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EMS Dispatch

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Resulted in France declaring war on Bismarck

Bismarck released information in a message from King about demands of France

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Kaiser Wilhem II

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Last German emperor and Prussian King

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Victor Emmanual II

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Helped Sardina

Helped Unify Italty

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Garibaldi

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Took third step towards unification of Italy-raised army and conquered kingdom of two scillies

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Mazzini

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Poet

Italian Nationalist

Wanted to kick Austrians out of Italy

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William Gladstone

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19th Century British prime minster

Leader of Liberal Party;sponsored home rule and other reforms for Ireland

Sponsored reform bill-which gave right to vote to agricultural laboratory

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Alfred Dreyfus

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A Jew and army captain, was accused of selling state secrets-found guilty
Proved he was framed in a plot to discredit the republic

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Benjamin Disraeli

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19th Century British prime minister

Leader of Conservative party

Responsible for Britain gaining the Suez Canal and for reform Bill of 1867 which allowed workman men in cities to vote

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Count Cavour

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Prime Minister of Sardina

Joined Britain and France against Russia in Crimea War

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Emancipation Proclamation

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Ordered by president Lincoln that slaves living in areas controlled by the confederacy were free during US Civil War

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Paris Commune of 1871

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Ruled Paris-a radical socialist and revolutionary government

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Meji Restoration

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1868 campaign to modernize Japan

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Emile Zola

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French Writer

Supporter of republic

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Emmeline Pankhurst

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British woman who worked to get women the right to vote

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Crimean War

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Conflict between Russia and an alliance of France, U.K., Ottoman Empire, and Sardina. Russia and Ottoman Empire wanted territory. Also conflict of Holy Land

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Bolsheviks

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Socialist groups in Russia which believed that absolutism and capitalism should be overthrown by violence

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Mensheviks

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Socialist group in Russia which believed in the establishment of a socialist republic through orderly means

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Revolution of 1905

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After the Russians were defeated by the Japanese in the Russo-Japanese war, there was a brief revolution in Russia; the Czar remained but granted a few reforms; the failure of the reforms led to rise of various reform groups

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Cecil Roads

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British Businessman and imperialist who wanted to build a railroad the length of Africa; did not succeed by his work helped secure control of South Africa

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King Leopold II of Belgium

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Established Congo free state as his own private project-took a fortune out of Congo-brutal conditions

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Sati

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Hindu tradition where a a widow threw herself on her husbands pyre

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Great Revolt of 1857

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A rebellion in India against the rule of The British East India Company. Indias first war on independence. Let to dissolution of east India company. Afterward the colony was administered by the British crown

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Otto Von Bismarck

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Danish War, Austrian War, France

Prime Minister of Prussia
Unification of Germany

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Qing Dynasty

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Last imperial dynasty of China -lost war with Japanese,lost influence in Korea

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Taiping Rebellion

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One of the bloodiest wars in history

Fought between Qing Dynasty ad Christian movement know as Heavenly Kingdom of Peace

Death-20-70 million

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Sun Yat-sen

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Father of modern China-fought with allies in WWII-chased Mao in long march

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Guomanindang

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Political party which tried to modernize China at the beginning of 20th century

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Robert Peel

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19th Century British
Leader of Conservative party
Repealed tariffs on grain entering England which greatly reduced prices on food

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Russo Japanese war

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First conflict in which an Asian power defeated a European power

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Social Darwinism

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Describes the idea that humans also compete in a struggle for existence

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Porifio Diaz

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President of Mexico

Modernized country by building railroads

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Venustiano Carranza

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K

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Triple Entente

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Alliance of Great Britain

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Central powers

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Germany
Austria-Hungary
Turkey

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Balkan Crisis

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B

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Francis Feridnand

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Archduke of Austria-Hungary

His assassination by Serbian patriot led to WWII

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Louis Napoleon (Napoleon III)

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Served first as elected president of France and then as emperor

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Blank Check

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saying we will support you no matter what

Germany–>Austria

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George Clemenceau

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France

BIG FOUR

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David Lloyd George

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Prime Minister of Great Britain

BIG FOUR

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Vitoria Orlando

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Italy

BIG FOUR

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Sykes-Picot agreement

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Secret agreement between Uk and France with the assent of Russia during WWI;
Divided much of Middle East into mandates controlled by British and French

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Treaty of Versailles

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Ends WWI
Established League of Nations
Ignored nationalism and created Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia
Established mandate system for colonies

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War Guilt Clause

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TOV

Germany forced to admit they caused WWI

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Alsace Lorraine

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Area fought over by France and Germany as part of German unification
Germany gained after Franco-Prussian
France gained after WWI

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League of Nations

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Created after WWI

US never joined

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Young Turks

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Group of Turkish nationalists who wanted to rebuild and westernize the Turkish empire

Restored constitution and overthrew the sultan

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Mustard Kemal Ataturk

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Turkish army officer during WWI

First president of turkey

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Mandate System

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Former colonies of defeated countries following WWI were assigned to other nations to administer.supposed to help prepare these countries for independence but was part of the spoils of war

