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Chapter 20 Vocab Flashcards

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The capital city that Kubitschek built.

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Brasilia

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Breaking up large estates and distributing that land to peasants

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Land reform

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The quality of life of people

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Standard of living

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A slowdown in the economy

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Recession*

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Institutional revolutionary party became the main force for political stability in Mexico

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PRI*

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Is power shared between state governments 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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Opponents of government point.

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Dissident

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Complete separation of the races.

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Apartheid

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President of South Africa who opposed apartheid.

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Nelson Mandela

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The ruling committee of the communist party

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Politburo

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Ruler in the Soviet Union that wanted to keep its history and ways of managing alive, but ended up breaking it instead

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Mikhail Gorbachev

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Openness to improving a society

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Glasnost

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Economic restructuring

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Perestroika

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Worker union in Poland and Hungary

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Solidarity

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Leader of the solidarity union

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Lech Walesa

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The merging of the two germanys

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Reunification

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Russia president that wanted to forget the Soviet Union ruling and communism

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Boris Yeltsin

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Commonwealth of independent states— a loose federation of former soviet territories

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CIS

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An abrupt shift to free market economics

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Shock therapy

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Chinese leader who started the work with the United States

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Zhou enlai

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One of the last old revolutionaries, the most powerful leader in China

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Deng Xiaoping

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Set of goals that called for progress in ag, industry, defense and science/technology

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Four modernizations

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Chute public space in the heart of Berlin, place of huge student protest

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Tiananmen Square

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A thriving business center and British colony on the southeastern coast of China

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Hong Kong

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The policy put into pace to rid Bosnia of Muslim population

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Ethnic cleansing

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