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20 Cards in this Set
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Desaparecidos |
disappeared people in Argentina who criticized government and were killed by the military government's campaign |
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Dissidents |
people who disagree with a government |
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Contras |
group seeking to overthrow Nicaragua's Sandinista government |
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Multinational corporations |
foreign owned businesses in a host country |
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Monoculture |
country's reliance on one crop |
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Import substitution |
economic policy of replacing certain imported goods with a country's own manufactured goods produced inside the country |
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Intifada |
violent uprising by Palestinians in the late 1980s |
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Ethnic cleansing |
campaign of terror and murder intended to drive out certain ethnic groups from a region or an area |
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Apartheid |
government policy of segregation and economic exploitation in South Africa |
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Iran contra affair |
scandal in which members of President Reagan's national security staff sent money from the sale of weapons to Iran in exchange for hostages to the Nicaraguan contras |
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Islam |
religion based on Muhammad's teachings and ideas that began spreading throughout Arab tribes in the 600s |
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Jihad |
teaching of Islam to defend the faith |
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Khmer Rouge |
Cambodian Communists trained by the Viet Cong who took over the government and enforced a massive genocide of the Cambodian population |
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Pam Africanism |
movement promoting the cultural unity of people of African heritage in their struggle for freedom |
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Qur'an |
holy book of Islam |
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Zaibatsu |
huge industrial firms controlled by powerful families in Japan |
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Mosques |
Muslim places of worship |
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Muslim league |
political group of Indian Muslims, formed to protect their rights |
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Nonalignment |
nations policy of refusing to ally with either the United States or the Soviet Union |
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Mixed economy |
economy in which private companies own some industries and the government owns the rest |