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Weimar Republic

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Governed Germany immediately after WWI

Hitler replaced this

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Dawes Plan

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Attempt to solve the WWI reparations problem
Provided an end to the allied occupation of the industrial Ruhr area of Germany and a staggered payment plan for Germany’s payment of reparations, eventually had to be replaced

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Keynesianism

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Theories of John Maynard Keynes:government should engage in deficit spending during economic contractions

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Manchurian Incident

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M

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Theodor Herzl

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Jewish
Journalist
One of the fathers of modern political Zionism
Formed the Zionist Organization and promoted Jewish migration to Palestine in an effort to form a Jewish State

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Paul Von Hindenburg

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President of Germany in 1933 who appointed Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany

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Adolf Hitler

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Nazi dictator of Germany during WWII

Came to power through elections

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Joseph Goebbels

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Hitlers propaganda wizard

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Nuremberg Laws

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Nazi laws

Deprived Jews of basic rights

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Kristallnacht

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Mean night of the broken glass
Broken windows of Jewish stores
Jews attacked and sent to concentration camps

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Vladimir Lenin

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Communist dictator of Russia
Bolshevik
Concentration Camps

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Great Purges

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Mao Zedong

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Communist ruler of China
Great Leap Forward
Cultural Revolution

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Long March

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Military retreat by communist army of China led by Mao Zedong to evade the pursuit of the Chinese Nationalist army led by Sun Yat-Sen. Allowed Mao and his army to survive to fight another day

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Indian National Congress

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Organized by British military officer; became the greatest influence of the Indian Independence movement

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Amritsar Massacre

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A crowd of non-violent protestors were fired upon by troops of the British Indian Army

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Jawaharlal Nehru

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Leader of Indian independence movement
Architect of modern India
Indian prime minister

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Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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Father of Pakistan but in his early career as part of the Indian National congress he advocated Hindu-Muslim unity

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Pakistan

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Created in 1947 as an independent nation for Muslims from the regions in the east and west of the Indian subcontinent where there was a Muslim majority. Separated from India

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Zionist Movement

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Based on belied that Jews should have a homeland in the Middle East

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Sa’ud Family

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ruling family of Saudi Arabia

Enemies of Iran

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Wahhabi Doctrine

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Anti western sect/view of Islam

Restricts women

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Tamales Abdel Nasser

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Egyptian military officer president
Helped lead overthrow of Egyptian King
Arab nationalist
Took over the Suez Canal in retaliation for the US’s refusals to give funds for the construction of the Aswan Dam

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Suez Criss

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Suez Canal important for shipment of oil

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Tripartite pact

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Signed by Germany Italy and Japan
Alliance for mutual assistance
WWII

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Sudetenland

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Part f Czechoslovakia with many German residents given to hitler at Muncih

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Munich Confrence

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Prime minister of Britain met with Hitler and Mussolini

Gave Sudentenland to Germany for Hitlers pledge that he had no further territorial ambitions.

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Appeasement

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Giving in to the demands of an aggressor

Munich pact

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Nazi Soviet Pact

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Russia and Germany agreed not to attack each other

Secretly agreed to divide Poland

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Phoney War

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8 month period at the start of WWII during which there was no major military activity

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Marshal Philippe Petain

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French General
Hero of WWI
Prime Minister of France leader of Vichy France or France under control of Hitler

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Charles de Gaulle

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Leader of Free France army in exile during WWII

Then president of France

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Final Solution

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What Nazi’s called genocide of Jews

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Iwo Jima

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Pacific Island

Heavy fighting during WWII (us and Japan)

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Okinawa

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Pacific Island

Major battle during WWII

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Truman Doctrine

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Part of us policy of containment

US provided military and economic aid to nations

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Marshall plan

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D

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Democratic Republic of Korea

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North Korea

Not democratic or republic

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Bay of Pigs

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Refugee Cubans based in US

Invade Cuba

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Containment

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During Cold War
Philosophy of keeping communism in place where they already are
No expanding

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Cuban Missile Crisis

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The point at which the Soviet Union and the US came the closest to engaging in nuclear conflict

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Algeria

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A crisis in this African colony convinced the French to abandon the fourth republic and adopt the fifth republic

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Fifth Republic

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Current constitution of France

Charles De Gaulle helped establish

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Mikhail Gorbachev

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Last leader of soviet union

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Slobodan Milosevic

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Serbian
Yugoslav politician
Charged with war crimes including genocide of Muslims
Bosnian war

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Solidarity

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Founded by Walesa
First independent union in soviet bloc country
Led to free elections

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Lech Walesa

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As the “iron curtain” lifted, she became the first elected president of Poland

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Vaclav Havel

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First elected president of Czechoslovakia

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Helmet Kohl

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German statesman

Oversaw the end of Cold War

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Margaret Thatcher

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British PM
Iron Lady
Leader of Conservative party

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Italy provoked international condemnation by invading…….

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Ethiopia

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