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| 6436274453 | Anti-imperialism | the act of opposing imperialism and promoting a republic | 0 | |
| 6436277012 | Anti-Semitism | the prejudice and hostility toward Jewish people | 1 | |
| 6436277013 | Apartheid | racial segregation in South Africa between 1948 and 1991 | 2 | |
| 6436277014 | Appeasement | to please or pacify | 3 | |
| 6436277015 | Authoritarianism/Authoritarian regimes | a strict obedience to one's government | 4 | |
| 6436277016 | Bedouin Biafra secessionist movement | the rebellion to free Biafra from Nigeria | 5 | |
| 6436277017 | Chemically & genetically enhanced forms of agriculture | GMO's meant to give a plant new and unnatural traits | 6 | |
| 6436277018 | Cold War | a condition of rivalry, mistrust, and often open hostility short of violence between the U.S. and Russia | 7 | |
| 6436277019 | Collectivization | the USSR's method of improving agriculture through the implementation of group farms called 'kolkholzes.' | 8 | |
| 6436277020 | Communism (Five-Year Plans, Great Leap Forward) | a government system in which everything is publicly owned and people are paid according to what they do and need | 9 | |
| 6436277021 | Consumerism | the buyers interest is reflected in what is sold and protected | 10 | |
| 6436277022 | Containment | to prevent expansion of an aggressive country | 11 | |
| 6436277023 | Cultural convergence | the act of cultures becoming similar to one another | 12 | |
| 6436277024 | Cultural Identities (PanAfricanism, Pan-Arabism, pan-Slavism, Negritude) | a person's feeling of belonging to a group of people | 13 | |
| 6436277025 | Decolonization | a nation which reverses colonialism in order to maintain imperial power and domination | 14 | |
| 6436277026 | Deforestation | the action or process of clearing of forests | 15 | |
| 6436277027 | Desertification | rapid depletion of plant life, and loss of topsoil due to overexploitation and droughts. | 16 | |
| 6436277028 | Dissolution | the end of an organization or assembly | 17 | |
| 6436277029 | Domestic (not having to do with the private home!) | to occur within one country | 18 | |
| 6436277030 | Draft | recruitment to the military | 19 | |
| 6436277031 | Economic liberalization | the act of a government withdrawing its control over a foreign economy | 20 | |
| 6436277032 | Exclusionary reactions (Xenophobia, Race riots, Citizenship restrictions) | reactions to incoming people who are considered to be "other" by shunning or ostracizing in a prejudiced manner. Racism | 21 | |
| 6436277033 | Fascism | A governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism. | 22 | |
| 6436277034 | Feminism | the theory of political, economic, and social equality of the sexes, usually achieved through organized women's rights movements. | 23 | |
| 6436277035 | Five-Year Plans | Plans that Joseph Stalin introduced to industrialize the Soviet Union rapidly, beginning in 1928. They set goals for the output of steel, electricity, machinery, and most other products and were enforced by the police powers of the state. | 24 | |
| 6436277036 | Free market economics/policies | an economy unregulated by the government with free trade that results in a prosperous economy, favoring big businesses and individual wealth; government should have very limited/little regulation to preserve balance and order | 25 | |
| 6436277037 | Free Trade | An economic theory or policy of the absence of restrictions or tariffs on goods imported into a country. There is no "protection" in the form of tariffs against foreign competition. | 26 | |
| 6436277038 | Genocide | Deliberate extermination of a racial or cultural group | 27 | |
| 6436277039 | 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. | 28 | |
| 6436277040 | Global warming | a gradual increase in the overall temperature of the earth's atmosphere generally attributed to the greenhouse effect caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide, chlorofluorocarbons, and other pollutants. | 29 | |
| 6436277041 | Gov't intervention in the economy (New Deal, Fascist corporatist economy, economic development, export-oriented economies) | a government or organization's action taken to affect a market economy | 30 | |
| 6436277042 | Great Depression | (HH) , starting with collapse of the US stock market in 1929, period of worldwide economic stagnation and depression. S Widespread unemployment, countries raised tariffs to protect their industries. America stopped investing in Europe. Lead to loss of confidence that economies were self adjusting, HH was blamed for it | 31 | |
| 6436277043 | Green/environmental movements (e.g. Greenpeace, Green Belt in Kenya, Earth Day) | An approach to conservation and ecological issues through politics, society, and science | 32 | |
| 6436277044 | Green Revolution | Agricultural revolution that increased production through improved seeds, fertilizers, and irrigation | 33 | |
| 6436277045 | Greenhouse gases | Gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, water vapor, and ozone in the atmosphere which are involved in the greenhouse effect. | 34 | |
| 6436277046 | Holocaust | Mass slaughter of a group of people by means of fire or nuclear war | 35 | |
| 6436277047 | Human rights (e.g. U.N. Univ. Decl. of Human Rights, Women's rights, end of the White Australia Policy) | A right that is believed to be applicable to any person | 36 | |
| 6436277048 | Indian National Congress | A movement and political party founded in 1885 to demand greater Indian participation in government. | 37 | |
| 6436277049 | intensified conflict (military dictatorship, New World Order, "military-industrial complex," arms trading) | The increased aggression in war or disagreement | 38 | |
| 6465632363 | Imperial metropoles | The central point of economics and government in a powerful, expansive empire | 39 | |
| 6436277050 | League of Nations | An organization created as a result of World War 1 which was meant to pacify global conflict an disagreement | 40 | |
