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war between the British Empire and the two independent republics in southern Africa
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Boer War
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was a proto-nationalist movement by the "Righteous Harmony Society" in China between 1898 and 1901, opposing foreign imperialism and Christianity.
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Boxer Uprising
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German philosopher, poet, composer and classical philologist. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy and science, displaying a fondness for metaphor, irony and aphorism.
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Friedrich Nietzche
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Chinese revolutionary and first president and founding father of the Republic of China ("Nationalist China").
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Sun Yat-sen
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was the Premier of the Soviet Union from 6 May 1941 to 5 March 1953
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Joseph Stalin
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form of social organization characterized by submission to authority
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Authoritarianism
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preeminent leader of Indian nationalism in British ruled India. Employing non-violent civil disobedience, led India to independence and inspired movements for non-violence, civil rights and freedom across the world
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Gandhi
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Ottoman andTurkish army officer, revolutionary statesman, writer, and the first President of Turkey
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Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
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letter from the United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland.
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Balfour Declaration
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American journalist, columnist and author, 3 time Pulitzer Prize winner, globalization, terrorism, war in Iraq, Iran, climate change
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Thomas Friedman
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Russian politician who served as the second President of the Russian Federation
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Vladimir Putin
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Confined women’s attention to domestic and private matters, while leaving men in exclusive charge of public life and private matters. These were later breached as economic developments created new paid jobs for women. These jobs offered women a greater degree of economic and social independence.
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Woman Question
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U.S. congressional act prohibiting nearly all immigration from China to the United States; this act was fueled by animosity toward Chinese workers in the American West.
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1882 Exclusion Act
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Formed in 1885, this political party was deeply committed to constitutional methods, industrialization, and cultural nationalism
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Indian National Congress
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Groups beginning to imagine new communities based on ethnicity. Some transcended ethnicity, looking to religion as a basis for unity. They sought to link people across state boundaries and included diverse movements. Grand aspiration was the rearrangement of borders so that dispersed communities would be united.
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Pan Movements
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held June 14 to 23, 1910, seen as both the culmination of nineteenth-century Protestant Christian missions and the formal beginning of the modern Protestant Christian ecumenical movement.
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1910 Edinburgh Conference
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Peace conference between the victors of World War I to decide the future; resulted in the Treaty of Versailles, which forced Germany to pay reparations and to give up its colonies to the victors.
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Versailles Conference
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Post-depression economic ideas developed by the British economist John Maynard Keynes, wherein the state took a greater role in managing the economy, stimulating it by increasing the money supply and creating jobs.
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Kenyensian Revolution
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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s package of government reforms that were enacted during the 1930s to provide jobs for the unemployed, social welfare programs for the poor, and security to the financial markets.
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New Deal
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Laws that codified racial segregation and inequality in the southern part of the United States after the Civil War.
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Jim Crow Laws
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system of economic, political, or social organization that involves association of the people of society into corporate groups, such as agricultural, business, ethnic, labor, military, patronage, or scientific affiliations, on the basis of common interests
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corporatism
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practice of using capitalism, globalization, and cultural forces to control a country (usually former European colonies in Africa or Asia) in lieu of direct military or political control
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neo-colonialism
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Egypt's most popular and influential political party for a period in the 1920s and 30s--nationalist liberal political party
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Wafd Party
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Term used by the Japanese during the 1930s and 1940s to refer to Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaya, Burma, and other states that they seized during their run for expansion
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Greater East Asia Co Prosperity Sphere
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Declaration promising U.S. economic and military intervention, whenever and wherever needed, for the sake of preventing further Communist expansion / Economic aid package given to Europe after World War II in hopes of a rapid period of reconstruction and economic gain, securing them from a Communist takeover
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Truman Doctrine/Marshall Plan
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International organization set up in 1949 to provide for the defense of Western European countries and the United States from the perceived Soviet threat.
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NATO--North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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Military alliance between the U.S.S.R. and other Communist states that was established as a response to the creation of the NATO alliance
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Warsaw Pact
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leader of Ghana and its predecessor state, the Gold Coast, from 1952 to 1966. Overseeing the nation's independence from British colonial rule in 1957, first President of Ghana and the first Prime Minister of Ghana
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Kwame Nkrumah
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Chinese Communist revolutionary, guerrilla warfare strategist, Marxist political philosopher, and leader of theChinese Revolution
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Mao Zedong
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second president of Egypt
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Gamal Abdel Nasser
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Multiracial organization founded in 1912 in an effort to end all racial discrimination in South Africa
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African National Conference
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Vietnamese Marxist-Leninist revolutionary leader who was prime minister (1945–1955) and president (1945–1969) of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
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Ho Chi Min
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International agency founded in 1944 to help restore financial order in Europe and the rest of the world, to revive international trade, and to support financial concerns of Third World governments.
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International Monetary Fund—IMF
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Cuban revolutionary and politician, having held the position of Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976, and then President from 1976 to 2008
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Fidel Castro
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U.S. legislation that banned segregation in public facilities, outlawed racial discrimination in employment, and marked an important step in correcting legal inequality
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Civil Rights Act
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International association established in 1960 to coordinate price and supply policies of oil-producing states
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Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
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5th president of Iraq
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Saddam Hussein
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South African politician who served asPresident of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, the first ever to be elected in a fully representative democratic election
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Nelson Mandela
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Treaty negotiated in the early 1990s to promote free trade between Canada, the United States, and Mexico.
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North American Free Trade Association (NAFTA)
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is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s
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reggae
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Autoimmune deficiency syndrome
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AIDS
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refers to a series of research, development, and technology transfer initiatives, occurring between the 1940s and the late 1970s, that increased agriculture production around the world, beginning most markedly in the late 1960s
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green revolution
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International agency established in 1944 to provide economic assistance to wartorn and poor countries. Its formal title is the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
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World Bank
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Largest public square in the world and site of the pro-democracy movement in 1989 that resulted in the killing of as many as 1,000 protesters by the Chinese army
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Tiananmen Square
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a global militant Islamist organization founded by Osama bin Laden sometime between August 1988 and late 1989
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al-Qaeda
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economic and political union or confederation of 27 member states which are located primarily in Europe
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European Union
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the moral code andreligious law of Islam
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sharia
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critical of the globalization of corporate capitalism, participants stand in opposition to large, multi-national corporations having unregulated political power and to the powers exercised through trade agreements and deregulated financial markets
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anti-globalization
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