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| 166358925 | Proxy Wars | during Cold War, local or regional wars to which the superpowers armed and financed the combatants. | 0 | |
| 166358926 | Salvador Allende | socialist politician elected president of Chile & overthrown by military. | 1 | |
| 166358927 | Dirty War | war waged by the Argentine military against leftist groups. Illegal imprisonment&torture. | 2 | |
| 166358928 | Sandinistas | members of a leftist coalition that overthrew the Nicaraguan dictatorship of Anastasia Somoza& attempted to install a socialist economy. | 3 | |
| 166358929 | Neo-Liberalism | used in Latin America & other developing region to describe free-market policies that include reducing tariff protection for local industries. | 4 | |
| 166358930 | Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini | Shi'ite philosopher & cleric who led the overthrow of the shah of Iran & created an Islamic republic. | 5 | |
| 166358931 | Saddam Hussain | president of Iraq until overthrown by an American-led invasion in 2003. | 6 | |
| 166358932 | Keiretsu | alliances of corporations & banks that dominate the Japanese economy. | 7 | |
| 166358933 | Asian Tigers | name for South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong & Singapore, nations that became economic powers in 1970's & 80's. | 8 | |
| 166358934 | Newly Industrialized economies | rapidly growing new industrial nations of the late twentieth century including Asian Tigers. | 9 | |
| 166358935 | Deng Xiaoping | communist party leader who forced Chinese economic reforms after death of Mao Z. | 10 | |
| 166358936 | Tiananmen Square | site in Beijing where Chinese students & workers gathered to demand greater political openness in 1989. | 11 | |
| 166358937 | Mikhail Gorbachev | head of Soviet Union, liberalization effort improved relations with the West, lost power after his reforms led to collapse of communist governments in Eastern Europe. | 12 | |
| 166358938 | Perestroika | policy of restructuring, attempt to address long suppressed economic problems by moving away from central state planning toward a more open economic system. | 13 | |
| 166358939 | Solidarity | polish trade union created to protest working conditions & political repression. | 14 | |
| 166358940 | Ethnic Cleansing | effort to eradicate a people & it's culture by means of mass killing and destruction of culture. | 15 | |
| 166358941 | Thomas Malthus | English intellectual who warned that population growth threatened future generations cuz it would always outstrip increases in agricultural production. | 16 | |
| 166358942 | Demographic Transition | change in rates of population growth. | 17 | |
| 166358943 | Globalization | economic, political & cultural integration & interaction of all parts of the world brought about by increasing trade. travel, technology. | 18 | |
| 166358944 | World Trade Organization | international body established to foster & bring order to international trade. | 19 | |
| 166358945 | Weapons of mass destruction | nuclear, chemical & biological devices that can kill large numbers of people. | 20 | |
| 166358946 | Terrorism | political belief that extreme & seemingly random violence will destabilize a government and permit terrorists to gain political advantage. | 21 | |
| 166358947 | Usama bin Laden | charismatic leader of Muslims, fought against Soviet Union in Afghanistan. | 22 | |
| 166358948 | Universal Declaration of Human Rights | United Nations convenant binding signatory nations to the observance of specific rights. | 23 | |
| 166358949 | Nongovernmental Organizations | nonprofit international organizations devoted to investigating human rights abuses & providing humanitarian relief. | 24 | |
| 166358950 | Cultural Imperialism | domination of one culture over another by a deliberate policy or economic/technological superiority. | 25 | |
| 166358951 | Global Pop Culture | popular cultural practices and institutions that have been adopted internationally such as music, food, fashion, internet. | 26 | |
| 166358952 | Global Elite Culture | attitudes and outlook of well educated, prosperous, Western oriented people around the world. | 27 |
