Iran, Nigeria, Mexico Flashcards (Extra)

Question 1

Lower house in Mexican legislature

Answer 1

Chamber of Deputies

Question 2

Political economic model followed by PRI, domestic economy protected by high tariffs to promote industrial growth

Answer 2

ISI (Import Substitution Industrialization)

Question 3

Factories import good/parts to manufacture goods that are then exported

Answer 3

Maquiladoras

Question 4

Spectacular growth 1940-1950’s

Answer 4

Mexican Miracle

Question 5

Leftist party founded by Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

Answer 5

MORENA (National Regeneration Movement)

Question 6

Country level governments in Mexican states

Answer 6

Municipios

Question 7

Mexicos legislature, bicameral or unicameral?

Answer 7

National Congress, bicameral

Question 8

Main party on the left

Answer 8

PRD

Question 9

Mexicos highest court

Answer 9

National Supreme Court of Justice

Question 10

Powerful government officials deliver state support /services in exchange for political support (clientalist)

Answer 10

Patron Client Relationships

Question 11

Mexicos state owned oil monopoly

Answer 11

PEMEX

Question 12

Agreement to end Zapatista rebel uprising-never enacted

Answer 12

San Andres peace accords

Question 13

top cabinet post control inter political affairs, stepping stone to presidency under PRI

Answer 13

secretary of the government

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Upper house of Mexicos legislature

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Senate

Question 15

Media conglomerate-close relationship with PRI (decades)

Answer 15

Televisa

Question 16

re-made NAFTA agreement in 2020

Answer 16

USMCA

Question 17

Nigerian president 2010-2015, helped Nigeria become largest African economy, got 400 billion dollars in oil revenue

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Goodluck Johnathan

Question 18

Nigerian reform program to stop government corruption and promote economic infastructure

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NEEDS (National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy)

Question 19

Shia religious holiday

Answer 19

Ashura

Question 20

Political party in Iran after WW2, opposed monarchy and favored greater Iranian control over state resources (outlawed after Operation Ajax)

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National Front

Question 21

Political conservatives in Iran, opposed liberalization and political reform

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Principalists

Question 22

View within Shiism; rejects theocracy and religion direct in state

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Quietist

Question 23

Reformist alliance emerged in Iran to contest the 2000 Majlis election

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Second Khordad Front

Question 24

“community”, refers to Islamic communities/nation everywhere

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Ummah

Question 25

Reforms by Mohammad Reza Pahlai in 1963 to westernize and modernize Iran

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White Revolution

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anti-Western, anti-reform, strict social policies, heavy censorship, and suppression of dissent

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Hardliners

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Greater political participation, improved relations with the West, freedom of the press, and loosening social restrictions

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Reformers

Question 28

view of religion as absolute and inerrant, advocating that faith should be the sovereign authority and legally enforced

Answer 28

Fundamentalism

Question 29

Selling/privatization of parastatals does what?

Answer 29

(government-owned organizations), aims to generate revenue, reduce operational inefficiencies, and revitalize public sector entities