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| 61976344 | proxy wars | During the Cold War, local or regional wars in which the superpowers armed, trained, and financed the combatants. (p. 855) | 0 | |
| 61976345 | Salvador Allende | Socialist politician elected president of Chile in 1970 and overthrown by the military in 1973. He died during the military attack. (p. 856) | 1 | |
| 61976346 | Dirty War | an offensive conducted by secret police or the military of a regime against revolutionary and terrorist insurgents and marked by the use of kidnapping and torture and murder with civilians often being the victims | 2 | |
| 61976347 | 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. The Sandinistas lost national elections in 1990 | 3 | |
| 61976348 | Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini | Iranian religious leader of the Shiites | 4 | |
| 61976349 | Saddam Hussain | Dictator of Iraq | 5 | |
| 61976350 | neo-liberalism | a political orientation originating in the 1960s | 6 | |
| 61976351 | keirestu | Japanese tradition built "corporate families" that forged semi permanent ties with suppliers, customers, and distributers with full support of the government | 7 | |
| 61976352 | Asian Tigers | Collective name for South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore-nations that became economic powers in the 1970s and 1980s. (p. 861) | 8 | |
| 61976353 | newly industrialized economies | Rapidly growing, new industrial nations of the late twentieth century, including the Asian Tigers. (p. 861) | 9 | |
| 61976354 | Deng Xiaoping | Communist Party leader who forced Chinese economic reforms after the death of Mao Zedong. (p. 862) | 10 | |
| 61976355 | Tiananmen Square | Chinese citizens want political reform and stood their ground at Tiananmen Square. | 11 | |
| 61976356 | Mikhail Gorbachev | Soviet statesman whose foreign policy brought an end to the Cold War and whose domestic policy introduced major reforms (born in 1931) | 12 | |
| 61976357 | perestroika | an economic policy adopted in the former Soviet Union | 13 | |
| 61976358 | Solidarity | a union of interests or purposes or sympathies among members of a group | 14 | |
| 61976359 | Thomas Malthus | an English economist who argued that increases in population would outgrow increases in the means of subsistence (1766-1834) | 15 | |
| 61976360 | 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. | 16 |
