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28 Cards in this Set
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Juscelinon Kubitschek
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-Brazilian President
-Capital Brazilia -debt soared |
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Lazaro Cardenas
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-President of Mexico
-tried to improve peasant life -Improve Mexico's Oil Industry |
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Vincente Fox
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-President of Mexico
-ended 71 years of PRI Rule -works for democrcacy and reforms |
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Juan Peron
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-Argentinian army officer who became dictator
-limited freedoms |
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Raul Alfonsin
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-Argentinians first free elected president
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General Sai Abacha
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-became dictator over free elections
-martial law -nigeria -jailed dissidents |
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Olesegun Obasanjo
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-first elected Nigerian president
-also reelected in 2003 -yoruba -worked on debt |
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Nelson Mandela
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-ANC Leader
-South Africa -elected president |
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Desmond Tutu
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-led economic campaign against aparthied in s. africa
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F.W. de Klerk
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-began to dissolve aparthied
-freed mandela -legalized ANC |
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Thabo Mbeki
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-Today's ANC official
-promoted free market |
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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-persued new ideas in the S.U.
-Glasnost=openess -perestroika=economic reconstruction |
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Boris Yeltsin
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-Russia's first directly elected president
-helped form common wealth of independent states |
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Vladimir Putin
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-S.U. after Yeltsin
-dealt w/ rebellion in Chechnya -favored market economy |
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Lech Walesa
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-Polish
-Union leader -elected president -improved at slow pace |
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Erich Honecker
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-East Germany party boss
-against reforms |
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Egon Krenz
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-East German leader
-Took gamble of allowing people to leave -failed |
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Helmut Kohl
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-West Germany Chancelor
-persauded for Germany's reunification |
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Gerhard Schroeder
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-Soviet Reformer
-Socialist Democratic Party |
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Milos Jakes
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-Leader of Czech. conservative government
-resisted change |
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Vaclav Havel
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-Czech. playwrite
-Critic of government -elected president |
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Nicolae Ceausescu
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-Romania
-Ruthless communist dictator |
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Josip Tito
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-Yugoslavia
-held country together |
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Slobodan Milosevic
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-asserted leadership over Yugo.
-opposed by many serbs |
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Zhou Enlai
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-Moderate Chinese leader
-train to restrain radicals during cultural rev. |
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Deng Xiaoping
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-China
-Supported moderate economic policies -Four Moderations |
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Jiang Zemin
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-Deng's Successor
-Could not promise democracy |
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Hu Jintao
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-Zemin's successor
-general secratary of communist party |
