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Vocab 5
Vocab. 5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) | The blueprint of heredity |
| Helsinki Accords | A 1975 political and human rights agreement signed in Helsinki, Finland, by Western European countries and the Soviet Union |
| Hubble Space Telescope | Optical telescope that was placed in Earth orbit by the space shuttle in 1990. Hubble now produces accurate images of bodies that cannot be observed clearly by terrestrial telescopes due to atmospheric distortion. |
| International Space Station | A vehicle sponsored by sixteen nations that circles the earth while carrying out experiments |
| Service Industries | Occupations that provide a service rather than a manufactured or agricultural product |
| Sputnik | World's first artificial satellite, launched by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957. Weighing 83.5kg (184lb) and with a radio transmitter, Sputnik 1 circled the Earth for several months. |
| Cubism | A school of art in which persons and objects are represented by geometric forms |
| Balfour Declaration | British minister Lord Balfour’s promise of support for the establishment of Jewish settlement in Palestine issued in 1917 |
| Mass consumerism | Trade in products designed to appeal to a global market |
| National Organization of Women | U.S. organization founded in 1969 to campaign for women’s rights |
| New Deal | U.S. President Roosevelt’s program to relieve the economic problems of the Great Depression; it increased government involvement in the society of the United States |
| Welfare state | A nation in which the government plays an active role in providing services such as social security to its citizens |
| Green Revolution | A program of improved irrigation methods and the introduction of high-yield seeds and fertilizers and pesticides to improve agricultural production; the Green Revolution was especially successful in Asia but also was used in Latin America |
| Guest workers | Workers form North Africa and Asia who migrated to Europe during the late twentieth century in search of employment; some guest workers settled in Europe permanently |
| Ozone depletion | The thinning of the layer of the gas ozone high in the earth’s atmosphere; ozone serves as a protection against the sun’s ultraviolet rays |
| Coup d’état | Sudden overthrow of a government |
| Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere | The pseudo-political and economic union of Japanese-dominated Asian and Pacific territories during World War II. By the end of the war, the Co-Prosperity Sphere had become an object of hatred and ridicule. |
| Weimar Republic | The republic that was established in Germany in 1919 and ended in 1933. |
| Viet Minh | Communist-dominated Vietnamese nationalist movement; operated out of base in southern China during WW II; employed guerilla tactics similar to Maoists in China. |
| Propaganda | Information or material spread to advance a cause or to damage an opponent’s cause. |
| European Union | Began as European Economic Community (or Common Market), an alliance of Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands, to create a single economic entity across national boundaries in 1958; later joined by Britain, Ireland, Denmark, Gre |
| Viet Cong | Name given by the Diem regime to the communist guerilla movement in southern Vietnam; reorganized with northern Vietnamese assistance as the National Liberation Front in 1958. |
| African National Congress | Black political organization within South Africa; pressed for end to policies of apartheid; sought open democracy leading to black majority rule; until 1990s declared illegal |
| Free Officers Movement | Military nationalist movement in Egypt founded in the 1930s; often allied with the Muslim Brotherhood; led coup to seize Egyptian government from khedive in July 1952 |
| Dien Bien Phu | Most significant victory of the Viet Minh over French colonial forces in 1954; gave the Viet Minh control of northern Vietnam |
| National Liberation Front (FLN) | Radical nationalist movement in Algeria; launched sustained guerilla was against France in the 1950s; success of tactics led to independence of Algeria in 1958 |
| Afrikaner National Party | Emerged as the majority party in the all-white South African legislature after 1948; advocated complete independence from Britain; favored a rigid system of racial segregation called apartheid |
| Muslim League | Founded in 1906 to better support demands of Muslims for separate electorates and legislative seats in Hindu-dominated India; represented division within Indian nationalist movement |
| Atlantic Charter of 1941 | World War II alliance agreement between the United States and Britain; included a clause that recognized the right of all people to choose the form of government under which they live; indicated sympathy for decolonization |
| Total War | A conflict in which the participating countries devote all their resources to the war effort. |
| Vichy | French collaborationist government established in 1940 in southern France following defeat of French armies by the Germans |
| Politburo | Executive committee of the Soviet Communist party; 20 members |
| Twenty-one Demands | Twenty-one Demands (1915), instrument by which Japan secured temporary hegemony over China. Japan used its declaration of war against Germany (Aug., 1914) as grounds for invading Kiaochow, the German leasehold in Shandong prov., China. Disregarding the Ch |
| Neocolonialism | the continuation of the economic model of colonialism after a colonized territory has achieved formal political independence. This concept was applied most commonly to Africa in the latter half of the twentieth century. |
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