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| 4296731712 | African National Congress | Congress formed as a party of protest in South Africa c1913. Unable to convince the white government to liberalize its racial policies. | 0 | |
| 4296735472 | Salvador Allende | Man in Chilé c1978. Turns the country to socialism and nationalizes the oil industry, USA becomes unhappy and aids in their revolution. | 1 | |
| 4296739782 | apartheid | Segregation of the races in South Africa c1948. Forced blacks to live in cities far away from their work in dorms away from their families. | 2 | |
| 4296741943 | Fulgencio Batista | Cuban dictator c1950 promised reforms in earlier years and was eventually overthrown by Castro. | 3 | |
| 4296744381 | Lazaro Cardenas | Socialist who nationalizes industry in Mexico. | 4 | |
| 4296744382 | Fidel Castro | Cuban leader of army of students, laborers, and rural workers to depose Batista from office in 1959. Sold Cuban sugar for Russian oil to gain favor with USSR. | 5 | |
| 4296747315 | Chiang Kai-shek | Chinese nationalist fights against the communist Mao Zedong for control of China. | 6 | |
| 4296748963 | Chinese Cultural Revolution | Youth in charge and create a Red Guard. | 7 | |
| 4296751071 | Winston Churchill | British prime minister during WWII. | 8 | |
| 4296752635 | civil disobedience | Peacefully breaking unjust laws. | 9 | |
| 4296752636 | containment | The USA trying to keep communism from spreading | 10 | |
| 4296754869 | Cuban missile crisis | Kennedy vs. Castro aided by Khrushchev/USSR and puts nuclear missiles in Cuba with high tension in the Cold War. The USSR pulled missiles out of Cuba and the USA took missiles out of Turkey. | 11 | |
| 4296757293 | decolonization | The act of former colonies becoming independent countries. | 12 | |
| 4296758985 | Charles De Gaulle | Leader of the French Resistance during WWII made new government (5th Republic) and negotiated Algerian independence c1962. | 13 | |
| 4296760536 | Mohandas K. Gandhi | Man educated in British system, also part of the legal system but went back to independent traditional Indian values with nonviolent self-sufficiency. | 14 | |
| 4296762857 | Great Leap Forward | (c1958-63) Collectivize lands everyone worked on long state communes, live in barracks separated by gender which was against Confucian values, break family and replace with loyalty to Mao. | 15 | |
| 4296763155 | Che Guevara | Leader of many revolutions, fought with Castro, and was captured and executed in Bolivia. Still considered a symbol of the Rebellion. | 16 | |
| 4296764896 | Ho Chi Minh | Communist and nationalist who successfully beat the french post WWII. In 1954 he divided Vietnam between North (Communist) and South (Capitalist). | 17 | |
| 4296768659 | Iranian Cultural Revolution | Revolution in Iran causes control of government to return to the church (theocracy). Done by Shi'ite leaders c1966. | 18 | |
| 4296770096 | iron curtain | Speech by Winston Churchill c1946 stating the Cold War is an "Iron Curtain" that divided Europe. | 19 | |
| 4296771411 | Islamic fundamentalism | Literal interpretation of Islamic texts. | 20 | |
| 4296774820 | Muhammad Ali Jinnah | Hindu Muslim c1948, drew lines which created refugee problems and series of wars over Kashmere | 21 | |
| 4296776856 | Mustafa (Ataturk) Kemal | Man who unified Turkey as an independent country c1923 and led an organization of a secular nationalist state by getting rid of shari'a law, replacing Arabic script with Roman alphabet, encouraging western European clothes, and forcing women to unveil. | 22 | |
| 4296779546 | Ruhollah Khomeini | Shi'ite cleric in Iran c1979 started Iranian Revolution which made it a theocracy. | 23 | |
| 4296783486 | Nikita Khrushchev | Soviet leader who withdrew missiles in Cuba during the Cuban missile crisis for the US in return taking missiles out of Turkey. | 24 | |
| 4296783487 | Korean War | War of the UN and South Korea against North Korea due to the wishes of containment of the USA. Ends c1953. | 25 | |
| 4296787187 | League of Arab States | Regional organization to strengthen and unite countries with Arab majorities. | 26 | |
