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| 71635986 | Berlin Wall | In 1961, the Soviet Union built a high barrier to seal off their sector of Berlin in order to stop the flow of refugees out of the Soviet zone of Germany. The wall was torn down in 1989. | 0 | |
| 71635987 | apartheid | A social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic and legal discrimination against non-whites. | 1 | |
| 71635988 | iron curtain | An impenetrable barrier to communication or information especially as imposed by rigid censorship and secrecy. | 2 | |
| 71635989 | glasnost | Policy of openness initiated by Gorbachev in the 1980s that provided increased opportunities for freedom of speech, association and the press in the Soviet Union. | 3 | |
| 71635990 | ayatollah | A high-ranking Shiite religious leader who is regarded as an authority on religious law and its interpretation and who has political power as well. | 4 | |
| 71635991 | Truman doctrine | President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology. | 5 | |
| 71635992 | Al-Qaeda | A network of Islamic terrorist organizations, led by Osama bin Laden, that carried out the attacks on the US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya in 1998, the USS Cole in Yemen in 2000, and the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in 2001. | 6 | |
| 71635993 | Tienanmen square | Site in Bejing where Chinese students and workers gathered to demand greater political openness in 1989. The demonstration was crushed by Chinese military with great loss of life. | 7 | |
| 71635994 | Persian gulf war | 1991, a war fought between a coalition led by the United States and Iraq to free Kuwait from Iraqi invaders. | 8 | |
| 71635995 | Warsaw pact | Treaty signed in 1945 that formed an alliance of the Eastern European countries behind the Iron Curtain; USSR, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania; in response to NATO. | 9 | |
| 71635996 | world bank | A specialized agency of the United Nations that makes loans to countries for economic development, trade promotion, and debt consolidation. Its formal name is the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. | 10 | |
| 71635997 | European union | An international organization of Western European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members. | 11 | |
| 71635998 | OPEC | Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. an organization founded in 1960 of nations that export large amounts of petroleum: formed to establish oil-exporting policies and set prices. | 12 | |
| 71635999 | World Trade Organization | Administers the rules governing trade between its 144 members. Helps producers, importers, and exporters conduct their business and ensure that trade flows smoothly. | 13 | |
| 71636000 | Euro currency | The basic monetary unit of most members of the European Union (introduced in 1999). | 14 | |
| 71636001 | Sadam Hussein | The old leader of Iraq who was put on trial for genocide, and crimes against human rights. | 15 | |
| 71636002 | Che Guevara | (1928-1967) Argentinean revolutionary leader; he was an aide to Fidel Castro (chief lieutenant) during the Cuban revolution. | 16 | |
| 71636003 | Lech Walesa and Solidarity | Polish shipyard worker, protests Soviet control - founded Solidarity movement - anti-Communists + Catholics working against Communism. | 17 | |
| 71636004 | Terrorism | The calculated use of violence (or threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature. | 18 | |
| 71636005 | Ethnic cleansing | The expulsion, imprisonment, or killing of ethnic minorities by a dominant majority group. | 19 |
