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1
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how many people lived under colonial rule in 1945

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1/3 of all

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what did the dutch east indies become after the revolt in 1949

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Indonesia

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3
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when are the Belgian forced out of congo

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1960

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4
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what did the portugeese have, when gave it up

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Mozambique and Angola and gave up in 1974-5

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5
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what happens to Rhodesia in 1979

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all the whites there overthrow the brits and rule

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6
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where were the two largest empires

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British and french

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7
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who led the indian national congress

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Ghandi

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when was indian independence started

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1947

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9
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why was pakistan made

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Muslims wanted a holy land and they took it from Hindu Indians

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How was bangladesh created

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East and west pakistans fought and east split off and calls itself bangladesh

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11
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When were burma and Sri Lanka freed

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1948

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12
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when was ghana and nigeria freed

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late 1950s

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13
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algeria problem with independence

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a lot of the people there were european orgin

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14
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what is the national liberation front

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algerian formed gorrilla attack government

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when did the algerian civil war break out

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1954

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16
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who came back to french to be president

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De gaulle who made the 5th french republic that made the president stronger

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How does Degaulle deal with Algeria

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Held a refferendum and population said to grant algeria independence in 1962

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18
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what did the newly freed algerian government do

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muslims murdered a lot of people

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19
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when did french lose indo china

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1954

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who led attacks in french indo china against french

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Ho chi minh and communist party

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21
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ending of french indo china war

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ho chi minh accepted half the country, knowing he will take the other half

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22
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who turned ugada into hell holw

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Idi amin

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23
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What is the breadbasket of africa

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Rhodesia

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24
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who ran zimbabwe

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mugabe

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25
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what is existentialism

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“whats the point of living”

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26
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who started existentialism (2 people)

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Nietzsche and Kierkegaard

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27
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major existientialism people

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Heidegger and Jaspers and Sarter and camus

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28
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when was nato signed as a treaty

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1949

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29
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how many countries were included by 1955 in nato

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15 including west germany

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30
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what was the goal of nato: Major

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Keep the russians out, the germans down and the americans in

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what was the counter to the nato aggreements

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the warsaw pact of the easternish places

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32
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what did stalin do to make west berlin look worse than actually is

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he cut all land routes to west berlin

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33
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what did egyptian president Nasser do in 1956

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he nationalized(stole) the suez canal

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34
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What did the french and brits do against the suez canal

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made a secret attack on the Egyptians without The us involvement from nato

35
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what was the result of the suez canal

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brits and french had to leave, very embarressing

36
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what did the disaster of suez canal show

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There is no european great power anymore

37
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what was khruschevs secret speech

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in 1956 and it denounced some of stalins policys and especially the purges

38
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what actions did khruschevs take to denounce stalin

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removed all of stalins people from power and renamed stalingrad

39
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what did Hungry do in the wake of poland and kruschev

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called for independent communist state; pull out of warsaw pact

40
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who was the leader of hungry when the resistance happened

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nagy

41
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when does the berlin wall go up

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1961

42
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who helped korea beat up north korea

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British

43
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what starts the decline of the soviets

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They invade afghanistan in 1979

44
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what pope was committed to anticomunism

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Pope John Paul II in 1978

45
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who led a strike at the Gdansk shipyard

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Lech Walesa in 1980

46
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when was polands first election

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1981

47
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how long did the first poland election last

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2 months

48
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who overthrew Poland in 1981

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General Jaruzelski

49
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who was the largest factor in destroying the soviets

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Reagan

50
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who comes after Stalin

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Cruschevw

51
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who comes after cruschev

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Brezhnev

52
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When did Gorbachev take over

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1985

53
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How was Gorbachev cruitical

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he winded down the cold war and was the first of a younger generation

54
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what was the first crack of the soviet empire

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Solidarity candidates appointed in poland and Jaruzelski appointed a non communist prime minister

55
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What did Hungary do after the first crack in the soviet union

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they opened their boreders with austria

56
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when did the Berlin wall fall

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1989 by demonstrations

57
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Who was the west germany chancellor that wanted reunification

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Helmut Kohl

58
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who becomes president of the new non commnist gov of Cechoslovakia

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Vaclav Havel

59
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where was the only violence in overthrowing communism

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Romania

60
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who was the dictator of Romania that fought back

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Nicholas Ceausescu

61
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how did Ceausescu fight back in romania

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used his private army

62
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what was the brezhnev Doctrine

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Soviets have the right to interphere anywhere in the eastern block

63
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when was the Brezhnev doctirne reversed

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1989 october

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when did free elections happen in soviet

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1990

65
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Borris yeltson

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fought against Brezhnev for capitilsim

66
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last try for the conservative forces in ussr

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August 1991 there was a coup attempt against gorbachev but it quickly left

67
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what replaced the soviet union

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the common wealth of independent states

68
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who refused against the common wealth of independent states

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the baltics and georgia

69
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what part of russias states succedded

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Chechnya

70
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what happens to Chechnya

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they tried to succeed but russia sent in and killed everything

71
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who replaces borris yeltson

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Vladamire putin

72
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what did yugoslavia represent

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Nationalism in reverse, broke up back into its place

73
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who all live in yugoslavia

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Croats slovenes serbs monenegrins macedonians and bosnians

74
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why did marshall tito rule as the dictator of yugoslavia

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he was a little of each nationality

75
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when did yugoslavia seace to exist

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1990

76
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why is bosnia religious traitors

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they switched to muslims because they would be higher standing

77
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what was the response to the serbian genocide

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NATO planes dropped bombs on serbia

78
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Dayton Peace accord

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made serbia recognize bosnia as independent

79
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why did Serbs genocide kosovo

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they were trying to leave serbia and serbs tried to remove albanians there to get them to join back

80
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NATO response to serbs genocide

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Ground troops to remove the leader Slobodan Miosevic

81
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what is article 5 of nato

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when one NATO is attacked, they are all attacked

82
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only time article 5 of nato has been invoked

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9/11

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