| 4296788475 | "limited war" | Type of war limited in space, with borders. Ex: Korean War | 27 | |
| 4296788476 | Nelson Mandela | Leader of African National Congress shifted to aggressive methods, and sent to life in prison c1964, presented the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993. | 28 | |
| 4296790618 | Mao Zedong | Leader of Chinese communist party, leads the Long March and loses many troops. Fights against Chiang Kai-shek because he's a nationalist. | 29 | |
| 4296790619 | Marshall Plan | Sends money to Europe to stop the spread of communism. | 30 | |
| 4296793070 | Gamel Abdel Nasser | Man in Egypt c1956 seized the Suez Canal which made Great Britain mad and wanting to fight but the USA forbid it. During the Cold War he played both sides, took money from the USA and USSR (Non Aligned Movement). | 31 | |
| 4296793071 | North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) | Military alliance of Western Europe, Canada, and US. Tension happened in this organization due to the Cold War. | 32 | |
| 4296795693 | Jawaharlal Nehru | Man supported creation of an Industrial India. Jinnah's successor. | 33 | |
| 4296797263 | Kwame Nkrumah | Leader from Ghana confidently demanded independence for his country. | 34 | |
| 4296799323 | Pahlavi dynasty | Dynasty c1925 by Colonel Reza Khar. | 35 | |
| 4296802771 | Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) | Organization formed to represent the stateless people who were not absorbed in Arab states but were in refugee camps and their presence threatened the stability of the entire region. | 36 | |
| 4296809089 | Party of the Institutionalized Revolution (PRI) | Party of military leaders (caudillos) united for the sake of stability c1929. | 37 | |
| 4296813364 | Juan Peron | Military general whose goal was to industrialize and modernize Argentina to make it a dominant power in South America. c1943 | 38 | |
| 4296816207 | Postdam Conference | Meeting in Postdam between Stalin (USSR) and Harry Truman (USA) to protest Stalin's communist regimes in Romania, Poland, Hungary, and Bulgaria. c1945 | 39 | |
| 4296817399 | Augusto Pinochet | Military coup leader from Chilé, led group to overthrow Allende and was supported by the USA c1973. | 40 | |
| 4296818767 | Franklin Roosevelt | President of the USA c1933-45. | 41 | |
| 4296818768 | space race | Race of the countries striving to reach the moon first, and the US won in 1969. | 42 | |
| 4296820785 | Sputnik | USSR's space satellite c1957. | 43 | |
| 4296820786 | Joseph Stalin | Russian dictator and leader of the USSR. Overthrown by Khrushchev. | 44 | |
| 4296822992 | Tehran Conference | Conference in Tehran c1943 in which the Soviet government encouraged Western powers to open a new front in France. | 45 | |
| 4296824342 | Third World | Part of the world not aligned with capitalist industrial nations of the First World nor communists industrial nations of the Second World. | 46 | |
| 4296826117 | Truman Doctrine | Sends troops to stop the spread of communism, created by US president Harry Truman. | 47 | |
| 4296826118 | Harry Truman | United States president met with Stalin at the Postdam conference. | 48 | |
| 4296827909 | "Two Chinas" | The land split between Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek in China. | 49 | |
| 4296829246 | United Fruit Company | Object of Nationalistic anger because they controlled transportation, shipping, and large amounts of land. | 50 | |
| 4296832405 | Getulio Vargas | In Brazil c1929 takes power with military coup (overthrow), and the economic troubles led to socialism. Also a fascist, dies c1955. | 51 | |
| 4296833495 | Vietnam War | War between the USA and Vietnam, c1966-75 ended when a treaty was created to break Vietnam into North (communism) and South (capitalism). | 52 | |
| 4296835481 | Yalta Conference | Conference in Yalta c1945 in which the countries could not agree on an approach to handling post-war Germany so they divided Germany into 4 zones: Britain, US, France, and USSR | 53 | |
| 4296858106 | Zionist Movement | Movement in Israel got Britain's foreign secretary to issue the Balfour Declaration in support of Jewish land claims, and created the state of Israel c1948 (a Jewish homeland). | 54 |
