Vocab 81-100

Cold War to Present Day

IMF• International Monetary Fund

• Loans money to countries for development

Trade Deficit • When a nation imports more than it

exports

• Buys more than it sells

Human Rights Declaration

• A document meant to protect basic rights for all

• Created by the United Nations after the Holocaust (post WWII).

Urbanization • The movement of people from the country

to the city

• Industrial Revolution

InfrastructureBasic physical systems of a nation

The roads, bridges, water, communications, and electronic systems

Green Revolution • Using technology and science to produce

more food (India)

• Seeds were chemically altered to be more resistant to disease and produce more

Deforestation/ Desertification

• The destruction of the forest (Amazon)

• The changing of farm land to desert (Africa)

Autonomy

• Desire by a people to have their own country.

• Self rule

Dissident

• Some one or a group that speaks out against their government.

• Example: Egyptian Revolution Cyber dissidents

IRA

• Irish Republican Army

• Fighting for Irish Independence from Britain

Arab Spring• Series of Revolutions (Changes) in Middle

East and N. Africa to get rid of dictators

• Fueled by social media

Satellite Nations

• Eastern Europe was forcibly controlled by the USSR

• Communist by force

• Warsaw Pact nations

Collective SecurityAlliance system- security of one is the security of

all

NATO Warsaw Pact

InterdependenceDependence on the goods, resources and knowledge from other parts of the world

First World Third World

Provide manufactured goods, loans and education

Source of cheap labor, raw materials and new markets

Non-AlignmentNot supporting either side in a conflict

Ex: During the Cold War India was nonaligned

African National CongressSouth African group opposed to racial segregation under Apartheid

IntifadaUprisings by Palestinians and Arabs against Israel

Violent uprisings range from throwing rocks to suicide bombs

Taliban

• Islamic group in controls much of Afghanistan and the Middle East

• Sharia

• Extremists engage in terrorism