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Anti-Semitism
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prejudice and hostility toward Jews as a group. The prejudice is usually characterized by a combination of religious, racial and ethnic biases.
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Armenian Genocide
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Assault carried out by mainly Turkish military forces against Armenian population in Anatolia in 1915; over a million Armenians perished and thousands fled to Russia and the Middle East.
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Bach
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German composer and organist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity
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Balance of Power
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in international law for a 'just equilibrium' between the members of the family of nations, it expresses the doctrine intended to prevent any one nation from becoming sufficiently strong so as to enable it to enforce its will upon the rest.
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Bastille
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Prison in Paris that was stormed and acted as the turning point in the French Revolution, became an icon for the French Republic.
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Battle of Britain
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1940 Nazi air offensive including saturation bombing of London and other British cities, countered by British innovative air tactics and radar tracking of German assault aircraft.
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Bessemer, Henry
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Bessemer's name is chiefly known in connection with the Bessemer process for the manufacture of steel from pig iron.
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Biko, Steve
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an organizer of Black Consciousness movement in South Africa, in opposition to apartheid; murdered while in police custody.
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Bismarck
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Conservative prime minister of Prussia; architect of German unification under Prussian king in 1870; utilized liberal reforms to attract support for the conservative causes.
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Bolivar
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Creole military officer in northern South America; won series of victories in Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador between 1817 and 1822; military success led to creation of independent state of Gran Colombia
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Boxer Rebellion
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popular outburst in 1898 aimed at expelling foreigners from China; failed because of intervention of armies of Western powers in China; defeat of Chinese enhanced control by Europeans and the power of provincial officials.
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Calvin
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French Protestant who stressed doctrine of predestination; established center of his group at Swiss canton of Geneva; encourage ideas of wider access to government, wider public education; Calvinism spread from Switzerland to northern Europe and North America.
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Cambodian Genocide
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Khmer Rouge regime headed by Pol Pot combined extremist ideology with ethnic animosity and a diabolical disregard for human life to produce repression, misery, and murder on a massive scale.
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Cardinal Richelieu
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often known by the title of the King's "Chief Minister" or "First Minister". As a result, he is sometimes considered to be the world's first Prime Minister, and he transformed France to a strong, centralized state.
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Causes of the Great Depression
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A deflation in asset and commodity prices, dramatic drops in demand and credit, and disruption of trade, ultimately resulting in widespread poverty and unemployment; another popular and widely accepted theory revolved around the US stock market and its involement in the 1920s.
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Causes of the Reformation
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moral opposition (John Wycliffe and the Lollards), decline in prestige of the pope (each country elected a pope, causing confusion), growth of nation-states in Europe (growth of Spain, France, allowed more state control of church)
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Causes of WWI
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Nationalism (movements in Germany and Italy united the countries), imperialism (GB, Germany, and France needed foreign markets in Africa, Germany clashed against GB and France in North Africa), Arms Race (armies were expanded in France and Germany, and naval competition between Germany and GB), Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, falling dominoes (Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, Russia partially mobilized, Germany threatened to declare war if Russia didn’t demobilize, France mobilized because they felt like it, Germany invasion Belgium, bringing GB into the war.
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Cavour, Count Camillo di
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Architect of Italian unification in 1858; formed an alliance with France to attack Austrian control of northern Italy; resulted in creation of constitutional monarchy under Piedmontese king.
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Cervantes
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Spanish author of Don Quixote
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Chiang Kai-shek
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a military officer who succeeded Sun Yat-sen as the leading of the Guomingdang or Nationalist party in China in the mid 1920s; became the most powerful leader in China in the early 1930s, but his Nationalist forces were defeated and driven from China by the Communist after World War II.
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Churchill, Winston
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British prime minister during World War II; responsible for British resistance to German air assaults.
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Columbian Exchange
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Biological and ecological exchange that took place following Spanish establishment of colonies in the new World; peoples of Europe and Africa came to New World; animals, plants and diseases of the two hemispheres were transferred.
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Columbus, Christopher
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Genoese captain in service of king and queen of Castile and Aragon; successfully sailed to new World and returned in 1492; initiated European discoveries in Americas.
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Confucius
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Chinese thinker and social philosopher, whose teachings and philosophy have deeply influenced Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese thought and life. His philosophy emphasized personal and governmental morality, correctness of social relationships, justice and sincerity.
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Congress of Vienna
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Meeting in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars to restore political stability in Europe and settle diplomatic disputes.
