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| 13807256044 | proxy wars | During the Cold War, local or regional wars in which the superpowers armed, trained, and financed the combatants | 0 | |
| 13807256045 | Salvador Allende | Socialist politician elected president of Chile in 1970 and overthrown by the military in 1973 | 1 | |
| 13807256046 | Dirty War | War waged by the Argentine military (1976-1982) against leftist groups. Characterized by the use of illegal imprisonment, torture, and executions by the military | 2 | |
| 13807256047 | Sandinistas | Members of a leftist coalition that overthrew the Nicaraguan dictatorship of Anastasia Somoza in 1979 and attempted to install a socialist economy. The United States financed armed opposition by the Contras. They lost national elections in 1990 | 3 | |
| 13807256048 | Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini | Shi'ite philosopher and cleric who led the overthrow of the shah of Iran in 1979 and created an Islamic republic | 4 | |
| 13807256049 | neo-liberalism | A strategy for economic development that calls for free markets, balanced budgets, privatization, free trade, and minimal government intervention in the economy | 5 | |
| 13807256050 | Saddam Husain | President of Iraq since 1979. Waged war on Iran in 1980-1988. In 1990 he ordered an invasion of Kuwait but was defeated by United States and its allies in the Gulf War (1991) | 6 | |
| 13807256051 | keiretsu | Japanese business groups after the post-WWII dismantling of the zaibatsu. They are Alliances of corporations each often centered around a bank. They dominate the post-WWII Japanese economy | 7 | |
| 13807256052 | Asian Tigers | Collective name for South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore-nations that became economic powers in the 1970s and 1980s | 8 | |
| 13807256053 | newly industrialized economies | Rapidly growing, new industrial nations of the late twentieth century, including the Asian Tigers | 9 | |
| 13807256054 | Deng Xiaoping | Communist Party leader who forced Chinese economic reforms after the death of Mao Zedong | 10 | |
| 13807256055 | Tiananmen Square | Site in Beijing where Chinese students and workers gathered to demand greater political openness in 1989. The demonstration was crushed by Chinese military with great loss of life | 11 | |
| 13807256056 | Mikhail Gorbachev | Head of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991. His liberalization effort improved relations with the West, but he lost power after his reforms led to the collapse of Communist governments in eastern Europe | 12 | |
| 13807256057 | 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 | 13 | |
| 13807256058 | Solidarity | Polish trade union created in 1980 to protest working conditions and political repression. It began the nationalist opposition to communist rule that led in 1989 to the fall of communism in eastern Europe | 14 | |
| 13807256059 | ethnic cleansing | Process in which more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region | 15 | |
| 13807256060 | Thomas Malthus | an English economist who argued that increases in population would outgrow increases in the means of subsistence (1766-1834) | 16 | |
| 13807256061 | demographic transition | The process of change in a society's population from a condition of high crude birth and death rates and low rate of natural increase to a condition of low crude birth and death rates, low rate of natural increase, and a higher total population | 17 |
