the 19th century
status of Latin American nations after independence
periphery
Newer forms of government
republics
commodity of Middle Eastern nations that helped them to break out of the periphery
oil
He established the first communist nation with the formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or Soviet Union
Vladimir Lenin
form of government that never existed in the U.S.
monarchy
period in Japanese history where it underwent modernization and industrialization
the Meiji Restoration
new class that replaced aristocracy
professional class
Develop local products that can compete with those products produced
import substitution
Dominant revolutionary ideology of the 20th century
Marxism
Labor system that kept the U.S. in a periphery status until the Civil War
slavery
When local traditions are blended with religion to create a new culture
syncretism
New warfare that is difficult for western armies to fight
guerilla
An attempt to increase agricultural production in China which forced people to move from the cities to the countryside
the Great Leap Forward
Class eliminated in revolutions
the landlord class
the concept where people from other nations assimilate and mix together
the melting pot
The combination of newly independent Latin American nations
How power and influence are demonstrated in the 20th centyr
through consumerism ad culture
those who are wealthy and powerful are innately better
Social Darwinism
the reason Marxist revolutions were not successful in the Middle East
it is atheistic - denies the existence of God
the doctrine to keep European colonizers out of the Western Hemisphere
Monroe Doctrine
Cheap labor and natural resources are exploited by the core nations and the great industrial powers
economic colonialism
Changes in world population became more ....
heterogeneous
Form of government established after the Iranian Revolution of 1979
Shi'a theocracy
Regimes usually produced by the revolutions in the 20th century
totalitarian
the system of racial segregation and separation in the U.S.
Jim Crow