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Question 1

four asian tigers

Answer 1

The Four Asian Tigers or Asian Dragons are the highly developed economies of Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. These regions were the first newly industrialized countries.

Question 2

tiananmen square massacre

Answer 2

The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, commonly known in China as the June Fourth Incident (六四事件), were student-led demonstrations in Beijing in 1989. More broadly, it refers to the popular national movement inspired by the Beijing protests during that period, sometimes referred to as the ‘89 Democracy Movement (八九民运).

Question 3

devolution

Answer 3

Devolution is the transfer of certain powers from one entity to another. It’s an effort to reduce federal government powers by transferring some responsibilities to the state governments. … Devolution is related to federalism. Our Framers developed federalism when creating our United States Constitution.

Question 4

ronald reagan

Answer 4

Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989.

Question 5

gorbachev

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Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev is a former Soviet statesman. He was the eighth and final leader of the Soviet Union, having been General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991, when the party was dissolved.

Question 6

perestrokia

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(in the former Soviet Union) the policy or practice of restructuring or reforming the economic and political system. First proposed by Leonid Brezhnev in 1979 and actively promoted by Mikhail Gorbachev, perestroika originally referred to increased automation and labor efficiency, but came to entail greater awareness of economic markets and the ending of central planning.

Question 7

glasnost

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the policy or practice of more open consultative government and wider dissemination of information, initiated by leader Mikhail Gorbachev from 1985.

Question 8

thatcherism

Answer 8

the political and economic policies advocated by the former British Conservative prime minister Margaret Thatcher, particularly those involving the privatization of nationalized industries and trade union legislation.

Question 9

tony blair

Answer 9

Tony Bliar is a deliberate misspelling of the name of a former British Prime Minister called Tony Blair.

Question 10

yugoslavia

Answer 10

a republic in S Europe on the Adriatic: formed 1918 from the kingdoms of Serbia and Montenegro and part of Austria-Hungary; a federal republic 1945-91 comprised of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia. Yugoslavian, adjective, noun.

Question 11

bosnia

Answer 11

Bosnia and Herzegovina is a country on the Balkan Peninsula in southeastern Europe. Its countryside is home to medieval villages, rivers and lakes, plus the craggy Dinaric Alps. National capital Sarajevo has a well preserved old quarter, Baščaršija, with landmarks like 16th-century Gazi Husrev-bey Mosque. Ottoman-era Latin Bridge is the site of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which ignited World War I.

Question 12

rwanda

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Rwanda is a landlocked East African country with a green, mountainous landscape. Its renowned Volcanoes National Park is home to mountain gorillas and golden monkeys. The park encompasses 4,507m-tall Mt. Karisimbi and 4 other forested volcanoes. In the southwest is Nyungwe National Park, with ancient montane rainforest that’s a habitat for chimpanzees and other primates.

Question 13

cambodia

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Cambodia is a Southeast Asian nation whose landscape spans low-lying plains, the Mekong Delta, mountains and Gulf of Thailand coastline. Phnom Penh, its capital, is home to the art deco Central Market, glittering Royal Palace and the National Museum’s historical and archaeological exhibits. In the country’s northwest are the ruins of Angkor Wat, a massive stone temple complex built during the Khmer Empire.

Question 14

kosovo

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Kosovo is a disputed territory and partially recognised state in Southeastern Europe that declared independence from Serbia in February 2008 as the Republic of Kosovo. Kosovo is landlocked in the central Balkan Peninsula.

Question 15

weapons of mass destruction

Answer 15

a chemical, biological or radioactive weapon capable of causing widespread death and destruction.

Question 16

george w bush

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George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009. He was also the 46th Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000

Question 17

bill clinton

Answer 17

William Jefferson Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the …. Clinton registered for the draft and received a high number (311), meaning that those whose birthdays had been drawn as numbers 1 to 310 would …

Question 18

NAFTA

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The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is an agreement among the United States, Canada and Mexico designed to remove tariff barriers between the three countries.

Question 19

welfare state

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system whereby the government undertakes to protect the health and well-being of its citizens, especially those in financial or social need, by means of grants, pensions, and other benefits. The foundations for the modern welfare state in the US were laid by the New Deal programs of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Question 20

apartheid

Answer 20

policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race.

Question 21

nelson mandela

Answer 21

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician, and philanthropist, who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.

