1900- Present Vocabulary Pt. 2 Flashcards

375223791	commune	a collective farm on which a great number of people work and live together	0
375223792	Third World	during the Cold War, the developing nations not allied with either United States or the Soviet Union	1
375223793	nonaligned nations	the independent nations that remained neutral in the Cold War competition between the United States and the Soviet Union	2
375223794	partition	a division into parts, like the 1947 division of the British colony of Indian into into nations of India and Pakistan	3
375223795	standard of living	the quality of lige of a person or a population, as indicated by the goods, services, and luxuries available to the person or people	4
375223796	recession	a slowdown in a nation's economy	5
375223797	dissident	an oppenent of a government's policies or actions	6
375223798	ethnic cleansing	a policy of murder and other acts of brutality by which the Serbs hoped to eliminate Bosnia's Muslim population after the breakup of Yugoslavia	7
375223799	genetic engineering	introduction by scientists of genes into an organism that allow the organism to take on new traits	8
375223800	cloning	the creating of plants or animals that are genetically identical to an existing plant or animal	9
375223801	global economy	all the finacial interactions- involving people, buisnesses, and governments- that cross international boundries	10
375223802	free trade	commerce between nations without economic restrictions or barriers (such as tariffs)	11
375223803	proliferation	a growth or a spread- especially the spread of nuclear weapons to nations that do not currently have them	12
375223804	fundamentalism	a strict belief in the basic truths and practices of a particular religion	13
375223805	materialism	a placing of high value on acquiring material possessions	14
375223806	developing nation	a nation in which the process of industrialization is not yet complete	15
375223807	terrorism	use of force or threats to frighten people or governments to change their policies	16