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31 Cards in this Set
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globalism |
an international theme of peace and unity in the twentieth century
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Maastricht Treaty
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the joining of the twelve Common Market nations, pledging to create the European Union in 1992
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European Union
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comprised 325 million people with an economy that competed with the US and the Pacific Rim
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euro
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introduced by the EU, it is a single currency for member nations
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ecumenical movement
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an attempt to attain international religious unity
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WCC
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World Council of Churches; probably the most significant force in the ecumenical movement
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Second Vatican Council (1962-65)
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"Vatican II"; heralded a new era of openness in the church, allowing observers from the Eastern Orthodox churches and Protestant bodies to witness some of the sessions of a Catholic council and advocated freedom of worship around the world
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D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
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one of the leading critics of ecumenism in Great Britain
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"new world order"
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an idea advocated by President George Bush to Congress in 1990, built on universal peace and justice
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World Bank
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established in 1945 to assist in the rebuilding of Europe after WWII and helped the former communist countries transition into capitalism
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SARS
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Sever Acute Respiratory Syndrome; in 2003, demonstrated that the increase in international airline traveling, diseases could spread more rapidly
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Bill Clinton
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the president of the U.S., following George Bush
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NAFTA
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North American Free Trade Agreement; lowered tariffs with Canada and Mexico
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George W. Bush
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son of the previous President Bush, preceded President Clinton, and had the closest presidential election in American history |
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John Major |
elected as leader of the British Conservatives and British prime minister in 1990
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"New Labour" Party |
a BRitish political party that was greatly influenced by Tony Blair |
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Helmut Kohl |
leader of the conservatives rise back to power in Germany, being elected as chancelor in 1982 |
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Gerhard Schroeder |
beat Helmut Kohl for chancelor in 1998, not making any major changes to Germany, but opposing the war with Iraq |
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Francois Mitterrand |
served as the first socialist president of the Fifth Republic in 1981 |
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Jacques Chirac |
became president in 1995, reurning France to a more centrist government |
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Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) |
Japanese political party which has dominated the country since WWII |
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Vladimir Putin |
Russian prime minister and former KGB (Soviet secret police) who was named president after the resignation in 2000 |
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Slobodan Milosevc |
Serbian president who began a campaign of mass murder in 1998 |
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developing nations |
Third World Nations; nations generally characterized by poverty, lack of production, and politcal instability |
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decolonization |
the winning of independence by colonies in Asia and Africa from Western imperial nations |
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Mohandas Gandhi |
leader of the Indian nationalists who mounted a campaign of passive resistance |
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passive resistance |
a nonviolent program designed to defy British rule through strikes (including hunger strike and sit-down strikes), mass demonstrations, and refusal to pay taxes |
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Pervez Musharraf |
Pakistani general who allied with the US in the war against terrorism |
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Indira Gandhi |
became prime minister after her father's passing in 1966, but was assinated by two of her guards in 1984 |
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genocide |
the systematic extermnation of a race, ethnic, or religious group |
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Idi Amin Dada |
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