Question 22

congolese conflict

Answer 22

The Democratic Republic of Congo is slowly recovering from a conflict known as Africa’s first world war, which led to the loss of some five million lives between 1994 and 2003, but many eastern areas are still plagued by violence as various rebel groups continue to operate there.

Question 23

hutu

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a member of a Bantu-speaking people forming the majority population in Rwanda and Burundi. They are traditionally a farming people and were historically dominated by the Tutsi people; the antagonism between the peoples led in 1994 to large-scale ethnic violence, especially in Rwanda

Question 24

tutsi

Answer 24

a member of a people forming a minority of the population of Rwanda and Burundi, who formerly dominated the Hutu majority. Historical antagonism between the peoples led in 1994 to large-scale ethnic violence, especially in Rwanda.

Question 25

kleptocracy

Answer 25

[klep-tok-ruh-see] noun, plural kleptocracies. 1. a government or state in which those in power exploit national resources and steal; rule by a thief or thieves. Origin of kleptocracy.

Question 26

new world order

Answer 26

The New World Order or NWO is claimed to be an emerging clandestine totalitarian world ….. Wells’s books were influential in giving a second meaning to the term “new world order”, which would only be used by state socialist supporters and …

Question 27

internet

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a global computer network providing a variety of information and communication facilities, consisting of interconnected networks using standardized communication protocols.

Question 28

soweto uprising

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The Soweto uprising was a series of protests led by black school children in South Africa that began on the morning of 16 June 1976. … It is estimated that 20,000 students took part in the protests.

Question 29

bantustans

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A Bantustan (also known as Bantu homeland, black homeland, black state or simply homeland) was a territory set aside for black inhabitants of South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia), as part of the policy of apartheid.

Question 30

persian gulf war

Answer 30

gulf war

Question 31

helsinki accords

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The Helsinki Final Act was an agreement signed by 35 nations that concluded the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, held in Helsinki, Finland. The multifaceted Act addressed a range of prominent global issues and in so doing had a far-reaching effect on the Cold War and U.S.-Soviet relations.

Question 32

EEC

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EEC definition. The abbreviation for the European Economic Community. An organization of nations established in 1957 to promote free trade and economic cooperation among the nations of western Europe. Its original members were Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, and West Germany.

Question 33

EEU

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DEFINITION of ‘Eurasian Economic Union (EEU)’ An economic union created in 2014 by a treaty signed by Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus. The union is set to go into effect in 2015.

Question 34

chaebols

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a large business conglomerate, typically a family-owned one.

Question 35

corporatiom

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company or group of people authorized to act as a single entity (legally a person) and recognized as such in law.

Question 36

tokyo stock exchange

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The Tokyo Stock Exchange (東京証券取引所 Tōkyō Shōken Torihikijo), which is called Tōshō (東証) or TSE/TYO for short, is a stock exchange located in Tokyo, Japan. It is the fourth largest stock exchange in the world by aggregate market capitalization of its listed companies, and largest in East Asia and Asia.

Question 37

agglomerate

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collect in forms of mass and groups

Question 38

genocide

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the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation

Question 39

deng xiaoping

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Deng Xiaoping was a Chinese revolutionary and statesman. He was the paramount leader of the People’s Republic of China from 1978 until his retirement in 1989.

Question 40

african uprising

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The Soweto uprising was a series of protests led by black school children in South Africa that began on the morning of 16 June 1976. … It is estimated that 20,000 students took part in the protests.

Question 41

free trade

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international trade left to its natural course without tariffs, quotas, or other restrictions.

Question 42

third world

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the developing countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

Question 43

maastricht treaty

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The Maastricht Treaty was signed on February 7, 1992, by the leaders of 12 member nations, and it reflected the serious intentions of all countries to create a common economic and monetary union. Also known as the Treaty on European Union.

Question 44

ECLAC

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The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, known as ECLAC, UNECLAC or in Spanish CEPAL, is a United Nations regional commission to encourage economic cooperation.

Question 45

1989 revolutions

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The Revolutions of 1989 were part of a revolutionary wave in the late 1980s and early 1990s that resulted in the end of communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe and beyond.

Question 46

ethnic cleansing

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the mass expulsion or killing of members of an unwanted ethnic or religious group in a society.

Question 47

refugee

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a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster