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100
In South Africa, a policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race.
What is Apartheid?
100
It was a Chinese secret organization called the Society of the Righteous and Harmonious Fists led an uprising in northern China against the spread of Western and Japanese influence there.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
100
A sudden and decisive action in politics, especially one resulting in a change of government illegally or by force.
What is coup d'état?
100
It is a Low Franconian West Germanic language descended from Dutch and spoken mainly in South Africa and Namibia
What is Afrikaans?
100
He was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
200
It is the affirmation or consciousness of the value of black or African culture, heritage, and identity.
What is negritude?
200
It was a war between Great Britain and China that began in 1839 as a conflict over the opium trade and ended in 1842 with the Chinese cession of Hong Kong to the British, the opening of five Chinese ports to foreign merchants, and the grant of other commercial and diplomatic privileges in the Treaty of Nanking.
What are the Opium War?
200
A small group ruling a country, especially immediately after a coup d'état and before a legally constituted government has been instituted.
What is a junta?
200
It is the only Portuguese speaking nation in South America.
What is Brazil?
200
A Cuban politician and revolutionary who served as Prime Minister of the Republic of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and then President from 1976 to 2008
Who is Fidel Castro?
300
On the morning of June 16, 1976, thousands of students from this township outside Johannesburg, gathered at their schools to participate in a student-organized protest demonstration. Many of them carried signs that read, 'Down with Afrikaans'
What are the Soweto?
300
This 6,000-mile (10,000-km) historic trek of the Chinese communists, which resulted in the relocation of the communist revolutionary base from southeastern to northwestern China and in the emergence of Mao Zedong as the undisputed party leader
What is The Long March?
300
Spanish for a head of state, especially a military dictator.
What is caudillo?
300
It is a path of practice and spiritual development leading to Insight into the true nature of reality. It's practices like meditation are means of changing yourself in order to develop the qualities of awareness, kindness, and wisdom.
What is Buddhism?
300
He was a Chinese revolutionary and statesman. He was the leader of China from 1978 until his retirement in 1992
Who is Deng Xiaoping?
400
The 1884-1885 meeting involved representatives of the United States, the Ottoman Empire and the major European powers who established rules for the partition of the African continent.
What is The Berlin Conference?
400
The principle that all nations should have equal access to any of the ports open to trade in China had been stipulated in the Anglo-Chinese treaties of Nanjing (Nanking, 1842) and Wangxia (Wanghia, 1844).
What is the Open Door Policy?
400
This period (1947 - 1991) altered Latin America's relationship to the United States profoundly, as the region became a battleground between two competing ideological systems—capitalism and communism
What is the Cold War?
400
A Chinese philosophy based on the writings of Lao-tzu (6th century BC), advocating humility and religious piety.
What is Daoism?
400
He served as chairman of the People's Republic of China from 1949 to 1959, and led the Chinese Communist Party from 1935 until his death. His "Great Leap Forward" and the Cultural Revolution were ill-conceived and had disastrous consequences, but many of his goals, including stressing China's self-reliance, were generally laudable.
Who is Mao Tse Tung?
500
The uprising was a revolt against colonial rule in Kenya, lasted from 1952 through 1960 and helped to hasten Kenya’s independence. Issues like the expulsion of Kikuyu tenants from settler farms, loss of land to white settlers, poverty, and lack of true political representation for Africans provided the impetus for the revolt.
What is Mau-Mau Rebellion?
500
The official program initiated in the late 1970s and early 1980s by the central government of China, the purpose of which was to limit the great majority of family units in the country. The rationale for implementing the policy was to reduce the growth rate of China’s enormous population.
What is the One Child Policy?
500
It was a confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962 over the presence of missile sites during one of the “hottest” periods of the cold war. The Soviet premier, Nikita Khrushchev, placed Soviet military missiles within miles of Southern Florida.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
500
It refers to any doctrine which states salvation comes strictly from adherence to the law. It can be thought of as a works-based religion.
What is Legalism?
500
A Chinese political and military leader who served as the leader of the Republic of China between 1928 and 1975. He was an influential member of the Kuomintang (KMT), the Chinese Nationalist Party.
Who is Chiang Kai Shek?
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