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Dates and facts Flashcards

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The Soviet union…

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1922 - 1991

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Fulgencio Bastista served as the leader of Cuba from… and then from…

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1940 - 1944

1952 - jan 1st 1959

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The European Union was formed in…

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1993

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4
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Fidel Castro held the position of Prime Minister of Cuba from…

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1959 - 1976

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5
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The Cuban Revolution…

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1953 - 1959

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6
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The League of Nations…

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1919 - 1946

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7
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African American Civil Rights Movement…

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1955 - 1968

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Fidel Castro served as president of Cuba from… and was succeeded by his brother..

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1976 - 2008

Raul Castro

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9
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In _ Thomas jefferson became the first _ Secretary of state.

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1789

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Thomas Jefferson was responsible for purchasing the Louisiana territory from France in… and organized the Lewis and Clark expedition to explore the new west between

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1803,

1804 - 1806

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11
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Boston Tea Party…

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1773

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12
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Nelson Mandela served as…

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President of South Africa from 1994 - 1999

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13
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The Soviet Union invaded Poland on…

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September 1st 1939

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14
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Israel was taken over by Islam in…

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700 AD

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15
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Ottoman Empire

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1299 - 1923

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16
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Joseph Stalin was in office from…

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April 3rd 1922 - October 16th 1952

17
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Nikita Khrushchev was… and was in office from

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First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

September 14, 1953 - October 14, 1964

18
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The League of Nations established the Mandate For Palestine in…

19
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Vladimir Lenin was

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a Russian Marxist revolutionary and communist politician who led the October Revolution of 1917.

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As leader of the _, Lenin headed the Soviet state during its initial years of… as it fought to establish control of Russia in the Russian Civil War and worked to create a socialist economic system.

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The Bolsheviks,

1917–1924

21
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The Russian Civil War

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1917–1923

22
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Karl Heinrich Marx lived from

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1818 – 1883

23
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Persian Gulf War was from… in response to Iraq’s invasion and annexation of _

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1990 - 1991,

Kuwait

24
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the Vietnam war occurred in… from…

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Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia,

November 1st 1955 to the fall of Saigon on April 30th 1975.

25
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The Cold War

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1945–1991

26
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World War I

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July 28 1914 - November 11th 1918

27
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The Central Powers of WWI were…

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German Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Kingdom of Bulgaria

28
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The Central Powers of WWI were

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German Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Kingdom of Bulgaria

29
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The Soviet union…

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1922 - 1991

30
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WWII

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1939 - 1945

31
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Mexican American War

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1846 - 1848

32
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Annexation of Texas

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