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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Wars of liberation in which local/indigenous populations fought imperial powers - usually supported secrety by Soviet KGB or American CIA depending on ideology | #national liberation@, |
| US moderated peace talks between Egypt and Israel - broke down Arab unity, Egypt loses influence in Arab matters | # Camp David Accords@ |
| Leader of terrorist organization wanting to evict Israelis, regain homeland, represenation for Palestinian people - later becomes political party | #Yasser Arafat - Palestine Liberation Organization@ |
| Israeli prime minister at Camp David - returned land to Egypt, destroyed Israeli settlements | # Menachem Begin@ |
| :Palestinian Arabs fighting against Israeli occupation of Gaza Strip/West Bank - boys w/ stones vs. tanks image | #intifada@ |
| Transformed Iran from pro-Western nation to fundamentalist Islamic nation. becomes religious theocracy | #Iranian Revolution@ |
| Leader of Iranian Revolution - group of students supporting seize US embassy 1979 - begins stage of anti-US sentiment - fundamentalist theocracy | #Ayatollah Khomeini@ |
| Dictator Iraq - took over power in coup, pushed war against Iran, invaded Kuwait - Persian Gulf War - genocide against Kurds | #Saddam Hussein@ |
| Liberation movement against French - led to revolts in France - violent - French settler population refused to leave | #Algerian War of Independence@ |
| South African black political party that took over control in 1994 | #African National Congress@ |
| Bishop - spoke out against apartheid in S. Africa - Noble Peace Prize - called diverse S. Africa a Rainbow Nation | #Desmond Tutu@ |
| Ugandan military leader/president - responsible for hundreds of thousands of Christian/tribal deaths | #Idi Amin@ |
| President of Zaire (Democratic Republic of Congo) - 1962-1995 - symbol of African nepotism, kleptocracy, and personality cult | #Mobutu Sese Seko@ |
| First Prime Minister of Democratic Republic of Congo - eventually arrested and murdered | #Patrice Lumumba@ |
| :Lacked initial funding/recognition as homosexual community disease - widespread epidemic in Africa - forces gov'ts to come up with policy on sex ed. and medicine | #AIDS/HIV epidemic@ |
| Indian Prime Miniters - 1966-77, 80-84 - pushed nuclear power program - Green Revolution - increase in production due to new strains, techniques, pesticides | #Indira Gandhi@ |
| Indonesian leader Sukarno - controls democratic system - 60 political parties too much, takes a more dictatorial rol | # "Guided Democracy" - Sukarno@ |
| 2nd president of Indonesia 1967-1998 - controlled Indonesia with force/political maneuvering | #Suharto@ |
| Communist Vietnamese Nationalist, trained in Europe, fought Japanese then French then US, wanted united Vietnam | #Ho Chi Minh@ |
| :Based on Domino Theory, US wanted to prevent communist takeover by Vietcong forces up North | # Vietnam War@ |
| 1975-1979 Cambodian leaders - responsible for 1.7 million deaths starvation, relocation, murder - attempt at ruralification | #Khmer Rouge@ |
| :miracle of Japanese growth post WWII - due to US investment, gov't intervention + US primarily supports military - Japan can focus money on economy | #Postwar economic recovery of Japan@ |
| left-wing democrats - favor redistribution of wealth to poor, minorities - socially more liberal | #Liberal Democrats@ |
| :Chiang Kai Shek fled to Taiwan, dictatorship of Taiwan - prepared for invasion of China - survived w/ US assistance | #Taiwan and Kuomintang@ |
| led north Korea from 1948 until 1994, created communist nation w/ strong ties to China | # Kim Il Sung@ |
| Lead of Chinese Communist Party, de facto leader of party 1970s to 1990s after Mao - pushed forth unique idea of "socialist market economy" | #Deng Xiaoping@ |
| Chilean militar leader who in a coup deposed Salvador Allende - communist, elected leader - created one party rule dictatorship - ruled w/ iron fist - human rights abuses | #Augusto Pinochet@. |
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