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Ho Chi Mindnh
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The nationalist, Communist leader of the Viet Minh movement, which sought to
liberate Vietnam from French colonial rule throughout the 1950s. After being rebuffed by the United States, Ho received aid from the USSR and won a major victory over French forces at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. This French defeat forced the Geneva Conference of 1954, which split Vietnam into Communist-dominated North Vietnam and French-backed South Vietnam |
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nikita kreshew
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The head of the Soviet Communist Party and leader of the USSR from 1958 until
the early 1960s. Initially, many Americans hoped Khrushchev's rise to power would lead to a reduction in Cold War tensions. Khrushchev toured the United States in 1959 and visited personally with President Eisenhower at Camp David, Maryland. The U-2 incident and 1962 Cuban missile crisis, however, ended what little amity existed between the two nations and repolarized the Cold War. Party leaders, upset with Khrushchev for having backed down from the Cuban missile crisis, removed him from power in 1964 |
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domino theroy
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a theory that if one country is taken over by an expansionist, esp. Communist,
neighbor, party, or the like, the nearby nations will be taken over one after another |
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Ngo Dinh Diem
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1901-1963 south Vietnamese Statesman: president of the Replubic of SOUTH vietnam 1956-1963
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Detente
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Detente was Nixon's and .Ford's attempt to reduce tensions between the United
States and the Soviet Union. A French word meaning A policy toward a rival nation or bloc characterized by in~reased'di~lomaticco,m mercial, and cultural contact and a desire to reduce tensions, as through negotiation or talks |
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Fidel Castro
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A Cuban revolutionary, he became Cuba's dictator in 1959 and quickly led his
country into an alliance with the U.S.S.R. Castro's ascendance brought socialist ideology troublingly close to the U.S., leading to the U.S. invasion of Cuba in the Bay of Pigs fiasco. |
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welfare state
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a welfare state is a government that provides for the welfare, or the well-being, of
its citizens completely. Such a government is involved in citizens' lives at every level. It provides for physical, material, and social needs rather than the people ,providing for their own. The purpose of the welfare state is to create economic equality or to assure equitable standards of living for all. |
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Sun Yixian
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Many Chinese, including a secret society known to Westerners as the Boxers,
were angry about the presence of foreigners. Anti-foreign feeling exploded in the Boxer Uprising in 1900. Although the Boxers failed, nationalism increased. Reformers called for a republic. One of them, Sun Yixian, became president of the new Chinese republic when the Qing dynasty fell in 1911 |
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Usman Dan Fodio
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Before the scramble for colonies began in the 18OOs, North Africa was under
the rule of the declining Ottoman empire. West Africa experienced an Islamic revival inspired by Usrnan dan Fodio. |
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purdah
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system of seclusion of women practiced by some Muslim and Hindu peoples.
The word "purdah" also refers to a curtain or screen used to keep women separate from men and strangers, used primarily in India. |
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Shaka
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1787- 1828), warrior, military leader, and king of the Zulu people of southern
Africa (1 8 16- 1828). By the time of his death, Shaka had the largest and most powerful kingdom in south-eastern Africa. |
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Rom Mohun Roy
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Ram Mohun Roy, who is sometimes called the father of modern India,
founded a movement for a renaissance of Hindu culture in 19th century Bengal. He challenged traditional culture by organizing religious dissenters and championing educational, social and political reforms |
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protectorte
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A relationship between a strong sovereign nation and a weak nation or area
not recognized as a nation. Once the strong nation has established a protectorate over a weak nation, it can control the latter's affairs |
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balance of trade
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It he difference between the values of exports and imports of a country, said
to be favorable or unfavorable as exports are greater or less than imports. - -- |
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Guang Xu
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The Guangxu Emperor (1 4 August 1 871-1 4 November 1 $8), born Zaitian
(#%ti?), was the tenth emperor of the Manchu-led Oing Dynasty, and the ninth .Oing emperor to rule over China proper. His reign lasted from 1875 to 1908, but in practice he ruled, under Empress Dowager Cixi's influence, from 1889 to 1898. He initiated the Hundred Days' Reform, but was abruptly stopped when Cixi launched a coup in 1898, after which he was put under house arrest until his death |
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Comintern
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An association of Communist parties of the world, established in 19 19 by
Lenin and dissolved in 1 94 3. |
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kulaks
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a comparatively wealthy peasant who employed hired labor or possessed
farm machinery and who was viewed and treated by the Comnzulzists during the drive to collectivize agriculture in the 1920s and 1930s as an oppressor and class enemy.G |
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Gestapo
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the German state secret police during the Nazi regime, organized
in 1933 and notorious for its brutal methods and operations. |
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kellog briand pact
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a treaty renouncing war as an instrument of national policy and
urging peaceful means for the settlement of international disputes, originally signed in 1928 by 15 nations, later joined by 49 others |
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totailtrain state
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government that subordinates the individual to the state and
strictly controls all aspects of life by coercive measures |
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kristallnacht
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a Nazi pogrom throughout Germany and Austria on the night of
November 9-1 0, 1938, during which Jews were killed and their property destroyed |
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black Shirts
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a member of a fascist organization, esp. the Italian Fascist militia,
wearing a black shirt as part of the uniform |
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flapper
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l a young woman, esp. one who, during the 1920s, behaved and
dressed in a boldly unconventional manner |
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surrealism
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a style of art and literature developed principally in the 20th century,
stressing the subconscious or non-rational significance of inzagery arrived at by automatism or the exploitation of chance effects, unexpected juxtapositions, etc |
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Gulag
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the system of forced-labor camps in the Soviet Union
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T,E. Lawrence
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T. E. Lawrence, an English soldier and author of the twentieth century,
known for lkading a rebellion of Arabs against the Turks in World War I and for his book describing the experience, ,Seven Pillars of Wisdom. At the negotiations that produced the Treaty of Versailles, he argued unsuccessfully for independence for the Arab nations |
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m i t a r i s r n
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the tendency to regard military efficiency as the supreme ideal of
the state and to subordinate all other interests to those of the military |
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zepplins
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a large dirigible balloon consisting of a long, cylindrical, covered
framework containing compartments or cells filled with gas, a.nd of various structures for holding the engines, passengers, - used by the Germans in WWII |
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dardanelles
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The strait between european
and asian Turkey conneting the Aegean sea with the sea of marmara what role did it play in WWII |
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14 points
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Fourteen goals of the United States in the peace negotiations after
1 World War I. President Woodrow Wilson announced the Fourteen Points to Congress in early 19 18. They included public negotiations between nations, freedom of navigation, free trade, selfdetermination for several nations involved in the war, and the establishment of an association of nations to keep the peace. The "association of nations" Wilson mentioned became the Lea-z ue of Nations. (>be also Treaty of Versailles.) |
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blitzkrieg
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was named so because it included surprise attacks, "Lighting fast"
rapid advances into enemy territory, with coordinated massive air attacks, which struck and shocked the enemy as if it was struck by lightning. The German military in World War 2 achieved most of its great victories with the Blitzkrieg tactic |
