chapter 35 Flashcards
Democracies hope for free ____ so that all people can participate in the political process.
Elections
A Clear body of traditions and laws on which government is based requires a _____ for the government in a democracy.
Constitution
The South American nation has struggled in obtaining democracy for their Portuguese speaking peoples.
Brazil
Brazilian dictator in the 1930s.
Vargas
This Brazilian city nearly bankrupted the country in the early 1960s.
Brasilia
In the early 1980s, Brazil experienced a severe _____, a slow down of the economy.
Recession
Initials to the leading Mexican political party during the 2nd half of the 1900s.
PRI
The Mexican economy of the 1950s-1990s revolved around the price of ____.
Oil
The treaty between the US, Mexico, and Canada removed trade barriers between the countries.
NAFTA
First independent leader of the Mexican government in 2000.
Fox
Leader of Argentina in the late 1940s-1950s.
Peron
There was a British-Argentine war in the ______ Islands in the 1980s.
Falkland
The ____ chose not to continue to fund the Argentine government in 2001 which led to the country’s bankruptcy.
IMF
Former British colony in central Africa with a very diverse population.
Nigeria
Losing side in the Nigerian Civil War in the late 1960s.
Igbo
This commodity provided a lot of money to the Nigerian improvement goals, though it was fought over by the rebels.
Oil
Obansanjo was the most recently elected president of this African country in 1999-2003.
Nigeria
Nigeria’s economy could only recover with _____ relief which George W. Bush supported in 2001.
Debt
The unique South African policy of ______ required complete separation of the races.
Apartheid
South African ANC leader jailed and held for two decades, later to become president of South Africa.
Mandela
South African Catholic Bishop who asked for countries not to invest in South Africa as long as Apartheid continued.
Tutu
____ was South African president that instituted the first free elections where all races could vote in 1994.
De klerk
This was a lethal epidemic affecting millions of Africans by the 2010s.
AIDS
This was the ruling committee of the Soviet communist party.
Politburo
Soviet idea of an open society where ideas flowed freely.
Glasnost
Perestroika was an ______ restructuring of the soviet economy beginning in the 1980s.
Economic
Soviet-American Atomic Treaty of 1987.
INF
Last leader of the Soviet Union.
Gorbachev
First leader of an independent Russian Federation.
Yeltsin
Reforming the Russian economy required _____ therapy to shift to a free-market system.
Shock
Muslim _____ rebelled against Russian control in 1991 leading to a savage war in the south.
Chechnya
Current (2024) ruler of Russia.
Putin
First eastern European country to break with the Soviets in 1980.
Poland
This political party was led by Lech Walesa who won control of Polish government in 1989.
Solidarity
By 2000, much of former Russian Influenced nations of Eastern Europe had joined ______.
NATO
Honecker was the last communist leader of this country.
East Germany
On October, 1990, this former split country reunified.
Germany
Capital city of the new Czechoslovakia.
Prague
Dictator Ceausescu tried to retain control in this country until captured and executed in December 1989.
Romania
This southern European country split up into smaller states in the 1990s.
Yugoslavia
NATO military forces bombed Serbian and Yugoslav forces in this state until withdrawal in 1999.
Kosovo
Zhou Enlai played an important role in this country in the 1970s.
China
This sport led to cooperation between Americans and Chinese in over 25 years.
Ping pong
Deng Xiaoping lead to the Four Modernizations program in this country.
China
Democracy protests in _____ Square led to mass violence in China.
Tiananmen
The _____ of Democracy was erected in China by students protesting for democratic changes.
Goddess
This former British colony was transferred to communist Chinese control in 1997.
Hong kong
The 2008 summer Olympics were held in _____.
Beijing
