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Gabby ch.17
5th period chapter 17
Question | Answer |
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Apartheid | The Afrikaans term for segregation to the races in South Africa |
Iran Revolution | The militant Muslim and anti-Western movement led by the Ayatollah Khomeini that ousted the shah of Iran through massive demonstrations in 1979 |
Maastricht | Signed in 1991 by member of European Community; committed them to |
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) | An organization founded in the 1960's by Palestinians from Israel; main political Palestinian organization |
Six Day War | The 1967 conflict between Israel and it's neighbors in which Israel gained much territory |
Solidarity | The umbrella by Lech Walesa and other anticommunist Poles in 1981 to recover Polish freedon; banned for eight years; but continued underground until it was acknowledged as the government in 1989 |
Third World | A term used after World War II to donate countries and peoples in underdeveloped formely colonial areas in Asia, Africa, and Latain America; the First World was the West under U.S. leadership, and the Second World was the communist states under Soviet Lea |