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Schlieffen plan

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Hold off Russia and attack France and then go back to attack Russia

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Battle of the Marne

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Trench warfare where the Schefflin plan was stopped

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How airplanes were used in WW1

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They were used to spot enemy targets

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Unrestricted submarine warfare

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It was the sinking of passenger liners caused the US to enter World War II

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Total war

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A word that involve the complete mobilization of resources and people affected the lives of all citizens in the warring countries, even those remote from the battlefield

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14 point plan

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Wilson’s plan for world peace after World War I

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Lusitania

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It was a British ocean liner, the sinking of which buy a German U-boat on May 7, 1915 contributed and directly to the entry of the United States into World War I.

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No mans land

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It was the narrow muddy tree list stretch of land, characterized by numerous shell holes that separated, German and Ally trenches during the first world war

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Militarism

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It is the aggressive preparation for war

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Propaganda

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Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a war cause

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The war guilt clause

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holds Germany responsible for the war

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What did Italy do after WW2 began

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After they decided to stay neutral and then they jumped sides

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Conscription

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The formal term that means to draft people into the military

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How the western front differed from the eastern

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The eastern front was mobile and the western wasn’t

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The Black hand society

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A serbah terrorist organization that wanted Bosnia free from austri-hungary

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U-boats

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The name of the German submarines

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The League of Nations

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It was our worlds first international peacekeeping body

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Stalin 5 year plan

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A plan to industrialize across the ussr

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Why wasn’t the U.S. A member of the league of nations

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They wanted to try and isolate themselves

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Dawes plan

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Helped reduce Germany’s payments that they had to pay

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Economic depression

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A period of low economic activity and rising unemployment

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Nuremberg laws

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laws that only apply to people who were considered Jews

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anti-Semitism

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The discrimination towards Jewish people a form of racism

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Collecting bargaining

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The right of unions to negotiate with employees over wages and hours

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Totalitarian

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A government that aims to control the political, economic, social, intellectual and cultural lives of its citizens

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Kristallnacht

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Also called “the night of shattered glass” it was when the Jewish went on a destructive rampage, and they got sent to concentration camps

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Cause of the great depression

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The stock market, crashing and droughts

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The new deal

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Programs that helped improve peoples lives after suffering through the Cold War

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The ss

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An organization under Hitler in the Nazi party in Nazi Germany Hitler, secret police force

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Deficit spending

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When a government pays out more money than it takes in through taxation, and other revenues, thus going into debt

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FDIC

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An independent agency, created by the Congress to maintain stability and public confidence in the nation’s financial system

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Aryan

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A term used to identify people speaking, Indo European languages; Nazis, miss use the term, treating it as a result designation and identifying the Aryans with the ancient Greeks and Romans in 20th century Germans and Scandinavians

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Hoover dam

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It was president Hoover’s plan to jumpstart the economy

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Hitters last invasion before WW2 began

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Hitler invaded Poland before World War II begin

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Pearl Harbor

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A military strike by the Japanese army on the United States US naval base in 1941

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Einstanzgruppen

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They were special forces that carried out the Nazis plans

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Appeasement

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Satisfying, reasonable, demands to dissatisfied, powers in an effort to maintain peace and stability

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The Cold War

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The period of political tension following World War I ending with the fall of communism in the Soviet Union at the end of the 1980s

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Axis powers of WW2

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The axis powers was made up of Germany, Italy and Japan

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Isolationism

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A policy of national isolation by abstain from alliances and other international political and economic relations

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D-day

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Became known as the largest invasion force in history

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Sudetenland

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A area in the north or western Czechoslovakia that was inhabited largely by Germans

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Blitzkrieg

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German for “lighting war”; A Swift, and sudden military attack; used by the Germans during World War II

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Battleof the midway island

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A naval battle fought with aircraft

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Potsdam conference

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President. Truman’s conversation with Stalin

