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The phillipines

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an archipelago of 7083 islands in the Pacific, SE of China

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Burma

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a republic in SE Asia, on the Bay of Bengal.

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Vietnam

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Official name Socialist Republic of Vietnam.a country in SE Asia, comprising the former states of Annam, Tonkin, and Cochin-China: form

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Geneva accords

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The Geneva Agreements of 1954 (also, “Geneva Accords”) arranged a settlement which brought about an end to the First Indochina War. The agreement was reached at the end of the Geneva Conference

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TET offensive

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one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, launched on January 30, 1968

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Ho Chi Minh

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a Vietnamese Communist revolutionary leader who was Chairman and First secretary of the Workers’ Party of Vietnam.

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Paris peace accords

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a peace treaty signed on January 27, 1973 to establish peace in Vietnam and end the Vietnam War.

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LAOS

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a member of an indigenous people of Laos and northeastern Thailand.

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Cambodia

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a native or inhabitant of Cambodia, or a person of Cambodian descent.

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Muggabi

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Smd

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Belgian Congo

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a Belgian colony in Central Africa between 1908 and 1960 in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

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Israel

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a country between Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea.

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Palestine

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Also called Holy Land. Biblical name Canaan.an ancient country in SW Asia, on the E coast of the Mediterranean.

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Suez crisis

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A major international incident that arose in 1956 from the decision by Gamal A. Nasser of Egypt to nationalize the Suez Canal, which long had been controlled by Great Britain.

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Ayatollah khomeini

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an Iranian Shia Muslim religious leader, philosopher, revolutionary, and politician.

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Six day war

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was fought between June 5 and June 10, 1967 by Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt (known then as the United Arab Republic, UAR), Jordan, and Syria, include both longstanding and immediate issues.

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Yasir

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“to be rich”, derived from Arabic يسر (yasira) “to become easy”. one who makes things easier, one who directs to the right path, one who goes against the tide. Other names. Related names. yasir,yaseer.

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Arafat

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Mohammed Yasser Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa, popularly known as Yasser Arafat or by his kunya Abu Ammar, was a Palestinian political leader.

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Camp David accords

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a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt issuing from talks at Camp David between Egyptian President Sadat, Israeli Prime Minister Begin, and the host, U.S. President Carter

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Nehru ghandi

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first prime minister of the republic of India 1947–64 (father of Indira Gandhi).

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Ghana

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a republic in West Africa comprising the former colonies of the Gold Coast and Ashanti, the protectorate of the Northern Territories, and the U.N.

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Kenya

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a republic in E Africa: member of the Commonwealth of Nations; formerly a British crown colony and protectorate.

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Panarabism

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the idea or advocacy of a political alliance or union of all the Arab nations.

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Jomo Kenyatta

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Kenyan political leader: president 1964–78.

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Maumau

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to terrorize, intimidate, or threaten.

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Quan duc

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a Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk who burned himself to death at a busy Saigon road intersection on 11 June 1963.

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Zaibatsu

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a large Japanese business conglomerate.

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SCAP

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A set of standards for sharing security data developed by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

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Khmer Rouge

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A communist guerrilla organization which opposed the Cambodian government in the 1960s and waged a civil war from 1970, taking power in 1975.

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Religious fundamentalism

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refers to the belief of an individual or a group of individuals in the absolute authority of a sacred religious text or teachings of a particular religious leader, prophet,and/ or God

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State capitalism

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a political system in which the state has control of production and the use of capital.
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Muslim league

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One of the main political parties in Pakistan.

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Indian national

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established in the late nineteenth century. It was the party of Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru.

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Dali Lama

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the spiritual head of Tibetan Buddhism and, until the establishment of Chinese communist rule, the spiritual and temporal ruler of Tibet.

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Singapore

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an island city-state off southern Malaysia, is a global financial center with a tropical climate and multicultural population.

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Hong kong

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autonomous territory, and former British colony, in southeastern China. Its vibrant,

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West Bank

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West Bank is a landlocked territory near the Mediterranean coast of Western Asia,

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Nehru Gandhi

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first prime minister of the republic of India 1947–64 (father of Indira Gandhi).

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Mohammed mossadeq

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He was the head of a democratically elected government,[5][6][7] holding office as the Prime Minister of Iran from 1951 until 1953,

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Iranian revolution

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The Islamic Revolution, or Iranian Revolution, was the 1979 overthrow of Iran’s monarchy and the establishment of an Islamic Republic. Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi was replaced by the cleric Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

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Sadden Hussein

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the fifth President of Iraq, serving in this capacity from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003.

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Iran contra Affair

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scandal in the administration of President Ronald Reagan, which came to light when it was revealed that in the mid-1980s the United States secretly arranged arms sales to Iran in return for promises of Iranian assistance in securing the release of Americans held hostage in Lebanon.

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PLO

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political and military organization formed in 1964 to unite various Palestinian Arab groups and ultimately to bring about an independent state of Palestine

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Kibbutz

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a communal settlement in Israel, typically a farm.

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