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United Nations

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The United Nations is a collaboration of countries all over the world, and aims to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress and human rights issues. It was founded in 1945 at the signing of the United Nations Charter by 51 countries, replacing the League of Nations, founded in 1919.
The United Nations headquarters, on the east side of Manhattan, opened its doors on January 10th, 1951.

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Desmond Tutu

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Desmond Tutu was born in 1931 and is a South African cleric and activist who won worldwide fame in the 1980’s as an opponent to apartheid. Tutu was the first black South African to be elected to be the Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town in South Africa. Tutu was also the primate of the Church of Province of South Africa. In 1984 Tutu was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. He also was the recipient of the Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism. On top of all this he also got the Magubela Prize for liberty in 1986.

Strategic Defense Initiative

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The Strategic Defense Initiative or SDI, which is also commonly called Star Wars, was a proposal by U.S. President Ronald Reagan in 1983 to build a ground based and space based system to protect the U.S. from nuclear ballistic missiles. The system was never fully setup but the research from this paved the way for the anti-ballistic missile systems of today.

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Robotics

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Robots are a biomechanical or electro-mechanical device or a group of devices that perform an autonomous or programmed task. Robots can be used in a number of different tasks from working in places where humans cannot or where it is too dangerous for them. They can be used to help people with disabilities. For example, a person who has lost an arm might use a biomechanical arm. Robots also make a great educational tool from robotics competition to teaching mechanical engineering. Robots can perform tasks with greater precision than humans and are used in the making of automobiles and many other goods.

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The Robot Asimo.

Red Guards

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Red Guards were groups of Russian armed factory workers, which Vladimir Ilyich Lenin organized to march on the Winter Palace in November 1917. The Red Guards arrested the leader of the Russian provisional government. The Red Guards had over 200,000 personnel and did perform as the regular army between the time of the new Soviet government. The Red Guard demobilized the old Russian military and then the Red Army was created.

Eva Peron

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Eva Perón was the second wife of Juan Domingo Perón, and First Lady of Argentina. She lived from 1919 until 1952, and held the role of First Lady from 1946 until her death in 1952. During her life she founded the Eva Perón Foundation, which worked to provide free health care to citizens, and built houses for the needy. Born in rural Argentina she pursued a career in stage, radio, and film begining at the age of 15. In 1944 Eva met Colonel Juan Peron and in 1945 they married. Then in 1946 Juan was elected first President of Argentina. Over the course of the next six years, Eva became powerful in the Pro-Peronist trade union. Eva then founded the Eva Peron Foundation, which was the nation’s first large scale female party. Eva Peron really had a desire to run for office as Vice President of Argentina but opposition from the nation’s military, elites, and her failing health never got her there.

Push-pull factors

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The push-pull factor is a force that pushes people out of a country and the pull factor pulls people into a country. An example of this is migration where immigrants are pulled from their home country to a foreign state for reasons like better jobs or welfare.

Tank

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Tanks were first invented during WWI by the British. The tank was to be able to cross trenches, crush barbed wire, and not be harmed by machine-guns. Armored cars had already been made and this prompted Major Ernest Swinton to make a tracked fighting vehicle. A committee was formed to oversee the project. The first tank created by this committee was a tank that was nicknamed Little Willie. This tank was tested by the British military in 1915 and was first called a landship. This was later shortened to the word tank. The French also developed a tank that was based off a Holt caterpillar. This tank was first used in 1917. Tanks eventually made trench warfare obsolete and would later become one of the best fighting machines on the planet.

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WWI Mark IV Tank

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Challenger II main battle tank

Moise Tshombe

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Moise Tshombe was born into the house of a successful Congolese businessman in Musumba, which is in the Congo. He was educated at an American missionary school where he trained as an accountant. After school in the 1950s he took over a chain of stores in Katanga province and started to be involved in politics. He founded the CONAKAT party, which ran with the banner of an independent federal Congo. In the general elections in 1960 the CONAKAT party won and gained control of Katanga. In that same year the Congo became an independent republic. But in a quick move Tshombe and the CONAKAT declared Katanga’s secession from the Congo, which turned into the Congo Crisis. Then Tshombe was elected president of Katanga in 1960. Eventually UN forces succeeded in capturing Katanga, which in turn drove Tshombe into exile.

Gaza Strip

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The Gaza Strip is a narrow coastal strip of land that runs along the Mediterranean Sea. It takes its name from Gaza the main city that has about 1.4 million residents who are all Palestinians in an area of 360 km. The Gaza Strip was a part of Israel by international community but the Israeli government disputes this and liquidated its settlement in the strip in 2005. Israel controls the Gaza strip’s airspace and offshore maritime access but the strip itself is controlled by the Palestinian Authority.

Domino theory

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The Domino Theory was a theory that believed that if a country came under the influence of Communists there would follow a “domino effect” that would spread communism to other nearby countries. This theory drove foreign policy in the 20th Century. The theory was first advanced during Harry S. Truman’s presidency. The '''Domino theory''' was a phrase that became popular during the administration of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower. According to this theory, once nations such as Vietnam fell to communism, other countries of Asia would fall like a row of standing dominos, one after the other, each knocking the next over.

