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The policy of racial segregation enforced by South Africa's white minority government.
What is apartheid?
This man became South Africa's first Black president in 1994 after helping to peacefully end apartheid
Who is Nelson Mandela?
The primary reason the United States ultimately withdrew from the Vietnam War in 1973
What is the mounting costs, casualties, and domestic and international opposition made the war unsustainable?
The two countries that came into existence as a result of the 1947 Partition of India.
What are India and Pakistan?
Islam's five requirements for all Muslims — including prayer five times daily toward Mecca and a pilgrimage to Mecca.
What are the Five Pillars of Islam?
The 1884–1885 meeting of 14 European nations that divided Africa among themselves — no African representatives present.
What is the Berlin Conference? (also accept: Scramble for Africa)
Under the Group Areas Act of 1950, nonwhite citizens were required to carry these documents at all times.
What are pass documents?
Confucianism has most significantly shaped Chinese society by emphasizing these values.
What are obligations, hierarchy, family respect, and the importance of maintaining social order?
The role China played in the Korean War that dramatically changed the course of the conflict.
What is China entered the war when UN forces approached its border, pushing them back to the 38th parallel?
The approximate percentage of Africa that was under European colonial control by 1914, after the Scramble for Africa.
What is about 90%?
The term for the buffer zone established between North and South Korea after the 1953 ceasefire.
What is the DMZ (Demilitarized Zone)
In 1960, police killed 69 Black protesters at this event, sparking international outrage against apartheid.
What is the Sharpeville Massacre?
All of the following describe Japan's occupation of Korea EXCEPT this — granting Korean workers equal wages and full citizenship rights.xxxxxxxxx
What is something Japan did NOT do? (Japan denied equal rights — this is the false statement.)
The international community's failure during the Rwandan Genocide — instead of sending more peacekeepers, the UN did this.
What is reduced its peacekeeping force during the genocide?
This Hindu concept — the idea that your actions in this life determine your circumstances in future lives — is central to the caste system.
What is karma?
The 1978 negotiations brokered by President Carter that produced the first peace treaty between Israel and an Arab nation.
What are the Camp David Accords?
These forms of international pressure helped end apartheid — examples include being expelled from the British Commonwealth and economic sanctions from the US and UK.
What is international pressure / sanctions?
The 1979 event that resulted in an Islamic Republic being established under Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini.
What is the Iranian Revolution?
The approximate number of people killed during the Rwandan Genocide in 100 days.
What is approximately 800,000 people?
The Non-Proliferation Treaty of 1970 asked nuclear states to do this, and non-nuclear states to do this
What is nuclear states agreed not to help others acquire weapons, and non-nuclear states agreed not to develop them?
The line at approximately this degree of latitude where Korea was divided after World War II, and where fighting roughly stabilized during the Korean War.
What is the 38th Parallel?
The year South Africa held its first fully democratic election, and the event that formally ended apartheid rule.
What is 1994?
Japan's post-WWII economic strategy involved these bank-centered business conglomerates, while South Korea's were family-owned versions called chaebols.
What are keiretsu?
This general was fired by President Truman during the Korean War for publicly advocating the use of nuclear weapons.
Who is General Douglas MacArthur?
These two specific events in China — one an economic disaster, one a political crackdown — are most associated with Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping respectively.
What are the Great Leap Forward (Mao) and Tiananmen Square (Deng)?