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| 6729866467 | Al-Qaeda | a radical Sunni Muslim organization dedicated to the elimination of a Western presence in Arab countries and militantly opposed to Western foreign policy | 0 | |
| 6729884432 | Command economy | an economy in which production, investment, prices, and incomes are determined centrally by a government. | 1 | |
| 6729890193 | Compressed modernity | Rapid economic and political change that transformed the country into a stable nation with democratizing political institutions, a growing economy, and an expanding web of nongovernmental institutions. | 2 | |
| 6729909386 | Containment | American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world | 3 | |
| 6729914443 | Cultural globalization | the transmission of ideas, meanings and values around the world in such a way as to extend and intensify social relations. | 4 | |
| 6729922334 | Cultural imperialism | the economic, technological and cultural hegemony of the industrialized nations, which determines the direction of both economic and social progress, defines cultural values, and standardizes the civilization and cultural environment throughout the world. | 5 | |
| 6729956070 | 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 | 6 | |
| 6730137089 | European Union | An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members. | 7 | |
| 6730158635 | Fragmentation | divisions based on ethnic or cultural identity | 8 | |
| 6730200147 | Glasnost | A policy of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev which called for more openness with the nations of West, and a relaxing of restraints on Soviet citizenry. | 9 | |
| 6730213624 | Global elite culture | At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the attitudes and outlook of well-educated, prosperous, Western-oriented people around the world, largely expressed in European languages, especially English. | 10 | |
| 6730232961 | Global pop culture | the entirety of attitudes, ideas, images, perspectives, and other phenomena that are within the mainstream of a given culture, especially Western culture of the early to mid-20th century and the emerging global mainstream of the late 20th and early 21st century. |  | 11 |
| 6730258998 | Globalization | Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope. | 12 | |
| 6730264701 | Green Revolution | The worldwide campaign to increase agricultural production from the 1940s to 60s, stimulated by new fertilizers and strains of wheat such as that by Norman Borlaug. The movement saved millions from starvation. | 13 | |
| 6730278839 | 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. | 14 | |
| 6730319375 | Human rights movement | a nongovernmental social movement engaged in activism related to the issues of human rights. | 15 | |
| 6730331486 | Saddam Hussein | Was a dictator in Iraq who tried to take over Iran and Kuwait violently in order to gain the land and the resources. He also refused to let the UN into Iraq in order to check if the country was secretly holding weapons of mass destruction. | 16 | |
| 6730362995 | Integration | Allows separate systems to communicate directly with each other | 17 | |
| 6730373841 | Nikita Khrushchev | A Soviet leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Also famous for denouncing Stalin and allowed criticism of Stalin within Russia. | 18 | |
| 6730522133 | LDC | Least Developed Country:also known as a developing country, a country that is at a relatively early stage in the process of economic development | 19 | |
| 6730528719 | MDC | Most Developed Country: sovereign state that has a highly developed economy and advanced technological infrastructure relative to other less industrialized nations | 20 | |
| 6730544709 | Market economy | an economy in which decisions regarding investment, production, and distribution are based on supply and demand, and prices of goods and services are determined in a free price system. | 21 | |
| 6730553527 | Marketization | the conversion of a national economy from a planned to a market economy. | 22 | |
| 6730655160 | Megacity | a metropolitan area with a total population in excess of ten million people | 23 | |
| 6730664416 | Mixed economy | an economic system combining private and public enterprise. | 24 | |
| 6730678864 | Modernism | A cultural movement embracing human empowerment and rejecting traditionalism as outdated. Rationality, industry, and technology were cornerstones of progress and human achievement. | 25 | |
| 6730687207 | Modernization model | model of economic development maintains that all countries go through five stages of development |  | 26 |
| 6730700092 | NAFTA | A trade agreement between Canada, the United States and Mexico that encourages free trade between these North American countries. | 27 | |
| 6730726675 | NGO | a not-for-profit organization that is independent from states and international governmental organizations. | 28 | |
| 6730736980 | Passive resistance | nonviolent opposition to authority, especially a refusal to cooperate with legal requirements. | 29 | |
| 6730748318 | Perestroika | Gorbachev's policy of "restructuring" which included reducing the direct involvement of the Communist Party leadership in the day to day governing of the nation. It was a decentralization of economic planning and controls | 30 | |
| 6730759652 | Preemption | The right of a federal law or a regulation to preclude enforcement of a state or local law or regulation. | 31 | |
| 6730781701 | Private business | a business company owned neither by non-governmental organizations nor by a relatively small number of shareholders | 32 | |
| 6730828288 | Privatization | To change from government or public ownership or control to private ownership or control. | 33 | |
| 6730837095 | Politicization of religion | the use of religious principles to promote political ends and vise versa | 34 | |
| 6730842807 | 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. | 35 | |
| 6730884693 | Socialist market economy | The term used by the government of China to refer to the country's current economic system. It is meant to convey the mix of state control (socialism) and market forces (capitalism) that China is now following in its quest for economic development. The implication is that socialism will promote equality, while the market (especially the profit motive) will encourage people to work hard and foreign companies to invest. | 36 | |
| 6730896148 | SEZ | special economic zones; zones designed to attract foreign companies and investments to China | 37 | |
| 6730907052 | Stateless nations | a political term for ethnic/national group that does not possess its own state and is generally not the majority population in any nation state. | 38 | |
| 6730934145 | Supranational organizations | Organization of three or more states to promote shared objectives. | 39 | |
| 6730945533 | Tiananmen crisis | demonstration by students intellectuals criticizing corruption and demanding democratic reforms, government responded by sending army in to cease protests who killed hundreds of citizens | 40 | |
| 6730950152 | Universal Declaration of Human Rights | A 1948 statement in which the United Nations declared that all human beings have rights to life, liberty, and security. | 41 | |
| 6730953518 | WMD | Weapons of Mass Destruction | 42 | |
| 6730961387 | World Bank | an international financial institution that provides loans to countries of the world for capital programs. | 43 | |
| 6730968272 | WTO | an intergovernmental organization which regulates international trade. | 44 | |
| 6730973513 | Boris Yeltsin | President of the Russian Republic in 1991. Helped end the USSR and force Gorbachev to resign. |  | 45 |
