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22 Cards in this Set
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Leonid Brezhnev
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Veteran Soviet communist and Khrushchev's protege,helped egineer Khrushchev's ouster,
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Indira Gandhi
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India PM,a female leader of the latter 20th century
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Golda Meir
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Israel PM, female leader of the latter 20th century
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Margaret Thatcher
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Britian PM, a female leader of the latter 20th century
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Matin Luther King
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Baptist minister and civil rights leader, non-violent civil disobediance and inspiring oratory, Nobel Peach Prize
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Lyndon Johnson
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U.S President, Democratic senator from Texas and vice president, civl rights, great society welfare programs, and War on Poverty
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Richard Nixon
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Watergate, U.S President, Republican senator from California
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Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
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Iranian cleric; conservative anti-US war. Iranian Hostage crisis
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Saddam Hussein
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Brutal dictator of Iraq, costly inconclusive Iran-Iraq War, Conquest of Kuwait, Executed
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John Paul II
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Pope from 1978-2005, First non italian pope since 16th c.
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Lech Walesa
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Polish labor activist and leader of Solidairty independent union, then outlawed and imprisoned,Nobel Peace Prize
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Ronald Reagan
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Holloywood actor and conservative Republican governor of California
Tax cuts and reduced governemnt regulation |
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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Young, post-Brezhnev reformist. Soviet leader 1985-1991
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Pol Pot
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Khemer Rouge leader of Cambodia
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Stagflation
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High unemployment and rising prices.
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Brown v. Board of Education (Brown Decision)
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1954 Supreme Court case that integrated public schools
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Detente
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Period from 1972-1976 of improved US-Soviet relations
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Deng Xiaoping
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Chinese communist leader 1980-1997. One child policy
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Anwar Sadat
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Egyptian president after Nassar from 1970-1981. October War, Camp David Accords
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Rehabilitation of Stalin's reputation; increased power to KGB; political prisoners in mental hospitals.
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Increased internal repression under Brezhnev
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Women's rights; ethnic minority rights; youth rights; environmentalism
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Western liberation and reform movements
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Czechoslovokian
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Revolt that Brezhnev crushed
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