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Containment
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foreign policy strategy of the United States in the early years of the Cold War. Its policy was to stop what is called the domino effect of nations moving politically towards Soviet Union-based communism, rather than European-American-based capitalism
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Copernicus
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Polish monk and astronomer; disproved Hellenistic belief that the earth as at the center of the universe.
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Cortez
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Led expeditions of 600 to the coast of Mexico in 1519
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Cromwell, Oliver
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English military and political leader best known for his involvement in making England into a republican Commonwealth and for his later role as Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland.
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Da Gama, Vasco
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Portuguese captain who sailed for India in 1497; established early Portuguese dominance in Indian Ocean.
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D-Day
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The Allied landings on the beaches of Normandy in France on 6 June 1944. Also, the code name for the secret date for the launching of a military operation; known as ‘Operation Overlord’
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Delocroix, Eugene
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French Romantic painter
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Divine right
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doctrine stating that a monarch derives his or her power directly from a deity
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Drake, Sir Francis
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second-in-command of the English fleet against the Spanish Armada in 1588, subordinate only to Charles Howard and Elizabeth Tudor.
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Edict of Nantes
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Grant of tolerance to Protestants in France in 1958; granted only after lengthy civil war between Catholic and Protestant factions.
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Eisenhower
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first supreme commander of NATO, he oversaw the cease-fire of the Korean War, kept up the pressure on the Soviet Union during the Cold War, made nuclear weapons a higher defense priority, launched the Space Race, enlarged the Social Security program, and began the Interstate Highway System.
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Elizabeth I
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last monarch of the Tudor dynasty, known as the “Virgin Queen,” daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.
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Erasmus, Desiderius
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Dutch humanist and theologian, committed to free will
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Four Noble Truths
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1. Suffering is universal.
2. The cause of suffering is selfish desires. 3. If we eliminate selfish desires, then we eliminate suffering. 4. To eliminate selfish desires, follow the 8-fold path (plan for living your life). |
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Fredrick the Great
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Prussian king of the 18th century; attempted to introduce Enlightenment reforms into Germany; built on military and bureaucratic foundations of predecessors; introduced freedom of religion; increased state control of economy
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Galileo
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Published Copernicus’s findings; added own discoveries concerning laws of gravity and planetary motion; condemned by the Catholic church for his work.
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Gandhi, Mohandas
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Led sustained all-India campaign for independence from British Empire after World War I; stressed nonviolent but aggressive mass protest.
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Garibaldi, Giuseppe
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Italian military and political leader. In his twenties, he joined the Carbonari Italian patriot revolutionaries, and had to flee Italy after a failed insurrection. He then contributed to the independence of Uruguay, leading the Italian Legion in the Uruguayan Civil War, and afterwards returned to Italy as a commander in the conflicts of the Risorgimento.
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Gautama, Siddhartha
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Known as Buddha, was a prince who after seeing poverty, decided to dedicate his life to saving those. Founder of Buddhism.
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Gutenburg, Johannes
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Introduced movable type to Western Europe in 15th century; credited with greatly expanded availability of printed books and pamphlets.
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Harvey
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English physician who demonstrated circular movement of blood in animals, function of heart as pump.
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Henry VIII
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Separated Anglican Church from roman authority, established English monarch as supreme head of the Church of England
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Hirohito
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led Japan into WWII, changed Japan from a rural country to an industrial technological powerhouse.
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Benazir Bhutto
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Pakistani politician who chaired the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), a centre-left political party in Pakistan. Bhutto was the first woman elected to lead a Muslim state, having twice been Prime Minister of Pakistan
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Hiroshima
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– One of two Japanese cities on which the United States dropped atomic bombs in 1945; devastation of these cities caused Japanese surrender without invasion of home islands; could possible have avoided thousands more deaths by using this tactic.
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Hitler
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Nazi leader of fascist Germany from 1933 to his suicide in 1945; created a strongly centralize state in Germany; eliminated all rivals; launched Germany on aggressive foreign policy leading to World War II; responsible for genocide of European Jews.
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Ho Chi Minh
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Also known as Nyuyen Ai Quoc; led Vietnamese Communist party in struggle for liberation from French and US dominance and to unify north and south Vietnam.
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Hobbes, Thomas
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English philosopher, Leviathan (mankind is always in a state of war). Locke would disagree with him in future
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Holocaust
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Term for Hitler’s genocide of European Jews during World War II; resulted in deaths of 6 million Jews.
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Huguenots
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French protestants, members of Reformed Church (Calvinist), subject to much political opposition and subjects of massacres, rebelled, brief easing of that under Henry IV but it resumed when he died, fled to various countries in Europe/Africa after, did not get rights back until a century later.
