intervention
... increasingly repressive, provoking an independence movement and occasional rebellions that were harshly suppressed. It was US intervention during the Spanish-American War in 1898 that finally overthrew Spanish rule. The subsequent Treaty ...
www.exxun.com/Cuba/a_fg.html
intervention
... In 1974, a Greek Government-sponsored attempt to seize control of Cyprus was met by military intervention from Turkey, which soon controlled more than a third of the island. In 1983, the ...
www.exxun.com/Cyprus/a_fg.html
intervention
... Turkish Cypriots have been held intermittently since the mid-1960s; in 1975, following the 1974 Turkish intervention, Turkish Cypriots created their own constitution and governing bodies within the "Turkish Federated State of ...
www.exxun.com/Cyprus/d_gv.html
intervention
... but was deposed in a military coup in 1963. In 1965, the United States led an intervention in the midst of a civil war sparked by an uprising to restore BOSCH. In ...
www.exxun.com/DominicanRepublic/a_fg.html
intervention
... of transition from a well-to-do modern economy that has featured extensive government ownership and intervention to one that relies more on market mechanisms. The government has partially or fully privatized ...
www.exxun.com/France/e_ec.html
intervention
... a revolt and an announced withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact were met with a massive military intervention by Moscow. Under the leadership of Janos KADAR in 1968, Hungary began liberalizing its economy ...
www.exxun.com/Hungary/a_fg.html
Intervention
Iraqi Armed Forces: Iraqi Army (includes Iraqi Special Operations Force, Iraqi Intervention Force), Iraqi Navy (former Iraqi Coastal Defense Force), Iraqi Air Force (former Iraqi Army Air Corps) (2005)
www.exxun.com/Iraq/h_ml.html
intervention
... 1998, violent protests and a military mutiny following a contentious election prompted a brief but bloody intervention by South African and Botswanan military forces under the aegis of the Southern African Development ...
www.exxun.com/Lesotho/a_fg.html
Intervention
People's Armed Forces: Intervention Force, Development Force, and Aeronaval Force (navy and air); National Gendarmerie
www.exxun.com/Madagascar/h_ml.html
intervention
... is a prosperous bastion of welfare capitalism, featuring a combination of free market activity and government intervention. The government controls key areas, such as the vital petroleum sector, through large-scale state ...
www.exxun.com/Norway/e_ec.html
interventionist
... keep a lid on spending in order to meet euro adoption criteria. The FICO government is pursuing a state-interventionist economic policy, however, and has pushed to regulate energy and food prices
www.exxun.com/Slovakia/e_ec.html
interwar
... related Czechs and Slovaks of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire merged to form Czechoslovakia. During the interwar years, the new country's leaders were frequently preoccupied with meeting the demands of other ...
www.exxun.com/CzechRepublic/a_fg.html
Inthanon
lowest point: Gulf of Thailand 0 m highest point: Doi Inthanon 2,576 m
www.exxun.com/Thailand/b_mp.html
Intibuca
18 departments (departamentos, singular - departamento); Atlantida, Choluteca, Colon, Comayagua, Copan, Cortes, El Paraiso, Francisco Morazan, Gracias a Dios, Intibuca, Islas de la Bahia, La Paz, Lempira, Ocotepeque, Olancho, Santa Barbara, Valle, Yoro
www.exxun.com/Honduras/d_gv.html
intifada
... determine the permanent status of the West Bank and Gaza stalled following the outbreak of an intifada in September 2000, as Israeli forces reoccupied most Palestinian-controlled areas. In April 2003, the ...
www.exxun.com/GazaStrip/a_fg.html
intifada
... determine the permanent status of the West Bank and Gaza stalled following the outbreak of an intifada in September 2000, as Israeli forces reoccupied most Palestinian-controlled areas. In April 2003, the ...
www.exxun.com/WestBank/a_fg.html
intifada
... comprising the Palestinian Authority (PA) - has experienced a general decline in economic conditions since the second intifada began in September 2000. The downturn has been largely a result of Israeli closure policies ...
www.exxun.com/WestBank/e_ec.html
intifadah
... Palestinian Authority (PA)- even more degraded than in the West Bank. The beginning of the second intifadah in September 2000 sparked an economic downturn, largely the result of Israeli closure policies; these ...
www.exxun.com/GazaStrip/e_ec.html
intimidation
... the 2002 presidential election to ensure his reelection. The ruling ZANU-PF party used fraud and intimidation to win a two-thirds majority in the March 2005 parliamentary election, allowing it to ...
www.exxun.com/Zimbabwe/a_fg.html
intolerance
... reconciliation is complicated by the real and perceived Tutsi political dominance. Kigali's increasing centralization and intolerance of dissent, the nagging Hutu extremist insurgency across the border, and Rwandan involvement in two ...
www.exxun.com/Rwanda/a_fg.html
intra
$1.466 trillion; note - external imports, excluding intra-EU trade (2005)
www.exxun.com/EuropeanUnion/e_ec.html
intra
... victims are trafficked into commercial sexual exploitation; roughly two-thirds of the global victims are trafficked intra-regionally within East Asia and the Pacific (260,000 to 280,000 people) and Europe and Eurasia ...
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