| 6436277051 | Mandates | An official command or action given by an organization/country with authority | 41 | |
| 6436277052 | Medical innovations (polio vaccine, antibiotics, artificial heart) | Advancement in technologies relating to medicine and healthcare | 42 | |
| 6436277053 | Militarized states | A state whose economy revolves around its military | 43 | |
| 6436277054 | Mobilization of a state's resources (Gurkha, ANZAC, Military conscription) | A state's ability to acquire and use its resources such as its military | 44 | |
| 6436277055 | Movements who challenged the war (anti-nuclear movement, self-immolation) | Social disagreement and protest toward a countries violent conflict | 45 | |
| 6436277056 | Mujahideen/Taliban | Islamic guerilla fighters/a Sunni muslin group fighting the Afghan government | 46 | |
| 6436277057 | Multinational/Trans-national corporations (e.g. Royal Dutch Shell, Coca-Cola, Sony) | Companies that have assets in countries other than its headquarters | 47 | |
| 6436277058 | NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization; the counteract of Russia's Warsaw Pact, following World War 2 to make alliances between North America and Europe's democracies | 48 | |
| 6436277059 | New economic institutions (International Monetary Fund, (IMF), World Bank, World Trade Organization (WTO)) | Sought to spread the principles and practices associated with free market economics throughout the world. | 49 | |
| 6436277060 | Nonviolence (Non-Aligned & Anti-Apartheid Mvmnts) | the use of peaceful means, not force, to bring about political or social change. | 50 | |
| 6436277061 | nuclear weaponry | Weapons of mass destruction using the splitting of Uranium (and later hydrogen) atoms to create a chain reaction explosion of mass proportions | 51 | |
| 6436277062 | OPEC | An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the production and sale of petroleum. | 52 | |
| 6436277063 | Pacific Rim | an economic and social region including the country's surrounding the pacific ocean, typified by rapid growth rates, expanding exports, and industrialization | 53 | |
| 6436277064 | Perestroika | A policy initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev that involved restructuring of the social and economic status quo in communist Russia towards a market based economy and society | 54 | |
| 6436277065 | Popular culture (Dada, Socialist Realism) | A basis of culture from the average person's POV | 55 | |
| 6436277066 | Population resettlements/partition | A state's division into parts | 56 | |
| 6436277067 | Propaganda | Ideas, facts, or allegations spread deliberately to further one's cause or to damage an opposing cause | 57 | |
| 6436277068 | proxy wars | During the Cold War, local or regional wars in which the superpowers armed, trained, and financed the combatants - but did not directly attack the other superpower. | 58 | |
| 6436277069 | Québécois separatist movement | Late 1960s in Canada, Quebec citizens thought English-speaking Canada were responsible for all the economic hardships. Wanted to ceced from Canada and establish a French-speaking nation. | 59 | |
| 6436277070 | Redistribute land and resources | To divide and exchange plots of land, again as a reform, and resources in more equal sections and amounts | 60 | |
| 6436277071 | Refugee populations/displacement of peoples | A person who is forcefully removed from their home country as a result of the threat of physical harm from persecution and natural disaster | 61 | |
| 6436277072 | Regional trade agreements or blocs (e.g. European Union, NAFTA, ASEAN) | a trade agreement between several countries located in a specific geographical region | 62 | |
| 6436277073 | Religious fundamentalism | religious movement whose objectives are to return to the foundations of the faith and to influence state policy | 63 | |
| 6436277074 | Scientific paradigms (theory of relativity, Quantum mechanics, Big Bang theory, Psychology) | A set of ideas such as postulates, theories, methods, patterns, or standards that form an overall distinguishable concept's findings in science | 64 | |
| 6436277075 | Segregation | Separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences | 65 | |
| 6436277076 | Self-determination | The ability of a government to determine their own course of their own free will;Concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves | 66 | |
| 6436277077 | soviets | A Russian council composed of representatives from the workers and soldiers. | 67 | |
| 6436277078 | superpowers | nations with enough military, political, and economic strength to influence events worldwide | 68 | |
| 6436277079 | tactics (trench warfare, firebombing) | A strategically planned action meant to accomplish a specific goal | 69 | |
| 6436277080 | Technological stagnation | Technological period of no grown of very slow growth (think depression) | 70 | |
| 6436277081 | Terrorism | Acts of violence designed to promote a specific ideology or agenda by creating panic among an enemy population | 71 | |
| 6436277082 | Third World/developing world | Countries which are less advanced in their economy and technology | 72 | |
| 6436277083 | "total wars"/World Wars | A war that includes numerous large, powerful countries from around the warld | 73 | |
| 6436277084 | Totalitarianism | A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | 74 | |
| 6436277085 | United Nations | An international organization formed after WWII to promote international peace, security, and cooperation. | 75 | |
| 6436277086 | Warsaw Pact | An alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations. This was in response to the NATO | 76 | |
| 6436277087 | Women's emancipation/suffrage | The fight to earn the women's right to vote and remove discrimination between genders in laws, institutions, and behaviors | 77 | |
| 6441031694 | this quizlet | made by Josephine Walk, Ana Rivera, and Erin Hobday. ur welcome | 78 |
