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| 4265349612 | Kwame Nkrumah | founder of Ghana's independence movement and Ghana's first priesident | 0 | |
| 4265349613 | Pahlavi dynasty | family that took over Iran's gov't in 1925; was an authoritarian regime; people didn't like them and it paved the way for the 1979 Revolution | 1 | |
| 4265349614 | Palestinian Liberation Organization | political party and organization that fought for Palestinian rights | 2 | |
| 4265349615 | Party of the Institutionalized Revolution | PRI; dominant political party in Mexico; developed during the 1920s and 1930s; incorporated labor, peasant, military, and middle-class sectors; controlled other political organizations in Mexico | 3 | |
| 4265349616 | Juan Peron | dominant authoritarian and populist leader in Argentina from the mid-1940s; driven into exile in 1955; returned and elected president in 1973; died in 1974. | 4 | |
| 4265349617 | Eva Peron | the second wife of President Juan Perón (1895-1974) and served as the First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952 | 5 | |
| 4265349618 | Potsdam Conference | July 26, 1945 - Allied leaders Truman, Stalin and Churchill met in Germany to set up zones of control and to inform the Japanese that if they refused to surrender at once, they would face total destruction. | 6 | |
| 4265349619 | Augusto Pinochet | Chilean militar leader who in a coup deposed Salvador Allende - communist, elected leader - created one party rule dictatorship - ruled w/ iron fist - human rights abuses | 7 | |
| 4265349620 | Franklin Roosevelt | President of the US during Great Depression and World War II | 8 | |
| 4265349621 | Security Council | main organ within the UN responsible for maintaining peace and security; composed of 5 permanent and 10 rotating members with two year terms elected by the General Assembly | 9 | |
| 4265349622 | space race | a competition of space exploration between the United States and Soviet Union | 10 | |
| 4265349623 | Sputnik | the world's first space satellite. This meant the Soviet Union had a missile powerful enough to reach the US. | 11 | |
| 4265349624 | Tehran Conference | Meeting among leaders of the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union in 1943; agreed to the opening of a new front in France | 12 | |
| 4265349625 | "three waves" of democratization | HUNTINGTON | 13 | |
| 4265349626 | -Removal of property limitations for voting | Reverse Wave 1922-1942 | 14 | |
| 4265349627 | Second Wave 1943-1962 | Reverse Wave 1958-1975 | 15 | |
| 4265349628 | Third Wave 1974-1990 | Reverse Wave Late 1990s-2011 | 16 | |
| 4265349629 | "Two Chinas" | Mainland and Taiwan: both claim to represent China | 17 | |
| 4265349630 | United Fruit Company | U.S. corporation that controlled the banana trade in much of Latin America | 18 | |
| 4265349631 | United Nations Charter | 1945, The Allied Powers create an international agency to resolve conflicts among members and discourage aggressor nations with Military force | 19 | |
| 4265349632 | Getulio Vargas | became president of Brazil following a contested election of 1929; led an authoritarian state until deposed in 1945; became president again in 1950. | 20 | |
| 4265349633 | Yalta Conference | 1945 Meeting with US president FDR, British Prime Minister(PM) Winston Churchill, and and Soviet Leader Stalin during WWII to plan for post-war | 21 | |
| 4265349634 | Zionist Movement | a nationalist movement among the Jews to establish a home land in Palestine | 22 | |
| 4265349635 | Al-Qaeda | Islamist terrorist organization that launched a series of attacks against U.S. | 23 | |
| 4265349636 | command economy | a system in which the central government makes all economic decisions | 24 | |
| 4265349637 | compressed modernity | rapid economic and political change that transforms a country into a stable nation | 25 | |
| 4265349638 | dependency theory | a model of economic and social development that explains global inequality in terms of the historical exploitation of poor nations by rich ones | 26 | |
| 4265349639 | fragmentation | divisions based on ethnic or cultural identity | 27 | |
| 4265349640 | glasnost | a policy of the Soviet government allowing freer discussion of social problems | 28 | |
| 4265349641 | global elite culture | attitudes and outlook of well educated, prosperous, Western oriented people around the world. | 29 | |
| 4265349642 | global pop culture | popular cultural practices and institutions that have been adopted internationally, such as music, the Internet, television, food, and fashion | 30 | |
| 4265349643 | Green Revolution | the introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity | 31 | |
| 4265349644 | cultural globalization | worldwide spread of similar norms, values, and practices | 32 | |
| 4265349645 | household responsibility system | the system put into practice in China beginning in the early 1980s in which major decisions about agricultural production are made by individual farm families based on profit motive rather than by a people's commune or the government. | 33 | |
| 4265349646 | human rights movement | changing the way society views the rights of all of its members including minorities, clients with terminal illness (euthanasia), pregnant women, and older adults | 34 | |
| 4265349647 | integration | the act of uniting or bringing together, especially people of different races | 35 | |
| 4265349648 | Nikita Khrushchev | ruled the USSR from 1958-1964; lessened government control of soviet citizens; seeked peaceful coexistence with the West instead of confrontation | 36 | |
| 4265349649 | less developed countries | a developing country with a low level of industrializationa very high fertility rate, very high infant mortality rate and a very low per capital income | 37 | |
| 4265349650 | more developed countries | countries with greater overall wealth. These countries tend to be more industrialized, bringing in money from manufacturing more goods | 38 | |
| 4265349651 | market economy | an economy that relies chiefly on market forces to allocate goods and resources and to determine prices | 39 | |
| 4265349652 | marketization | recreation of market forces of supply and demand | 40 | |
| 4265349653 | megacities | cities with more than 10 million people | 41 | |
| 4265349654 | mixed economy | an economic system that combines private and state enterprises | 42 | |
| 4265349655 | modernism | a cultural movement embracing human empowerment and rejecting traditionalism as outdated. Rationality, industry, and technology were cornerstones of progress and human achievement. | 43 | |
| 4265349656 | modernization model | model of economic development maintains that all countries go through five stages of development | 44 | |
| 4265349657 | non-governmental organizations | international organizations that operate outside of the formal political arena but that that are nevertheless influential in spearheading international initiatives on social economic and environmental issues | 45 | |
| 4265349658 | perestroika | a policy initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev that involved restructuring of the social and economic status quo in communist Russia towards a market based economy and society | 46 | |
| 4265349659 | politicization of religion | the use of religious principles to promote political ends and vise versa | 47 | |
| 4265349660 | post-modernism | genre of art and literature and especially architecture in reaction against principles and practices of established modernism | 48 | |
| 4265349661 | Vladimir Putin | elected president of Russia in 2000, launched reforms aimed at boosting growth and budget revenues and keeping Russia on a strong economic track. | 49 |
