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26 Cards in this Set
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Brasilia
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-The capital city of Brazil.
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Land-reform
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-Breaking up large estates in order to give land to the peasants.
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Standard of living
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-Quality of life as judged by the amount of goods people have.
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Recession
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-Decrease in the size of the economy
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PRI
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-Institutional Revolutionary Party, which has controlled Mexico for most of the century.
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Federal System
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Power shared between state governments and a central authority.
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Martial Law
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temporary military rule where officers abolished the governments.
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Dissident
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Government opponents
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Apartheid
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complete separation of the races
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Nelson Mandela
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ANC leader
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Politburo
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the ruling committee of the
Communist Party—crushed all political disagreement. |
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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Leader of the Soviet Union from 1985-1991
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Glasnost
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Gorbachev's policy of openness
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Perestroika
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Gorbachev's policy aimed at reforming the Soviet economy
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Boris Yeltsin
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Political opponent of Gorbachev who became president of Russia
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CIS
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Commonwealth of Independent States, a loose federation of former Soviet territories
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"shock therapy"
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Yeltsin's plan for changing the Soviet economy
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Solidarity
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Polish workers' movement
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Lech Walesa
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Leader of Solidarity
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Reunification
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Uniting East and West Germany into one nation
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Ethnic cleansing
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Policy of murder and brutality aimed at ridding a country of a particular ethnic group
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Zhou Enlai
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Chinese leader who worked with President Nixon to improve U.S.-Chinese relations
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Deng Xiaopeng
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Chinese leader after Zhou Enlai
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Four Modernizations
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Goals of Deng Xiaoping that called for progress in agriculture, industry, defense, science, and technology
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Tiananmen Square
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Square in the capital of Beijing, scene of a student demonstration and masacre
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Hong Kong
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Island that became part of China in 1997
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