AP Vocab. Chapters 32&33 Flashcards

166358925	Proxy Wars	during Cold War, local or regional wars to which the superpowers armed and financed the combatants.	0
166358926	Salvador Allende	socialist politician elected president of Chile & overthrown by military.	1
166358927	Dirty War	war waged by the Argentine military against leftist groups. Illegal imprisonment&torture.	2
166358928	Sandinistas	members of a leftist coalition that overthrew the Nicaraguan dictatorship of Anastasia Somoza& attempted to install a socialist economy.	3
166358929	Neo-Liberalism	used in Latin America & other developing region to describe free-market policies that include reducing tariff protection for local industries.	4
166358930	Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini	Shi'ite philosopher & cleric who led the overthrow of the shah of Iran & created an Islamic republic.	5
166358931	Saddam Hussain	president of Iraq until overthrown by an American-led invasion in 2003.	6
166358932	Keiretsu	alliances of corporations & banks that dominate the Japanese economy.	7
166358933	Asian Tigers	name for South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong & Singapore, nations that became economic powers in 1970's & 80's.	8
166358934	Newly Industrialized economies	rapidly growing new industrial nations of the late twentieth century including Asian Tigers.	9
166358935	Deng Xiaoping	communist party leader who forced Chinese economic reforms after death of Mao Z.	10
166358936	Tiananmen Square	site in Beijing where Chinese students & workers gathered to demand greater political openness in 1989.	11
166358937	Mikhail Gorbachev	head of Soviet Union, liberalization effort improved relations with the West, lost power after his reforms led to collapse of communist governments in Eastern Europe.	12
166358938	Perestroika	policy of restructuring, attempt to address long suppressed economic problems by moving away from central state planning toward a more open economic system.	13
166358939	Solidarity	polish trade union created to protest working conditions & political repression.	14
166358940	Ethnic Cleansing	effort to eradicate a people & it's culture by means of mass killing and destruction of culture.	15
166358941	Thomas Malthus	English intellectual who warned that population growth threatened future generations cuz it would always outstrip increases in agricultural production.	16
166358942	Demographic Transition	change in rates of population growth.	17
166358943	Globalization	economic, political & cultural integration & interaction of all parts of the world brought about by increasing trade. travel, technology.	18
166358944	World Trade Organization	international body established to foster & bring order to international trade.	19
166358945	Weapons of mass destruction	nuclear, chemical & biological devices that can kill large numbers of people.	20
166358946	Terrorism	political belief that extreme & seemingly random violence will destabilize a government and permit terrorists to gain political advantage.	21
166358947	Usama bin Laden	charismatic leader of Muslims, fought against Soviet Union in Afghanistan.	22
166358948	Universal Declaration of Human Rights	United Nations convenant binding signatory nations to the observance of specific rights.	23
166358949	Nongovernmental Organizations	nonprofit international organizations devoted to investigating human rights abuses & providing humanitarian relief.	24
166358950	Cultural Imperialism	domination of one culture over another by a deliberate policy or economic/technological superiority.	25
166358951	Global Pop Culture	popular cultural practices and institutions that have been adopted internationally such as music, food, fashion, internet.	26
166358952	Global Elite Culture	attitudes and outlook of well educated, prosperous, Western oriented people around the world.	27