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Chapter 32- WHAP
Chapter 32: Crisis, Realignment, and the Dawn of the Post-Cold War World
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| During the Cold War, local or regional wars in which the superpowers armed, trained, and financed combatants | Proxy Wars |
| Socialist politician elected president of Chile in 1970 and overthrown by the military in 1973 | Salvador Allende |
| War waged by the Argentine military against leftist groups; characterized by the use of illegal imprisonment, torture, and executions by the military | Dirty War |
| Members of a leftist coalition that overthrew the Nicaraguan dictatorship of Anastasia Somoza in 1979 and attempted to install a socialist economy; the US financed armed opposition by the Contras | Sandinistas |
| Shi'ite philosopher and cleric who led the overthrow of the shah in Iran in 1979 and created an Islamic republic | Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini |
| President of Iraq from 1979 until overthrown by and American-led invasion in 2003; waged war on Iran from 1980 to 1988; his invasion of Kuwait in 1990 was repulsed in the Persian Gulf War in 1991 | Saddam Husain |
| The term used in Latin America and other developing regions to describe free-market policies that include reducing tariff protection for local industries; the sale of public-sector industries to private investors or foreign corporations | neo-liberalism |
| Alliances of corporations and banks that dominate the Japanese economy | keiretsu |
| Collective name for South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore- nations that became economic powers in the 1970s and 80s | Asian Tigers |
| Rapid growing, new industrial nations of the late twentieth century, including the Asian Tigers | newly industrialized economies (NIEs) |
| Communist Party leader who forced Chinese economic reforms after the death of Mao Zedong | Deng Xiaoping |
| Site in Beijing where Chinese students and workers gathered to demand greater political openness in 1989; the demonstration was crushed by Chinese military with great loss of life | Tiananmen Square |
| Head of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991; his liberalization effort improved relations with the West but he lost power after his reforms led to the collapse of communist governments in eastern Europe; Glasnost | Mikhail Gorbachev |
| Policy of "openness" that was the centerpiece of Gorbachev's efforts to liberalize communism in the Soviet Union | perestroika |
| Polish trade union created in 1980 to protest working conditions and political repression; it began the nationalist opposition to communist rule that led in 1989 to the fall of communism in eastern Europe | Solidarity |
| Eighteenth century English intellectual who warned that population growth threatened future generations because it would always outstrip increases in agricultural production | Thomas Malthus |
| A change in rates of population growth; shows the development of countries | demographic transition |
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