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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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when are the Belgian forced out of congo

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1960

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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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where were the two largest empires

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British and french

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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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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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When were burma and Sri Lanka freed

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1948

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when was ghana and nigeria freed

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late 1950s

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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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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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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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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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what is existentialism
"whats the point of living"
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who started existentialism (2 people)
Nietzsche and Kierkegaard
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major existientialism people
Heidegger and Jaspers and Sarter and camus
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when was nato signed as a treaty
1949
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how many countries were included by 1955 in nato
15 including west germany
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what was the goal of nato: Major
Keep the russians out, the germans down and the americans in
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what was the counter to the nato aggreements
the warsaw pact of the easternish places
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what did stalin do to make west berlin look worse than actually is
he cut all land routes to west berlin
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what did egyptian president Nasser do in 1956
he nationalized(stole) the suez canal
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What did the french and brits do against the suez canal
made a secret attack on the Egyptians without The us involvement from nato
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what was the result of the suez canal
brits and french had to leave, very embarressing
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what did the disaster of suez canal show
There is no european great power anymore
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what was khruschevs secret speech
in 1956 and it denounced some of stalins policys and especially the purges
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what actions did khruschevs take to denounce stalin
removed all of stalins people from power and renamed stalingrad
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what did Hungry do in the wake of poland and kruschev
called for independent communist state; pull out of warsaw pact
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who was the leader of hungry when the resistance happened
nagy
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when does the berlin wall go up
1961
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who helped korea beat up north korea
British
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what starts the decline of the soviets
They invade afghanistan in 1979
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what pope was committed to anticomunism
Pope John Paul II in 1978
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who led a strike at the Gdansk shipyard
Lech Walesa in 1980
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when was polands first election
1981
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how long did the first poland election last
2 months
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who overthrew Poland in 1981
General Jaruzelski
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who was the largest factor in destroying the soviets
Reagan
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who comes after Stalin
Cruschevw
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who comes after cruschev
Brezhnev
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When did Gorbachev take over
1985
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How was Gorbachev cruitical
he winded down the cold war and was the first of a younger generation
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what was the first crack of the soviet empire
Solidarity candidates appointed in poland and Jaruzelski appointed a non communist prime minister
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What did Hungary do after the first crack in the soviet union
they opened their boreders with austria
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when did the Berlin wall fall
1989 by demonstrations
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Who was the west germany chancellor that wanted reunification
Helmut Kohl
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who becomes president of the new non commnist gov of Cechoslovakia
Vaclav Havel
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where was the only violence in overthrowing communism
Romania
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who was the dictator of Romania that fought back
Nicholas Ceausescu
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how did Ceausescu fight back in romania
used his private army
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what was the brezhnev Doctrine
Soviets have the right to interphere anywhere in the eastern block
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when was the Brezhnev doctirne reversed
1989 october
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when did free elections happen in soviet
1990
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Borris yeltson
fought against Brezhnev for capitilsim
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last try for the conservative forces in ussr
August 1991 there was a coup attempt against gorbachev but it quickly left
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what replaced the soviet union
the common wealth of independent states
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who refused against the common wealth of independent states
the baltics and georgia
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what part of russias states succedded
Chechnya
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what happens to Chechnya
they tried to succeed but russia sent in and killed everything
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who replaces borris yeltson
Vladamire putin
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what did yugoslavia represent
Nationalism in reverse, broke up back into its place
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who all live in yugoslavia
Croats slovenes serbs monenegrins macedonians and bosnians
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why did marshall tito rule as the dictator of yugoslavia
he was a little of each nationality
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when did yugoslavia seace to exist
1990
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why is bosnia religious traitors
they switched to muslims because they would be higher standing
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what was the response to the serbian genocide
NATO planes dropped bombs on serbia
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Dayton Peace accord
made serbia recognize bosnia as independent
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why did Serbs genocide kosovo
they were trying to leave serbia and serbs tried to remove albanians there to get them to join back
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NATO response to serbs genocide
Ground troops to remove the leader Slobodan Miosevic
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what is article 5 of nato
when one NATO is attacked, they are all attacked
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only time article 5 of nato has been invoked
9/11
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