chp 35 test

Question 1

brasília

Answer 1

capital city of brazil

Question 2

land reform

Answer 2

breaking up large estates in order to give land to the landless

Question 3

standard of living

Answer 3

quality of life as judged by the amount of goods people have

Question 4

recession

Answer 4

decrease in the size of the economy

Question 5

PRI

Answer 5

industrial revolution party, which has controlled mexico for most of the century

Question 6

federal system

Answer 6

system in which power is shared between state governments and a centra authority

Question 7

martial law

Answer 7

military rule

Question 8

dissident

Answer 8

person against government policy

Question 9

apartheid

Answer 9

strict separation of blacks and whites

Question 10

nelson mandela

Answer 10

leader of african national congress who was imprisoned

Question 11

politburo

Answer 11

ruling committee of the communist party

Question 12

mikhail gorbachev

Answer 12

leader of the soviet union from 1985 to 1991

Question 13

glasnost

Answer 13

gorbachev’s policy of openness

Question 14

perestroika

Answer 14

gorbachev’s policy aimed at reforming the soviet economy

Question 15

boris yeltsin

Answer 15

political opponent of gorbachev who became president of russia

Question 16

CIS

Answer 16

commonwealth of independence states, a loose federation of former soviet territories

Question 17

“shock therapy”

Answer 17

yeltsin’s plan for changing the soviet economy

Question 18

solidarity

Answer 18

polish workers’ movement

Question 19

lech walesa

Answer 19

leader of solidarity

Question 20

reunification

Answer 20

uniting of eat and west germany into one nation

Question 21

ethnic cleansing

Answer 21

policy of murder and brutality aimed at ridding a country of a particular ethnic group

Question 22

zhou enlai

Answer 22

chinese leader who worked with president nixon to improve US-chinese relations

Question 23

deng xiaoping

Answer 23

chinese leader after zhou enlai

Question 24

four modernizations

Answer 24

goals of deng xioaping that called for progress in agriculture, industry, defense, and science and technology

Question 25

tiananmen square

Answer 25

square in the capital of beijing; scene of a student demonstration and massacre

Question 26

hong kong

Answer 26

island that became part of china again in 1997