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12 Cards in this Set
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Mugabe
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Black nationalist guerrilla leader who was elected prime minister of Rhodesia in 1980.
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Ho Chi Minh
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Vietnamese political leader, president of North Vietnam from 1954 to 1969. Started Vietnam war.
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Anwar Sadat
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President of Egypt from 1970 to 1981.
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Bay of Pigs Invasion
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In 1961 a failed attempt by Cuban refugees, with some assistance from the US, to invade Cuba and remove Fidel Castro from power.
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Kwame Nkrumah
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Prime minister of Ghana from 1957 to 1960, president from '60 to '66.
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Ayatollah Khomeini
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Iranian religious and political leader.
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Apartheid
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policy of racial segregation used to maintain white countrol especially as practiced by law in South Africa.
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Julius Nyere
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Nationalist leader and president of Tanzania from 1964 to 1985.
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M. Reza Pahlavi
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Signed a treaty that allowed the British and Soviets to use the Trans-Iranian Railway and keep troops in Iran until the end of WWII
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Lazaro Cardenas
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Mexican political leaders and president of Mexico from '36 to '40.
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Agostinha Neto
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Poet and medical doctor as well as guerrilla leader who became Angola's first president.
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Ian Smith
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In 1965 Rhodesian leaders (whites) demanded independence from Britain. Britain refused until political rights were given to blacks. Smith refused and proclaimed Rhodesia's independence.
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