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300 matches to African National Congress
Indian National Congress. 1885-. Congress Party.
International. 1920-. Style of architecture. Glass and steel. Gropius. Le Corbusier.
International. Socialist revolutionary workers movements. First. 1864-76. Founded by Marx in London. Second. 1889-1914. Paris. IFTU. Revived in 1920s. Third. 1919-43. =COMINTERN. Stalin’s Vehicle for world-wide Communist Revolution. Fourth. 1938-53. Trotsky’s Transitional Program for reform.
International Brigades. 1936-9. 60,000 volunteers who opposed Franco in Spanish Civil War.
International Court of Justice. 1945-. UN appointed body to settle International disputes. World Court.
International Labour Organization. ILO. 1919- Agency of League of Nations, United Nations.
International Monetary Fund. IMF.1944. Bretton Woods. Lends money to balance foreign exchange deficits and stabilize exchange rates.
Internationale. Revolutionary song based on a poem by Pottier, 1871. Music by Degeyter.
Jingoism. Excessive nationalism. Originally for British who intervened in Russo-Turkish War, 1877.
Johnson, Pauline. 1861-1913. Canadian Nationalist métis poet. The song my paddle sings.
Kagawa. 1888-1960. Japanese Christian pacifist evangelist writer/labour leader. National Anti-War League 1928.
Kalevala. Finnish national epic poem compiled by Lönnrot, 1835.
Karsh, Yousuf. 1908-. US/Canadian portrait photographer of international celebrities. Churchill 1941.
Keble, John. 1792-1866. English poet/clergyman. National Apostacy 1833 sermon started Oxford Movement.
Kelley, Oliver. 1826-1913. US agriculturalist. Founded National Grange 1867.
Kellogg-Briand Pact. 1928. Outlawed war as an instrument of national policy. Signed by 62 countries. Kellogg. Briand.
Kent State Massacre. 1970. Ohio National Guardsmen kill 4 student anti-Vietnam War demonstrators.
Key, Francis Scott. 1779-1843. US lawyer/poet. Star Spangled Banner 1814 based on music from English drinking song To Anacreon in Heaven. US National anthem 1931-.
Kiangsi Soviet. 1931-4. Chinese Communist Provincial government vs Nationalists under Mao. Long March.
Kisfaludy, Károly. 1788-1830. Hungarian national dramatist. Tatars in Hungary 1811.
Kuomintang. KMT. 1911-49. Chinese nationalist party in power 1928-49. Founded by Sun Yat-sen. Overthrew Manchu dynasty. Expelled to Taiwan by Communist Party. Chiang Kai-shek.
Labrouste, Henri. 1801-75. French architect. Early use of iron. Bibliothèque Nationale 1862.
Ladislaus I. 1040-95. King of Hungary 1077-. National hero, defeated Poles, Russians, Tatars. Conquered Croats.
Lebanese Civil War. 1975-91. Moslem PLO gain power over Phalangists. Lebanese National Pact. Israeli, Syrian intervention 1978-82.
Lebanese National Pact. 1943-75. Compromise government of Maronite President, Sunni Prime Minister, Shi’ite Speaker.