Semester Final Review Flashcards
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Island of Napoleon’s second exile
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Helena
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King Louis XVI
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French king who spent a lot of money
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Marie Antoinette
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Louis’s wife. Also spend a lot of the money
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Regime system
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1st estate: clergy. 2nd estate: nobility. 3rd estate: commoners
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Slogan of French Revolution
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Liberty, equality, fraternity
6
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Tennis court oath
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Pledge by members of France’s National Assembly- went until new constitution has been made
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Who represented Austria at the Congress of Vienna
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Prince Karl August Von Hardenberg
8
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Who was Napoleon’s first wife
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Joséphine de Beauharnais
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Otto Von Bismarck’s nickname
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Iron Chancellor
10
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Who created the Young Italy Movement
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Giuseppe Mazzini
11
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Who led the Red Shirts on the “Expedition of the Thousand”
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Giuseppe Garibaldi
12
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Who was involved in the Franco-Prussian war
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France and Prussia
13
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Who was Simon Bolivar
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Venezuelan military and political leader
14
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Who was the chancellor when Otto Von Bismarck resigned
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Leovon Caprivi
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Who was Toussanint-Louverture
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Leader of the Haitian Revolution
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Adam Smith
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Wrote the wealth of nations- professor at university of Glasgow
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Andrew Carnegie
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Opened Carnegie steel company
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Authors of Communist Manifesto
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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
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Factory act of 1833
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Improved conditions for children working in factories
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Ivan Pavlov
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Russian physiologist- human actions have often unconscious reactions
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J.D. Rockefeller
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Funded standard oil corporation
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James Hargreaves
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Invented spinning Jenny
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Max Planck
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Physicist- studied structure and energy of atoms
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Samuel Morse
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American painter and inventor
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Who was the English writer who wrote the stake of Two Cities and David Copperfield
Charles Dickens
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When was slavery abolished in the U.S. And British colonies
Dec. 6 1865, 1833
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Alfred Dreyfus
French artillery officer of Jewish background
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Emile Zola
Writer. Published and open letter called J'accuse!
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How long did queen Victoria reign
63 years
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The British prime minister when they gained the Suez Canal
Benjamin Disraeli
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Which crop failure caused the famine in Ireland
Potato
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Who was the president when the U.S. Bought the Louisiana Territory
Thomas Jefferson
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Who issued the Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln
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Which U.S. President served as mediator during the Russo-Japanese War
Theodore Roosevelt
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Winner of the Crimean War
France Britain Ottoman Empire Sardinia
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Aborigines
Native people to Australia
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Boxer rebellion
Campaign vs. Dowager Empress's rule and foreign privilege
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Florence Nightingale
Led women in Crimean war
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Monroe Doctrine
American countries are not to be considered as subjects for colonization
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Roosevelt Corolary
Gave the U.S. the right to be an international police power
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What were the difficulties the French faced when building the Panama Canal
Malaria. Yellow fever. Other tropical diseases
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Which is battleship exploded in the Havana harbor
U.S. Maine
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Who wrote white mans burden
Rudyard Kipling
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War of Attrition
Fighting between Israel Egypt Jordan PLO and allies
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Who sunk the Lusitania
The Germans
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Allied powers during WW1
Great Britain. France. Russia. Italy. U.S.
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Central powers during ww1
Germany. Austria Hungary. Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria
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Did the U.S. Join the League of Nations
No
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During the Russian civil war communist forces were called what
White movement
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How many soldiers were killed during WW1
10 million
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How many U.S. Soldiers died during WW1
116,000
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Members of the triple entente
Britain. France. Russia
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Members of the triple alliance
Germany. Austria Hungary and Italy
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Treaty that ended WW1
Treaty of Versailles
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What did the treaty of Brest-litovsk do
Ended Russia's participation in WW1
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What does soviet mean
Local councils consisting of workers peasants and soldiers
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Who represented Italy at the Paris peace conference in 1919
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando
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Who was the German foreign minister who sent a telegram to Mexico during WW1
Arthur Zimmerman
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Gestapo
Secrete police of Germany
60
Leader of the Indian nationalist movement
Mohandas Ghandi
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Who organized the fascist party in Italy prior to WW2
Mussolini
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Statins first 5 year plan
List of economic goals
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Who implemented the new deal
FDR
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Mein Kampf
Autobiographical by hitler. Outlines his political ideology
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Meaning of USSR
Union of soviets socialist republics
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What was Iran called prior to being renamed
Persia
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Axis powers during WW2
