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388848626	Siam	only country not under European rule	0
388848627	Ceylon	producer of tea	1
388848628	Ataturk	established republic of turkey	2
388848629	Franz Ferdinand	his assassination sparked WWI	3
388848630	Sun Yatsen	early leader of the nationalist People's Party, proclaimed China republic in 1912	4
388848631	Dubois	black US activist and leading proponent of Pan-Africanism	5
388848632	Berlin conference	Set up ground rules for European colonization of Africa	6
388848633	Belgium	made Congo Free State	7
388848634	France	controlled Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos	8
388848635	Kipling	author of white man's burden	9
388848636	Louisiana Purchase	bought from France	10
388848637	Alexander II	emancipated Russian serfs	11
388848638	Nicholas II	last czar of Russia	12
388848639	Wounded knee	last major Indian resistance battle in 1890	13
388848640	Little Big horn	Last major Indian victory against US	14
388848641	SALT declaration	modeled after American declaration of independence	15
388848642	President of North Vietnam	Ho Chi Minh	16
388848643	Austria	Anschluss, "union" that was forced with Germany and this country	17
388848644	Magic	Secret weapon in Pacific (code breaking operation)	18
388848645	Truman doctrine	policy to contain spread of communism	19
388848646	Marshall Plan	US give economic aid to Rebuild Western Europe after WWII	20
388848647	Pan-Africanism	started in the Congo; unification of all people of African descent around the globe into one Af AFrican state	21
388848648	Balfour declaration	supported Jewish homeland in Palestine	22
388848649	Kashmir	India and Pakistan fight over this region	23
388848650	Yalta Conference	wartime conference in 1945 between the three principal allied leaders	24
388848651	Sudetenland	western part of Czechoslovakia with many ethnic Germans	25
388848652	Manchuria	undeclared war in pacific began with Japan's invasion here	26
388848653	Million	how many European migrated overseas	27
388848654	Thomas Raffles	Founds Singapore for trade	28
388848655	president of South Vietnam	Diem	29
388848656	November Crime	Hitler referred to the signing of the 1918 armistice as this	30
388848657	Long march	strengthened Mao Zedong's leadership	31
388848658	May fourth movement	was not Lenin's shocking free market reforms, was an anti-imperialist, cultural, and political movement growing out of student demonstrations in Beijing	32
388848659	Treaty of Brest Livotsk	Stated Russia's withdrawal from WWI and forced Russia to give up western lands. This allowed Germans to concentrate on the western front.	33
388848660	Mukden incident	a "Chinese" attack on a Japanese railway near the city of Mukden (had actually been carried out by Japanese soldiers disguised as Chinese); used by Japan as an excuse to seize Manchuria	34
388848661	Brezhnev doctrine	Russia's right to invade any socialist country threatened by elements "hostile to socialism"	35
388848662	Great leap forward	Started by Mao Zedong, combined collective farms into People's Communes, failed because there was no incentive to work harder, ended after 2 years	36
388848663	Dubcek	Leader of Prague spring	37
388848664	Gorbachev	Leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991. Wanting reform, he renounced the Brezhnev Doctrine, pulled troops out of Afghanastan, supported Glasnost, and urged perestroika; but all this failed; ultimately brings down USSR	38
388848665	Marcus Garvey	From Jamaica, promoted Pan-Africanism	39
388848666	Wilfred Owen	Writer of Dulce Es Decorum Est... wrote about horrors of his experiences in WW1	40
388848667	Ghandi	spiritual leader of India who used civil disobedience to expose the British mistreatment and to seek equality for Indians in India,	41
388848668	Sino Japanese war	because of Korea,, (1894-1895) Japan's imperialistic war against China to gain control of natural resources and markets for their goods. It ended with the Treaty of Portsmouth which granted Japan Chinese port city trading rights, control of Manchuria, the annexation of the island of Sakhalin, and Korea became its protectorate.	42
388848669	Detente	the easing of tensions or strained relations (especially between nations)	43
388848670	Brown vs. Board of education	races not separate but equal	44
388848671	Winston Churchill	Britain's prime minister after Chamberlain, opposed appeasement, made up iron curtain	45
389558286	Thomas Jefferson	wanted free soil	46