IDENTIFICATIONS
Explain the significance of the following: |
1. "guest laborers"
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2. The Wafd
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3. Muslim Brotherhood
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4. Arab League
| 5. Bambata Rebellion
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6. African National Congress
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7. Kurds
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8. Aswan High Dam
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9. Six Day War
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10. Afrikaner
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11. Palestinian Liberation Organization
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12. "Eretz Israel"
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13. Intifada
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14. mullahs
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15. Camp David Accords
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16. Négritude
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17. OPEC
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18. Balfour Declaration
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WHO WAS I?
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1. As president, dictator, and reformer, he went far toward transforming the western remnant of the discredited Ottoman empire into a modern state.
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2. This revered leader of the A.N.C.s struggle against apartheid was released from prison by South African government in 1990.
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3. This president of the Black People's Convention was killed in jail by police.
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3. This Nigerian playwright and human rights activist won a Nobel Prize.
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4. This military leader, premier, and monarch thwarted British attempts to make his country a protectorate and changed its name to Iran.
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5. This premier was overthrown by a coup when he attempted to nationalize Iran's petroleum industry.
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6. This member of a military junta that overthrew the Egyptian monarchy made a strong bid to become leader of the Arab world.
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7. This conservative Islamic theologian led a revolution which overthrew a Middle Eastern monarchy.
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8. As prime minister of Israel, he forged an agreement with the PLO that allowed for autonomous Palestinian regions in Gaza and the West Bank.
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9. This former World Bank economist led his country through a period that combined industrial growth with political repression.
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10. This Arab leader with no permanent political base dedicated his efforts to the cause of the Palestinians.
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11. The son of an illiterate goldsmith in Britain's former Gold Coast colony, he became one of the most prominent leaders of African colonial revolt.
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12. This head of a major Arab country signed a peace treaty with Israel.
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13. The aggressive action of the is president of a Middle Eastern state precipitated an international Crisis in August of 1990.
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14. This South African president first reformed, then repealed, South Africa's apartheid laws.
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