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13743297765Al-QaedaAn Islamic-extremist terrorist organization behind the 9/11 attacks.0
13743297766AntiglobalizationA movement which aims to criticize and counteract globalization.1
13743299587Osama Bin LadenFounder of Al-Qaeda in 1988.2
13743299588Bretton Woods SystemA set of agreements that negotiated rules for commercial and financial dealings among major capitalist countries, and created institutions such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.3
13743301835Environmentalism4
13743301836Fundamentalism5
13743303134GlobalizationProcess of increasing political, economic, and cultural relationships throughout the world.6
13743303135Global WarmingGradual increase of global temperatures as a result from industrialization and globalization.7
13743303136Che GuevaraArgentinian born revolutionary that embraced the Cuban revolution and tried to liberate parts of Africa and Latin America through guerrilla warfare.8
13743305758Hindutva9
13743305759Islamic Renewal10
13743306984Jihad11
13743309079Kyoto Protocol on Global WarmingAn international treaty intended to bring countries together to reduce global warming and cope with the existing effects of it.12
13743310684Liberation TheologyThe idea which drove communism, nationalism, and other major ideologies through the promise of freedom from previously oppressive authorities.13
13743310685Neo-LiberalismAn approach to the world economy that favors reduction of tariffs, free global movement of capital, mobile workforce, privatization of many state run enterprises, government efforts to regulate economy, and tax/spending cuts.14
13743312344North/South GapGap in wealth, healthcare, educational and employment opportunities, Internet access, etc. which favored the Global North.15
13743314434Augusto PinochetDictator of Chile from 1973-1990 who repressed women in his regime.16
13743314435Prague SpringAn explosion in free expression, emerging political clubs and parties, and rehabilitation of repressed victims enacted by New Communist Party in Czechoslovakia.17
13743317126ReglobalizationDramatic quickening of global economic transactions after WWII. Expressed in accelerating circulation of goods, capital, and people.18
13743317127Religious Right19
13743321225Second Wave FeminismSurge in feminist movements from the 1960s-80s in the Western World.20
13743321226Socially Engaged Buddhism21
13743323653Transnational CorporationsCorporations that produce goods or deliver services simultaneously in many countries.22
13743325489World Trade OrganizationInternational body representing 149 nations that negotiates rules for global commerce and promoting free trade.23

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