Chapter 20 Vocab Flashcards
The capital city that Kubitschek built.
Brasilia
Breaking up large estates and distributing that land to peasants
Land reform
The quality of life of people
Standard of living
A slowdown in the economy
Recession*
Institutional revolutionary party became the main force for political stability in Mexico
PRI*
Is power shared between state governments and a central authority.
Federal system
Temporary military rule.
Martial law*
Opponents of government point.
Dissident
Complete separation of the races.
Apartheid
President of South Africa who opposed apartheid.
Nelson Mandela
The ruling committee of the communist party
Politburo
Ruler in the Soviet Union that wanted to keep its history and ways of managing alive, but ended up breaking it instead
Mikhail Gorbachev
Openness to improving a society
Glasnost
Economic restructuring
Perestroika
Worker union in Poland and Hungary
Solidarity
Leader of the solidarity union
Lech Walesa
The merging of the two germanys
Reunification
Russia president that wanted to forget the Soviet Union ruling and communism
Boris Yeltsin
Commonwealth of independent states— a loose federation of former soviet territories
CIS
An abrupt shift to free market economics
Shock therapy
Chinese leader who started the work with the United States
Zhou enlai
One of the last old revolutionaries, the most powerful leader in China
Deng Xiaoping
Set of goals that called for progress in ag, industry, defense and science/technology
Four modernizations
Chute public space in the heart of Berlin, place of huge student protest
Tiananmen Square