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Imperialism in Africa and Asia
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AKA race for Africa, European claims on Africa
Back to 15th century in India, driving force: goods |
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Industrial Revolution in England
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helped by more efficient farming practices, declining death rates population rise add mills. Lots of resources to feed off of, people, accumulation of capital, stable political system, iron + coal
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Iron Curtain
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Phrase coined by Winston Churchill to describe the division between free and communist societies taking shape in Europe after 1946.
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Istanbul
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Major crossroads and bazaar of the carpet world; the largest city and former capital of Turkey; rebuilt on the site of ancient Byzantium by Constantine I in the fourth century; renamed Constantinople by Constantine who made it the capital of the Byzantine Empire; now the seat of the Eastern Orthodox Church; financial and cultural center of Turkey
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Jefferson
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Author of Declaration of Independence
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Jenner, Edward
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first doctor to introduce and study the smallpox vaccine
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Jesuits
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A new religious order founded during the Catholic Reformation; active in politics, education, and missionary work; sponsored missions to South America, North American, and Asian.
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Karma
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The total effect of a person's actions and conduct during the successive phases of his existence.
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Kepler, Johannes
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German mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer, best known for his eponymous laws of planetary motion
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Kruger, Jimmy
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south African minister of justice, banned Steven Biko, said he died of a hunger strike
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Labor Unions
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legally recognized representatives of workers in numerous industries. The most prominent unions are found among public sector employees such as teachers and police.
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Lenin, Vladimir
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Russian communist politician, leader of the Bolshevik Revolution, contribution to Marxist theory, referred to as Leninism.
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Leonardo da Vinci
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exemplified Renaissance man, contributions to art, math, science, engineering.
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Locke, John
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English philosopher who argued that people could learn everything through senses and reason and that power of government came from the people, not divine right of kings; offered possibility of revolution to overthrow tyrants
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Louis XIV
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French monarch of the late 17th century who personified absolute monarchy
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Louis XVI
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Bourbon monarch of France who was executed during the radical phase of the French Revolution
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L’Ouverture, Toussant
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Leader of slave rebellion on the French sugar island of St. Domingue in 1791 that led to creation of independent republic of Haiti in 1804.
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Loyola, Martin Ignacio de
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Franciscan friar, first person to complete the circumnavigation of the world twice
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Luther, Martin
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– German monk; initiated Protestant Reformation in 1517 by nailing 95 theses to door of Wittenberg church; emphasized primacy of faith over works stressed in Catholic church; accepted state control of church.
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MAD
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Mutually assured destruction, doctrine of military strategy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two opposing sides would effectively result in the destruction of both the attacker and the defender.
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Magellan, Ferdinand
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Spanish captain who in 1519 initiated first circumnavigation of the globe; died during the voyage; allowed Spain to claim Philippines.
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Mandates
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Governments entrusted to European nations in the Middle East in the aftermath of World War I; Britain occupied mandates in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine after 1922.
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Mandela, Nelson
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Long-imprisoned leader of the African National Congress party; worked with the ANC leadership and FW de Klerk’s supporters to dismantle the apartheid system from the mid-1980s onward; in 1994, became the first black prime minister of South Africa after the ANC won the first genuinely democratic election in the country’s history.
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Mao Zedong
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Communist leader in Revolutionary China; advocated rural reform and role of peasantry in Nationalist revolution; influenced by Li Dazhao; led Communist reaction against Guomindang purges in 1920s, culminating in Long March of 1934; seized control of all of mainland China by 1949; initiated Great Leap Forward in 1958.
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Marshall, George
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American military leader, Secretary of State, and the third Secretary of Defense. Once noted as the "organizer of victory" by Winston Churchill for his leadership of the Allied victory in World War II, and contributed his name to the Marshall plan (US in, Soviets out, Germany down)
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Marx, Karl
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German socialist who blasted earlier socialist movements as utopian; saw history as defined by class struggle between groups out of power and those controlling the means of production; preached necessity of social revolution to create proletarian dictatorship.
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Mecca
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City located in mountainous region along Red Sea in Arabian peninsula; founded by Umayyad clan of Quraysh; site of ka’ba; original home of Muhammad; location of chief religious pilgrimage point in Islam.
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Mercantilism
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Economic theory that stressed government’ promotion of limitation of imports from other nations and internal economies in order to improve tax revenues; popular during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe.
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Metternich
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major figure in the negotiations leading to and during the Congress of Vienna and is considered both a paradigm of foreign policy management and a major figure on the development of diplomacy, prime practitioner of 19th century diplomatic realism, deeply rooted on the balance of power postulates.
