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chapter17
Question | Answer |
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Apartheid | The Afrikaans term for segregation of the races in South Africa. |
Iranian 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 Treaty | Signed in 1991 by members of the European Community; committed them to closer political-economic ties. |
Palestine Liberation Organization | An organization founded in the 1960s by Palestinians expelled from Israel; main political Palestinian organization. |
Six Day War | The 1967 conflict between Israel and its neighbors in which Israel gained much territory. |
solidarity | The umbrella organization founded by Lech Walesa and other anticommunist Poles in 1981 to recover Polish freedom; 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 denote countries and peoples in underdeveloped, formely colonial areas of Asia,Africa, and Latin America; the First World was the wes under U.S. leadership, and the Second World was the communist states under soviet lead. |