==In the 1950s and the Vietnam War==

Secretary of State Dulles explained the phrase in a 1954 press conference, referring to his plans for the treaty negotiations that led to the creation of SEATO:
:"The situation in that area, as we found it, was that it was subject to the so-called 'domino theory.'" "You mean that if one went, another would go?" "We are trying to change it so that would not be the case.... You generally have a whole series of countries that can be picked up one by one. That is the whole theory of the North Atlantic Treaty. When the nations come together, then the so-called 'domino theory' ceases to apply."<ref>The Dulles' Statements on Indo-China, ''The New York Times,'' May 12, 1954, p. 6</ref>

During the Vietnam War, the phrase was heard often. Supporters of the war gave the theory as a reason for staying in the war. The actual phrase "domino theory" though, was usually used dismissively by opponents of the war. They thought this theory was an exaggeration. A New York Times columnist mocked it in these words:
:...two of the favorite propositions of its supporters have been particularly hard for opponents to accept. One is the so-called "domino theory"—that if South Vietnam fell to the Communists, other nations in the area would topple like dominoes until the United States was thrown back to Pearl Harbor, or perhaps the West Coast.<ref>Wicker, Tom (1967), "Southeast Asia: Dominoes and Master Plan," ''The New York Times,'' February 12, 1967, p. 180</ref>

In the end, Vietnam did fall to the Communists, but the spread of Communism was largely contained.

==In recent years==

Before the 2003 Iraq war, neoconservative theorists suggested that a liberated Iraq could be a vanguard of democracy. A democratic Iraq would lead to the fall of authoritarian rulers in neighboring states, and the spread of democracy throughout the Middle East. This has sometimes been called the "democratic domino theory" or the "reverse domino theory."

==Real falling dominoes==
Since 2001, a commercial organization in the Netherlands has organized an event called Domino Day. Teams of volunteers build enormous displays consisting literally of millions of dominos, then topple them all. The displays consist of huge three-dimensional sculptures that often appear to move or change as the dominoes fall. In 2006, the organization toppled 4,079,381 to set a new record.

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==External links==
*[http://www.dominodomain.com/biggest-domino-project Domino Day] Commercial website

Arafat

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Yasir Arafat (1929-2004) was the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). He was born in Cairo but during his youth he spent his time in Jerusalem. After fighting armed Arab forces in 1948 during the Arab-Israeli war Arafat entered into the Cairo University. There he became the chairman of the Palestine Student Federation. Arafat also served in the Egyptian army during the Suez campaign in 1956.

The PLO in 1988 under Arafat’s leadership accepted Israel’s right to coexist with Palestine, which in effect renounced terrorism. In the 1993 accord Israel led to a limited Palestinian self-rule in Jericho and in the Gaza Strip in 1994. Arafat became president of the Palestinian Authority. Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin, and Shimon Peres shared a Nobel peace prize for the 1993 accord in 1994.

In 2003 an unsuccessful attempt was tried to reduce Arafat’s power months before he died leaving behind a PLO that was divided within and challenged from without by other Palestinian groups.

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Young Plan

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The Young Plan was the plan that replaced the Dawes Plan in 1929. In 1929 the Wall Street Crash created problems for the Germen economy and Owen D. Young was asked by the Allied Reparations Committee to investigate the situation. What Young suggested is that the total amount of reparations should be reduced to around three-quarters. In this way Germany would make annual payments till 1988. All governments but Germany accepted Young’s plan. It was criticized by positions in the right wing. These included Adolf Hitler and Alfred Hugenberg. When unemployment in Germany grew in 1931, payments were suspended and a year later the payments were cancelled.

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Dawes Plan

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The Dawes Plan was formed in 1924 when an international committee funded by the [[United States of America]] and England tried to save [[Germany]]'s failing economy. The Dawes Plan, named after American financier [[Charles G. Dawes]], recomended that Germany begin paying 1,000,000,000 gold marks in the first year and increasing to 2,500,000,000 by 1928. It also called for a loan of 800,000,000 marks ($200 million) to Germany. The Dawes Plan ignored the original reparations set by the Treaty of Versailles. By 1929 the Dawes Plan was considered a big success and financial controls over Germany were relaxed. Germany factories were producing again at prewar levels and inflation was no longer a big problem.

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Dawes Plan was an attempt to collect war reparation debts from defeated post-World War I Germany. Charles G. Dawes chaired the committee that headed up this proposal. Five years later the plan failed and the Young Plan replaced it in 1929. Some of the main points of the Dawes Plan were:

1.The Ruhr area was to be evacuated by Allied occupation troops.

2.Reparation payments would begin at 1 billion marks for the first year and should rise over a period of four years to 2.5 billion marks per year.

3.The German Reich bank would be reorganized under Allied supervision.

4.Foreign loans (primarily from the United States) would be made available to Germany.

5.The sources for the reparation money should include transportation, excise, and custom taxes.

Battle of Dunkirk

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The Battle of Dunkirk was a battle between British and French soldiers and a German armored army that that had advanced to the Channel coast at Calais in France thus cutting off the British and French soldiers. In this attack over 330,000 Allied troops were evacuated by sea to England.

