicle route that links France and Britain
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Margaret Thatcher
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Conservative British prime minister from 1979 to 1990
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Northern Ireland
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A shaky peace plan of the 1990s aimed to end "the troubles" in this country.
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Charles de Gaulle
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French leader who challenged the U.S. role in Western Europe
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Germany
Definition
Until 1990, "One Nation, Two States
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Willy Brandt
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German chancellor who moved toward closer relations with the Eastern bloc in the 1970s
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East Germany
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West Germany granted automatic citizenship to the citizens of this country.
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Tony Blair
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Labour Party leader elected British prime minister in 1997
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nationalization
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French socialists' program for major industries
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King Juan Carlos
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Spain's new ruler as of 1975
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the Basques (or Catalonians)
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Spanish separatists who repeatedly demanded self-rule
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Argentina
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Britain fought this country for the Falkland Islands in 1982.
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Maastricht Treaty
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Treaty for European unification signed in 1991
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Francois Mitterand
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Socialists defeated the Gaullists to elect this president in 1981.
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Antonio Salazar
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Portugal's dictator from 1932 to 1968
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French and Flemish-speaking people
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Belgium suffers from divisions between these two groups.
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Olof Palme
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Socialist leader of Sweden shot on the street in 1986
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Benelux
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Economic union of Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg
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the Peace Corps
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President Kennedy's "army" of overseas volunteers
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the Cuban Missile Crisis
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Confrontation between the United States and U.S.S.R. in the Caribbean in 1962
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the Vietnam War
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The U.S. war in Southeast Asia in the 1960s and 1970s
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the Persian Gulf War
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U.S.-led war in the Mideast in 1991
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Iran
Definition
Revolutionaries of this nation took U.S. embassy workers hostage.
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the shah
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Iranian leader supported by the United States
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China and the Soviet Union
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Nixon became the first U.S. president to visit these two nations in 1972.
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Afghanistan
Definition
The United States attacked this Taliban-led country in 2001 in response to a massive terrorist
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the Bay of Pigs
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Failed U.S.-backed attempt by Cuban refugees to invade their homeland in 1961
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Panama
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Jimmy Carter worked to solve a dispute with this Central American country over a waterway.
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Jimmy Carter
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President who established normal diplomatic relations with China in 1979
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Egypt and Israel
Definition
President Carter arranged peace meetings between these warring Middle East nations.
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Nicaragua
Definition
The United States supported rebels in this Central American country in the 1980s.
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El Salvador
Definition
The United States supported this Central American government against rebels in the 1980s.
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Panama
Definition
Central American country invaded by the United States in 1989
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the Dominican Republic
Definition
President Johnson sent U.S. marines to this island nation in 1965.
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Teheran
Definition
Site of captured U.S. embassy in the Middle East
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the Eisenhower Doctrine
Definition
U.S. policy of aid to Mideast countries, announced in 1957
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Saudi Arabia
Definition
Terrorist bombs killed Americans at military posts in this country in 1995.
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Cuba
Definition
The United States fought troops of this country in Grenada in 1983.
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recessions
Definition
The economic slowdowns of the 1950s and early 1970s
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civil rights
Definition
The main domestic concern of the mid- and late 1960s
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Martin Luther King Jr.
Definition
Black leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner killed in 1968
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riots
Definition
Violence that broke out in U.S. cities in 1967, and in Los Angeles in 1992
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college students
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Widespread protests among these people started at Berkeley in 1964.
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segregation in schools
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Brown v. Board of Education banned this practice.
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George H. W. and George W. Bush
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Father-and-son U.S. presidents
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Malcolm X
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Black leader shot to death in Harlem in 1965
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Bill Clinton
Definition
U.S. president impeached by the House in 1998
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school shootings
Definition
Frightening events at places like Columbine High School
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terrorism
Definition
The United States set up a homeland security office in 2001 in response to this threat.
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Ronald Reagan
Definition
Man who was elected president by a landslide in 1980
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the Great Society
Definition
President Johnson's domestic program
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Al Gore
Definition
Person who got the most popular votes for U.S. president in 2000
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the World Trade Center towers
Definition
Buildings destroyed in New York City terrorist attack on September 11, 2001
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Bobby Kennedy
Definition
U.S. presidental candidate slain in 1968
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Watergate
Definition
The major political scandal of the 1970s
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the Oklahoma City bombing (Timothy McVeigh)
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The worst episode of domestic terrorism, in 1995
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18
Definition
New voting age set by the 26th Amendment in 1971
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Gerald Ford
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Man who became U.S. president in 1974 without having been elected to the post
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Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton
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The only two Democrats elected president from 1968 through 1992
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Richard Nixon
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The only U.S. president to resign from office
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Joseph McCarthy
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U.S. senator who claimed to find communist conspiracies everywhere
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the British Commonwealth of Nations
Definition
Loose organization of former British colonies
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Quebec
Definition
Canadian province with a strong separatist movement
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French
Definition
Official language of Quebec province from 1974 to 1979
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voting
Definition
This civic duty is compulsory in Australia at age 18
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the Saint Lawrence Seaway
Definition
U.S.-Canadian 2,400 mile waterway from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean
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favorable trade agreements
Definition
The main advantage of belonging to the Commonwealth
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the Yukon and the Northwest Territory
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Canada's two territories
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Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Definition
French-Canadian prime minister from 1968 to 1979 and 1980 to 1984
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the Canadian constitution
Definition
The British Parliament no longer has to approve any Canadian changes in this.
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the conservative (Progressive Conservative) party
Definition
Different party that won the Canadian elections of 1984
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Jean Chretien
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Liberal prime minister of Canada elected in 1993
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the Labor Party
Definition
Governing Australian party from 1983 to 1996
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nuclear-powered or nuclear-armed vessels
Definition
Port calls of these U.S. ships sparked a U.S.-New Zealand crisis.
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the Labor Party
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New Zealand party that held office from 1984 to 1990
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Nunavut
Definition
Self-governing homeland of Canada's Inuit, created in 1999
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the Statute of Westminster
Definition
Act of 1931 - recognized Canada, Australia, New Zealand, S. Africa as completely independent
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10
Definition
Number of Canadian provinces
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6
Definition
Number of Australian states
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the (British) governor-general
Definition
Title of Australia's official head of state
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ANZUS
Definition
Alliance of the United States, Australia, and New Zealand
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the Meech Lake Accord
Definition
Agreement recognizing Quebec as a "distinct society" that failed in 1990
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