This resource is highly influenced by OPEC and is a main reason many countries are involved in the Middle East.
What is petroleum or oil
This term describes how countries need each other to have the products and resources they want for modern life.
What is interdependent?
Who is Jomo Kenyatta?
The Partition of India as it gained independence was the result in part because Muslims and Hindus were attacking each other, showing ____ is a challenge in some new countries.
What is religious tension?
This type of conflict, often seen in countries like Sudan, occurs between groups within the same country.
What is a civil war?
This is an uprising of Palestinians against Israeli control
What is "intifada"?
These were the two main causes of the current high level of connections for globalization.
She was elected leader of the Philippines and tried to reduce government corruption after her husband's assasination.
Who is Corazon Aquino?
This sexually-transmitted disease ravaged communities, especially in Africa.
What is HIV/AIDS?
This was the system that kept native black africans in separate neighborhoods and out of politics in South Africa.
What is apartheid?
What is Iraq?
Many less developed countries gained industrial jobs as multinational corporations hired cheap labor in companies in a process called...
What is outsourcing?
She helped in Israel's independence movement and tried to modernize the country as its first female prime minister.
Who is Golda Meir?
This was the negative effect of many of the borders that were drawn by colonial powers.
What is ethnic tension and separatism?
Kwame Nkrumah was able to lead this country to freedom without violence as he organized political pressure on the British.
What is Ghana or the Gold Coast?
This leader was the first Arab president who signed a peace agreement with Israel at the Camp David Accords.
Who is Anwar Sadat
What is the green revolution?
Who is F.W. De Klerk?
The lack of food and water in a community or country is often part of growing arid regions.
What is desertification?
Some Muslim countries in North Africa have recently reformed or even experienced a revolution in their government as young people organized in this movement.
What is the Arab Spring?
This country had a revolution led by Ruhallah Khomeni who led it to have a theocracy under Shia Islam.
What is Iran?
What is protectionism?
Who is Aung Sun Suu Kyi
Many poor people moving to cities end up living in areas that lack utilities and services.
What are slums or squatter settlements?
Egypt lost the Sinai Peninsula to Israel for a period time as a result of this conflict.
What is the 6 Day War?