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Michelangelo
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Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet and engineer. Contender for title of renaissance man opposite Da Vinci.
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Middle Passage
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Slave voyage from Africa to the Americas; generally a traumatic experience for black slaves, although it failed to strip Africans of their culture.
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Mohammad
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human figure of the world religion of Islam and is regarded by Muslims as the messenger and prophet of God
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Montesquieu
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French social commentator and political thinker who lived during the Era of the Enlightenment. He is famous for his articulation of the theory of separation of powers (executive, legislative, judicial), taken for granted in modern discussions of government and implemented in many constitutions throughout the world
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Mozart
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– Classical music composer prodigy, who wrote around 600 compositions in his lifetime.
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Mussolini
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Italian fascist leader after Word War I; created first fascist government based on aggressive foreign policy and new nationalist glories.
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Magellan, Ferdinand
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Spanish captain who in 1519 initiated first circumnavigation of the globe; died during the voyage; allowed Spain to claim Philippines.
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Mandates
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Governments entrusted to European nations in the Middle East in the aftermath of World War I; Britain occupied mandates in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine after 1922.
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Mandela, Nelson
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Long-imprisoned leader of the African National Congress party; worked with the ANC leadership and FW de Klerk’s supporters to dismantle the apartheid system from the mid-1980s onward; in 1994, became the first black prime minister of South Africa after the ANC won the first genuinely democratic election in the country’s history.
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Mao Zedong
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Communist leader in Revolutionary China; advocated rural reform and role of peasantry in Nationalist revolution; influenced by Li Dazhao; led Communist reaction against Guomindang purges in 1920s, culminating in Long March of 1934; seized control of all of mainland China by 1949; initiated Great Leap Forward in 1958.
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Marshall, George
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American military leader, Secretary of State, and the third Secretary of Defense. Once noted as the "organizer of victory" by Winston Churchill for his leadership of the Allied victory in World War II, and contributed his name to the Marshall plan (US in, Soviets out, Germany down)
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Marx, Karl
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German socialist who blasted earlier socialist movements as utopian; saw history as defined by class struggle between groups out of power and those controlling the means of production; preached necessity of social revolution to create proletarian dictatorship.
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Mecca
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City located in mountainous region along Red Sea in Arabian peninsula; founded by Umayyad clan of Quraysh; site of ka’ba; original home of Muhammad; location of chief religious pilgrimage point in Islam.
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Mercantilism
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Economic theory that stressed government’ promotion of limitation of imports from other nations and internal economies in order to improve tax revenues; popular during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe.
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Metternich
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major figure in the negotiations leading to and during the Congress of Vienna and is considered both a paradigm of foreign policy management and a major figure on the development of diplomacy, prime practitioner of 19th century diplomatic realism, deeply rooted on the balance of power postulates.
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Michelangelo
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Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet and engineer. Contender for title of renaissance man opposite Da Vinci.
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Middle Passage
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Slave voyage from Africa to the Americas; generally a traumatic experience for black slaves, although it failed to strip Africans of their culture.
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Mohammad
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human figure of the world religion of Islam and is regarded by Muslims as the messenger and prophet of God
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Montesquieu
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French social commentator and political thinker who lived during the Era of the Enlightenment. He is famous for his articulation of the theory of separation of powers (executive, legislative, judicial), taken for granted in modern discussions of government and implemented in many constitutions throughout the world
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Mozart
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– Classical music composer prodigy, who wrote around 600 compositions in his lifetime.
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Mussolini
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Italian fascist leader after Word War I; created first fascist government based on aggressive foreign policy and new nationalist glories.
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North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
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Agreement that created an essentially free trade zone among Mexico, Canada, and the United States, in hopes of encouraging economic growth in all three nationals; after difficult negotiations, went into effect January 1, 1994.
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Napoleon
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French military and political leader who had significant impact on modern European history. He was a general during the French Revolution.
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NATO
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Created in 1949 under United States leadership to group most of western European powers plus Canada in a defensive alliance against possible Soviet aggression.
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Nazi Party
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led by Hitler; picked up political support during the economic chaos of the Great Depression; advocated authoritarian state under a single leader; aggressive foreign policy took reverse humiliation of the Versailles treaty; took power in Germy in 1933.
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New Testament
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name given to the second half of the Christian Bible, consists of the four narratives of Jesus Christ's ministry, called "Gospels”.
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Newton
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English scientist; author of Principia; drew together astronomical and physical observations and wider theories into a neat framework of natural laws; established principles of motion; defined forces of gravity.
