1. The Postcolonial World

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Gamal Nasser, President of Egypt , raising the Egyptian flag over the Suez Canal city of Port Said, June 1956 (click on the photo to view a Movietone newsreel reporting Nasser's nationalization of the Suez Canal)
Map 27.4 Decolonization in the Middle East
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3. The "three worlds" of the Cold War era.
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The "three worlds" of the Cold War era.
First World: United States, United Kingdom and their allies.
Second World: Soviet Union, China, and their allies.
Third World: neutral and non-aligned countries.

4. Annex B parties with binding targets in the second period (2012-2020)
Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (1997)
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Annex B parties with binding targets in the second period ( )
Annex B parties with binding targets in the first period ( ) but not the second
Non-Annex B parties without binding targets
Annex B parties with binding targets in the first period but which withdrew from the Protocol
Signatories to the Protocol that have not ratified
Other UN member states and observers that are not party to the Protocol

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Percentage of population living on less than $1.25 per day, per UN data from

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Global variations in fertility rate per woman, CIA World Factbook's 2013 data.

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8. Map 27.3 Decolonization in Asia
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Map 27.3 Decolonization in Asia

9. Indira Gandhi (1917-1984), Prime Minister 1966-1977, 1980-1984.
Jawaharlal Nehru ( ) and Mahatma Gandhi ( ), during a meeting of the All India Congress, Mumbai, 6 July 1946.
Rajiv Gandhi ( ) in 1987, Prime Minister
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Nehru & Gandhi: Photograph by Max Desfor for the Associated Press.
Cleanup after the Bhopal disaster, 2-3 December 1984.

10. The last Afrikaners and the end of apartheid in South Africa.
P W Botha ( ), Prime Minister , President
F W de Klerk (1936-), President Shown with Nelson Mandela ( ) at the World Economic Forum, Imprisoned , Mandela served as president
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Map 27.5 Decolonization of Africa
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11. Map 27.4 Decolonization in the Middle East
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Map 27.4 Decolonization in the Middle East

12. Map 29.1 The Arab-Israeli Wars of 1967 and 1973
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Map 29.1 The Arab-Israeli Wars of 1967 and 1973

13. Ariel Sharon at the Haram al-Shareef (photo al-Jazeera).
A Palestinian boy confronts an Israeli tank in Dheisheh Refugee Camp, 2 July 2002 (photo Musa Al-Shaer).
First Intifada, A Palestinian boy throwing rocks at an Israeli tank during the First Intifada.
Second Intifada ( ) Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif, 28 September 2000.
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Palestinians clashing with Israeli police forces (photo Saif Dahlah/AFP-Getty).
Ariel Sharon at the Haram al-Shareef (photo al-Jazeera).

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15. Intensity map for the 2010 Haiti earthquake

16. Rigoberta Menchú in 2009, on the anniversary of the signing of the Treaty on Identity and Rights of Indigenous Peoples (31 March 1995)
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