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1 Chapter 31: The End of the Cold War and the Challenge of Economic Development and Immigration, What was the GDP per Capita in China in 1975? 2010? What does your book blame for a billion people living on $25 a day? What social changes did the 2008 recession cause? Postcolonial Crisis and Asian Economic Expansion What seems to be the root cause of all revolution and war between ? What is a Proxy War? What event ended the Cold War in the 1980s? Revolutions, Repression, and Democratic Reform in Latin America What political change occurs in Latin America in the 1970s? How did Fidel Castro s resistance to the U.S. affect the rest of Latin America? What was the Brazilian Solution? What was the problem? What happened between Allende and Pinochet? Why did the United States side with Pinochet? What was he like as a ruler? Who was Juan Peron? What happened in 1974? What is the Dirty War? What are Sandinistas? Why do them call themselves this? What did they do when in power? Compare and contrast the goals of Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan: Who were the Contras? What happened in El Salvador? According to Latin Americans, what is Neo-Liberalism? Who was Hugo Chavez? What caused a decline in the support of Neo-Liberal policies? Islamic Revolutions in Iran and Afghanistan

2 For what two reasons did the Soviet Union involve itself in Iraq and Afghanistan? Who is the Shah of Iran? What is the basis of his power? What happened to him? Who was Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini? What powers did Khomeini have in the Iranian Republic? What types of people received government jobs in the Republic of Iran? What happened to the Iranian people? Who is the Great Satan and why? What happened in 1979? What did Saddam Husain do in the 80s? Why? Was the Iran-Iraq war a proxy war? Explain: How about the Soviet War with Afghanistan? What is the Iran-Contra scandal? What caused Russia to intervene in Afghanistan? Who won? Asian Transformation What title does Japan hold by 1980? What happens in 1986? What happened to the Zaibatsus under American occupation? What is a keiretsu? What happened to Japan's economy between 1990 and 2010? What made the Republic of Korea a global economic power? What three economies make up the Asian Tiger? China Rejoins the World Economy Who replaced Mao Zedong in 1976? How did the Chinese economy change following Mao s death? What happened in Tiananmen Square?

3 The End of the Bipolar Word Crisis in the Soviet Union What began to cause economic woes for Russia? What did Brezhnev refuse to do? What were the samizdat? Who was Mikhail Gorbechov and what was his policy of glasnost? What was the policy of Perestroika? What ended in 1989? The Collapse of the Socialist Bloc What was Solidarity? Who is Karol Wojtyla? How did Communists attempt to calm dissent? What was the overall effect of their strategy? Who was Lech Walesa? Who was Nicolae Ceausescu? What happened to him? Who was Vaclav Havel? What happened in 1990? States that declared independence from the USSR in 1990: What governments replaced the Soviet Union? List their overall success or notable leadership: What happened to Yugoslavia? What happened to the Muslims in Bosnia? Africa in the Era of Global Political Change What happened in S. Africa in 1994? Who got elected in Nigeria? What happened in Rwanda? How many died? The Persian Gulf War

4 Why did Saddam Hussain invade Kuwait? Who allied with Iraq? What conflict could this be seen as a precursor of? What is the Demographic Transition? The Challenge of Population Growth Demographic Transition What happened to median age in developed nations between 1950 and 2000? What is happening to fertility in developing nations? The Industrialized Nations What would happen to the population of developed countries without immigration? By 2050 what will be the median age of Western Europe? The U.S.? What is happening to the PSR? What does that mean? The Developing Nations What is happening to birth rates? Old and Young Populations What pressures will Pakistan soon have? What challenge does Sweden face? Unequal Development and Movement of Peoples What characteristics of the postwar world are clear? What are the exceptions to #1 on the left? What has been the ultimate effect of both phenomenon? The Problem of Inequality

5 Who has the highest GDP per capita? What is it? Who has the lowest in the EU? What is it? What countries have the lowest GDP per capita? Internal Migration: The Growth of Cities Why do rural citizens move to urban centers? What strategy has Indonesia employed? Global Migration What has been a side effect of migrations from the developing world to the developed world? What phenomenon does Spain illustrate? Technological and Environmental Change New Technologies and the World Economy What WWII inventions affect us today? What does new technology account for in developed nations? What motivates corporations to move to other nations? Conserving and Sharing Resources Responding to Environmental Threats What legislation did the U.S. pass in the 1970s? Who seems to bear the burden of funding environmentalism?

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