Kemal Ataturk was the leader who successfully modernized and westernized this country
What is Turkey?
The process of increasing global interconnectedness, with an increase in nations connecting and trading with one another
What is globalization?
This term means the mass killing of entire groups of people - this term was invented after the events of the Holocaust
What is genocide?
The Ayatollah Khomeini was the religious leader who took over this country after the Revolution of 1979
What is Iran?
The transformation of a society from a traditional, rural, agrarian way of life to a secular, industrial, and technology-driven urban system
What is modernization?
The Khmer Rouge in Cambodia was led by this man, who directed them to kill political opponents, intellectuals, doctors, and teachers.
Who is Pol Pot?
This term means to make a society or culture more like America and Western Europe
What is westernize?
Most clothing imports to the United States come from this CONTINENT
What is Asia?
This international peacekeeping organization has been criticized in modern times for failing to prevent human rights violations, including genocide
What is the United Nations?
The rights of this group of people were taken away after the Iranian Revolution of 1979
Who are women?
This leads to numerous problems, including floods, storms, drought, desertification, and famine.
What is climate change?
This is the primary reason for modern child labor abuses around the world today
What is extreme poverty?
This is a form of government where religious law rules
What is a theocracy?
This new technology was used to start protests that contributed to uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt
What is social media?
The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo use nonviolent protest against the military dictatorship of Chile. What are they protesting?
What is their children were kidnapped/disappeared/killed?
Events that happened in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur are all examples of this
What is genocide?
What are human rights violations?