Requests for 1AC--June 2008

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Global History and Geography

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Spence's Global History and Geography Regents Review

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Requests for 1AC--June 2008

Green Revolution
Movement 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
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Green Revolution Movement 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
partition In 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 Army term used for the army of any communist country, whether it be China, the Soviet Union, North Korea, etc.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Turkish 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
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."
Zionism Jewish 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 Purge In the 1920's and 30's, Soviet leader Josef Stalin had anyone in the USSR executed that challenged his power.
Tiananmen Square Massacre 1989 Chinese government crackdown on students who were peacefully protesting for democracy
secular non-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
interdependence to be dependent on other; the world is more so today than ever
independence freedom from control or influence of another or others, such as independence for colonies from their mother countries
hierarchy when things are put in order by importance
domino theory U.S. belief, during the Cold War, that if one country became communist than others around it would too
NATO North 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
isthmus a narrow strip of land connecting two larger bodies of land (ex: Panama)
embargo when a country stops trade with another as punishment (ex: U.S. and Cuba)

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