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13 Cards in this Set
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France
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French Revolution; Industrial Revolution; Napoleon
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Russia
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Nicholas II, Lenin, Stalin
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China
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Sun Yat-sen; Chiang Kai-Shek; Mao Tse-tung
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India
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In between commonwealth and independence; problems bw Hindus and Muslims; modern; progressive
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Pakistan
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hardcore Islamics; rivals with India; repressed; forms atomic bombs
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Bangladsh
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formed from E. Pakistan; 3rd world country
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Ghana
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Kwame-Nkruma; cocoa fails
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Kenya
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native people - Kikuyu have no ownership; Mau Mau - terrorist group; fight for land; Jomo Kenyatta elected leader
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Nigeria
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oil rich; Yorubas, Ibas, and Hausas forces to become one; civil war fought because Ibas leave
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South Africa
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settled by Dutch, then Br. British run govt - Apartheid - rigid nasty segregation; Nelson Mandela; Desmond Tutu; de Kierk; African National Congress
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Manchuria
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passed between China and Russia; Japan invades and renames in Manchuko
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Italy
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Mussolini; attacks Ethiopia
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Spain
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Francisco Franco; Spanish civil war
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