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Dictator of Iraq, invaded kuwait in 1990 for their oil

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Saddam Hussein

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president during the persian gulf war

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George HW Bush

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date for when the US began its liberation of kuwait

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1991

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Overall commander of operation desert storm

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General Colin powell

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leader of ground troops in combat

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General Norman Schwarzkopf

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violent action that forces people, through fear, to be controlled

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Terrorism

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led by osama Bin Laden

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Al qaeda

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The government in afghanistan during the rule of Bin Laden

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Taliban

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Declared war on terrorism, his doctrine warned that nations harboring terrorists would be treated as enemies of the US

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George Bush

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President bush’s label for Iraq, Iran, and North korea

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“Axis of evil”

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became president of iran in 2005

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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

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Gained nuclear weapons and threatened to destroy Israel

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Iran

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Prime minister of Britain who supported the US war on terrorism

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Tony Blair

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President of Pakistan who supported the US

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Pervez Musharraf

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Pakistan’s first female Prime minister

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Benazir Bhutto

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Region that is a great source of conflict between Pakistan and India

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Kashmir

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A plan to form a Eu Central bank with a single currency for all members of the EEC

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Maastricht treaty

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Longest ruling Labor Prime minister, supported America in the terrorism war

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Tony Blair

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United France and England under the English channel

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The chunnel

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Longest ruling leader in Germany’s post war history

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Helmut Kohl

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First female chancellor in Germany’s history

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Angela Merkel

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President of Russia, used his power to put down his opposition in Russia and Chechnya

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Boris Yeltzin

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Succeeded Kim li sung, made korea the only communist dynasty

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Successor of kim Jong Li, current leader of North korea

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Marxist terrorist government of Namibia
SWAPO
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The hutu tribe that attacked and slaughtered the Tutsi people
Rwanda
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First woman head of state in Africa
Ruth perry
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Head of the African National congress
Nelson Mandela
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Became president of Cuba after Fidel Castro stepped down.
Raul Castro
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Leader of Sandinistas in Nicaragua
Daniel Ortega
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Declared peace between Israel and Palestine
Hebron accords
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Conservative prime minister of Israel
Benjamin Netanyahu
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Name for palestine occupied territories in Israel
Intifada
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An ethnic group of nomadic muslims
Kurds
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Prime minister of india who focused on bettering India’s domestic condition and standing worldwide
Singh
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Named Thailand “Land of the free”because it had never been ruled by an outside power.
Muaing Thai
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First nation to place itself under UN jurisdiction
Australia
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President of the philippines until he was forced to flee
Ferdinand E Marcos
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The idea that some biological systems are irreducibly complex
Irreducible complexity
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Belief that order in the universe is not the result of random combinations but the design of an intelligent being
Intelligent design
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First Chinese Taikonaut in space
Yang Liwei
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Largest and most intricate global project undertaken
International space station
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Radio frequency identification chips, tracking system associated with GPS tech
RFID
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Proved the integration of different kinds of technology into one device
Cell Phones
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Hurricane that struck the US in 2005, one of the greatest natural disasters America has ever experienced
Katrina
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IDF pursuit of Yassir Arafat
Operation defense shield
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Two state system for Israel and Palestine
Road map for peace
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The killing of the weak or the infirmed, first legalized in Holland
Euthanasia
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The idea of god given absolute standard of ethics
Metanarrative
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The study of moral implications and applications of biological research
Bioethics
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A one world government
Globalism
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Required nations to reduce greenhouse emissions to baselines
Kyoto protocol
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Belief that the general temperature of the earth and its oceans is being warmed due to pollution and greenhouse gases
Global warming
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Believes that animals and plants are on the same level of importance as humans
Modern environmentalism

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