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Flashcards by Melvin Duke, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Melvin Duke
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| Question | Answer |
| 1. A series of violent acts carried out to implant fear among the civilian population. | terrorism |
| 2. Person who has abandoned his or her country and cannot go back because of persecution on racial, religious, or nationality problems. | refugee |
| 3. This is called so because white people thought of themselves superior to black people in South Africa. | Apartheid |
| 4. This organization was founded in 1971 in Canada in order to protest against the testing of nuclear weapons. Since then, it has also focused on environmental problems. | Greenpeace |
| 5. Martin Luther King was famous for this among black people in the United States. | The Civil Rights Movement |
| 6. The woman’s movement which rose in the 1960s to claim their rights over their own body and demanding equality with men. | feminism |
| 7. A cultural movement aimed at helping indigenous communities integrate with the social, political, and economical life of their country. | indigenism |
| 8. What are NGO’s? | Non-Governmental Organizations |
| 9. Countries involved in the war in the Middle East for the control of oil reserves | Iraq, Kuwait, U.S.A |
| 10. Name of Iraqi leader who felt that he could resist the American invasion of his country. | Saddam Hussein |
| 11. What do you call the inter-dependence and communication between countries? | Globalization |
| 12. The Asian Tigers refer to what or whom? | China, Japan, and India. |
| 13. Why were they called the Asian Tigers? | Because of their great financial development |
| 14. Which country made great advances in the development of software and telecommunications? | India |
| 15. An economic system where a government manages a socialist system while at the same time adopting a free market system. Enterprises are publicly owned, and consumption is guided by public forces. | market socialism |
| Name a country that has adopted market socialism as their economic policy. | China |
| 17. Price that must be paid in order to transport goods from one country to another. | customs duty |
| 18. Group of countries that are members of the European Union and have adopted the Euro as a common currency within their territory. | Euro Zone |
| 19. When a person does not have the necessary resources to satisfy the basic needs like shelter, health, etc. | poverty |
| 20. One indicator of poverty | high infant mortality |
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