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| The capital of Brazil. Built by Kubitschek, and put the country in bad foreign debt. |
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| a level of material comfort that is judged by the amount of material things that people have. |
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| a movement in Christian theology that reconizes the teachings of Jesus Christ the they way that people should be free from unjust political, economic, or social conditions |
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| a slowdown in the economy |
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| it is the Portuguese word for a slum usually used to describe a poor area where many people live together in makeshift homes. |
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| a peaceful revolution group in Chiapas, Mexico |
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| A musical and movie of Eva, who was the the Mexican president Juan Peron's wife. She rose from poverty and became one of the wealthiest women in Argentinian history. |
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| The southernmost state in Mexico, it is the home of the Zapatistas. |
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| a system of government where power is shared between state governments and central authority. |
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| anyone who apposed the government. |
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| A complete separation of races. One very important example of apartheid is in Africa. When it was under Dutch and British control it was racially divided, and the whites ruled the blacks. It finally was ended in 1996 when a new constitution that guaranteed equal rights for everyone. |
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| He was against the Apartheid. He fought in the struggle against white rule and was put in jail for 27 years. When he got out he was elected president and worked to help the country. |
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| He was elected president of Africa in 1989. He legalized the National African Congress and released Mandela from prison. He repealed many Apartheid laws and held the first national elections in 1994. Both him and Mandela won the Noble Peace Prize in 1993. |
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| Another anti-Apartheid leader who lead an economic campaign against it. He asked other nations to not do business with Africa, and isolated the country from worldwide affairs such as the Olympics. He too won a Noble Peace Prize in 1984 for his peaceful rebellions. |
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| the ruling committee of the Communist Party. |
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| A Communist's Party general secretary. He announced the policy called glasnost, which means openness. He also introduced the policy known as perestroika too. He also had a policy called democratization, which was the starting point of democracy in the Soviet Union. |
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| means openness, it was a policy made my Mikhail Gorbachev. it opened public churches, released dissidents, and allowed publication of banned books. |
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| another policy by Mikhail Gorbachev. This one had the idea of economic restructuring. Changes were made to help the Soviet economy. Large business owners got more power over their businesses, and small private businesses were allowed to be opened. |
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| Government recognition of a Union |
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| Polish Union Leader. He tried to revive the Polish economy by moving toward a free market economy. |
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| Merging of the two Germanys |
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| A Czech play write, and a popular critic of the government |
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| the communist dictator of Romania. He was against reforms and had a secret police that enforced his laws. He sent an army to fire at the protesters in Timisoara. After this Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife were run out of power and exicuted on December 25, 1989 |
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| he was elected president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and he became the first popularly elected president in Russia |
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| A psychiatric treatment where patients are shocked and seizures are induced as a form of therapy |
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| where violence is used in order to get rid of an ethnic group |
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| is a federal subject of Russia. It is located in Southeastern part of Europe |
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| A province in southern Serbia made up almost entirely of ethnic Albanians. There was a violent rebellion in 1998 between the Serbians and Yugoslavians. It underwent bombings from Yugoslavia for two months. |
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| He was a leader in China who tried to branch out to other countries. He invited the American pingpong team to China, and that was the first time that America had been to China since 1949. With that they established diplomatic relations in 1979 |
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| he was the most powerful leader in China in 1980. he was the last of the "old revolutionaries" who had ruled china since 1949. he was willing to use capitalist ideas to help China's economy. He embraced the "Four Modernizations". |
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| These called for progress in agriculture, industry, defense, and science |
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| in 1989 students sparked a popular uprising. More than 100,000 students went to Tienanmen Square and protested for democracy. On June 4, 1989 Deng sent troops into stop the protests. This assault killed hundreds and wounded thousands. |
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| Hong Kong used to belong to the British and was a thriving business center and colony. In 1997 it was given to China and ended a 155 year colonial rule. |
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He joined the Central Committee of the
Communist Party in China. In 1985 he became the mayor of Shanghai, and in 1989 he became general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party. In 1993 he became president of China. |
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| A space telescope that was put into orbit in 1990. It is one of the largest and most versatile telescopes in space. |
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| A space telescope that was put into orbit in 1990. It is one of the largest and most versatile telescopes in space. |
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| He is a British engineer and computer scientist and MIT professor who is credited with inventing the internet in 1989. |
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| The technology that allowed scientists to isolate and examine individual genes that are responsible for certain traits. |
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| A campaign started in 1960s by agricultural scientists. It was an attempt to increase food production worldwide, and promoted the use of fertilizers, pesticides, and disease resistant strains of many crops. |
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| The collection of objects in space that have been thrown away by humans |
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| An international scientific research project that wanted to find the sequence of chemical base pairs which make up DNA and to identify and map the approximately 20,000–25,000 genes of the human genome from both a physical and functional standpoint |
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| Nations with industrialization, transportation, and business facilities, and manufacturing companies |
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| nations that are in the process of becoming industrialized |
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| this includes all the financial interactions among people, businesses, and governments |
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| Multinational Corporation |
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| Companies that operate in a number of different countries |
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| the elimination of trade barriers such as tariffs |
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| The The World Trade Organization is the only global international organization that deals with trade rules between nations. |
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| The Persian Gulf War started on August 2, 1990, and ended on February 28, 1991. It started when Iraq invaded Kuwait and seized the Kuwaiti oil fields. This lead to the fear that they would also invade Saudi Arabia. If they did they would have most of the world's oil supply. When they refused to withdraw 39 nations waged war on Iraq. After several weeks of fighting they finally withdrew. |
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| A way that they world can grow and develop without having such negative affects on the environment. It has two goals, and that is to meet economic needs while at the same time preserve the environment for the future. |
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| A way that they world can grow and develop without having such negative affects on the environment. It has two goals, and that is to meet economic needs while at the same time preserve the environment for the future. |
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| the North American Free Trade Agreement between Mexico, the United States, and Canada. |
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| Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty |
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| this was an attempt to stop the spread of nuclear weapons to other nations. |
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| The spread of nuclear weapons to other countri |
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| A strict belief in following basic principals |
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| Universal Declaration of Human Rights |
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| This set the human rights standards for all nations. It guaranteed the right to life liberty, and security |
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| The movements in the United States that were aimed at outlawing racial discrimination against African Americans and restoring Suffrage in Southern states |
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| The final attempt to improve the relationship between the communists and the western nations. |
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| an international organization that aims to stop all violations of human rights in the world and to demand justice to those whose rights have already been violated. |
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| the theory that of immigrants being pushed into and out of a countries because of lack of food, drought, natural disasters and political oppression |
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| The ideas and standards that are deemed normal and acceptable in a place |
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| Something that is supplied in order to satisfy a need |
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