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Question 1

Winston Churchill

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British prime minister during WWII and beginning of Cold War

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Tehran Conference

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meeting of Allied powers during WWII when Stalin encouraged invasion on France

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Yalta Conference

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Allied powers during WWII meet and divide Germany into four (US GB FRANCE AND SOVIET)

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Potsdam Conference

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Allied powers meeting during WWII, US and GB protested communist governments in Eastern Europe

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Truman Doctrine

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President Truman said the US had the job to support free people resisting control from others powers

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Marshall Plan

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US aid package for Western Europe which was devastated during WWII

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NATO

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North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance of democratic and capitalist countries to stop the spread of communism

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Warsaw Pact

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alliance of Eastern Europe and USSR to counter NATO

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United Nations

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peace keeping organization set up after WWII to prevent future conflicts

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Korean War

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fought when north communists invaded the south to unify the country, UN assisted the south

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Ho Chi Minh

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Marxist leader who led a rebellion against the French in Vietnam

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Vietnam War

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northern communist forces invaded the south, US troops sent to the south but north eventually did overtake the south and unified the country and made it communist

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Nikita Khrushchev

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soviet leader who tried to place nuclear weapons in Cuba

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Cuban Missile Crisis

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when the US and USSR came close to nuclear war when the USSR placed bombs in Cuba but avoided through negotiation

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Sputnik

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first Soviet satellite into space

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Containment

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NATO policy of stopping the spread of communism

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Mao Zedong

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Communist leader won the civil war in China and implemented “Great Leap Forward”

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Chiang Kai-shek

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China nationalist leader who lost the civil war to the communists

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“Two Chinas”

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policy that allowed recognition of Taiwan as the Republic of China and the separate People’s Republic of China

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Great Leap Forward

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Mao Zedong plan of rapid industrialization and modernization of China

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Cultural Revolution

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Mao Zedong’s plan of political social and economical changes for China

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Deng Xiaoping

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successor of Mao Zedong and strongly encouraged Chinese modernization for agriculture, industry, science, and military

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Samuel Huntington

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scientist who discovered “three waves” of democratization after decolonization

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Gandhi

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Indian independence leader known for using civil disobedience for political change

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civil disobedience

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peacefully breaking unjust laws

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Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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Leader of the Muslim league in India who lead for the movement of Pakistan

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Jawaharlal Nehru

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led Indian National congress after Gandhi supported creation of industrial India

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WEB DuBois

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American scholar had meetings with Africans to promote African independence

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Kwame Nkrumah

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independence leader of Ghana

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Jomo Kenyatta

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independence leader of Kenya

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ANC

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African Nation Congress formed in South Africa to protest colonization and apartheid

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apartheid

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legal and systematic segregation in South Africa

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Nelson Mandela

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leader of ANC, using civil disobedience to end apartheid, voted first black president of South Africa

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Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

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Turkish leader unified and modernized Turkey as a secular nation state

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Shah Reza Pahlavi

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Muslim army general captured Iranian government during a coup and declared himself Shah

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Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini

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Islamic Iranian revolutionary leader overthrew the shah and placed an Islamic theocracy

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Islamic fundamentalism

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doctrine based on Islamic texts, social conservatism and political traditionalism based on the Quran

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League of Arab States

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organization developed to strengthen and unite Arab countries

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Gamel Abdel Nasser

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Egyptian nationalist leader who took control and challenged the old colonial order by taking the Suez Canal from the British

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Zionist Movement

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Jewish movement aimed at gaining a permanent home of Israel for Jews at expense of Palestinian land

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PLO

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Palestinian Liberalization Organization represented stateless people who were mainly Muslim who lost their land due to Israels formation

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Anwar el Sadat

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Egyptian leader after Nasser, negotiated peace with Israel through mediation with US president

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Hosni Mubarak

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gained control of Egypt after Sadat’s assassination, oppressive, harsh regime, forced to resign

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“the Bully of the North”

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nickname of the US because of its aggressive involvement in Latin America

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import substitution industrialization

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policy of Latin American countries to industrialize and produce imported goods

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PIR

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Party of the Institutionalized Revolution in Mexico aimed to stabilize the Mexican government and economy

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corporatism

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authoritarian government allowance of input from major groups outside the government like big businesses led to instability in Brazil

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Juan Peron

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came to power in Argentina during a military coup

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Fidel Castro

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Cuban lawyer, carried out a coup & later became a communist dictator

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Bay of Pigs Invasion

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US sponsored, unsuccessful invasion of Cuba by trying to overthrow Castro

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Che Guevara

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former doctor turned revolutionary helped Castro take over Cuba and sponsored other Latin American uprisings

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