UNIT 9 vocab and mkp Flashcards
Apartheid
A policy of racial segregation as well as political economic discrimination against non-European groups in the Republic of South Africa.
Refugee
A person who flees to a foreign country or power to escape danger or political persecution.
Recession
A slowdown in a nation’s economy
Dissident
An opponent of a government’s politics or actions.
Ethnic cleaning specific example?
When the Serbs wanted to get rid of Bosnia’s Muslim population.
Genetic engineering
Introduction by scientists of genes into an organism that allow the organism to take on new traits.
Cloning
The creating of plants or animals that are genetically identical to an existing plant or animal
Green Revolution
the great increase in production due to introduction of high-yielding varieties to the use of pesticides and to better management techniques in post-WWII developing nations.
Fundamentalism
A strict belief in basic truths and practices of a particular religion
Materialism
A placing of high value on acquiring material possessions.
Developing nation
A nation in the process of industrialization and/or incomplete modernization
Consumerism
The theory that an increasing consumption of goods is economically desirable and a preoccupation with and an inclination toward the buying of consumer goods
Terrorism
Use of force to frighten people or governments to change their policies
Junta
A military or political group that rules a country after taking power by force.
Nelson Mandela
helped dismantle apartheid in South Africa and was later elected the first black South African in the country’s first election with universal adult suffrage
Augusto Pinochet
Dictator of Chile from 1973 to 1990 brought to power by a US backed coup against the socialist government of Salvador Allende
Bob Marley
Jamaican singer-songwriter who became an international musical and cultural icon with his work in reggae
Leonid Brezhnev
(1906-1982) General Secretary of the Soviet Union from 1964 to his death. During his time in power, the global influence of the Soviet Union grew through the Brezhnev doctrine and an era of economic and social stagnation in the USSR began.
Wangari Maathai
Founder of the Green Belt Movement, an environmental NGO focused on the planting of trees, environmental conservation, and women’s rights
Kwame Nkrumah
Ghana independence and pan African guy
Ronald Reagan
President of the United States during the last years of the COld War – supported anti-communist movements around the world and ordered a military buildup his first time. Signed the INF treaty decreasing nuclear arsenal.
Margaret Thatcher
British politician known as the “Iron Lady” she became prime minister of Great Britain towards the end of the COld War and worked to bring the country out of an ongoing recession. Went to war with Argentina over Falkland Islands.
Deng Xiaoping
Reformist leader of the Communist Part of China who led Chinese economic reform
Martin Luther King Jr.
American Civil Rights leader like Gandhi
Ida B. Wells
American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement in the US. One of the founders of NAACP
Pele
Brazilian soccer player.
Micheal Phelps
American swimmer and most successful and decorated with 28 medals.
Mark Zuckerburg
Facebook - philanthropist
Margaret Sanger
American birth control activist and established Planned Parenthood
Jonas Salk
American virologist who developed the first successful polio vaccines.
Norman Borlaug
American agronomist who led initiatives globally that contributed to the extensive increases in agricultural production.(Green revolution)
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian inventor & electrical engineer best known for his pioneer work on long-distance radio transmission.
