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World History Sem II

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Liberation Theology   Latin American belief that stated that according to their religion they had the right to throw off oppressive governments  
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Panama   In 1914, the US government helped Panama gain independence in return for the right to create and control the Panama Canal, the canal was returned to panama under the carter and adminstration  
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Manuel Noriega   Drug lord that controled panama at one point in time, was captured by the CIA  
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Sandinistas   In 1979 a rebellion was lead by a group called the Sandinistas who were socialists  
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Contras   The US began to support the Contras even after aid was cut off leading to the Iran-Contra scandal, centering around the giving of Covert money  
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Covert Money   Money given spent by the government secretllly  
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SUPER POWERS   Refers to US and the USSR post WWII  
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IDEOLOGIES   The competiton of Demoracy and Communism after WWII  
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ARMS RACE   Refers to the build up of munitions after and nuclear wepons after WWII  
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Containment   The US main policy of preventing the spread of communism arount the world  
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MARSHALL PLAN   provided economic aid to any country that would be democratic post WWII  
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WELFARE STATES   Countries that became dependent on Russia (USSR) after WWII  
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SATTLITE NATIONS   after WWII, a communist country that was controled by the Russia (USSR)  
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IRON CURTAIN   Refers tot he secretiveness of the USSR durring the cold war  
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BERLIN AIR LIFT   The effort of the US to keep west Berlin supplied after the Berlin Blockaid  
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BERLIN WALL   One of the most important symbols of the cold war, seporated east from west Berlin  
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PERESTROKIA   an economic policy in the USSR that allowed for some private investment  
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EURO   Form of currenty for the European Union  
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EUROPEN UINON   Economic and political union of several European countries  
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Mao Zedong   The leader that bourght China into communism  
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African Nationalism   The desire of African countries to become independent after WWII  
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South Africa   Includes topics such as apartheid, Afrikaners, sanctions and Nelson Mandela  
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Apartheid   The legal seporation of races  
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Afrikaners   Those who controled South Africa and instituted the policy of Apartheid  
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Nelson Mandela   Fought Apartheid, was made a non-person, was elected president of South Africa in 1994  
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HIV/Aids in Africa   Major problem due to poverty and lack of access to proper medication  
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Somalia   Lack of relevent government lead to a state of Chaos where the land is controled by war loards  
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Failed Nation-State   A country in which the government has no control over it's people  
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Rwanda   modern day example of genocide involving the Hutu and the Tutsi  
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Pol Pot   Murdered 1/3 of cambodia's population in an attempt to bring Cambodia into an agricultural socioty  
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Vietnam   A coutnry involved in containment is currently a comunist country  
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Korea   Divided into two countries as a reustl of a civil war fought after WWII, was the first military effort of the United Nations  
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