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Battle of Stalingrad

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A battle between Russia and the Nazi Germany, for Stalingrad, Russia

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Holocaust

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The largest genocide in history of Jewish during World War II

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Luftwaffe

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It was a German Air Force

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Auschwitz’s

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The largest concentration camp that the Jews were sent to

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Hiroshima

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A city in Japan, that was destroyed by an atomic bomb

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The Marshall plan

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Give $13 billion to war torn countries in Europe

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NATO

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What is a non-Communist alliance that was formed after World War II

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International dateline

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When you cross the international dateline, you lose a day or gain a day

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Berlin airlift

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Was used as an attempt to supply the non-Communist side with supplies

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Cold War ideologies at war

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The two ideologies of the Cold War are capitalism and communism

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Containment policy

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Hey, plan to keep some things such as communism within its existing geographical boundaries and prevent further aggressive movements

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Proxy war

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A war in which the powers in conflict use third parties at substitute instead of fighting each other directly

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Years and sides of the Chinese Civil War

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1927-1949 and nationalist versus communist party’s

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Cuban missile crisis

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When the Soviet Union invade Cuba

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Sputnik 1

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The first human made space satellite

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Bay of pigs invasion

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They invaded Cuba to try and overthrow Fidel Castro

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Satellite states

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A country that is economically, and politically dependent on another country

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Truman doctrine

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Where is the United States would provide money to other countries (to keep communism from spreading)

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Why the Berlin wall was built

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Two separate east, and west Germany

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38th parallel

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It is the line that divides north and South Korea

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Vietcong

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They were the Gorillaz that used guerrilla tactics

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Kent state shooting’s

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Shooting after the students from Kent state were violently protesting because they didn’t want the US to invade Cambodia

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President Kennedy’s assassination

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Kennedy get assassinated on November 22, 1963 in Texas

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Civil rights act of 1964

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Equality for all races and color, religion, and etc.

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Women’s liberation movement

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The renewed feminist movement to the late 1960s, which demanded political and economic equality with men

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Why crucified was removed from power in the USSR

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He back down during the Cuban missile crisis

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Asian tigers

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South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong

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Carter’s response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

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He withdrew the salt 2 treaty and banned the Olympics

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How Regan hated the Cold War back up

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Ronald Reagan called them and evil empire

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The red scare

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Fear of communist subversion

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EEC

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It was the European economic community

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Communist countries that were never satellite states

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They were called non-Communist countries

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The baby boom generation

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The generation after the men came home from the war

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Martin Luther Kings ” I have a dream” speech

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Martin Luther King Jr. gave that “I have a dream” speech to end racism

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Desalinization

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The process of eliminating stolons more ruthless policies

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Detente

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Hey phase of relax tensions, and improve relations between two adversaries

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Salt 1 and Salt 2

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The two treaty signed during detente

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Vital statistics, that Japan leads the world in

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Japan leads the world in the light expectancy statistic

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The euro

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It was the European money currency

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One president of Russia after Gorbachev

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Boris Yeltsin was president of Russia after Gorbachev

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Countries the US invaded after 9/11

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Do US invade Afghanistan after 9/11

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Regan’s life before politics

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He was a sports announcer, and then became a film actor

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US president that passed healthcare reform in 2014

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It was Obama and he called Obamacare

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When the Soviet union collapsed

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Soviet union collapse in 1991

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My Gorbachev receive the Nobel peace prize

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He won the award for putting an end to the Cold War

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What ended detente

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The invasion of Afghanistan ended detente

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Perestroika

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Fundamental restructuring of the Soviet economy; a policy introduced by Gorbachev

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Watergate scandal

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A scandal in the 1970s that led President Nixon to resign

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Bill Clinton scandal while in office

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He had a relationship with a white house and intern

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What happened at Tiananmen Square?

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There was a pro democracy riot

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What does 2001 package to Columbia consisted of

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$1.3 billion to try and prevent drug problems

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