A policy of prohibiting commerce with another country.
What is a trade embargo?
100
These individuals are highly respected in Latin America because their work expresses the hopes of the people.
What are artists and writers?
100
A treaty with this country in 1977 saw the United States return control of a strategic canal in 1999.
What is Panama?
100
This nationalist leader was from Ghana and believed in a form of African socialism that was different from Communism
What is Kwame Nkrumah?
100
Name a member of OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries).
What is Iran/Iraq/Qatar/United Arab Emirates/Saudi Arabia/Kuwait/Bahrain?
200
This is a Palestinian word meaning 'uprising'.
What is an intifada?
200
Latin American nations have suffered many economic challenges, including a dependence on other nations for advanced technology, a lack of international markets for their products, and these.
What are military regimes?
200
Drug cartels have had a great influence on this nation's politics and economics.
What is Columbia?
200
This group of nations promotes democracy and economic growth in their part of the world.
What is the Organization of African Unity/African Union?
200
This country has been attacked 7 times by Arab nations and resistance groups.
What is Israel?
300
This writing style developed in Latin American and combines realistic events with dreamlike or fantasy backgrounds, suspending the rules of ordinary life to comment on national or social issues.
What is magic realism?
300
Two of the problems caused by Latin American's population explosion have been an increasing gap between rich and poor, as well as the rise of these large population town that cannot provide regular urban services to those who live in them.
What is megacities?
300
The failure of the military government's economic policies and a overwhelming inflation rate led to this country's return to democratic government.
What is Brazil?
300
Many African nations can be described as ‘economically fragile’ because foreigners own many of the major industries and this.
What is reliance on a single crop or natural resource?
300
Muslim extremists view these are based on materialism, greed, and immorality.
What are Western values and cultures?
400
The South African word for racial segregation (“apartness”)
What is apartheid?
400
Many Latin American democracies formed during these two decades.
What are the 1980s and 1990s?
400
This country struggled to keep the revolutionary spirit alive in Latin America by attempting to start civil wars in other Latin countries. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, it's economy went into a tailspin and has not yet recovered.
What is Cuba?
400
Colonial presence was most firmly established in these urban areas and many were the direct result of colonial rule.
What is cities?
400
These events in the Middle East have affected Western nations by creating economic problems due to higher oil prices and oil shortages.
What is wars?
500
This is the unity of all black Africans, regardless of national boundaries
What is Pan-Africanism?
500
The formation of this organization failed to end U.S involvement in Latin America because the United States was afraid the poverty and instability of many Latin nations would be attractive targets for Communist revolutions.
What is the Organization of American States?
500
El Salvador and this country share many of the same political problems, including control by military leaders and issues with death squads killing members of opposition parties.
What is Guatemala?
500
He became the first black President of South Africa after being imprisoned for 30 years
Who is Nelson Mandela?
500
This country has alternated between leaders who support Islamic fundamentalism and presidents who use moderate reforms to improve relations with the West