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Yom Kippur War
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the fourth war of the Arab-Israeli wars on October 6, 1973 (on the day of Yom Kippur). This war also extended through Ramadan. It was initiated by Egypt and Syria, and it eventually drew in the U.S. and the Soviet Union in defense of their respective allies.
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Yasser Arafat
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he was the first president of Palestine National Authority, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and founder of the Fatah. His legacy is marked by continuous conflict with Israel, although he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994. He died in 2004.
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Menachem Begin
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former prime minister of Israel from 1977 to 1983. He was the founder of the political party Herut. He also was a co-recipient of the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize in recognition for working out a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt.
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Fatah
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refers to a political and military organization of Arab Palestinians. It was founded in the late 1950s by Yasser Arafat and Khalil al-Wazir with the aim of wresting Palestine from Israeli control by waging warfare.
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Hamas
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a militant Palestinian Islamic movement in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that is dedicated to the destruction of Israel and the creation of an Islamic state in Palestine. Founded in 1987, Hamas opposed the 1993 peace accords between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
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Le Duan
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was a Vietnamese politician who founded the Indochina Communist Party in 1930. Le Duan was first secretary of the Vietnam Worker's Party in 1976. After the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, Le Duan led the party through a difficult period that witnessed the formal reunification of Vietnam and the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia.
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Tet Offensive
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The Tet offensive is often considered to be the turning point in the Vietnam War in January 1968. The Viet Cong decided to launch a major attack inside South Vietnam with the objective of toppling the Saigon government and undermining public support for the war effort in the States. The offensive consisted of a series of sharp attacks on urban and rural areas throughout the country.
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Operation Rolling Thunder
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During the Vietnam War, U.S. military aircraft attacked targets throughout North Vietnam from [March] 1965 to [October] 1968. This massive bombardment was intended to put military pressure on North Vietnam's Communist leaders and reduce their capacity to wage war against the U.S.-supported government of South Vietnam.
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Gulf of Tonkin incident
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On August 2, 1964, the destroyer USS Maddox was attacked by three North Vietnamese Navy torpedo boats of the 135th Torpedo Squadron. The second Tonkin Gulf incident was originally claimed by the U.S. National Security Agency to have occurred on August 4, 1964, as another sea battle, but no actual torpedo boat attacks.
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Vietnamization
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A strategy introduced by President Richard Nixon that was aimed at ending American involvement in the Vietnam War by transferring all military responsibilities to South Vietnam. The increasingly unpopular war had created deep divisions in American society.
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Khmer Rouge
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refers to the radical communist movement that ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979 after winning power through a guerrilla war. It was set up in 1967 as the armed wing of the Communist Party of Kampuchea.
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Killing fields
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refers to the thousands of grave sites in Cambodia where massive numbers of people were killed after the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. This occurred under the Khmer Rouge regime. Other than being murdered, some people died of starvation and malnutrition.
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