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Globalization Unit (World History AP)

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  • What two organizations are examples of African nations joining together to form cooperative economic and political systems?
    The Organization for African Unity (OAU) and the African Economic Community
  • What program, introduced by Mao in 1958, called for more industrial output and more radical collectivization of agriculture?
    The Great Leap Forward
  • Who led the terrorist organization the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO)?
    Yasser Arafat
  • What is the "interconnectedness" of all parts of the world, including economics, politics, communications, and culture called?
    Globalization
  • Who became Iran's leader after Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was ousted in the Iranian Revolution?
    Ayatollah Khomeini
  • What major events who the political instability of India?
    The assassinations of leaders (Ghandis)
  • What country was "carved' from the north of India and set aside for Islamic control due to the conflict between the Hindus and Muslims in India?
    Pakistan
  • What group led the Chiapas Rebellion?
    Zapatista National Liberation Army
  • What "brutal dictator" ousted Chile's Salvador Allende and held power until the 1980s?
    General Augusto Pinochet
  • What disease continues to devastate African countries, causing millions of deaths?
    HIV/AIDS
  • What was the name of the "brutal and repressive" president of Cuba who was in power in 1954 when Fidel Castro led a revolution against the government?
    Fulgencio Batista
  • What was the system of separation of the race called which was established in South Africa during the late 20th century?
    Apartheid
  • Why did the United States and the United Nations have to intervene in Haiti's political affairs in the 1990s?
    the legally elected president, Jean-Betrand Aristide, was ousted by a military coup
  • What was the name of the free trade agreement reached between the United States, Canada, and Mexico in 1994?
    NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement)
  • What year did South Korea claim its independence, prompting North Korea to invade, triggering the Korean War?
    1950
  • Who was the leader of the Communist Party in Vietnam?
    Ho Chi Minh
  • Why has violence continued to escalate in Columbia (who has encouraged violence)?
    the drug cartels
  • What were Central American governments set up by the U.S. called (also called puppet governments)?
    Banana Republics
  • Who was the leader of the Cuban Revolution who turned the country Communist in 1959?
    Fidel Castro
  • What two policies characterized Brazil in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s?
    a return to republicanism and efforts to deal with inflation