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| 9690805215 | neoliberalism | an approach to the world economy, developed in the 1970s, that favored reduced tariffs, the free movement of capital, a mobile and temporary workforce, the privatization of industry, and the curtailing of government efforts to regulate the economy. | 0 | |
| 9690805216 | reglobalization | The quickening of global economic transactions after World War II, which resulted in total world output returning to the levels established before the Great Depression and moving beyond them. | 1 | |
| 9690805217 | transnational corporations | Huge global businesses that produce goods or deliver services simultaneously in many countries; often abbreviated as TNCs. | 2 | |
| 9690805218 | Che Guevara | an Argentine-born revolutionary (1928-1967) who waged guerrilla war in an effort to remedy class Latin America's and Africa's social and economic ills. | 3 | |
| 9690805219 | second-wave feminism | women's rights movement that revived in the 1960s with a different agenda than earlier women's suffrage movements; second-wave feminists demanded equal rights for women in employment and education, women's right to control their own bodies, and the end of patriarchal domination. |  | 4 |
| 9690805220 | fundamentalism | a self proclaimed return to the "fundamentals" of a religion and is marked by a militant piety and exclusivism. | 5 | |
| 9690805221 | Hindutva | fundamentalist Hindu movement that became politically important in India in the 1980s by advocating a distinct Hindu identity and decrying government efforts to accommodate other faith groups. | 6 | |
| 9690805222 | Islamic renewal | large number of movements in Islamic lands that promote a return to strict adherence to the Quran and the sharia in opposition to key elements of Western culture. |  | 7 |
| 9690805223 | North/South gap | growing disparity between the Global North and the Global South that appears to be exacerbated by current world trade practices. | 8 | |
| 9690805224 | anti-globalization | major international movement that protests the development of the global economy on the grounds that it makes the rich richer and keeps poor regions in poverty while exploiting their labor and environments; the movement burst onto the world stage in 1999 with massive trade protests at a meeting to the World Trade Organization in Seattle. | 9 | |
| 9690805225 | Prague Spring | sweeping series of reforms instituted by communist leader Alexander Dubcek in Czechoslovakia in 1968; the movement was subsequently crushed by a Soviet invasion. | 10 | |
| 9690805226 | Osama bin Laden | The leader of the Al-Qaeda, a wealthy Saudi Arabian who turned to militant fundamentalism. | 11 | |
| 9690805227 | al-Qaeda | International organization of fundamentalist Islamic militants, headed by the leader Osama bin Laden. |  | 12 |
| 9690805228 | global warming | worldwide scientific consensus that the increased burning of fossil fuels and the loss of trees have begun to warm the Earth's atmosphere artificially and significantly, causing climate change and leading to possibly catastrophic results if the problem is not addressed. |  | 13 |
| 9690805229 | environmentalism | twentieth-century movement to preserve the natural world in the face of spiraling human ability to alter the world environment. | 14 | |
| 9690805230 | Rachel Carson | environmental activist (1907-1964) whose book Silent Spring (1962) is credited with launching the American environmental movement. | 15 |
