ID's for AP World History Spodek 3rd Edition
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| 383450730 | Mikhail Gorbachev | A former Soviet statesman, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. | 0 | |
| 383450731 | Glasnost | A policy which called for increased openness and transparency in government institutions and activities in the Soviet Union; was introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev. | 1 | |
| 383450732 | Perestroika | A political movement within the Communist Party of Soviet Union. The restructuring of the Soviet political and economic system | 2 | |
| 383450733 | Boris Yeltsin | Was the president of Russia; much of his ruling era was marked by widespread corruption, inflation, economic collapse and enormous political and social problems that affected Russia. | 3 | |
| 383450734 | Vladimir Putin | A Russian politician who served as the President of Russia; he is currently Prime Minister of Russia as of 2012. He had return of political stability and economic progress to Russia, ending the crisis of 1990's. | 4 | |
| 383450735 | Al-Qaeda | A global militant Islamist organization founded by Osama bin Laden. Operates as a network comprising both a multinational, stateless army and a radical Sunni Muslim movement. | 5 | |
| 383450736 | Osama bin Laden | A founder of Al-Qaeda; responsible for the September 11 attacks on United States and numerous other mass-casualty attacks against civilian and military targets. | 6 | |
| 383450737 | L.K. Advani | A Veteran Indian politician. A former President of the Bharatiya Janata Party; he also served as a Deputy Prime Minister of India | 7 | |
| 383450738 | Hindutva | Term to describe the movements advocating Hindu nationalism. | 8 | |
| 383450739 | John Paul II | Reigned as Pope of the Catholic Church until his death. Acclaimed as the most influential leaders of 20th century; he was instrumental in ending communism and improving Catholic Church's relations. | 9 | |
| 383450740 | John XXIII | Headed the Catholic Church and ruled Vatican City until death. He was the second Vatican Council. | 10 | |
| 383450741 | Vatican II | Addressed relations between the Roma Catholic Church and the modern world. It was the twenty-first Ecumenical Council of the Catholic Church. | 11 | |
| 383450742 | Liberation Theology | A political movement in Christian theology which interprets the teachings of Jesus Christ in terms of liberation from unjust economic, political, or social conditions. | 12 | |
| 383450743 | Oscar Romero | Was a bishop of the Catholic Church in El Salvador; he was assassinated. | 13 | |
| 383450744 | Fundamentalist | Someone who supports fundamentalism. Fundamentalism is the demand for a strict adherence to specific theological doctrines usually understood as a reaction against Modernist theology, combined with a vigorous attack on outside threats to their religious culture. | 14 | |
| 383450745 | Branch Davidians | A Protestant sect that originated from a schism; this branch has many theological beliefs in common with Messianic Judaism. | 15 | |
| 383450746 | David Koresh | Was the leader of a Branch Davidians religious sect, believing to be its final prophet. | 16 | |
| 383450747 | Jerry Falwell | Was an evangelical fundamentalist Southern Baptist pastor, televangelist, and a conservative commentator from the United States. He was the founding pastor of a Baptist Church, an academy, Liberty University, and cofounded Moral Majority. | 17 | |
| 383450748 | Moral Majority | Was a political organization of the United States which had an agenda of evangelical Christian-oriented political lobbying. | 18 | |
| 383450749 | World Trade Organizations | Is an organization that intends to supervise and liberalize international trade. | 19 | |
| 383450750 | World Social Forum | Is an annual meeting of civil society organizations which offers a self-conscious effort to develop an alternative future. | 20 | |
| 383450751 | Dolly | Was a female domestic sheep, and the first mammal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell, using the process of nuclear transfer. | 21 | |
| 383450752 | Human Genome Project | Is an international scientific research project with a primary goal of determining the sequence of chemical base pairs which make up DNA, and of identifying and mapping genes of the human genome. | 22 |
