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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