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What foreign policy would guide the US for decades

Detente

What was one significant and immediate cause of the Yom Kippur War also known as the Ramadan War

Answer this question… Egypt and Syria launched surprise attacks on Israel.

Why did tensions between Arabs and Jews in Palestine escalate during the 1930s

Jewish immigration to Palestine increased significantly, causing Arabs to worry about losing their land.

Why did tensions escalate between Israel and Egypt in 1952

The president of Egypt blocked Israeli ships from accessing the Suez Canal.

How did the Arab Israeli war of 1948 affect Palestinian Arab '

Many Arabs fled Israel and were forced to live in refugee camps for decades.

Which factor most contributed to Palestine becoming a contested territory in the 20th century

Answer this question…

Great Britain had promised lands in Palestine to both Muslims and Jews.

What motivated the Red Guards to create chaos during the Cultural Revolution

Answer this question… A desire to destroy anything that could threaten communism in China

What was one consequence of the Cold War that continued to influence global politics after the fall of the Soviet Union

There are still 10,000 nuclear weapons located in different countries around the world.

What was one major motivation behind Ronald Reagan's decision to launch the Strategic Defense Initiative

To force the Soviet Union to increase its military spending despite having a weak economy.

Why is the Vietnam war an example of a proxy war

The actual war was between capitalism and communism, Vietnam was just the theater in which a part of this confrontation was played out.

IN what way did Africans protest colonial rule in the years after World War 1

By forming labor unions and nationalist organizations.

How did the Great Leap Forward contribute to the Cultural Revolution

Answer this question… It reduced Mao Zedong's power and led him to develop a cult of personality to regain his influence.

What was a major difference between the Korean War and the Vietnam War.

The Vietnam War ended in a close decisive communist victory while the Korean war did not

How were the postwar governments and alliances of Canada different from those of Poland

Canada, a NATO country, had a free-market economy. Poland, a member of the Warsaw Pact, had a command economy.

How did Sun Yat-sen contribute to the start of the Chinese Civil War

Answer this question… He formed the Chinese Nationalist Party following the collapse of the Qing dynasty.

Which political figure called Ronald Reagan's policies on South Africa immoral evil and totally non-Christian

Desmond Tutu

The space race is often considered symbolic of the Cold War in general because it represented

fierce competition between the united states and the soviet union - APEX

Which term describes the Soviet policy that expanded freedom of the press and allowed criticism of the Communist Party during the Cold War

Glasnost - APEX

When was Judith Ortiz Cofer born

Judith Ortiz Cofer was born on February 24, 1952

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