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394177059	Marshall Tito	president of Yugoslavia; tried to keep the Russians out of Yugoslavia	0
394177060	Jawaharlal Nehru	Indian statesman. He succeeded Mohandas K. Gandhi as leader of the Indian National Congress. He negotiated the end of British colonial rule in India and became India's first prime minister (1947-1964).	1
394177061	Great Leap Foward	a program Mao Zedong began in 1958 to speed up economic develpoment	2
394177062	Vietnam War	a prolonged war (1954-1975) between the communist armies of North Vietnam who were supported by the Chinese and the non-communist armies of South Vietnam who were supported by the United States	3
394177063	Mao Zedong	This man became the leader of the Chinese Communist Party and remained its leader until his death. He declared the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949 and supported the Chinese peasantry throughout his life.	4
394177064	Korean War	The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.	5
394177065	Vietcong	the guerrilla soldiers of the Communist faction in Vietnam, also know as the National Liberation Front	6
394177066	Khmer Rouge	Cambodia communist government under the leadership of Pol Pot. This new marxist regime undertook a systematic program to eliminate almost all of Cambodia's government officials, army officials, teachers, and intellectuals. Between 1975 and 1977, well over 1 million Cambodians were killed.	7
394177067	Tiananmen Square Massacre	A political and social protest by university students in Beijing, China in 1989. The protest called for political and social reforms and resulted in the government using the military to end it, which caused hundreds of deaths, thousands of injured, and many more imprisoned.	8
394177068	Kwame Nkrumah	Leader of nonviolent protests for freedom on the Gold Coast. When independence was gained, he became the first prime minister of Ghana. He develpoped economic projects, but was criticized for spending too much time on Pan-African efforts, and neglecting his own countries' issues	9
394177069	Arab League	Formally called the League of Arab States, includes Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Yemen, and Iraq. The Arab League was formed with British encouragement, as a bulwark against Soviet expansion into the Middle East. The League exists to this day, but its mission now focuses more on issues that affect the collective Arab states.	10
394177070	Gamal Abdel Nasser	Army colonel drove out the corrupt and pro western king Farouk in 1952	11
394177071	Six day War	a short war fought in June, 1967, between Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria, in which Israel captured large tracts of Arab territory	12