These are conflicts between competing factions in which rival superpowers provided support.
What are proxy wars?
100
This nation was most successful emulator of the Japanese economic model of development.
What is South Korea?
100
The "Dirty War" was fought here.
What is Argentina?
100
These two nations account for approximately 1/3 of the world's population.
What are India and China?
100
The policy of restructuring the Soviet Union as authorized by Mikhail Gorbachev was known as this.
What is perestroika?
200
This was a policy of reducing the role of the state in the economy.
What is Neo-Liberalism?
200
This country/nation was engaged in an "unwinnable war" with Afghanistan in the 1980s.
What is the USSR?
200
This refers to the combination of dictatorship, repression, and government promotion of industrialization.
What is the "Brazilian Solution?"
200
These were counterrevolutionaries financed by the Reagan administration to oppose the Sandinistas.
Who were the Contras?
200
Saddam Hussein's fear that the revolutionary government of Iran would incite Iraq's Shiites to rebellion was one of the reasons for the outbreak of this conflict.
What is Iran-Iraq War?
300
East Germany was united with West Germany in this year.
What is 1990?
300
This US president worked to reestablish Panamanian sovereignty in the Canal Zone.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
300
The "Dirty war" was so deemed because it was characterized by these two extreme factors.
What are torture and executions by the military?
300
In order to finance arms to Iran to secure the release of American hostages, President Reagan illicitly sold arms and financed the war against this group.
Who are the Sandinistas?
300
These two restrictions were crucial to the success of the Japanese economy in the 1970s and 1980s.
What are tariffs and import regulations?
400
Twenty-eight million of the 40 million people infected with the HIV virus live here.
What is Africa?
400
The Chinese government used force in response to the protests that culminated here.
What is Tiananmen Square?
400
The Soviet Union was dissolved in this year.
What is 1991?
400
This powerful (M.A.N.I.A.) force ultimately caused the USSR to dissolve.
What is Nationalism?
400
This is a change in the rates of population growth, both birth and death. By the 1960s Europe and other industrial societies had made this transition.
What is a demographic transition?
500
Later marriage ages in modern industrial societies, busy family schedules, increased immigration and travel, and greater cultural promotion in various media are each factors that contributed to the globalization of this.
What is fast food?
500
Anti-immigrant feelings in industrialized nations are mostly due to an ethnically derived sense of this.
What is nationality?
500
Despite the unprecedented global economic growth since 1945, the majority of the world's population remains in this.
What is poverty?
500
Ethnic cleansing in the Balkans occurred between these two religious groups.