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| 9614228516 | Proxy Wars | During the Cold War, local or regional wars in which superpowers armed, trained, and financed the combatants. | 0 | |
| 9614235749 | Salvador Allende | Socialist politician elected president of Chile in 1970 and overthrown by the military in 1973. | 1 | |
| 9614239798 | Dirty War | War waged by the Argentine military against leftist groups. | 2 | |
| 9614244988 | Sandinistas | Members of a leftist coalition that overthrew the Nicaraguan dictatorship of Anastasia Somoza in 1979 and attempted to install a socialist economy. | 3 | |
| 9614260278 | Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini | Shi'ite philosopher and cleric who led the overthrow of the Shah of Iran in 1979 and created an Islamic republic. | 4 | |
| 9614270466 | Saddam Husain | President of Iraq from 1979 until overthrown by an American-led invasion in 2003. | 5 | |
| 9614276654 | Keiretsu | Alliances of corporations and banks that dominate the Japanese economy. | 6 | |
| 9614280997 | Neoliberalism | The term used in Latin America and other developing regions to describe free market policies. | 7 | |
| 9614284607 | Asian Tigers | Collective name for South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore - nations that became economic powers in the 1970's and 1980's. | 8 | |
| 9614308582 | Newly industrialized economies | Rapidly growing, new industrial nations of the late 20th century, including the Asian Tigers. | 9 | |
| 9614314889 | Deng Xiaoping | Communist Party leader who forced Chinese economic reforms after the death of Mao Zedong. | 10 | |
| 9614331229 | Tiananmen Square | Site in Beijing where Chinese students and workers gathered to demand greater political openness in 1989. | 11 | |
| 9614336390 | Mikhail Gorbachev | Head of Soviet Union from 1985-1991 | 12 | |
| 9614344181 | Perestroika | Policy of "restructuring" that was the center-piece of Mikhail Gorbachev's efforts to liberalize communism in the Soviet Union. | 13 | |
| 9614350729 | Solidarity | Polish trade union created in 1980 to protect working conditions and political repression. | 14 | |
| 9614355710 | Ethnic cleansing | Effort to eradicate a race and its culture by means of mass killing and the destruction of historical buildings and cultural materials. | 15 | |
| 9614363052 | Thomas Malthus | 18th century English intellectual who warned that population growth threatened future generations. | 16 | |
| 9614371435 | Demographic transition | A change in the rates of population growth. | 17 |
