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| 4446234087 | regionalism | the theory or practice of regional rather than central systems of administration or economic, cultural, or political affiliation | 0 | |
| 4446237963 | enclosure movement | push in the 18th and 19th centuries to take land that had formerly been owned in common by all members of a village, or at least available to the public for grazing animals and growing food, and change it to privately owned land, usually with walls, fences or hedges around it. | 1 | |
| 4446239268 | laissez-faire | policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering. | 2 | |
| 4446239269 | liberalism | political philosophy or worldview founded on ideas of liberty and equality. | 3 | |
| 4446242052 | personality politics | political philosophy or worldview founded on ideas of liberty and equality. | 4 | |
| 4446247382 | Alexander 2nd (tsar) | ascended the throne during the Crimean War (1853-56). most important reform was the emancipation of the serfs (1861). Municipal government was overhauled (1870), universal military training was introduced (1874), and censorship and control over education were temporarily relaxed. system of limited local self-government was introduced (see zemstvo). | 5 | |
| 4446250085 | autonomy | right or condition of self-government, | 6 | |
| 4446353180 | NAFTA | North American Free Trade Agreement; agreement among the United States, Canada and Mexico designed to remove tariff barriers between the three countries. | 7 | |
| 4446357655 | green revolution | a large increase in crop production in developing countries achieved by the use of fertilizers, pesticides, and high-yield crop varieties. | 8 | |
| 4446366868 | nikita krushchev | led the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War, serving as premier from 1958 to 1964. reduced the power of the Soviet Union's feared secret police, released many political prisoners, relaxed artistic censorship, opened up more of the country to foreign visitors and inaugurated the space age in 1957 with the launch of the satellite Sputnik. break with China and food shortages in the USSR eroded legitimacy in the eyes of other high-ranking Soviet officials, who were already bothered by what they saw as his erratic tendency to undercut their authority. | 9 |
