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Unit 6 Key Terms

This document contains over 100 key terms related to history, politics, technology, culture and the environment from the post-World War 2 period to modern times. Many leaders, organizations, events and concepts are listed from this era on a global scale.

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Unit 6 Key Terms

This document contains over 100 key terms related to history, politics, technology, culture and the environment from the post-World War 2 period to modern times. Many leaders, organizations, events and concepts are listed from this era on a global scale.

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Unit 6 Key Terms genocide collective security information revolution Margaret Thatcher Mikhail Gorbachev Gamal Nasser Nelson

Mandela Akio Morita Bill Gates Walt Disney apartheid ayatollah glasnost Government of India Act Guomindang Korean Conflict May Fourth Movement perestroika Prague Spring Sandinistas Six-Day War Solidarity Tiananmen Square Al-Qaeda cartels International Monetary Fund

Persian Gulf War World Bank Euro


European Economic Community

European Union McDonaldization NAFTA OPEC WTO deoxyribonucleic acid Helsinki Accords Hubble Space Telescope International Space Station service industries Sputnik cubism evangelical Kabuki theater mass consumerism NOW No theater guest workers ozone depletion Ethnic cleansing Armenian genocide Bosnia Limited War

UN police action Star Wars Strategic Defense Initiative Muhammad Ali Jinnah Muslim League India/Pakistan Jomo Kenyatta Kwame Nkrumah Julius Nyerere Persian Gulf States Collapse of the Berlin Wall Desalinization Multinational corporations Pacific Rim Terrorism Fundamentalist jihad Palestine/Israel Northern Ireland Afghan War
European Coal and Steel Community

Charles de Gaulle Francois Mitterand Helmut Kohl decolonization national liberation Camp David Accords Yasser Arafat

PLO Menachem Begin intifada Iranian Revolution Ayatollah Khomeini Saddam Hussein
Algerian War of Independence

African National Congress Desmond Tutu Idi Amin Mobutu Sese Seko Patrice Lumumba AIDS/HIV epidemic Indira Gandhi Guided Democracy Suharto Ho Chi Minh Vietnam War Khmer Rouge Postwar economic recovery of Japan Liberal Democrats Taiwan and Kuomintang Kim Il Sung Deng Xiaoping Augusto Pinochet Che Guevera Contras

Modern vs. postmodern culture

Bretton Woods Energy Crunch of the 1970s G-8 Summit developed vs. developing north-south split consumerism population growth - trends migration of peoples
nationalism and ethnic violence

women's movements feminism women's liberation stream of consciousness abstract and surrealist art existentialism mass media popular culture Diego Rivera Lo Hsun Rabindranath Tagore Wole Soyinka Chinua Achebe Yukio Mishima Isabel Allende Salman Rushdie Albert Einstein - theory of relativitity

quantum physics
rocketry and space exploration

biotechnology, DNA, and genetics computer technology internet WWW global village
stagnation in the Soviet Union

Andrei Sakharov Lech Walesa and Solidarity Deng Xiaoping Chernobyl Collapse of the Soviet Union Boris Yeltsin Nuclear club Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty WMD Gulf War Rise of China nationalist extremism Yugoslav Wars Hutu-Tutsi conflict East Timor Environmentalism Green Movement Global Warming

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