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| time when 90 new countries emerged |
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| building stable governments and developing their countries econoically |
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| nations strong enough to influence the acts and policies of other nations |
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| system of thought or belief - either capitalism or socialism |
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| not allied to either side in the Cold War |
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| what the US feared ould sweep around the world when Mao's forces won control of mainland China |
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| the Cold War sometimes errupted into these |
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| the dependence of countries on goods, resource, and knowledge from other parts of the world |
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| tries to act as a peacekeeper throughout the world |
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| World Health Organization (WHO) |
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| UN agency that helped wipe out smallpox with vaccinations and works on the AIDS crisis |
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| conferences of leaders and experts from around the world |
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| North American Free Trade Association (NAFTA) |
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| group in america that worked to lower trade barriers and promote the free exchange of goods and services |
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| group in europe that worked to lower trade barriers and promote the free exchange of goods and services |
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| Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) |
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| group in asia that worked to lower trade barriers and promote the free exchange of goods and services |
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| General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) |
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| tried to establish fair trade policies for all nations in 1947 |
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| World Trade Organization (WTO) |
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| group who's goal was to establish global rules of trade "to ensure that trade flows as smoothly, predictably and freely as possible" |
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| the seven most productive economies of the United States, Canada, Japan, Germany, France, Britain, and Italy |
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| United States, Canada, Japan, Germany, France, Britain, and Italy |
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| makes loans to developing nations |
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| International Monetary Fund (IMF) |
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| plays a large role in the world economy |
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| nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) |
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| groups that are not associated with a certain country, but are more global |
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| International Olympic Committee |
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| NGO that provides an international sports competition every four years |
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| NGO that provides aid all around the world to places in need of help |
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| Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) |
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| 1968 treaty that agreed to halt the spread of nuclear weapons |
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| Universal Declaration of Human Rights |
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| 1948 document in which all people are entitled to basic rights and freedoms "without distinction of any kind, such as race, color, sex, language, property, birth, or other status" |
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| 1975 agreements that guaranteed such basica rights as freedom of speech, religion, and the press as well as the rights to a fair trial, to earn a living, and to live in safety |
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| the deliberate use of violence, especially against civilians, to achieve political goals |
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| "state-sponsored terrorism" |
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| the government trains and arms extremists to carry out attacks abroad |
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| multinational corporations |
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| companies with branches in many countries |
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| Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) |
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| group that halted its oil exports and raised ooil prices becaouse of shortages |
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| selling off state-owned industries to private investors |
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| people who are concerned with the threats to the planet's fragile environment |
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| a form of pollution in which toxic chemicals in the air fall back to the Earth as rain, snow, sleet, and hail |
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| the increase in world temperatures due to the emissio nof gases into the upper atmosphere |
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| nuclear power plant in the Soviet Union that had an accident and many things were affected by the raditation |
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| slums on the outskirts of cities that are crowded and dangeroups to live in |
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| reformers who stress what they see as the basic values of their faiths |
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| movement that urged the Church to take a more active role in opposing the social conditions that contributed to poverty |
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| movemtn that sought great access for woment to jobs and promotions, equal pay for equal work, and an end to sexual harassment on the job |
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| buying and sellion on the Internet |
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| controversial area of medical research that involves altering the chemical code carried by all living things |
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| the first artificial satellite launched in 1957 by the Soviet Union |
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| period when scientsists applied new technology to increasing food production for the world's growing population |
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