Chapter 31 AP world history Flashcards

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