terrorism - Terrorism is the deliberate use of random violence against civilians, to exact revenge or achieves political goals. Terrorism is what fueled the September 11th attacks on the World Trade center.
privatization - Privatization is the selling off of state owned industries to private investors. With third world countries adopting these policies, they hoped that they would get them out of debt as well as help the economy
nonaligned - Nonaligned is like being stalemate. Some countries in the Cold War decided not to take side of either the US or the Soviet Union.
multinational corporation - A Multinational Corporation is a company with branches in many different countries. These companies brought new technology to mining, agriculture, transportation, and other things.
liberation theology - This movement started in Latin America, were some Roman Catholic clergy adopted, this movement. Liberation theology is when the church opposes social conditions that contribute to poverty.
interdependence - The dependence of countries of goods, resources, and knowledge from other parts of the world. �Since 1945, transportation and communication systems have made the world increasingly interdependent.�
culture shock - The Cultural shock is when East meets west. Western world is full of capitalism and democracy, while the East is full of communism and underclass third world developing countries.
acid rain - A form of pollution in which toxic chemicals in the air come back to the earth in the form of rain, snow, or hail. Acid rain is the product from gases from power plants and factories.
Effects of Cold War - The cold war left some nations destroyed and moneyless, while others were just beginning to develop. Westernization shows throughout the world in inventions like the TV and radio.
why did democracy fail in many new nations? -
Majority of world's wealth controlled by? -
Effect of urbanization in developing nations - Developing countries have a lot of challenges to face including, political stability, economic policy, and population. The new countries must also get out of debt and somehow use their geography to benefit them.
Factories effect on environmental damage - Factories pollute the air, kill trees, and harm natural environments. An example of this is acid rain, products from the plants and factories give off things that mix with the air to produce rain.
factors contributing to political instability in African nations - After countries like Britain and other western nations let go of their daughter nations upset occurred. Many tribes formally in warfare stopped, but as soon as their father country was gone and civil war was a problem again. Also many military dictators did try and take power but all this did was leave nations more in debt and thousands of people on the street.
Primary cause of global interdependence -
global South -
modern technology - Computers have shaped the globe by making it smaller. For example with the use of AIM someone in the US can talk to someone in Britain within a fraction of a second. A few years sooner the letter would not be received until a week later.
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welfare state - The Western European Nations recovered fairly quickly from WWII. A major goal of these nations was to create a welfare state which had all of the features of a Capitalist society but had greater needs and care for its citizens.
glasnost - Glasnost is �openness�. This policy was part of a two step plan devised by Gorbachev who wanted to reform Russia.
dissident - A dissident is someone who speaks out against a government. Any person who talked in this way was immediately crushed by Brezhnev�s authority and power.
deficit - Government spending can often lead to deficit or the gap between what a government spends and what a government takes in through taxes and other resources. With the deficit growing programs had to be cut ranging from education to welfare.
d�tente -
Leonid - Leonid Brezhnev was the man who took over the Soviet Union. He held power until 1982. He suppressed anyone who spoke out against the government; he even arrested Critics for their opinions.
Brezhnev -
Charles de Gaulle - Gaulle was the man who led Free France during the War. He n 1958 set up a new constitution, and became president. But he being a brave and intelligent leader has to give up Algeria in order for France to remain free and happy.
Martin Luther King Jr. - Martin Luther King Jr. was a gifted preacher and a loving father. He practiced nonviolent boycotts and lead peaceful marches through the streets to end segregation.
Joseph McCarthy - McCarthy was a man full of suspicions. He thought that some people were holding communist supporters in their house and trashed thousands of peoples reputations and lost others their jobs.
Margarent Thatcher - Thatcher like many British leaders opposed making further links with Europe. She and others thought that it would destroy their unique identity.
Perestroika - Perestroika is the restructuring of the government and the economy. This was the second step of the reforms made by Gorbachev.
Service industry - A service industry is something that provides a service rather than a product. Service industries include health care, finance, sales, education, and recreation
Mikhail Gorbachev - The man partially responsible for Russia�s final collapse. He launched a two step program where a. The government was open and b. the economy was open and free.
Helmut Kohl - Kohl was the architect of unity; he assured the Soviet Union as well as the West that a united Germany would provide no threat to peace. In 1990, voters agreed and Kohl was elected to chancellor.
Nikita Krushchev - He stated that �We shall bury you� this was not he explained later a military threat but was indeed a statement saying that capitalism will fail. However his predictions never came through and the US and capitalism won.
Josip Tito - After Tito died a fall of communism was near and a wave of nationalism appeared. However this situation turned extreme and ethnic and religious fighting broke out.
Lech Walesa - Walesa helped to lead an independent trade union that was called Solidarity. It claimed 10 million members who pressed for political change. Walesa later became a national hero for his work.
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civil war in Yugoslavia - Civil war in Yugoslavia tore the nation apart. It erupted in Civil Wars between ethnic and racially different groups.