ch 8 Flashcards
An example of specific American-Canadian cooperation in the decades after World War II was
the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement.
Because of a shortage of native or internal private-sector capital, Latin America governments frequently
invested in new industries.
“Liberation theology”
argued that Christians could use violence if necessary to free society’s oppressed poor.
The Organization of American States (OAS), established in 1948, promised to
end unilateral action in one state by another.
Under the leadership of Juan Peron, Argentina
took over the railways, banking, insurance, and the communications industries.
Relations between Cuba and the United States seriously deteriorated when
the Cuban government nationalized United States companies and banks.
Under General Augusto Pinochet, the Chilean government
refused to return the copper industry seized by Allende’s leftist government to its original foreign owners.
The Sandinista National Liberation Front succeeded in taking over control of
Nicaragua.
The Soviet author who won the Nobel Prize for Literature but who was not allowed to accept it was
Boris Pasternak.
Charter 77 was formed in 1977 to protest Communist civil rights violations in
Czechoslovakia.
The Soviet Union’s new privileged class included all of the following except
Marx’s proletariat, the factory workers.
The “double shift” refers to
women in communist societies working at their jobs and then again in their homes as housewives and mothers.
An example of Gorbachev’s policy of glasnost was
the reporting of the nuclear accident at Chernobyl in Pravda.
The independent labor movement that emerged in Poland in the early 1980s was called
Solidarity.
Boris Yeltsin, first president of the Russian Republic,
was committed to introducing a free market economy to Russia.
