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Kubitschek’s new capital city

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Brasília

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Breaking up large estates and distributing that land to peasants

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Land Reforms

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Quality of Life

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Standard of Living

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Slowdown in the economy- mid 1800s

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Recession

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Institutional Revolutionary Party

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PRI

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Power is shared between state and state government and a central authority

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Federal System

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Temporary military rule

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Martial Law

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Opponent of government policy

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Dissident

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Complete seperation of races

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Apartheid

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ANC leader that prisoner by government

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Nelson Mándela

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Ruling committee of communist party

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Politburo

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Became party’s new general Secretary

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Mikhail Gorbachev

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Openness

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Glasnost

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Economic restructuring

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Perestroika

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Demanding government recognition of their own

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Solidarity

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Union leader

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Lech Walesa

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Merging of the 2 Germany’s

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Reunification

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Elected after Gorbachev kicked out

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Boris Yeltsin

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Commonwealth of Independent States/ a loose confederation of former soviet territories

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CIS

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Abrupt shift to free-market economies

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“Shock Therapy”

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Intended to rid Bosnia of Muslim population

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Ethnic Cleaning

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Who China entered yet another moderate period under

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Zhou Enlai

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Emerged as must powerful leader of China

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Deng Xiapong

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Set of goals adopted by DX involving progress in Ag, industry, defense, science and technology

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Four Modernizations

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Huge public space in heart of Beijing

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Tiananmen Square

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Thriving business center and British colony on southeast coast of China

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Hong Cong

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Name four common democratic practices.

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Free elections, citizen participation, majority rule, minority rights, constitutional government

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What group held up democratic progress in both Brazil and Argentina until, the 1980s?

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Military dictatorships held up democratic progress for decades

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What brought about the civil war in Nigeria?

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Nigerian Government went to war to reunite the country because the mom-Yoruba people resented Yoruba Control and they decided to break away and form their own region-Biafra

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Name 3 significant steps toward democracy taken by South Africa in the 1990s.

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Legalized the ANC, held universal elections and wrote a new Constitution

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What were the main reforms promoted by soviet leader mikhail Gorbachev?

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Announced a policy of glasnost, announced a policy of perestroika, unveiled yet another new policy called democratization, which led to a gradual opening of political system

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Which Eastern Europe nations overthrew communists government in 1989?

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Poland, Hungary, east Germany, Czechoslovakia, Romania

-wanted more democracy

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What was the August Coup and how did it end?

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August Coup was a group of hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles that went into Moscow, led by the State Committee, in an attempt to gain more communist obedience. The August Coup ultimately failed when the army men refused to attack, against the State Committee’s orders

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What led to the breakup of Yugoslavia?

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Joseph Tito died, ethnic conflicts rose, Serbia tried to dominate, several tried to declare independence, nation broke apart, and War resulted

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What changes took place in China during the 1970s?

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Communes were eliminated, and industry was invited to grow. Foreign technology and investment was welcomed. Income increased, which led to people buying modern appliances, clothing, and music

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How did the Chinese government react to demands for democratic reform?

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Chinese government shut down all democratic reforms. They assaulted protesters with gunfire. Deng required Chinese government to remain Communist, and ignored all democratic protests

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