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15 Cards in this Set
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A collective farm on which a great number of people work and live together
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Commune
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During the Cold War, the developing nations not allied with either the United States or the United Nations
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Third World
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The independent countries that remained neutral in the Cold War competition between the United States and the Soviet Union
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Nonaligned Nations
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A division into parts, like the 1947 division of the British colony of India into the two nations of India and Pakistan
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Partition
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A slowdown in a nation's economy
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Recession
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An opponent of a government's policies or actions
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Dissident
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A policy of murder and other acts of brutality by which by which Serbs hoped to eliminate Bosnia's Muslim population after the breakup of Yugoslavia
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Ethnic Cleansing
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Introduction by scientists of genes into an organism that allow the organism to take on new traits
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Genetic Engineering
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The creating of plants or animals that are genetically identical to an existing plant or animal
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Cloning
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All the financial interactions- involving people, businesses, and governments - that cross international bounderies
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Global Economy
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Commerce between nations without economic restrictions or barriers (such as tariffs)
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Free Trade
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A growth or spread - especially the spread of nuclear weapons to nations that do not currently have them
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Proliferation
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A strict belief in the basic truths and practices of a particular religion
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Fundamentalism
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A placing of high value on acquiring material possessions
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Materialism
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A nation in which the process of industrialization is not yet complete
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Developing Nation
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