AP World History Ch 32 WBZ Flashcards

61976344	proxy wars	During the Cold War, local or regional wars in which the superpowers armed, trained, and financed the combatants. (p. 855)	0
61976345	Salvador Allende	Socialist politician elected president of Chile in 1970 and overthrown by the military in 1973. He died during the military attack. (p. 856)	1
61976346	Dirty War	an offensive conducted by secret police or the military of a regime against revolutionary and terrorist insurgents and marked by the use of kidnapping and torture and murder with civilians often being the victims	2
61976347	Sandinistas	Members of a leftist coalition that overthrew the Nicaraguan dictatorship of Anastasia Somoza in 1979 and attempted to install a socialist economy. The United States financed armed opposition by the Contras. The Sandinistas lost national elections in 1990	3
61976348	Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini	Iranian religious leader of the Shiites	4
61976349	Saddam Hussain	Dictator of Iraq	5
61976350	neo-liberalism	a political orientation originating in the 1960s	6
61976351	keirestu	Japanese tradition built "corporate families" that forged semi permanent ties with suppliers, customers, and distributers with full support of the government	7
61976352	Asian Tigers	Collective name for South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore-nations that became economic powers in the 1970s and 1980s. (p. 861)	8
61976353	newly industrialized economies	Rapidly growing, new industrial nations of the late twentieth century, including the Asian Tigers. (p. 861)	9
61976354	Deng Xiaoping	Communist Party leader who forced Chinese economic reforms after the death of Mao Zedong. (p. 862)	10
61976355	Tiananmen Square	Chinese citizens want political reform and stood their ground at Tiananmen Square.	11
61976356	Mikhail Gorbachev	Soviet statesman whose foreign policy brought an end to the Cold War and whose domestic policy introduced major reforms (born in 1931)	12
61976357	perestroika	an economic policy adopted in the former Soviet Union	13
61976358	Solidarity	a union of interests or purposes or sympathies among members of a group	14
61976359	Thomas Malthus	an English economist who argued that increases in population would outgrow increases in the means of subsistence (1766-1834)	15
61976360	demographic transition	The process of change in a society's population from a condition of high crude birth and death rates and low rate of natural increase to a condition of low crude birth and death rates, low rate of natural increase, and a higher total population.	16