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| China's attempt in the 1960s to improve its economy by reorganizing its farms, businesses, and most of society. |
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| the clearing or destruction of forests |
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| The South African president who, in 1990, freed Nelson Mandela from prison and helped end Apartheid. |
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| Government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representative |
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| in areas with dry climates, a process caused by a combination of poor farming practices, overgrazing, and drought that turns productive land into desert |
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| the political theory that if one nation comes under Communist control then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control |
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| a long period of little or no rainfall |
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| a government order preventing trade with another country |
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| a person who starts up and takes on the risk of a business or product |
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| Group of people who share common ancestry, language, religion, customs, or combination of such characteristics |
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| the value of a currency in one country compared with the value in another |
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| A river that begins in Turkey, flows through Syria and Iraq, and empties in the Persian Gulf |
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| a widespread and long-lasting shortage of food that may cause starvation |
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| a form of government in which powers are divided/shared between a central government and several local governments |
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| A 20th-century Indian who helped lead his country to independence by using nonviolent resistance to British colonial rule |
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