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What was the Berlin Wall?

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A wall built in German that separated East and West Germany

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What did the fall of the Berlin Wall symbolize?

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The unification of Germany as a whole country

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North American Free Trade Agreement

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eliminated tariffs among the US, Canada, and Mexico

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World Trade Organization

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founded to bring order to international trade

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NATO

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alliance to keep each other safe

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NGO

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non-governmental organization

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Contras

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against Sandinistas, financed by Ronald Reagan

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Holocaust

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influential in creating Israel, Hitler, killing Jews, genocide, ended in 1962, Nuremberg Laws

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“Asia Tigers”

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South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong

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Khomeini

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US - “Great Satan”, religious ruler in Iran

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Dent Xiaoping

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Reversed Mao Zedong economy, socialist, freeing industries

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Cold War didn’t

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Force world into two blocks

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OPEC

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Global recession during 70s, fuel prices

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Response to Tiananmen protests

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Forcibly repressed calls for democracy & freedom

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US involvement in Vietnam, USSR involvement in Afghanistan

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Support that would remain strong allies

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Marxist beliefs (basis of communes)

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Gov’t should control Econ in public interest

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Commune

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Eliminated family life

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Gandhi winning independence for India from Britain

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Non-violent protest & civil disobedience

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Goal of Green Revolution

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Help farmers in developing worlds, modern technology, more productive

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Cuban gov’t overthrow by Castro

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Low econ growth & corruption of Batista regime

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Diminishing power of Europe after WWI

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Reliance on funding, loss of oversea markets, colonies beliefs that Europe was divided & unstable

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Indian National Congress

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Jawaharlal Nehru

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Suffered most within Ottoman Empire

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Armenians

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South Africa

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Nelson Mandela, Afrikaner National Party, Apartheid Movement

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Mustard gas

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WWI, deadly, blindness

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Cause of WWI

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Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

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Central powers WWI

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Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottomans

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Triple Entente

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Britain, France, Russia

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Schlieffen Plan

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Quick attack against France through Belgium, Belgium resisted, failed

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Battle of Gallipoli

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Turkey, capture Constantinople, failed

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Armenian genocide

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Turkey, over 1 million murdered/starved

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Sykes-Picot agreement

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Divided Arab lands between Britain & France, secret

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Balfour Declaration

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Land in Palestine as a home for Jews for help in WWI

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Vladimir Lenin

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Russian Revolution, Bolsheviks, head of USSR

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Zimmerman Telegram

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Sent to Mexico to convince Mexico to attack US

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Paris Peace Conference

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Decided terms of WWI & Treaty Of Versailles

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Good Neighbor Policy (Franklin Roosevelt)

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Revamped US approach to Latin American relations

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Manchurian invasions

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Japanese blew up Japanese railroads & blamed China, Japan left League of Nations

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Pan-Africanism

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W. E. B. DuBois & Marcus Garvey, proud of culture

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Chinese cultural revolution

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Mao Zedong, Great Leap Forward (communes), metals didn’t work, Deng Xiaoping fixed everything

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Pearl Harbor

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Japan bomber America, America blew two Japanese cities

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Truman Doctrine

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Battle lines of Cold War, free & enslaved

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Detente

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Reduction in hostility, cool the arms race, the start of the end

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Wilson

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Created League of Nations

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Churchill

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Hitler is bad, WWII

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Shah

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Hated, disagreed, overthrown by Khomeini

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Iranian Revolution

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1978, new gov’t, two sects of Islam, Shia saw themselves as oppressed

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Results of Iranian revolution

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Parliment, minority’s were protected, constitution, Shia, limited royal power

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