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Green RevolutionMovement in the 1950's and 1960's to help poorer, non-industrialized countries increase food production by sharing Western agricultural technology, such as chemical fertilizers, to help them feed their people
partitionIn general, this means to break a country up into separate countries. Examples include: British India into India and Pakistan (and later Bangladesh); British controlled Palestine into Israel and Palestine (later conquered by Israel); Yugoslavia into Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia, Kosovo and Montenagro.
Red Armyterm used for the army of any communist country, whether it be China, the Soviet Union, North Korea, etc.
Mustafa Kemal AtaturkTurkish nationalist leader who became the first president of modern Turkey in the 1920's and set about to modernize and Westernize Turkey, including making it more secular
detenteCold War term used to describe the period in the 1970's in which the superpowers started to talk to each other (before that they didn't). Means "the easing of tensions."
ZionismJewish nationalism; the belief that the Jews should have their own country; started in the late 1880's and gained momentum during World War II and the Holocaust. Led to the creation of Israel in 1948.
Great PurgeIn the 1920's and 30's, Soviet leader Josef Stalin had anyone in the USSR executed that challenged his power.
Tiananmen Square Massacre1989 Chinese government crackdown on students who were peacefully protesting for democracy
secularnon-religious
slash and burnfarming technique in which forests are cleared by setting them on fire; the ash left from the trees fertilizes the soil; after one growing season, the soil is not as good, so farmers must move on and clear more land, a farming method involving the cutting of trees, then burning them to provide ash-enriched soil for the planting of crops
interdependenceto be dependent on other; the world is more so today than ever
independencefreedom from control or influence of another or others, such as independence for colonies from their mother countries
hierarchywhen things are put in order by importance
domino theoryU.S. belief, during the Cold War, that if one country became communist than others around it would too
NATONorth Atlantic Treaty Organization: Cold War era alliance between the U.S., Canada and Western European countries; after the end of the Cold War former Communist countries have joined
isthmusa narrow strip of land connecting two larger bodies of land (ex: Panama)
embargowhen a country stops trade with another as punishment (ex: U.S. and Cuba)
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Creator jrspencer74
Created May 28, 2009
Group Spence's Global History and Geography Regents Review
Subject Global History and Geography
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  3. detente Cold War term used to describe the period in the 1970's in which the superpowers started to talk to each other (before that they didn't). Means "the easing of tensions." - 1 miss