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Final Review 2nd Semester Flashcards

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Monroe Doctrine

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President Monroe announced “The American continents aren’t to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.”

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Roosevelt Corollary

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European nations shouldn’t intervene in countries to the south of the US

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Militarism

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Building up glorification of the military

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Nationalism

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Belief that one’s greatest loyalty should be to one’s country

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Imperialism

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Domination by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country

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Ultimatum

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Do this or else

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Flapper

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Rebellious girl of the 20s who goes against the norms

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5 Years Plans

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Stalin’s idea to increase industry and agriculture

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Total war

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all resources go to the war effort

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Propaganda

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One-sided information

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Armistice

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Cease-fire

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Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

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Brought peace between Russia and Germany

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Bolsheviks

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Communists

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Reparations

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Money for war damages

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Boycott

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Refuse to buy

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Fascism

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One party; dictatorship; Limited rights; Extreme nationalism

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Collectivization

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Large state-controlled farms

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Gulag

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Soviet prison camps

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United Nations

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International organization created after World War II to maintain peace

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VE day

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Victory in Europe day; May 7, 1945; Gen. Eisenhower accepts unconditional surrender

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Chancellor

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Prime Minister of Germany

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Rosie the Riveter

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Symbol for working women

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Good neighbor policy

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FDR would interfere less with Latin American issues

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Surrealism

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Artistic attempt to portray workings of the unconscious mind

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Nicholas II

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Last czar of Russia

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U Boat

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Name for submarines Germans made

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Atheism

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Doesn’t believe in God

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Duma

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Russian assembly

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Lenin

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First Communist leader Of Soviet Union

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Bloody Sunday

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Peaceful march through streets of St. Petersburg To the czar’s winter palace

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Provisional Government

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Temporary government in Russia

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Rasputin

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Priest believed to have saved Alexis

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Albert Einstein

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German scientist

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Sigmund Freud

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Father of psychology

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Charles Lindbergh

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First to fly solo nonstop from New York to Paris

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Weimer republic

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Weak Government of Germany post-World War II

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Buying on margin

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Buying stocks for only 20% of the value

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Great depression

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Severe economic trouble after stock market crash

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Gandhi

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Used nonviolence to get British out of India

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Appeasement

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Giving into commands to keep peace

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Assembly line

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Workers add parts to a product that moves along

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Model T

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Ford’s first car

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Business cycle

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Expansion, Peak, contraction, trough, repeat

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Benito Mussolini

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Fascist leader of Italy

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Adolf Hitler

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Fascist leader of Germany

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Mein Kampf

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Book written by Hitler

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Kristallnacht

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Night of the broken glass

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Munich conference

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Appease Hitler with Northern Czechoslovakia

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Nonaggression pact

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Germany and Soviet Union agreed not to attack each other

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Blitzkrieg

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Lightning war; planes, tanks, infantry

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Maginot line

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French defense system built after world War II

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Battle of Midway

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Stops Japanese drive to Hawaii

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Battle of the Bulge

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Germany’s last offensive

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D day

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Allies invaded France at Normandy “operation overload”

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Kamikaze

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Japanese suicide planes

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Hiroshima/Nagasaki

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Japanese cities A-bomb by the US in World War II

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Manhattan Project

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Codename for development of the atomic bomb

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Pearl Harbor

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I date which will live in infamy

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Stalin

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Dictator of Soviet Union

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Truman

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President after FDR dies; atomic bombs

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FDR

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Pres. of the US during World War II

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Churchhill

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England’s Prime Minister during World War II

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Third Reich

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Name of Hitler’s Empire

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Island hopping

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The allies strategy to win back territory

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Cold War

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Climate of icy tension that existed between the US and the Soviet Union after World War II

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NATO

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North Atlantic Treaty organization; anti-Soviet military alliance

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Warsaw Pact

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Communist military alliance between Soviet Union and s

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Iron Curtain

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Churchill said that this fell across eastern Europe

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Berlin airlift

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United States flies in supplies for nearly one year in Germany

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Khrushchev

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De-Stalinization

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Brezhnev

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Re-Stalinization

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Truman doctrine

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US will help any country against communism

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Marshall plan

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Money to aid Europe after World War II

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Berlin wall

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Built in 1961 to keep people from leaving East Germany

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Mao Tse-Tung

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Leader of Chinese communists

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Chang Kai-shek

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Pres. of nationalistic Republic of China ends up in Taiwan

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Korean War

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North Korea attacks out; ends in the 38th parallel

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Vietnam War

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North attacks South first and only lost for US

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Escalation

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Sending more Men to Vietnam LBJ

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Gulf of Tonkin resolution

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Congress gave LBJ the authority to do what’s necessary in Vietnam

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Ho Chi Minh

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Communist leader of Vietnam

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Domino theory

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Believe that the fall of one S. East Asian country to communism would need to the fall of its neighbors

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Pol Pot

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Communist leader of Cambodia

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OPEC

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Organization of petroleum exporting countries

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Cuban missile Crisis

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13 days standoff between US and Soviet Union over missiles in Cuba

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Elastic good

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Substitutes available

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Inelastic good

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Necessity insulin

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Petrodollars

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Money for oil

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Alan Shepard

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First American in space

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Saigon

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Capital of South Vietnam

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Fidel Castro

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Communist leader of Cuba

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Decolonization

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Empires breaking up, Independence for colonies

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Geneva Accords

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Vietnam split at 17th parallel and there’ll be a national election to unite country

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Brezhnev doctrine

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Soviets may intervene in satellites at any time

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Counterculture

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Go against Norm, hippies

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Baby boom

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Population explosion after World War II

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Afrikaners

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Dutch descendents in south Africa

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Apartheid

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Segregation in South Africa

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Abdicate

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To step down from power

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Shah of Iran

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Dictator of Iran and the US supports

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Ayatollah Khomeini

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Overthrew the shah and leader during the Iran hostage crisis

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Solidarity

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Polish labor union

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Desert Storm

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US and allies versus Iraq during the 90s

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Gorbachev

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Soviet leader after Andropov; says glasnost, perestroika, and democraticization

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Glasnost

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Openness

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Perestroika

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Economic reforms

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Democraticization

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Free elections

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Boris Yeltsin

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First elected leader of Russia

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Tiananmen Square

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Student protests for individual rights that is broken up by the military

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500 day plan

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Gorbachev’s program to overcome the economic crisis in the Soviet Union by transitioning into market economy

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Hardliners

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Communist conservatives who oppose change

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Operation restore hope

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US military involvement in Somalia trying to feed people

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Bantustans

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Black homelands in South Africa

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