| A | B |
|---|
| Apartheid | South African policy of complete legal separation of the races |
| appeasement | the making of concessions to an aggressor in order to avoid war |
| balance of power | a political situation in which no one nation is powerful enough to pose a threat to others |
| bolsheviks | a group of revolutionary russian marxists who took control of russia's government in nov. 1917 |
| boxer rebellion | a 1900 rebellion in china, aimed at ending foreign influence in the country |
| camp david accords | the first signed agreement between israel and an arab country |
| capitalism | an economic system based on private ownership and investing money in business to make a profit |
| cold war | a state of diplomatic hostility between the United States and the Soviet Union in the decades following WWII |
| collective farms | a large government-controlled farm formed by comvining many small farms |
| communism | an economic system in which all means of production are owned by the people, private property does not exist, and all goods and services are shared equally |
| cultural revolution | 1966-1976 uprising in china with the goal of establishing a society of peasants and workers in which all were equal |
| desertification | a trnsformation of fertile land into desert |
| developing nation | a nation in which the porcess of industrialization is not yet complete |
| enlightenment | in buddhism, na state of perfect wisdom is which one understands basic truths about the universe |
| ethnic cleansing | a policy by which serbs hoped to eliminate bosnia's muslim population after the breakup of yugoslvia |
| fascism | a political movement that promotes an extreme form of nationalism, a denial of individual rights, and a dictatorial one-party rule |
| ghettos | city neighborhoods in which european jews were forced to live |
| genocide | the systematic killing of an entire people |
| glasnost | a soviet policy of openness to the free flow of ideas and information, introduced in 1985 by mikhail gorbachev |
| holocaust | a mass slaughter of jews and other civilians, carried out by the nazi government of germany before and during WWII |
