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361671877Apartheida social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic and legal discrimination against non-whites0
361671878Asian TigersCollective name for South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore-nations that became economic powers in the 1970s and 1980s.1
361671879Aswan Damone of the world's largest dams on the Nile River in southern Egypt2
361671880Ataturk, Kemel Mustafa"Father of the Turks" who helped to create Republic of Turkey and wanted to modernize [westernize] Turkey as well as separate religion and government3
361671881Ayatollah KhomeiniIranian religious leader of the Shiites4
361671882Balfour DeclarationBritish document that promised land in Palestine as homeland for Jews in exchange for Jews help in WWI issued by Britain's Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour in 19175
361671883Berlin Airliftairlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin6
361671884Berlin Wardivider between East and West Berlin in Germany, eastern side communist and western side democratic; eventually was knocked down7
361671885Bolshevik Partythe party that seized power under Lenin's leadership.8
361671886Castro, FidelCommunist leader who took over Cuba in 1959 and established close ties with USSR. Making Cuba a socialist country.9
361671887Chiang Kai ShekLeader of the Nationalist Party after 1925; major goal was to crush the communist movement led by Mao Zedong.10
361671888Churchill, WinstonBritish Prime Minister during World War II; instrumental in leading Britain to victory during World War II; responsible for British resistance to German air assaults.11
361671889Cuban Missle CrisisSoviets set up missle bases in cuba under Fidel Castro.12
361671890Cultural RevolutionCampaign in China ordered by Mao Zedong to purge the Communist Party of his opponents and instill revolutionary values in the younger generation(carried out largely by the Red Guard).13
361671891Deng XioapingTook over after Mao & led a group of practical minded reformers, ended cultural rev., shift towards family traditions, clothing changed, names not patriotic.14
361671892Eastern BlocSoviet allies in eastern Europe, including Bulgaria, Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Hungary.15
361671893European Economic CommunityEconomic organization established in 1957 to reduce tariff barriers and promote trade among the countries of Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, France, Italy, and West Germany.16
361671894European Unioninternational organization comprised of Western European countries to promote free trade among members17
361671895Fourteen PointsWar aims outlined by President Wilson in 1918, which he believed would promote lasting peace.18
361671896Gandhi, MahatmasRevolutionary who led India to independence from Great Britain through passive resistance and civil disobedience.19
361671897Garvey,MarcusAfrican American leader from 1919 to 1926 who urged African Americans to return to their "motherland" of Africa; provided early inspiration for "black pride" movements.20
361671898Great Leap Forwarda five-year economic plan that collectivized farms in China and put them into communes21
361671899Hitler, AdolphGerman leader of National Socialist (Nazi) Party 1933-1945; rose to power by promoting racist and nationalist views.22
361671900Ho Chi MinhCommunist leader of North Vietnam in World War II.23
361671901Holocaustthe Nazi program of exterminating Jews under Hitler24
361671902Hussein,SaddamPresident of Iraq since 1979. He has led his control into two devastating wars, one against Iran in 1980 to 1988, and the Persian Gulf War in 1990 - 1991 which started as a result of his invading Kuwait.25
361671903IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency)Branch of U.N. that monitors nuclear energy around world; focused on Iraqi nuclear disarmament.26
361671904IMF (International Monetary Fund)Agency of the United Nations with the role of making national currencies and financial markets more stable.27
361671905IntifadaAn uprising by Palestinian Arabs in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank against Israel in the late 1980s and again in 2000.28
361671906Iran-Iraq War1980-1988: Saddam Hussein attempted to gain more land in order to help establish a platform for leadership in the Arab world. The US backed Iran.29
361671907Iron CurtainWinston Churchill's term for a political barrier that isolated the peoples of Eatern Europe after WWII, restricting their ability to travel outside the region.30
361671908IsraelJewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean.31

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