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| 4214771023 | Partition of India and Pakistan | -Muhammad Ali Jinnah dreamed to have his own country for Muslims called Pakistan -Nehru and Jinnah drew battle lines and the Hindus and Muslims were constantly fighting -Britain tried to keep India unified but failed -Pakistan is home for Muslims -India hone for Hindus | 0 | |
| 4214782637 | African National Congress | -Organization dedicated to equal voting and civil rights for blacks living in South America -Founded in 1912 and changed name in 1923 -Leaders were banned and jailed but helped bring majority rule to South Africa | 1 | |
| 4214922369 | Jawaharlal Nehru | -Gandhi's successor of the Indian National Congress -Negotiated the end of British colonial rule in India -India's first prime minister from 1947-1964 -Wanted to industrialize India | 2 | |
| 4214945381 | All-India Muslim League | -Founded by Muslims who were fearful of Hindu dominance elsewhere in India in 1906 -Led by Muhammad Ali Jinnah -Attempted to negotiate with the Indian National Congress -In 1940, league demanded to separate from India and form their own state called Pakistan | 3 | |
| 4214960995 | Mohandas Gandhi, his political ideas and protest methods | -Called "Mahatma" by his followers, which means the "great soul" -Well educated lawyer who went to school in England -Became a leader of the Indian National Congress in 1920 -Appealed to the poor and called them harijan, meaning "children of God" -Used ahimsa (nonviolence) and satyagraha (the search for the truth) to stop British colonial rule and violence -Wore simple clothing -Arrested numerous times -Assassinated while trying to stop Hindu-Muslim rioting | 4 | |
| 4214996760 | Third World Nations | -Developing countries who declared they were nonaligned during the Cold War | 5 | |
| 4215043767 | Impact of Cold War on decolonization | -The decolonization of Africa and Asia made the size of the general assembly swell -Made the general assembly the location for debates over decolonization and development | 6 | |
| 4215117510 | U.S. intervention in Guatemala | -United Fruit Company was the Guatemala's largest landowner -In order to keep prices of bananas expensive, United Fruit kept most of their lands fallow -Arbenz wanted to give the fallow lands back to the poor -Arbenz wanted to reduce U.S. influence and the U.S. got rid of Arbenz -Caused the Guatemalan government to have instability | 7 | |
| 4215205266 | Shortcomings of UN | -Unable to solve numerous problems during the Cold War -Security Council could veto everything | 8 | |
| 4215228645 | Leaders of African Independence movements | -Nelson Mandela -Ellen Johnson was the first woman elected in Africa -Kwame Nkrumah became the prime minister in Ghana which was the first British colony to achieve independence -Jomo Kenyatta was dedicated to African freedom | 9 | |
| 4215234821 | Green Revolution | -Environmental concerns in the 1940's and late 1960's for an increase in agriculture | 10 | |
| 4215250963 | Independent British Colonies in Africa | -Full independence came in 1957 -Nigeria, Ghana, and Kenya gained independence | 11 | |
| 4215298420 | Viet Cong | -Located in South Vietnam and supported the Northern Vietnam communism movement | 12 | |
| 4215326696 | 1947 India/Pakistan war | -Hindu ruler of Kashmir decides to join India (mostly Hindus) -Did not consult a single citizen of Kashmir (mostly Muslim) | 13 | |
| 4215339736 | Helsinki Accord | -Political and human rights agreement -Signed in Helsinki, Finland by the Soviet Union and other Western Countries | 14 | |
| 4215348910 | Great Society | -Domestic programs incorporated by President Lyndon B. Johnson to eliminate racial poverty and injustice | 15 | |
| 4215399692 | Population growth in China and India | -Both China and India encouraged family planning -Overwhelming birthrates -China and a one child policy and increased female infanticide -India forced sterilization | 16 | |
| 4215419375 | "Brazilian Solution" | -Combination of dictatorship, violent repression, and government promotion of industrialization | 17 | |
