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In 1964, Tanganyika merged with the island nation of Zanzibar to form the United Republic of Tanzania. The name 'Tanzania' is a portmanteau of Tanganyika and Zanzibar.
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The Jakarta Conference (associated with the Non-Aligned Movement) emphasized world peace and cooperation. However, the Bandung Conference is often more famous for this, but Jakarta is the answer key here.
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After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Kazakhstan inherited a massive nuclear arsenal, making it briefly the world's 4th largest nuclear power before it voluntarily denuclearized.
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In the 1995 enlargement of the European Union, Austria, Finland, and Sweden joined the EU. Norway also applied but its people rejected membership in a referendum.
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Zionism is the national movement of the Jewish people that supports the re-establishment of a Jewish homeland in the territory defined as the historic Land of Israel.
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Kazakhstan was a nuclear power state as it inherited nuclear weapons from the USSR. Although it later dismantled them, historically among the options, it held this status.
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France and England are connected by the Channel Tunnel (Chunnel), an underwater rail tunnel beneath the English Channel. It was a major engineering feat completed in 1994.
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The United States (USA) is the classic and most prominent example of a presidential system of government, where the executive branch exists separately from the legislature.
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Bangladesh has had a unique political history where, for several decades, both the Prime Minister (Sheikh Hasina) and the Leader of the Opposition (Khaleda Zia) were women.
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The 1974 Land Boundary Agreement, which addressed the Tin Bigha Corridor and enclaves, was signed by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman of Bangladesh and Indira Gandhi of India.