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| 374239676 | Iron Curtain | Winston Churchill's term for the Cold War division between the Soviet-dominated East and U.S. dominated West. | 0 | |
| 374239677 | NATO | Alliance between the US and Western Europe - North American Treaty Organization - to stand against the threat of the USSA. | 1 | |
| 374239678 | Warsaw Pact | In response to NATO, the Soviet Union formed this alliance with its eastern European allies. | 2 | |
| 374239679 | World Bank | A specialized agency of the United Nations that makes loans to countries for economic development, trade promotion, and debt consolidation. | 3 | |
| 374239680 | Common Market | Agreement by Western European nations to help make it easier to trade and do commerce between their borders. Later renames the European Union. | 4 | |
| 374239681 | Helsinski Accords | Political and human rights agreement signed in Helsinski, Finland by the USSR and western European countries, in which also western Europe agreed to political boundaries of eastern Europe. | 5 | |
| 374239682 | Kwame Hkrumah | Became prime minister in 1957 of Ghana, the first British colony in west Africa to be independent country. | 6 | |
| 374239683 | Ernesto "Che" Guevara | First lieutenant to Castro, created strategy for communist revolution in Latin America. | 7 | |
| 374239684 | Fidel Castro | Took power in Cuba in 1959 uniting student groups, labor unions, and other parties. Fought to remove US control in Cuba, nationalize industry, and formed alliance with the USSR. | 8 | |
| 374239685 | nonaligned nations | developing countries that announced their neutrality in the Cold War; they were mostly new, poor and non-European (also known as 'Third World'). | 9 | |
| 374239686 | Cultural revolution | Campaign in China ordered by Mao Zedong to purge the Communist Party of his opponents and instill revolutionary values in the younger generation. | 10 | |
| 374239687 | OPEC | Organization formed in 1960 by oil-producing states to promote their collective interest in generating revenue from oil | 11 | |
| 374239688 | Proxy wars | During the Cold War, local or regional conflicts where the US or USSR armed, trained, and financed each of the sides. | 12 | |
| 374239689 | Salvador Allende | Socialist president of Chile in 1970 that tried to bring control and reform through nationalizing industries and mines, and getting rid of American industrial ownership. A US-supported General overthrew him. | 13 | |
| 374239690 | Dirty War | In Argentina, the military took over the country and suspended the constitution. It fought terrorism through arrest, torture of Argentina's people. | 14 | |
| 374239691 | Sandinistas | Political and military group in Nicaragua that wanted to nationalize, like Cuba and the USSR. The US financed the Contra's -- the group that fought against them, during President Reagan's time. | 15 | |
| 374239692 | Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini | Shi'ite philosopher and cleric (religious leader) who helped overthrow the shah of Iran in 1979, and create an Islamic (Muslim)republic. | 16 | |
| 374239693 | neo-liberalism | term used in Latin America and other developing regions to describe free-market economic policies that included reducing tariff protection for local industries the sale of public-owned industries to private companies and reduced social welfare. | 17 | |
| 374239694 | Saddam Hussein | President of Iraq from 1979 to when American-led invasion over threw him in 2003. He invaded Kuwait in 1990, and fought against Iran. | 18 | |
| 374239695 | keiretsu | Alliances of corporations and banks that dominate the Japanese economy. | 19 | |
| 374239696 | Asian Tigers | The collective name for South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore nations that became economic powers in the 1970's and 1980's. | 20 | |
| 374239697 | Deng Xiaoping | Communist party leader who forced Chinese economic reforms after the death of Mao Zedong, leading to tremendous growth. | 21 | |
| 374239698 | Tiananmen Square | Protest in Beijingn China, by students and intellectuals in 1989 demanding more democracy and an end to corruption. Resulted in death of hundreds and arrest of thousands. | 22 | |
| 374239699 | Mikhail Gorbachev | Head of the Soviet Union in 1985 who instituted a policy of "perestroika" or restructuring that helped create more openness and improving relationships with the West & US. | 23 | |
| 374239700 | Perestroika | Policy of restructuring that was the centerpiece of Gorbachev's efforts to liberalize communism in the Soviet Union | 24 | |
| 374239701 | Solidarity | Polish trade union created in 1980 to protest working conditions and political repression. Started the opposition to communist rule that led in 1989 to the fall of communism in eastern Europe. | 25 | |
| 374239702 | Thomas Malthus | 18th century English intellectual who warned that population growth threatened future generations because growth would outstrip agricultural production. | 26 | |
| 374239703 | Globalization | The economic, political, and cultural integration and interaction of all parts of the world brought about by increasing trade, travel and technology. | 27 | |
| 374239704 | WTO | The world's major traders established this international body in 1995 to bring order and encourage international trade. | 28 | |
| 374239705 | WMD | Nuclear, chemical and biological devices that are capable of injuring and killing large numbers of people. | 29 | |
| 374239706 | Mahmoud Ahmedinejad | Leader of Iran, beginning in 2005, who defends Iran's right to develop nuclear power, and deny's Israel's right to be its own country. | 30 | |
| 374239707 | Taliban | The Muslim ruling party in Afghanistan prior the U.S. led invasion, who continue to threaten stability in the now democratic Afghanistan. | 31 | |
| 374239708 | Hamas | Palestinian political party who is anti-Israel and who was elected to political power in the Palestine Governing Authority in 2006. | 32 | |
| 374239709 | Osama bin Laden | Saudi-born Muslim extremist who funded the Al-Qaeda organization responsible for terrorist attacks. | 33 | |
| 374239710 | NGO | Non-profit international organizations devoted to investigating human rights abuses and providing humanitarian relief. Important forces in promoting human rights. | 34 | |
| 374239711 | cultural imperialism | Domination of one culture over another by a deliberate policy or by economic or technological superiority. | 35 | |
| 374239712 | Fundamentalism | Adherence to a more strict set of religious doctrines & putting that religious faith into political actions. In relation to the US, the movement in the late 20th century resulted in Evangelical protestants and Catholics took a more active role in politics. | 36 |