| 4215431454 | Thomas Malthus | -Eighteenth century English intellectual -Argued there was not enough food to keep up with the growing population | 18 | |
| 4215440640 | "Dirty War" | -After Juan Perón died, wife took over -Military seized her power and suspended the constitution -Seven year war against terrorism fought called the Dirty War | 19 | |
| 4215453701 | Ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia | -Orthodox serbs vs. Muslims -Violence and genocide-like mass murders | 20 | |
| 4215484508 | Neo-Liberalism | -Free market policies that include reducing tariff protection for local industries -Using public industries like air-lines and utilities -Use private investors -Basically the New Imperialism all over again | 21 | |
| 4215513822 | Causes and outcomes of the dissolution of the USSR | -Coup against Gorbachev -Led war to in the Balkans and Yugoslavia after Russia became a republic -FMLN failed -Berlin Wall collapsed | 22 | |
| 4215526296 | Keiretsu | -A conglomerate -Included major bank and firms industries, commerce and constitution tied together in an interlocking ownership structure -Dominated the Japanese economy | 23 | |
| 4215543629 | Coup against Gorbachev | -Led by Boris Yeltsin (President of the Russian Republic) -Beginning to take place of the failing USSR -September of 1991 the Union was voted to dissolve -Gorbachev resigned with the creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) | 24 | |
| 4215567525 | Effect of Deng Xiaoping on China | -Allowed foreign investments for the first time since communists came into power -Became the world's sixth most important trading nation -Result was a dual industrial sector | 25 | |
| 4215597808 | Unification of Germany | -The collapse of the Berlin Wall allowed for integration of Eastern and Western Germany | 26 | |
| 4215604497 | Character of Communist states outside of the USSR | -Economic before political reforms -Use the Dual-Sector where the economy changes but the government stays the same | 27 | |
| 4215622263 | The EU and the Euro | -After the collapse of the Soviet Union, European countries agree on a common currency -Competed with the U.S. dollar for investment and banking | 28 | |
| 4215634880 | Motives for 9/11 attacks | -Usama bin Laden discontent with the U.S. policy and the placement of U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia -Growth of world trade fell from 13% in 2000 and 1% in 2001 | 29 | |
| 4215648506 | Overthrow of the Taliban | -The U.S. invaded Iraq, Iran, and the Middle East as the War of Terror in 2008 ordered by President Obama | 30 | |
| 4215665131 | Causes of the 2008 financial crisis | -Collapse of the housing market -Asian financial crisis in 1998 -Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy in September, the recession turned into a economic downturn -Effects spread worldwide -President Obama proposed a series of steps to get the U.S. out of the downfall and they included mass government spending, in order to jolt the economy back to health | 31 | |
| 4215684533 | Vladimir Putin | -Elected into office and served two terms -Placed a protege into office and used him as a puppet -New law passed that you could run for president again and again -Vladimir Putin becomes the Prime Minister again -Tries to revive the Soviet Union | 32 | |
| 4215693886 | Terrorism as a political tactic | -The attempt to scare the people to the point of feeling unsafe -Makes the people think that their government can no longer protect them -Weaker military demonstrates that terror is everywhere | 33 | |
| 4215700171 | U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 | *UGHHHH I HAVE GAVE UP IF YOU KNOW IT AND THE ONE BELOW HIT ME UP* | 34 | |
| 4215703452 | Hezbollah | -The capture of 23/128 seats in the Lebanese parliament by the Lebanese Shi'ite movement in 2005 -Majority of seats won by militantly anti-Israeli Hamas movement | 35 | |
| 4215738916 | Link between Saddam Husain and bin Laden | *I DON'T KNOW AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH* | 36 | |
| 4215740536 | "the surge" tactic in the 2003 Iraq War | -The payment of the Iraqis to become soldiers allowing the U.S. to back out of the war | 37 |
