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55 Cards in this Set
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Young leader of the USSR who sees its problems and makes policies to reform it
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Mikhail GORBACHEV
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Gorbachev policy of openness that allows people to talk about their problems
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Glasnot'
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Gorbachev policy of restructuring - find solutions for econ reforms, trim military budget
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perestrokia
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fell in nov 1989 and symbolized the fall of the USSR influence
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Berlin Wall
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made my members of the SU communist party - attempt made, fails because people dont want to be hardcore communist again
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August Coup
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President of Russia during the coup and gets Gorbachev to resign, USSR will dissolve
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Boris Yeltsin
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privatizes goods for profit - done by Yeltsin
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privatization
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region inside of Russia that wants independance
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Chechnya
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current president of Russia
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Vladimir Putin
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war over religion identities Shile vs. Sunni
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Iran-Iraq war
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India's people party who wants Hindu to be the only Indian
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BJP
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the Bobri muslim masque that the BJP destory
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Ayodhya
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current INdian Prime minister - guides india to transition of free market, he is an economist
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Manmohan Singh
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first non Italian pope
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Pope John Paul II
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process of the world becoming smaller, cheap communication, transporation
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globalization
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France and West Germany place all of their steel under international control
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European Coal and Steel Community
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creates the EEC, Euratom, and free trade - lowers tariffs and removes them for member nations
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Treaties of Rome
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combines the ECSC, EEC and euratom and makes the common market
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Brussels Treaty
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pledges to create a europe without borders and free movemment
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Single European Act
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establishes the ECB, EU and euro
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Treaty of Maatstricht
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common currency in europe
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euro
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common european market
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European Union
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yugo communist who suppresses ethnic issues to make a unified yugo and yugo idenitity
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Marshall Tito
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Serbian President who believes all Serbs should be governed by Serbia, he fights croatia and bosnia, does genocide
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Milosevic
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cleanign out Non serbs
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ethnic cleansing
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Orthodox
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Serbia
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Catholic
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Croatia
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catholic, orthodox, muslim
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Bosnia-Heregovina
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agreement made between Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia to hold up borders
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Dayton Peace Agreements
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Albanian muslims succeed from serbia here and milosevic goes mad
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kosovo
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milosevic gets tried for war crimes, rape is a crim
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International War Crimes Tribunal
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created in 1910 by british and dutch controling
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union of south africa
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said blacks canot own more than 13% of land
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Native Land Acts
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official segration of south africa
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apartheid
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opposes british and dutch, protest for peace
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african national congress
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ANC protest turning point in tactics, shift to labor strikes and armed protest
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sharpeville massacre
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leader of ANC, sent to prision for many years, becomes president
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nelson mandela
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lifts ban on ANC, frees mandela, apartheid rebeals, land given back
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FW deKlerk
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offered an oppurtunity to talk about deal with past, give testimoeis, gave poeple land and money and amnesty
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truth and reconciliation commission
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headed the Truth andn Reconciliation commission with Mandela
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Archbishop Demond Tutu
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in rwanda they were laborors, short dark
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Hutu
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tall light overseeers
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Tutsi
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genocide against Tutsis by Hutu
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Rwanda
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war from rwanda that spread to all africa
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First African World War
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leads China fro 79-97 after mao dies and does the four modernizations, econ liberalism
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Deng Xiaoping
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leads china from 97-02
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Jiang Zemin
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present day leader of China
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Hu Jintao
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made by Xiaoping, -- economic liberalism, end collectivization, does privatization, end foreign investments
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four modernizations
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problem in china of people flooding to cities
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floating population
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university protest in china
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Tiananmen Square
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cult and competition to CP that china suppressed
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Falun Gong
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deals with caste system in India
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Mandal commission
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backwards classes in the caste system - victims in system
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OBC
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provides short term loans for countries having trouble meeting debt
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international monetary fund
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any economic activity in India required a government permit
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permit raj
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