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319 See also: The construction of the Suez Canal 230–35 ■ The Young Turk Revolution 260–61 ■ The Treaty of Versailles 280 ■ The ...

320 because of Nasser’s association with the Soviets and his unceasing diatribes against the West. Nasser felt insulted and imme ...

321 al-Qaeda. After September 11, President Bush declared a “War on Terror” and, in 2002, with help from the British government, ...

322 THE IRON CURTAIN IS SWEPT ASIDE THE FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL ( 1989 ) F or decades, the Berlin Wall, which separated East and ...

323 The fall of the Berlin Wall meant liberation for many people. German reunification, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and th ...

324 See also: Nkrumah wins Ghanaian independence 306–07 ■ The March on Washington 311 ■ The Gulf of Tonkin Incident 312–13 ■ De ...

325 See also: The Slave Trade Abolition Act 226–27 ■ The Berlin Conference 258–59 ■ Nkrumah wins Ghanaian independence 306–07 ■ ...

326 See also: The October Revolution 276–79 ■ Nazi invasion of Poland 286–93 ■ The fall of the Berlin Wall 322–23 T he Siege of ...

327 See also: The Young Turk Revolution 260–61 ■ The establishment of Israel 302–03 ■ The Suez Crisis 318–21 O n September 11, 2 ...

328 YOU AFFECT THE WORLD BY WHAT YOU BROWSE THE LAUNCH OF THE FIRST WEBSITE (1991) T he first website was titled “World Wide Web ...

329 See also: The opening of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange 180–83 ■ Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species 236–37 ■ The Berlin ...

330 A CRISIS WHICH BEGAN IN THE MORTGAGE MARKETS OF AMERICA HAS BROUGHT THE WORLD’S FINANCIAL SYSTEM CLOSE TO COLLAPSE THE GLOBA ...

331 See also: The Wall Street Crash 282–83 ■ The 1968 protests 324 ■ The launch of the first website 328–29 ■ Global population ...

332 packages to boost their economies. They increased government spending and decreased taxes. Others, especially in Europe, opt ...

333 destruction of World War II. Some of the rigid laws and regulations that had been put in place to protect consumers were now ...

THIS IS A DAY ABOUT OUR ENTIRE HUMAN FAMILY GLOBAL POPULATION EXCEEDS 7 BILLION ( 2011 ) US_334-339_Population.indd 334 15/02/20 ...

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336 O n October 31, 2011, a baby girl born in Manila, the capital of the Philippines, was chosen by the United Nations (UN) to s ...

337 researching methods of developing a high-yielding strain of wheat that could resist disease and was short in height, so as t ...

338 Second Green Revolution, but this, too, proved controversial. GM crops are foods produced from organisms that have had chang ...