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WH Ch. 27-31
World History Ch. 27-31 from Glencoe textbook
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Apartheid | a period of racial segregation in South Africa from the 1950s to 1991 |
| Arms race | the building up of armies and stores of weapons to keep up with the enemy. The Soviet Union and the US were in this during the Cold War. |
| Brezhnev doctrine | the belief that the Soviet Union had the right to intervene if communism was threatened in another communist state |
| Commune | a group of collective farms, which contained more than 30,000 people who lived and worked together in China during the 1950s. |
| Contra | rebels financed by the U.S. who began a guerilla war against the Sandinista government in Nicaragua |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | A standoff between the Soviet Union and the United States. The Soviet Union had placed missiles in Cuba; the United States had placed missiles in Turkey. |
| De-Stalinization | Gorbachev’s process of eliminating Stalin’s more ruthless policies |
| Détente | a phase of relaxed tensions and improved relations between 2 adversaries – the Soviet Union and the U.S. |
| Dissidents | a person who speaks out against the regime in power |
| Domino theory | the idea that, if one country falls to communism, neighboring countries will also fall |
| Ethnic cleansing | a policy of killing or forcibly removing an ethnic group from its lands; used by the Serbs against the Muslims in Bosnia |
| Magic realism | a form of expression unique to Latin American literature; it combines realistic events with dreamlike or fantastic backgrounds |
| Marshall Plan | program designed to rebuild the prosperity and stability of war-torn Europe (under the belief that countries with stable economies would not fall to Communism) |
| Occupied country | a country held by a foreign power |
| Pan-Africanism | the unity of all black Africans, regardless of national boundaries |
| Pan-Arabism | the unity of all Arabs, regardless of national boundaries |
| Perestroika | Gorbachev’s plan to reform the Soviet Union by restructuring its economy |
| Policy of containment | a plan to keep something, such as communism, within its existing geographical boundaries and prevent further aggressive moves |
| Pop art | an artistic movement that emerged in the early ‘60s; pop artists took images from popular culture and transformed them into works of fin art |
| Post modernism | an artistic movement that emerged in the ‘80s; its artists do not expect rationality in the world and are comfortable with many “truths” |
| Privatization | the sale of government-owned companies to private firms |
| Satellite state | a country that is economically and politically dependent on another country |
| Shining path | a radical guerilla group in Peru with ties to Communist China |
| Sikh | a follower of a religion based on both Hindu and Muslim beliefs |
| State capitalism | an economic system in which the central government plays an active role in the economy, establishing price and wage policies and subsidizing vital industries |
| Tiananmen Square protest | student protesters called for an end to the corruption in government and demanded the resignation of China’s gaining Communist Party Leaders. Deng Xiaoping had troops and tanks sent in to literally crush the protesters/ |
| Trade embargo | a policy of not allowing trade with a certain country |
| Truman Doctrine | stated that the U.S. would provide money to countries threatened by Communist expansion |
| Zionists | people who wanted Palestine to be a home for the Jews |
| Lech Walesa | leader of Poland |
| Vaclav Havel | leader from Czechoslovakia |
| Slobodan Milosevic | leader of Serbia |
| Al Qaeda | an Islamic terrorist organization led by Osama Bin Ladin |
| Saddam Hussein | leader of Iraq |
| Andy Warhol | pop artist famous for colorful photographs of Marilyn Monroe and Campbell’s Soup Cans |
| Elvis Presley | the “king of Rock ‘n Roll” |
| Jackson Pollock | Abstract painter who conveyed emotion and feeling in his artwork |
| Oscar Niemeyer | Latin America’s greatest modern architect |
| Manuel Noriega | leader of Panama |
| Juan Peron | leader of Argentina |
| Fidel Castro | leader of Cuba |
| Nelson Mandela | 1st black president of South Africa |
| Anwar Al-Sadat | Arab leader of Egypt |
| Yasir Arafat | Arab leader of the PLO |
| Ayatollah Khomeini | Muslim leader of Iran |
| Deng Xiaoping | leader of China after the death of Mao Zedong |
| Mother Teresa | Roman Catholic nun who worked with the poor around the world |
| Kim Il Sung | communist leader of North Korea |
| Syngman Rhee | president of South Korea |
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