Cold War Flashcards
(47 cards)
Four Asian tigers
are the highly developed economies of Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. These regions were the first newly industrialized countries.
Tiananmen Square
protests of 1989, commonly known in China as the June Fourth Incident
devolution
the transfer or delegation of power to a lower level, especially by central government to local or regional administration.
Ronald Reagan
was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989.
Gorbachev
is a former Soviet statesman
perestroika
the policy or practice of restructuring or reforming the economic and political system. First proposed by Leonid Brezhnev in 1979 and actively promoted by Mikhail Gorbachev, perestroika originally referred to increased automation and labor efficiency, but came to entail greater awareness of economic markets and the ending of central planning.
glasnost
the policy or practice of more open consultative government and wider dissemination of information, initiated by leader Mikhail Gorbachev from 1985
Thatcherism
the political and economic policies advocated by the former British Conservative prime minister Margaret Thatcher, particularly those involving the privatization of nationalized industries and trade union legislation.
Tony Blair
British statesman who became prime minister in 1997
yugoslavia
a former country in SE Europe, on the Adriatic: established in 1918 from the independent states of Serbia and Montenegro, and regions that until World War I had belonged to Austria-Hungary
Bosnia
is a country on the Balkan Peninsula in southeastern Europe. Its countryside is home to medieval villages, rivers and lakes, plus the craggy Dinaric Alps.
Rwanda
is a landlocked East African country with a green, mountainous landscape.
Cambodia
a native or inhabitant of Cambodia, or a person of Cambodian descent
Kosovo
is a disputed territory and partially recognised state in Southeastern Europe that declared independence from Serbia in February 2008 as the Republic of Kosovo. Kosovo is landlocked in the central Balkan Peninsula.
weapons of Mass Destruction
a chemical, biological or radioactive weapon capable of causing widespread death and destruction.
George W. Bush
is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009.
Bill Clinton
is an American politician who served as the 42nd President
NAFTA
is an agreement among the United States, Canada and Mexico designed to remove tariff barriers between the three countries.
Welfare State
a system whereby the government undertakes to protect the health and well-being of its citizens, especially those in financial or social need, by means of grants, pensions, and other benefits. The foundations for the modern welfare state in the US were laid by the New Deal programs of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
apartheid
a policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race
Nelson Mandela
was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician, and philanthropist, who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999
Congloese war
was a foreign invasion of Zaire led by Rwanda that replaced President Mobutu Sésé Seko with the rebel leader Laurent-Désiré Kabila.
Hutu
a member of a Bantu-speaking people forming the majority population in Rwanda and Burundi. They are traditionally a farming people and were historically dominated by the Tutsi people; the antagonism between the peoples led in 1994 to large-scale ethnic violence, especially in Rwanda.
Tutsi
a member of a people forming a minority of the population of Rwanda and Burundi, who formerly dominated the Hutu majority.
