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| 6712391751 | Asian Tigers | The Four Asian Tigers or Asian Dragons are the highly developed economies of Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. These regions were the first newly industrialized countries. | 0 | |
| 6712391752 | Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) | Formed in 1967 by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand to promote political and economic cooperation and regional stability. | 1 | |
| 6712394385 | Mercosur | Consists of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Venezuela to promote free trade and the fluid movement of goods, people, and currency. | 2 | |
| 6712397791 | General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) | Formed soon after World War II ended. Trade treaty implemented to boost economic recovery. | 3 | |
| 6712399366 | ethnic cleansing | The mass expulsion or killing of members of an unwanted ethnic or religious group in a society. | 4 | |
| 6712399367 | favelas | A Brazilian shack or shanty town; a slum. | 5 | |
| 6712401974 | global warming | A gradual increase in the overall temperature of the earth's atmosphere | 6 | |
| 6712401975 | carbon footprint | The amount of carbon dioxide and other carbon compounds emitted due to the consumption of fossil fuels | 7 | |
| 6712403821 | Kyoto Protocol | An international treaty which extends the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that commits State Parties to reduce greenhouse gas emissions | 8 | |
| 6712404875 | Green Belt Movement | Founded in 1977 by Professor Wangari Maathai, the Green Belt Movement (GBM) has planted over 51 million trees in Kenya. | 9 | |
| 6712407895 | HIV/AIDS | Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a chronic, potentially life-threatening condition caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). By damaging your immune system, HIV interferes with your body's ability to fight the organisms that cause disease. | 10 | |
| 6712410341 | Ebola | Ebola, previously known as Ebola hemorrhagic fever, is a rare and deadly disease caused by infection with one of the Ebola virus species. | 11 | |
| 6712414204 | World Trade Organization | Deals with the global rules of trade between nations. Its main function is to ensure that trade flows smoothly and predictably. | 12 | |
| 6712415484 | Arab Spring | A series of protests and demonstrations across the Middle East and North Africa that commenced in 2010. | 13 | |
| 6712417622 | African National Congress (ANC) | The African National Congress (ANC) is South Africa's governing party and has been in power since the transition to democracy in April 1994. | 14 | |
| 6712419117 | Tiananmen Square | 1989: Chinese troops storm into the center of Beijing killing and arresting thousands of pro-democracy protesters. | 15 | |
| 6712420530 | Amnesty International | A non-governmental organization focused on human rights that claims to have over 7 million members and supporters around the world. | 16 | |
| 6712452970 | al-Qaeda | Militant Sunni Islamist multi-national organization founded in 1988 by Osama bin Laden. | 17 | |
| 6712452971 | 9/11 | a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda on the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001 | 18 | |
| 6712454297 | Iraq War | A protracted armed conflict that began in 2003 with the invasion of Iraq by a United States-led coalition that toppled the government of Saddam Hussein. | 19 | |
| 6712455204 | Balkanization | A pejorative geopolitical term, originally used to describe the process of fragmentation or division of a region or state into smaller regions or states that are often hostile or uncooperative with one another. | 20 | |
| 6712457708 | World Health Organization | A specialized agency of the United Nations that is concerned with international public health. It was established on 7 April 1948. | 21 |
