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29 Cards in this Set
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13th amendment |
Abolished slavery in 1865 |
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14th amendment |
Restored and protected rights of freed slaves 1868 |
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18th amendment |
Enforced prohibition 1919 |
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19th amendment |
Granted women the right to vote 1920 |
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Apartheid |
Former policy of South Africa to separate races |
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Balfour declaration |
Britain's 1917 proclamation supporting establishment of separate homeland for Jews in Palestine |
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Bill of rights |
First 10 amendments |
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Bourgeoisie |
Middle class artisans and merchants in third estate prerevolutionary France according to Marx and Engels |
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Code of hammurabi |
Babylonian legal code |
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Communist manifesto |
By Marx and Engel |
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Cultural revolution |
Attempt by Chinese red guards to revitalize communist party 1966-1976 |
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Cuneiform |
Sumerian writing |
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Cyrillic alphabet |
Russian and other slavic languages |
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Detente |
Cooling cold war tentions Nixon and brezhnev |
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Diaspora |
Scattering ethnic groups |
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Five year plans |
Increase industry and agricultural development in Soviet Union, India and China |
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Fourteen points |
Post wwi peace plan proposed by Woodrow Wilson |
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Gulf of Tonkin resolution |
1964 congress authorized president johnson to send troops to Vietnam |
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Imperialism |
Domination by a strong nation over another nation |
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Lend lease act |
1941congress allowed Roosevelt to give arms and supplies to countries considered vital security to to the US |
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Magna carta |
1215 specifies English political and civil liberties |
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Marshall plan |
How to rebuild Europe after wwii by secretary of state George Marshall |
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Nato |
1949 defense alliance |
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Prussia |
Germany when ruled by Frederick the great |
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Teetotaler |
Does not drink |
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Versailles |
Near paris versailles treaty marked end of wwi |
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Warsaw pact |
1955 defense alliance organized by Soviet Union and several eastern European countries |
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Waterloo |
Where Napoleon suffered greatest defeat |
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Yalta |
Island where Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin met to discuss partitioning Europe after wwii |
