Third 13 words Final exam Flashcards

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