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36 Cards in this Set
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Cold war |
Conflict between US and Soviet Union following WW11 |
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United Nations |
International peacekeeping body founding by 50 nations after WW11 |
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Iron curtain |
division between Western Democrat Europe and Communist Eastern Europe |
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Containment |
Policy to stop the spread of communism |
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NATO |
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a military alliance that originally included Canada, the US and 10 European Nations. |
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Warsaw Pact |
Alliance of the Soviet Union and its allies in Central and Eastern Europe |
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Arms Race |
Competition between US and Soviet Union to develop more destructive weapons |
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Domino Theory |
Belief that if a country fell to communism, nearby countries would follow |
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Civil Disobedience |
Nonviolent refusal to obey laws |
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Partition |
Division of a country into two or more separate parts |
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Apartheid |
Official policy of racial segregation practiced in South Africa from 1948-1991 |
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AIDS |
Aquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome; disease that attacks a person's ability to fight off infections |
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Reunification |
Merging of East Germany and West Germany into one country in 1990 |
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Reunification |
Merging of East Germany and West Germany into one country in 1990 |
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Ethnic Cleansing |
Removing an Ethnic or religious group from an area by force or the mass killing of members from sunch a group. |
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Four modernizations |
Chinese policy to modernize aspects of the economy |
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Terrorism |
Use of violence for political ends |
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Human rights |
People's rights to life, liberty, quality, healthcare, and other rights essential to human well-being |
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Global economy |
Economy in which buying and selling occurs across national borders |
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Multinational corporations |
Company that operates in more than one country |
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Global warming |
Increase in the average temperature of Earth's atmosphere |
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Jomo Kenyatta |
Kenya's first president |
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Mohandas Gandhi |
Leader of India's independence movement |
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Jawaharlal Nehru |
India's first leader after independence |
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Kwame Nkrumah |
Modern Ghana's first president |
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Nelson Mandela |
South Africa's first president |
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Division of Europe / Iron Curtain. Tensions grew between West Democrat and East communist. |
What impact did the Cold War have on Europe? |
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Domino Theory (to prevent communism.) Support Vietnamese. |
Why did the US become involved in fighting in Korea and Vietnam? |
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Eastern Europe transition into democracy swiftly and Gorbachev introduced new policies: Soviet Union collapsed. |
What brought the cold war to an end? |
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The partition split into India and Pakistan. India Independence Law (July 1947.) Used nonviolence. |
How did india win independence? |
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Ghana use non violent actions such as boycotts and strikes. Can you took violent actions. Ghana- peaceful / Kenya- made by violence. |
How did Ghana's path to freedom differ from that taken by Kenya? |
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1996- country's lawmakers wrote a new constitution. Work together to end Aparthied. |
What steps toward democracy did South Africa take in the 1990s? |
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Terrorists can carry out attacks injuringand killing people. Makes governments vulnerable. |
How is terrorism a threat to global security? |
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Military rule. Widespread poverty. |
What obstacles to the development of democracy have confronted Latin American countries? |
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United Nations established Universal Declaration of Human Rights. |
What has been done to guarantee human rights? |
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More countries are using fossil fuels causing pollution and global warming. |
How has the development of global economy affected the environment? |
