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He was a leader of the African National Congress and was imprisoned for partitioning against apartheid.
Who was Nelson Mandela?
An organization that was founded in 1971 to advocate for the environment worldwide.
What is the Greenpeace organization?
Forms of energy that include tidal, solar, wind, and geothermal power.
What is renewable energy?
The extended term for NAFTA.
What is the North American free trade organization?
A short term for the exit of Britain from the European Union.
What is Brexit?
Who was Ronald Reagan?
This revolution emerged as a possible long-term solution to hunger. New varieties of crops were developed through genetic engineering and cross-breeding.
What was the Green Revolution?
In the 1900s it accounted for 50 percent of global energy source consumed.
What is coal?
An economic system based on supply and demand.
What are free markets?
Breeding two varieties of plants to create a hybrid.
What is crossbreeding?
A Pakistani activist and the youngest Nobel prize Laureate.
Who is Malala Yousafzai?
A movement that occurred mainly in West French Africa and emphasized pride in "blackness".
What was the Negritude movement?
What is antibiotics?
a customs duty or tax levied on imports of merchandise goods that can discourage trade.
What are tariffs?
The loss of Earth's trees as a result of cutting down trees so the land can be used for agriculture.
What is deforestation?
A female Swedish climate activist who has presented speeches about climate change to UN leaders for the first time at the age of 15.
Who is Greta Thunberg?
A document that asserts basic rights and fundamental freedoms for everyone.
What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
Its research helped lead to the first use of nuclear power plants to generate electricity.
What is the atomic bomb?
An economy that creates, distributes, and uses knowledge as information.
What is a Knowledge economy?
The culture of everyday people rather than the educated elite.
What is pop culture?
Announced that an injectable vaccine against polio hed been proven effective.
Who was Jonas Salk?
A series of anti-government protests that spread from country to country in North Africa and the Middle East in the 2010s as people shared protest experiences on social media.
What was the Arab Spring?
A drug that can stop HIV from weakening the immune system, and allowing those who have HIV to live much longer lives.
What are anti retroviral drugs?
Nations that were part of the Asian Tigers. These states prospered through partnerships with the government. They also prospered due to strong education, low wage workers, and high exports.
What is Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, and South Korea
What is sustainable development?