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| 394184421 | Palestine Liberation organization | A political group that claims to represent all Palestinians and to be working toward gaining an independent Palestinian nation. | 0 | |
| 394184422 | Golda Meir | First female prime minister of Israel(1898-1978) Israeli politician; she was the prime minister of Israel during the Yom Kippur War and sought assistance and supplies from the United States. | 1 | |
| 394184423 | OPEC | an Arab led organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the production and sale of petroleum | 2 | |
| 394184424 | Muammer al-Gaadafi | seized control of the Libyan government in 1969 and ruled as an authoritarian dictator for more than 40 years before he was over thrown in 2011 | 3 | |
| 394184425 | Ayatollah Khomeini | Iranian religious leader of the Shiites; when Shah Pahlavi's regime fell Khomeini established a new constitution giving himself supreme powers (1900-1989) | 4 | |
| 394184426 | Aids/HIV | Infection caused by the human immundeficiency virus. It attacks and destroys the immune system. | 5 | |
| 394184427 | Apartheid | a social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic and legal discrimination against non-whites | 6 | |
| 394184428 | Nelson Mandela | leader of the African National Congress who was jailed for his opposition to apartheid in South Africa. He was later elected president in 1994 when free elections were established, and was instrumental in a new democratic constitution being written in 1996. | 7 | |
| 394184429 | Fidel Castro | Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba (born in 1927) | 8 | |
| 394184430 | Amnesty International | An influential non-governmental organization that operates globally to monitor and try to rectify glaring abuses of political (not economic or social) human rights. | 9 | |
| 394184431 | Mikhail Gorbachev | Head of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991. His liberalization effort improved relations with the West, but he lost power after his reforms led to the collapse of Communist governments in eastern Europe. (p. 863) | 10 | |
| 394184432 | Ethnic Cleansing | Effort to eradicate a people and its culture by means of mass killing and the destruction of historical buildings and cultural materials. It was used by both sides in the conflicts that accompanied the disintegration of Yugoslavia | 11 | |
| 394184433 | Internet | The largest network used as a communication tool. | 12 |
