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28 Cards in this Set
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boko haram |
group in nigeria imposing islamic law as only law |
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divest |
deprive of power rights or possessions |
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Great rift Valley |
system of geologic depressions in southwest Asia and eastern Africa extending from the Jordan River valley to Mozambique |
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hutu |
majority in the rwandan genocide. |
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RPF |
ruling political power that caused the end of the genocide |
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tutsi |
minority in the rwandan genocide that dominated the hutu |
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acculturation |
cultures changing from being close to each other |
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axis powers |
Germany, Italy, and Japan |
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closed society |
culture with little tolerance for other beliefs |
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douglas macarthur |
general who oversaw occupation of post war japan |
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Economic Miracle |
dramatic economic development that is entirely unexpected or unexpectedly strong |
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hiroshima & nagasaki |
cities that got nuked |
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island hopping |
american strategy to secure islands in japan |
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Matthew Perry |
US admiral who was on the ship that opened trade to japan |
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militarism |
belief of a country to keep a strong military ready for use and aggressively |
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ring of fire |
area in the pacific where tons of earthquakes and the like happen |
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tiger economies |
economies of southeast asia |
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hermit kingdom |
country that willfully walls itself off, etc |
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kim il sung |
1st dictatorial leader of korea |
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kim jong Il |
2nd leader of korea |
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kim jong un |
3rd leader |
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yalu river |
as far as america got before china got involved |
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balkanization |
divide a place into smaller groups to split cultures apart |
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debt crisis |
more debt than tax revenues |
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josip tito |
kept yugoslavia together and managed the ethnic groups effectively |
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slash and burn agriculture |
cutting /burning trees to make fields for farming |
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sovereignty |
authority of a state to govern itself |
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vladmir lenin |
founder of communist party |
