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| 61346401 | NATO | North American Treaty Organization; a defense military alliance formed in 1949 by ten westen European nations, Canada, and the United States. (heightened tensions in the Cold War; caused Warsaw Pact) | 0 | |
| 61346402 | Warsaw Pact | a military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and seven Eastern European countries (heightened tensions in the Cold War) | 1 | |
| 61346403 | Great Leap Forward | Mao edong's plan, in 1958, to expand the success of the socialist economic production, calling for larger collective farms, called communes (hampered economic growth; led to famine; decreased popular support of Communism) | 2 | |
| 61346404 | domino theory | the idea that if a national falls under Communist control, nearby nations will also fall under Communist control | 3 | |
| 61346405 | Third World | during the Cold War, the developing nations not allied with either the United States or the Soviet Union (intensified Cold War because the United States and the Soviet Union were fighting over these nations) | 4 | |
| 61346406 | nonaligned nations | the independent countries that remained neutral in the Cold War (intensified Cold War because the United States and the Soviet Union were fighting over these nations) | 5 | |
| 61346407 | Cuban Missile Crises | during the Cold War, the Soviets secretly built nuclear missiles in Cuba to help spread Communism into Latin America, but the US found out and agreed to stay out of Cuba if the Soviets removed the missiles (made people fear a nuclear war/WWIII; left Fidel Castro with only Soviet support so he supported Communism in Latin America) | 6 | |
| 61346408 | Prague Spring | a periof of reform, including loosening controls on censorship, in Czechoslavakia led by Alexander Dubcek in 1968 (gave people a little bit of not so strict Communist government) | 7 | |
| 61346409 | Negritude Movement | a movement in which French-speaking Africans and West Indians celebrated their heritage of traditional African culture and values (gave Africans nationalist feelings and ld to independence movements) | 8 | |
| 61346410 | apartheid | a South African policy of complete legal seperation of the races, including the banning of all social contracts between blacks and whites (led to legal persecution of blacks and inequalities and problems that still exist today) | 9 | |
| 61346411 | ethinic cleansing | a policy of murder and other acts of brutality by which Serbs hoped to eliminate Bosnia's Muslim population after the breakup of Yugoslavia(caused was in Yugoslavia) | 10 | |
| 61346412 | Tiananman Square Uprising | in 1989, a student uprising in Beijing, China in support o democratic government reforms (put pressure on the Chinese communish goverment to reform to a more democratic government) | 11 | |
| 61346413 | green revolution | a 20th century attempt to increase food resources worldwide, involving the use of fertilizers and pestisides and the development of disease resistant crops (helped avert famine in Asia, increased crop yields all over the world, caused cancer and pollution because of the pesticides, small farmers did not benefit because pesticides and fertilizers cost a lost of money) | 12 | |
| 61346414 | developed nation | a nation with all the facilities needed for the advanced productio of manufactured goods (after the Industrial Revolution, seperated between industrialized and non-industrialzed nations) | 13 | |
| 61346415 | developing nation | a nation in which the process of industrialization is not yet complete (after the Industrial Revolution, separated between industrialized and non-industrialized nations) | 14 | |
| 61346416 | multinational corporation | a company that operates in a number of different countries (helped integrate all areas of the world in trade and economy, gave people in developing nations job opportunities though not always good) | 15 | |
| 61346417 | popular culture | the cultural elements - sports, music, movies, clothing and so forth - that reflect a group's common background and changing interests (connects different people with same backgrounds, helps nationalistic feelings, mixes to form new cultures) | 16 |
