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1-10- 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Estate - In France before the French Revolution, the 1st Estate was the Catholic Church, the 2nd was the Nobility, and the 3rd Estate was the rest of the French people (98% of them).
- 13th and 14th Amendments - These are U.S. constitutional amendments that abolished the institution of slavery and defined citizenship within the U.S.
- 38th Parallel - This is the political division of Korea imposed by the United States after WWII. Since then, North Korea would be communist, and South Korea capitalist, and it remains this way to today, with military forces (including the U.S.) enforcing this divisions. See "North Korea".
- 1960s - This period was one of world-wide democratic and revolutionary struggle. Across Latin America, Africa, and Asia, national liberation struggles and people's revolutions were the main trend of the time. Even in the U.S. and Western Europe there were massive protest movements of youth, and oppressed populations. The right wing was violently attacking itself, and many people actually thought that the world-wide socialist revolution was right around the corner. In an effort to hide the political importance of the period, it has been redefined as primarily a period of hippies, drugs, and sex, instead of global revolution.
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