Germany. Italy. Japan
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How many Jews died during the holocaust
6 million
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Luftwaffe
German Air Force. 1935
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On which ship did the Japanese sigh the surrender documents to end WW2
USS Missouri
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Operation overlord
Successful invasion of German occupied Western Europe
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Result of Battle of Britain
Failure for both sides
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Result of battle of El Alamein
Allied victory
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Result of the battle of midway
American victory
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Result of the battle of Stalingrad
German retreat
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Island of Napoleon's first exile
Elba
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What was the Maginot line
French line of defense. Country's border with Germany
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What was the Wannsee conference
Meeting of senior officials of nazi Germany
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Who was the president of Japan during WW2
Hirohito
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After WW2 where was Korea divided
38th parallel
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Berlin airlift
U.S. And allies supplied their sectors of the city from air. Lasted more than a year
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Charles de Gaulle was the president of
French Republic
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Domino theory
If one country became influenced by communism others nearby would too
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Ferdinand Marcos and Corazon Aquino served as presidents of
The Philippines
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First Secretary General of the United Nations
Trygre Lie
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Goal of the bay of pigs
Overthrow Fidel Castro
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Yo chi Minh was the leader of
Vietnam
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How many Americans were killed during the Vietnam war
58,220
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Kim II Sung was the leader of
North Korea
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Mao Zedong was the leader of
Central committee of the communist party of China
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Name of the soviets first launched satellite
Sputnik 1
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Paris peace accords
Established peace in Vietnam and end to Vietnam war
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Pervez Musharraf was the leader of
Pakistan
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Pol pot was the leader of
Khmer Rouge
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Powers of the permanent members of the UN Security Council
Veto
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Result of the Nuremberg trials
22 nazi leaders were charged with waging war of aggression
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Soviet leader during the Cuban missile crisis
Khrushchev
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Syngman Rhee was the leader of
South Korea
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Tet offensive
Largest military campaigns of the Vietnam war. Jan 30 1968
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Tiananmen Square Massacre
Students were shot at while demonstrating
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Truman doctrine
U.S. Would provide political military and economic assistance to all democratic nations
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What does NATO stand for
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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Who are the current permanent members of the UN Security Council
China. France. Russian federation. UK and U.S.
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Whom did the U.S. Support during the Korean War
South Korea
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Whom did the U.S. Support during the Vietnam war
South Vietnam
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Name of Czechoslovakia's transition to democracy
Velvet Revolution
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The soviet leader who had the reforms of glasnost and perestroika
Gorbachev
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Camp David accord
Signed by Egyptian president anwar el Sadat and Israeli president
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Suez crisis
Israel and Egypt
110
Nelson Mandela was a leader of
ANC. South Africa
111
Menachem Begin was a leader of
Israel
112
Manuel Noriega was a leader of
Panama
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Ayatollah Khomeini was a leader of
Iran
114
Saddam Hussein was a leader of
Iraq
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Kwame Nkrumah was a leader of
Ghana
116
Anwar Sadat was a leader of
Egypt
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What does OPEC stand for
Organization Of Petroleum Exporting Countries
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Neil Armstrong
American astronaut
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Apartheid
The state of being apart racial segregation in South Africa
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Intifada
Fighting between Israel and Palestine
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Kaiser
German emperor of Austria. Head of Holy Roman Empire
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Terrorism
Use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims
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Ultimatum
A final demand or statement of terms. Rejection will result in a retaliation or breakdown in relations
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Cubism
Most influential visual art styles of early 20th century. Created by Picasso
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Zionism
Re establishment of taking private industry or assets into public ownership by national government or state
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Appeasement
Political policy of conceding to aggression by a war like nation
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Blitzkrieg
Intense military campaign intended to bring about a swift victory
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General assembly
Highest general body in a religious denomination
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Apartheid
System of racial segregation in South Africa enforced by national party
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Intifada
Palestinian uprising vs. Israeli occupation of West Bank
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May 5 1821
Death of Napoleon Bonaparte
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April 9 1865
End of American Civil war
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July 17 1936 - April 1 1939
Start and end of Spanish civil war
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December 16 1944
Battle of the bulge
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August 29 1949
Soviets detonate first atomic bomb
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August 13 1961
Put up the Berlin Wall
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December 25 1979 - February 15 1989
Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan
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April 12 1981
U.S. First space shuttle
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April 15 1989 - June 4 1989
Tiananmen Square Massacre
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June 28 1914
Assassination of archduke Ferdinand
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April 6 1917
U.S. Enters WW1 officially
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11th hour of 11th day of 11th month. 11 o'clock Nov. 11 1918
Armistice to WW1
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Dec 7 1941
Attack on Pearl Harbor
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November 22 1963
JKF assassination
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November 9 1989
Dismantling of Berlin Wall
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Defeat for Napoleon. Ended his last bid for power
Battle of Waterloo
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Napoleons last bid for power
Hundred days
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Born in 1769 on the Mediterranean island of Corsica
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Policy directed at blocking soviet influence and stopping the expansion of communism
Containment
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Nicaraguan anti-Communist forces
Contras