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Salt March

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The Salt March was an act of protest led by Mohanda K. Gandhi in 1930. He led a group of Indians two hundred forty miles to the sea so they could obtain salt from the sea water instead of buying it from the British. The Salt March peacefully disobeyed the British laws and created much publicity. At that time it was illegal for workers to make their own salt or sell it because of the British salt tax. This allowed Britain to have a complete monopoly. Mohanda did not let women come on the march because he felt that women would not provoke law enforcers like the men would. In the end Gandhi was thrown into a prison already full with other protestors.

Spanish Flu

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The Spanish Flu from 1918 - 1919 was a deadly strain of Influenza A virus which killed twenty million civilians and soldiers during World War I. This pandemic killed 50 to 100 million people worldwide. The flu did not originate in Spain but the Allies called it the “Spanish Flu.” It was called the Spanish Flu because it received greater press attention in Spain than anywhere else in the world.

Arthur Zimmermann

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Arthur Zimmermann lived from October 5, 1864 to June 6, 1940. He was the German Foreign Minister who sent the sensational proposal that Mexico should enter an alliance with Germany against the United States. Foreign Secretary Zimmermann sent a telegram on January 16, 1917, to the German ambassador Johann von Bernstorff in Washington who in turn forwarded it to Mexican ambassador Heinrich von Eckardt. But on January 17, British intelligence intercepted the message. The British were unable to read it because it was sent with a new type of encryption and even Mexican ambassador Heinrich von Eckardt could not read it. The British were only able to read it when Johann von Bernstorff transcribed it into an older code so Heinrich von Eckardt could read it. The telegram was sent to US ambassador Walter Hines Page in Britain who then two days later forwarded it to President Wilson. The US passed this telegram to the press. US papers claimed that the telegram was made up by the British to try to get the US in the war on Britain’s side. But later Zimmerman gave a speech confirming his telegram and put all the speculation to an end.

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Arthur Zimmermann

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Arthur Zimmermann lived from October 5, 1864 to June 6, 1940. He was the German Foreign Minister who sent the sensational proposal that Mexico should enter an alliance with Germany against the United States. Foreign Secretary Zimmermann sent a telegram on January 16, 1917, to the German ambassador Johann von Bernstorff in Washington who in turn forwarded it to Mexican ambassador Heinrich von Eckardt. But on January 17, British intelligence intercepted the message. The British were unable to read it because it was sent with a new type of encryption and even Mexican ambassador Heinrich von Eckardt could not read it. The British were only able to read it when Johann von Bernstorff transcribed it into an older code so Heinrich von Eckardt could read it. The telegram was sent to US ambassador Walter Hines Page in Britain who then two days later forwarded it to President Wilson. The US passed this telegram to the press. US papers claimed that the telegram was made up by the British to try to get the US in the war on Britain’s side. But later Zimmerman gave a speech confirming his telegram and put all the speculation to an end.

Joseph Stalin

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Joseph Stalin lived from Dec. 21, 1879 to March 5, 1953. He was secretary general of the Communist Party in Russia. [[Leon Trotsky]] had a power struggle with Stalin. Trotsky took the view that socialism in the Soviet Union must await a revolution in Western Europe and even worldwide. Stalin wanted power immediately and expelled Trotsky from the political pary in 1927 and exiled him from Russia two years later.

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Sun Yat-sen

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Sun Yixian 1866–1925 was one of the many Chinese inspired by the revolutions in Europe. He led the Nationalist Party to victory and became the first leader of the new Republic of China. Sun was born near Guangzhou into a farmland owning family. He attended an Anglican boys school in Honolulu. There he came under Western influence and particularly that of Christianity. He later received a diploma from a Hong Kong medical school and began to practice medicine in Hong Kong. After this all his activities were focused on overthrowing the Ch'ing dynasty and establishing a Chinese republic. Sun fled China in 1895 after an abortive revolt. He toured the world a few times to enlist aid from overseas to finance his activities. In 1905 Sun organized a revolutionary league. His political conceptions were based on the three people’s principles: nationalism, democracy, and the people’s livelihood. A revolution erupted in China and Sun was elected president of the new Chinese republic but two months later he resigned.

Max Born

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Max Born (1882-1970) was a German physicist who helped discover quantum mechanics in the 1920s. His major contribution was the statistical interpretation of quantum mechanics. Born was one of two children in a Jewish family to parents Gustav Born and his wife. He was first educated at the König Wilhelm Gymnasium, then at the University of Breslau, then Heidelberg University and then the University of Zurich. He taught theoretical physics at the University of Göttinge during 1921 – 1933. When the Nazi racial laws started taking effect in Germany in 1933 he fled to Britain where he taught principally at the University of Edinburgh from 1936 – 1953. In 1921 he was able to give a very precise definition of the quantity of heat and the most satisfactory mathematical statement of the law of thermodynamics. Then in 1926 he collaborated with one of his student’s Werner Heisenberg to develop a mathematical formulation that would describe Heisenberg’s first laws of the new quantum theory. This was Born’s most well known work. Born died January 5, 1970 in Göttingen, Germany.