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Global History & Geography Transition Regents Review
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Egyptian leader who--as president of Egypt--negotiated a peace treaty with Menachem Begin, then prime minister of Israel. This was the first peace agreement with any Arab nation with Israel. He was assassinated in 1981 because of it, by one of his own people.

2. Turkish statesman who abolished the caliphate and founded Turkey as a modern secular state (1881-1938)

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Church established in western Europe during the Roman Empire and the Middle Ages with its head being the bishop of Rome or pope.

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Established in 1947 by American President Truman, this policy provided economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism (at that time, Greece and Turkey). It created the American foreign policy of containment of communism, where the U. S. would send aid and even troops to any country fighting communism.

5. India was separated into 2 countries Pakistan for Muslims and India for Hindus

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In 1949, the United States, Canada, and ten European nations formed this military mutual-defense pact. In 1955, the Soviet Union countered NATO with the formation of the Warsaw Pact, a military alliance among those nations within its own sphere of influence.

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This means the division of groups in a society by rank (power) or class (wealth). It is usually represented as a pyramid because there are fewer people with power and wealth, while most of the people are at the bottom.

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former slave in Haiti who led revolt against French, taking over the island until Napoleon sent forces to retake it

9. different; varied

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A prolonged war (1954-1975) between the communist armies of North Vietnam who were supported by the Chinese and the non-communist armies of South Vietnam who were supported by the United States (following their policy of containment). When the U. S. decided to pull its support in 1975, the communists took over and unified the country under a communist, totalitarian government.

11. 1962; nuclear confrontation between U.S. And Soviet Union over nuclear missiles based 90 miles from the U.S.

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The political program in Japan that followed the destruction of the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1868, in which a collection of young leaders set Japan on the path of centralization, industrialization, and imperialism.

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A world organization established in 1920 to promote international cooperation and peace. It was first proposed in 1918 by President Woodrow Wilson, although the United States never joined the League. Essentially powerless, it was officially dissolved in 1946 after it was unable to prevent World War II.

14. An alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations. This was in response to the NATO

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A movement and political party founded in 1885 to demand greater Indian participation in the British government controlling India. Its membership was middle class and its demands were modest until World War I. Led after 1920 by Mohandas K. Gandhi, it appealed to the India's massive poor population to gain strength. It helped achieve Indian independence in 1947.

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She is a Myanmar opposition leader who was a political prisoner and, later, awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1991 for leading a pro-democracy movement in Myanmar (Burma).

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The spread of ideas, customs, and technologies from one people to another. Usually done accidentally, when people interact for other reasons (usually trade)

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Major conflict that started in 1914 with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and ended in 1918. This mostly European war was won by the Allies (Great Britain, France, Russia [until 1917, when they quit], Italy [after they switched sides], and the United States [who joined in 1917]), who defeated the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Italy, before they switched sides). The war was very destructive and deadly due to industrial technology. It concluded with the infamous Treaty of Versailles.

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This is the systematic mistreatment or punishment of a group of people because of their political beliefs, race, religion, sexuality, etc.

20. Two Japanese cities on which the U.S. dropped the atomic bombs to end World War II.

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A political and economic system developed by German economist Karl Marx that predicted that after a workers' revolution, a new society would be formed where factors of production are collectively owned and directed by the state.

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the right of all adults to vote for their government representatives; early in modern democracies, a select few had the right to vote, but over time suffrage was expanded to more and more people. For instance, women were a group that were denied the right, but eventually earned it. Most modern democracies allow it today, meaning all adults can vote.

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Italy felt slighted after World War I because they were not treated as equals. Economic problems also caused dissatisfaction in the country. In these conditions, extremist Benito Mussolini created the Fascist Party, preaching extreme nationalism and imperialism. His dictatorship improved some things in Italy, which also setting the country on path for World War II.

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Beginning in Britain in the mid-1700's, this was the change from making goods at home by hand to mass-producing goods by machines in factories. It caused major changes to society, such as urbanization, a new social structure and changes in values.

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Feudal Warlord rulers of Japan who ruled from 1603-1867. They were isolationist and closed Japan off from the rest of the world. They were overthrown during the Meiji Restoration.