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Northern Ireland
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part of the U.K., made in 1920, much strife between the nationalists>>want it to be part of republic of Ireland<<(/Catholics) and the Unionists>>want it to stay part of the U.K..<<-(/protestants)
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Ozone depletion
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– ozone hole, caused by chloroflourocarbons (CFCs). Ozone layer blocks UV rays. Result of industrialization.
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Palestine
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partitioned in 1947 to create Israel by the U.N., subject to many Arab-Israeli conflicts since then.
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Pasteur
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French scientist who discovered relationship between germs and disease in 19th century, leading to better sanitation.
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Peter the Great
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son of Alexis Romanov; continued growth of absolutism and conquest; included more definite interest in changing selected aspects of economy and culture through imitation of western European models.
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Pizarro, Fransicso
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led conquest of Inca empire of Peru beginning in 1535; by 1540, most of Inca possessions fell to the Spanish.
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Realpolitick
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refers to politics or diplomacy based primarily on practical considerations, rather than ideological notions. The term realpolitik is often used pejoratively to imply politics that are coercive, amoral, or Machiavellian.
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Reign of Terror
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period fifteen months after the onset of the French Revolution when struggles between rival factions led to mutual radicalization. This led to violence and mass executions of enemies of the revolution.
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Reincarnation
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the successive attachment of the soul to some animate form according to merits earned in previous lives
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Renaissance
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cultural and political movement in western Europe; began in Italy c 1400; rested on urban vitality and expanding commerce; featured a literature and art with distinctly more secular priorities than those of the middle ages.
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Roosevelt, Franklin
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32nd President of the United States; elected four times; instituted New Deal to counter the Great Depression and led country during World War II (1882-1945); infected by the polio disease
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Rousseau
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major philosopher, literary figure, and composer of the Enlightenment whose political philosophy influenced the French Revolution
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Rwanda Genocide
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was the systematic murder of the Rwanda's Tutsi minority and the moderates of its Hutu majority, in 1994. This was both the bloodiest period of the Rwandan Civil War and one of the worst genocides of the 1990s.
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Secularism
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assertion that certain practices or institutions should exist separately from religion or religious belief.
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Shakespeare
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widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist
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Shogun
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military leaders of the bakufu (military governments in Japan)
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Smith, Adam
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established liberal economics; argued that government should avoid regulation of economy in favor of the operation of market forces.
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Taj Mahal
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most famous architectural achievement of Mughal India; originally built as a mausoleum for the wife of Shah Jahan, Mumtaz Mahal.
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Thirty Years War
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War within the Holy Roman Empire between German protestants and their allies (Sweden, Denmark, France) and the emperor and his ally, Spain; ended in 1648 after great destruction with Treaty of Westphalia.
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Tojo, Hideki
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Prime minister of Japan during WWII, ran the government moreso than Hirohito
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Torah
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inspired word(s) of God, as it is said by tradition to have been revealed to Moses by Him.
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Triangle Trade
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commerce linking Africa, the New World colonies, and Europe; slaves carried to America for sugar and tobacco transported to Europe.
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Trinity
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Christian doctrine, stating that God is one Being who exists, simultaneously and eternally, as a mutual indwelling of three persons:[1] the Father, the Son (incarnate as Jesus Christ), and the Holy Spirit
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Tsar Nicholas II
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last tsar of Russia, proved unable to manage a country in political turmoil and command its army in World War I, him and his family were executed by the bolsheviks
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Urbanization
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removal of the rural characteristics of a town or area, a process associated with the development of civilization and technology.
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Voltaire
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French Enlightenment writer, defended civil liberties, including freedom of religion
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Warsaw Pact
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alliance organized by the Soviet Union with its eastern European satellites to balance formation of NATO by Western powers in 1949.
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Watt
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Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer whose improvements to the steam engine were fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution.
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Eli Whitney
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invented cotton gin, made mass production of cotton easier
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William and Mary
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joint sovereignty over the Kingdom of England, as well as the Kingdom of Scotland, of King William III and his wife Queen Mary II
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Wolstonecraft, Mary
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enlightenment feminist thinker in England, argued that new political rights should extend to women.
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Women’s Suffrage
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economic and political reform movement aimed at extending suffrage — the right to vote — to women.
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Woodrow Wilson
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28th US president, Presbyterian, second term centered on WWI and originally wanted to maintain neutrality, but eventually declared war.
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Yugoslavia Genocide
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Tito, a Communist, was a strong leader who maintained ties with the Soviet Union and the United States during the Cold War, playing one superpower against the other while obtaining financial assistance and other aid from both. After his death in 1980 and without his strong leadership, Yugoslavia quickly plunged into political and economic chaos
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