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US/Great Britian- Devolution
The United States gained independence from Great Britain, because it was costing too much for Great Britain to maintain control over the distant territory and allow it Independence. Becoming trading partners with the new country was also a contributing factor in this split. (Economic) -
Triple Alliance
Countries: Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy.
Type: Politcal/ Military
Purpose: Take away France's biggest allie possibilities. -
Triple Entente
Countries: Great Britan, France, and Russia.
Type: Political/Military
Purpose: Agreed not to attack each other, and to keep Germany from taking over Europe. -
United Nations
Countries; United States, Great Britan, France, China, and 44 others.
Type: Political/ Military
Purpose: To keep peace -
E/W Germany
After WWII an "iron curtain" was put down the middle of Europe, splitting them into Democratic West Europe, & Communist East Europe. This "curtain" stayed up through most of the cold war. (Political Split) -
Soviet Union
When the Soviet Union split it seperated into: Armani, Azerbajan, Belarus, Russia, Ukraine. The Soviet Union had many economic problems and a failing political structure and ontop of that many people had religous differences.(military) -
OPEC
Countries: Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, etc.
Type: Economy
Purpose To control Oil Prices -
PLO
Countries: United Nations and Israel
Type: Cultural
Purpose: To push for the formation of a Palestinean state. -
Quebec & Canada
Canada gave Quebec autonomy, because Quebec wanted to seperate from Canada. Religious conflict is spread between the two regions because Quebec is mainly Catholic and Canada is mainly Protestant. (Cultural) -
Czech Republic and Slovakia
Czech Republic and Slovakia used to be Czechoslovakia. But when the north and south began being influenced by seperate regions of Europe, the north was more industrialized than the south. This forced them to seperate so they would not interfere with each others economies. (Econmic)
